SDC 2012 - International Workshop on SoLoMo Data in the Cloud (SDC)

When people on the move consume location-based services, join social networks, check into restaurants, or read local news, they knowingly or unknowingly access, query, and consume spatial data in the cloud. Cloud computing has emerged as a promising computing and business model to support the backends of Social-Location-Mobile (SoLoMo) applications. This workshop aims at understanding the unique challenges of spatial, social and mobile data in the cloud that is not typically encountered in more mainstream data forms. The workshop will target a variety of research topics from acquisition, representation and visualization of spatial, temporal and social network data in the cloud, to systems for processing, querying, and cleaning spatial data. The SDC workshop aims at bringing researchers and practitioners in cloud computing and data management systems dealing with spatial data to discuss research issues at the intersection of these areas, and draw more attention from the larger data management research community to this new and highly promising field.
Topics
The SDC workshop calls for contributions that address fundamental research and system issues in SoLoMo data management in the cloud on topics including but are not limited to the following:
SoLoMo Data Management in the Cloud
Cloud Technologies for Spatial-Temporal Data
Computational Geometry, Data Mining Operations in the Cloud
GIS Architecture and Middleware
Location-Based Services
Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security
Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Acquisition
Spatial Data Representation and Visualization
Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms
Spatial Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Decision Support
Spatial Data Transactions, Moving Objects
Spatial Data Privacy and Security
Spatial Data Sampling
Spatial Data Infrastructure
Spatio-Textual Searching
Storage and Indexing
Transportation, Traffic, Urban and Environmental Planning
Web and Real-Time Applications
The SDC workshop welcomes both full papers and short papers (e.g. experience reports, preliminary reports of work in progress, vision papers, etc). Full papers should not exceed 8 pages in length. Short papers should not exceed 4 pages.