Summary Overview of Spatial Database and Data Mining Group

• Biography
• Informal overviews
  • Sept. 2010: 8 slides
  • May 2008 : 3 slides
• Overviews with some technical content:
  • Feb. 2009 at G.I.Sc. Forum (MapForum, India): 20 slides (pdf)
  • Jan. 2009 at MN Future Workshop on Geoinformatics: 10 slides (pdf)
  • 2007 at Wuhan University: 20 slides

  Broad Survey Talks, Panel/Vision Statements and Opinions

  • Spatial Computing: Challenges and Opportunities, Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
    • Keynote speech at 20th Intl. Conf. on Software Engineeing and Data Engineering , June 20th-22nd, 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
    • Invited seminar at Taiwan Academia Sinica, Inst. of Information Science , May 5th, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Invited talk at Space-Time Modeling and Analysis Workshop , ESRI Redland GIS Week, February, 2010, Redlands, California.
    • Invited talk at the IUSSTF - Workshop on Geospatial Information for Developing Countries: Science and Technology at I. I. T. Bombay (India), December 16th-18th, 2009.
    • Invited overview speech at the Joint Smarter Planet University Research Day , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Nov. 20th, 2009.
  • Geo-Social Media Revolution: Hype or Real? Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
    • Meeting of Social Computing Collaborative , The Graduate School Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives, University of Minnesota, March 31st, 2011.
    • Panel on The Geo-Social Media Revolution: Hype or Real?, ( IMSC Retreat , Integrated Media Systems Center , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, February 17th, 2011.
    • Spatio-temporal Constraints on Social Networks: A NSF/ARO Specialist Meeting , Center for Spatial Studies, Santa Barbara, 13-14 December 2010.
    • Volunteered Geographic Information: Real-Time and Emergency Applications, Redlands GIS Week , February 8-10, 2011.
    • Workshop on Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science at the International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2010.
  • What is special about mining spatial and spatio-temporal datasets? ABSTRACT, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
    • Keynote at the ISPRS - Symposium on Spatial-Temporal Analysis and Data Mining , University College, London, July 18-20th, 2011.
    • Invited talk at National Academies Transportation Research Board, Workshop on Pervasive Data for Transportation: Innovations in Distributed and Mobile Information Discovery in ITS and LBS January 23rd, 2011, Washington D.C.
    • Invited talk at NSF Next Generation Data Mining Summit: Dealing with the Energy Crisis, Greenhouse Emissions, and Transportation Challenges , (Oct. 1st - 3rd, 2009)
    • Invited talk at NSF Workshop on Geospatial and Geotemporal Informatics , Jan. 2009.
    • Invited C. S. Colloquium , University of Houston (Feb. 19th, 2006), Texas, USA.
    • Keynote at IEEE ICDM Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining (SSTDM) , Dec. 18th, 2006, Hong Kong.
    • Microsoft Virtual Earth Workshop (11/30-12/1, 2006), Seattle, USA.
    • Keynote at ISPRS 2005 Spatial Data Mining Workshop (11/24-25, 2005), METU, Ankara, Turkey.
    • Keynote at GeoInfo 2005 - VII Brazilan Symposium on Geoinformatics (11/20-23, 2005) Campos do Jordao, Brazil
    • Keynote at Ninth Bi-annual International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (8/24-26/05) (August, 2005), Angora dos Rias, Brazil
    • Keynote at NSF Workshop on Phenology (6/16-17/05) :
    • Invited talk at Boston University (3/21/05)
    • Keynote at GIScience 2004 ( 3rd Bi-annual Intl. Conf. on Geographic Info. Sc. )
    • SAS DMT Conference 10/03
    • Slides for earlier talks on Spatial Data Mining at ARL PI Workshop June 2002 , NSF Spatial Data Analysis Workshop April 2002 , UCGIS Summer Assembly 2001 ,
  • Spatial Databases : A Tour: abstract (html), at MN GIS/LIS 2003 - 2009
  • Informatics: What is it? pdf slides - Invited talk at the 2008 NSF IGERT on Sensor Science, Engineering and Informatics 2008 workshop.
  • Teaching G.I.Science: A Computing Perspective, pdf slides - Invited talk at the 2008 Annual Summer Assembly of the UCGIS .
  • GIS and Cyber-Infrastructure in: powerpoint slides - Invited talk at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (April 2008).
  • GIS in 2015: powerpoint slides - Invited talk at the Research & New Venture Showcase: Geospatial Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (January, 2008).

  Major Projects

  • Evaucation Route Planning for Homeland Security : ABSTRACT, Slides, Biography, etc. (html)
    • Invited talk at US-Taiwan Workshop on Adv. of Societal Responses to Mag-Disasters afflicting Mega-Cities, May 2010.
    • Invited talk at DHS NSF Workshop on Emergency Management , Nov. 2009.
    • University of California, Santa Barbara, Spatial@ucsb, Dangermond annual lecture , May, 2009.
    • UCGIS Winter Assembly , Feb. 2009.
    • Invited talk at Intelligent Transportation Systems forum (March 8th, 2006)
    • UCGIS Congressional Presentation (2/04)
  • Spatial Data Mining and Environmental Sciences: Abstract, Biography, Slides, etc. ) (html)
    • Annual GIS Day at University of Notre Dame , November, 2010.
    • The 21st IASTED Intl. Conf. on Modelling and Simulation , July, 2010.
  • High-performance GIS : abstract (html) - Invited talk at
    • ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems (HPDGIS) (Nov. 2nd, 2010).
    • Oakridge National Laboratory (Feb. 24th, 2006)
  • Mapcube: A Visualization Approach for Spatial Datawarehouses abstract (html), slides (ppt),
    • Planned for Dagstuhl Workshop on Data Warehouses 8/04 ,
    • Earlier slides on Traffic Data Visualization as Mapcube : powerpoint ,
  • Mining colocation patterns from spatial datasets: abstract (html), slides (pdf),
  • A Unified Approach to Spatial Outliers with Applications to Traffic Data Analysis: abstract (html),
  • Predicting Locations Using Map Similarity: A Case Study in Spatial Data Mining: abstract (html),
  • CCAM: A Connectivity Clustered Access Method for Roadmaps abstract (html), slides ( html , powerpoint)
  • Map Accuracy Evaluation : abstract (html)

  Talks at University of Minnesota

  • Overview (powerpoint slides): 1 slide summary , Brief biography (4 slides), CS Dept. Graduate Students Orientation (6 slides),
  • IGERT Overview (powerpoint slides): 10 slide summary ,
  • AHPCRC Overview (powerpoint slides): 10 slide summary ,
  • Army High Performance Computing Research Center : Summary of projects : powerpoint ,
  • Intelligent Transportation Research: Summary of 5 projects over 10 years: powerpoint,
    Traffic Data Visualization as Mapcube : powerpoint ,
  • RAM 2006 Workshop 10 slides ,