IWGS 2011 - IWGS 2011 : The Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming

The Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming
(IWGS 2011)
http://infolab.usc.edu/iwgs11/
November 1, 2011
Chicago, IL, USA

to be held in conjunction with

The 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference
on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011)
http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/

Call for Papers

Aim and Scope:
Real-time stream data acquisition through sensors and imagery devices has been widely used in many applications. In addition to the temporal nature of stream data, various sources provide stream data that has geographical locations and/or spatial extents such as point coordinates, lines, or polygons. Thanks to advances in geosensing technologies, researchers in the geospatial community have been able to acquire huge amounts of streamed sensor data. The growing volume of streamed data sources has contributed to advancing the state of the art in geographic information systems. However, the ability to process, mine, and analyze these massive collections of data in a timely manner has posed significant challenges to researchers attempting to make full use of the streamed data. The geostreaming term refers to the ongoing effort in academia and industry to process, mine and analyze stream data with geographic and spatial information.

This workshop addresses the research communities in both stream processing and geographic information systems. It brings together experts in the field from academia, industry and research labs to discuss the lessons they have learned over the years, to demonstrate what they have achieved so far, and to plan for the future of geostreaming. We encourage researchers from academia and industry to submit papers that highlight the value of stream query processing on topics that include, but not limited to the following:
* Spatio-temporal stream systems
* Spatio-temporal stream query processing
* Real-time mining of spatial and spatio-temporal data
* Location-aware stream systems
* Privacy preserving in mobile object databases
* Traffic monitoring and prediction
* Geosensing technologies and their application
* Geosampling and probabilistic spatial stream query processing
* Real-time geographical information extraction and retrieval
* Geosocial networks
* Main memory and/or real time indexing of moving objects
* Real-time spatial data visualization
* Spatio-temporal stream processing on cloud
* Participatory spatio-temporal data streams and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) systems
* The use of stream processing in traffic management, aerospace, earthquake physics, geodynamics, weather forecasting, asset management and scientific applications

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

We welcome submissions of both technical papers and vision/position papers. We have two categories of papers and presentations:

* Full research paper: up to 8 pages (25 min. talk)
* Short technical or vision paper: up to 4 pages (15 min. talk)
Each submission should start with the title and the abstract, the names and contact information of authors. Papers must be electronically submitted in PDF format at the following address:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWGS2011/

One author per accepted workshop contribution is required to register for the conference and workshop, to attend the workshop and to present the accepted submission . Otherwise, the accepted submission will not appear in the published workshop proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the workshop proceedings.

To ensure adherence to ACM's format requirements, please use one of the templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Due: July 22, 2011
Notification to the authors: August 22, 2011
Camera ready papers due: September 1, 2011
ACM GIS 2010 Conference: November 1-4, 2011
IWGS Workshop: November 1, 2011

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:

General Chairs:
Mohamed Ali, Microsoft
Erik Hoel, ESRI
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, USC

Program Committee:
* Walid Aref, Purdue University
* Yannis Drougas, ESRI
* Michael Gertz, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
* Yan Huang, University of North Texas
* Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University
* John Krum, Microsoft Research
* Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
* Silvia Nittel, University of Maine
* Timos Sellis, IMIS/RC Athena and National Technical University of Athens
* Ankur Teredesai, University of Washington, Tacoma
* Vassilis Tsotras, University of California, Riverside
* Anand Ranganathan, IBM
* David Kaiser, ESRI