14. GIS 2006: Arlington, Virginia, USA

• Frank Biasi:
  Conservation GIS: current applications and emerging needs. 1-2
  

Computational geometry

• Eric Guilbert, Hui Lin:
  B-Spline curve smoothing under position constraints for line generalisation. 3-10
  
• Bart Kuijpers, Bart Moelans, Nico Van de Weghe:
  Qualitative polyline similarity testing with applications to query-by-sketch, indexing and classification. 11-18
  
• Mark de Berg, Elena Mumford, Bettina Speckmann:
  Optimal BSPs and rectilinear cartograms. 19-26
  

Moving objects & image databases

• Charles Ben Cranston, Hanan Samet:
  Efficient position-independent iconic search using an R-theta index. 27-34
  
• Joachim Gudmundsson, Marc J. van Kreveld:
  Computing longest duration flocks in trajectory data. 35-42
  
• Thomas Behr, Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Ralf Hartmut Güting:
  Representation of periodic moving objects in databases. 43-50
  
• Arne Schuldt, Björn Gottfried, Otthein Herzog:
  A compact shape representation for linear geographical objects: the scope histogram. 51-58
  

Data integration

• Eliyahu Safra, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv, Yerach Doytsher:
  Efficient integration of road maps. 59-66
  
• Stefan Steiniger, Dirk Burghardt, Robert Weibel:
  Recognition of island structures for map generalization. 67-74
  
• Jan-Henrik Haunert, Alexander Wolff:
  Generalization of land cover maps by mixed integer programming. 75-82
  
• Vivek Sehgal, Lise Getoor, Peter Viechnicki:
  Entity resolution in geospatial data integration. 83-90
  

Interoperability & web technology

• Chia-Hsin Huang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Dong-Po Deng, Hahn-Ming Lee:
  Efficient GML-native processors for web-based GIS: techniques and tools. 91-98
  
• Ryoko Hiramoto, Kazutoshi Sumiya:
  Web information retrieval based on user operation on digital maps. 99-106
  
• Fubao Zhu, Jihong Guan, Jiaogen Zhou, Shuigeng Zhou:
  Storing and querying GML in object-relational databases. 107-114
  
• Sung-Gheel Jang, Tschangho John Kim:
  Modeling an interoperable multimodal travel guide system using the ISO 19100 series of international standards. 115-122
  

Data modeling

• Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Markus Schneider:
  Preserving local topological relationships. 123-130
  
• Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra, Ramaswamy Hariharan, Carter Butts:
  Modeling and querying uncertain spatial information for situational awareness applications. 131-138
  
• Vania Bogorny, Sandro da Silva Camargo, Paulo Martins Engel, Luis Otávio Alvares:
  Mining frequent geographic patterns with knowledge constraints. 139-146
  
• Matthew Perry, Farshad Hakimpour, Amit P. Sheth:
  Analyzing theme, space, and time: an ontology-based approach. 147-154
  

Location-based services

• Gyözö Gidófalvi, Torben Bach Pedersen:
  ST-ACTS: a spatio-temporal activity simulator. 155-162
  
• Stelian Coros, JingBo Ni, Pascal Matsakis:
  Object localization based on directional information case of 2D vector data. 163-170
  
• Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xuan Liu:
  A peer-to-peer spatial cloaking algorithm for anonymous location-based service. 171-178
  
• Xiaobin Ma, Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong, Pusheng Zhang:
  Exploiting a page-level upper bound for multi-type nearest neighbor queries. 179-186
  

Query processing I

• Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Ralf Hartmut Güting, Rafael Brand Rodrigues, Geraldo Zimbrão, Jano Moreira de Souza:
  Filtering with raster signatures. 187-194
  
• Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra, Ramaswamy Hariharan:
  Index for fast retrieval of uncertain spatial point data. 195-202
  
• Floris Geerts, Peter Z. Revesz, Jan Van den Bussche:
  On-line maintenance of simplified weighted graphs for efficient distance queries. 203-210
  
• Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Houman Alborzi, Hanan Samet:
  Distance join queries on spatial networks. 211-218
  

Stream processing & query processing II

• Miguel Rodrigues Fornari, João Luiz Dihl Comba, Cirano Iochpe:
  Query optimizer for spatial join operations. 219-226
  
• Victor Teixeira de Almeida:
  Towards optimal continuous nearest neighbor queries in spatial databases. 227-234
  
• Guifen Tang, José Eduardo Córcoles, Ning Jing:
  NSJ: an efficient non-blocking spatial join algorithm. 235-242
  
• Quinn Hart, Michael Gertz:
  Optimization of multiple continuous queries over streaming satellite data. 243-250