Program announcement: SSTD 2003, Santorini Island, Greece

8th Int'l Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD)
July 24-27, 2003, Santorini island, Greece

URL: http://dke.cti.gr/SSTD03

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THURSDAY, JULY 24

10.00-13.00: tutorial 1 
        * Location Management and Moving Objects Databases, Ouri Wolfson

15.00-18.00: tutorial 2 
        * An Invitation to Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Sanjay Chawla

20.00-24.00: welcome reception

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FRIDAY, JULY 25

09.30-10.00: opening - welcome

10.00-11.00: invited talk 1 
        * John Herring (title TBA)

11.00-11.30: coffee break

11.30-13.00: research session 1 (systems and implementation issues)
        * Location- and Time-based Information Delivery. 
            Annika Hinze and Agnes Voisard 
        * Building a Robust Relational Implementation of Topology 
            Erik Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Scott Morehouse 
        * Automatically Annotating and Integrating Spatial Datasets 
            Ching-Chien Chen, Snehal Thakkar, Craig Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi 

13.00-14.30: lunch break

14.30-16.00: research session 2 (advanced query processing I)
        * Categorical Range Queries in Large Databases
            Alexandros Nanopoulos, Panayiotis Bozanis 
        * Validity Information Retrieval for Spatio-temporal Queries: 
Theoretical Analysis and Performance Bounds
            Yufei Tao, Nikos Mamoulis, Dimitris Papadias 
        * Efficient Object-Relational Interval Management and Beyond 
            Lars Arge and Andrew Chatham 

16.00-16.30: coffee break

16.30-18.00: research session 3 (similarity processing)
        * Exploiting Spatial Autocorrelation to Efficiently Process 
Correlation-Based Similarity Queries
            Pusheng Zhang, Yan Huang, Shashi Shekhar, and Vipin Kumar 
        * Learning Similarity with Fuzzy Functions of Adaptable Complexity 
            Giorgos Mountrakis and Peggy Agouris 
        * Spatial Similarity Queries with Logical Operators 
            Konstantinos A. Nedas, Max J. Egenhofer 

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SATURDAY, JULY 26

09.30-10.30: invited talk 2 
        * Christian S. Jensen, Data Modeling for Mobile Services in the Real 
World

10.30-11.00: coffee break

11.00-13.00: research session 4 (modeling and languages)
        * A Multi-Representation Spatial Data Model and Database 
            Sheng Zhou and Christopher B. Jones 
        * Region-based Query Languages for Spatial Databases in the Topological 
Data Model
            Luca Forlizzi, Bart Kuijpers and Enrico Nardelli 
        * Query Pre-Processing of Topological Constraints: Comparing a 
Composition-Based with a Neighborhood-Based Approach
            M. Andrea Rodriguez, Max J. Egenhofer, Andreas D. Blaser 
        * Data Expiration for Fixpoint Extensions of Temporal Logics 
            David Toman 

13.00-14.30: lunch break

14.30-16.00: research session 5 (mobility and moving objects management)
        * On-Line Discovery of Dense Areas in Spatio-temporal Databases 
            Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, Dimitrios Gunopulos, 
Vassilis J. Tsotras 
        * Indexing Objects Moving on Fixed Networks
            Elias Frentzos 
        * Accuracy and Resource Consumption in Tracking Moving Objects 
            Huabei Yin, Ouri Wolfson 

16.00-16.30: coffee break

16.30-18.00: research session 6a (data mining & warehousing)
        * Cross-Outlier Detection
            Spiros Papadimitriou, Christos Faloutsos 
        * Accessing Scientific Data: Simpler is Better
            Mirek Riedewald, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Flip Korn 
        * Exploiting the Multi-Append-Only-Trend Property of Historical Data in 
Data Warehouses
            Hua-Gang Li, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Mirek Riedewald

16.30-18.00: research session 6b (access methods)
        * Bkd-tree: a Dynamic Scalable kd-tree 
            Octavian Procopiuc, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Jeffrey Scott 
Vitter 
        * The BTR-Tree: Path-Defined Version-Range Splitting in a Branched and 
Temporal Structure
            Linan Jiang, Betty Salzberg, David Lomet, Manuel Barrena 
        * Performance Evaluation of Main-Memory R-tree Variants 
            Sangyong Hwang, Keunjoo Kwon, Sang K. Cha, Byung S. Lee 

20.00-24.00: banquet

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SUNDAY, JULY 27

09.30-14.00: excursion (visit to ancient Thera, trip to volcano etc.)

14.30-16.00: research session 7a (advanced query processing II)
        * On Query Processing and Optimality Using Spectral Locality-Preserving 
Mappings
            Mohamed F. Mokbel and Walid G. Aref 
        * Efficient k-NN Search on Streaming Data Series
            Xiaoyan Liu, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu 
        * Probabilistic Spatial Database Operations
            Jinfeng Ni and Chinya V. Ravishankar 

14.30-16.00: research session 7b (distance-based queries)
        * A Framework for Mobile Hooking on Distributed Services and its 
Application to Spatial Join Processing
            Nikos Mamoulis, Panos Kalnis, Spiridon Bakiras, Xiaochen Li 
        * Evaluation of Iceberg Distance Joins
            Sindy Shou, Nikos Mamoulis, Huiping Cao, Dimitris Papadias, David 
W. Cheung 
        * On Spatial-Range Closest-Pair Query
            Jing Shan, Donghui Zhang, Betty Salzberg 

16.00-16.30: coffee break

16.30-18.00: panel - closing session

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