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  The Third International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management
  in conjunction with VLDB 2006
  September 11, 2006, Seoul, South Korea

  http://isel.cs.pusan.ac.kr/stdbm06/index.htm
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 Managing spatially and temporally referenced data is becoming increasingly 
 important, given the continuing advances in wireless communications, 
 ubiquitous computing technologies and the availability of real datasets 
 to be managed. An exchange of ideas and a dialog between practitioners 
 and researchers will benefit both the academic and the commercial world 
 in the development of spatio-temporal database management.
  
 The one-day third international workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database 
 Management will bring together leading researchers and developers in 
 the area of spatio-temporal databases in order to discuss state-of-the-art 
 as well as novel research in spatio-temporal databases. The workshop is 
 intended to serve as a forum for disseminating research and experience 
 in this rapidly growing area. The topical areas of interest include 
 (but are not limited to) the following:   

  - Data Modeling and Manipulation: This involves defining data semantics, 
    models, data types, and query languages for different types of 
    spatio-temporal data, including the modeling of uncertainty and 
    imprecision.  

  - Query Processing and Indexing: This involves techniques for query 
    optimization, indexing structures (and paradigms) for different types 
    of spatio-temporal data (e.g., trajectories and moving objects) and 
    different types of queries (e.g., spatio-temporal aggregations and 
    joins).  

  - System Architecture and Integration: Issues here include the concrete 
    realization of new techniques, i.e., building spatio-temporal 
    extensions into, or on top of, existing systems. 

  - Decision Support and Analysis: Topics here include spatio-temporal 
    data mining and data warehousing, as well as visualization techniques.  

  - Applications and Experimentation: This includes experiences with 
    real applications, including the architectural solutions, as well as 
    proposals of new and challenging applications. Another important 
    aspect for research in general is reproducibility and comparability 
    of results. Hence there is a need for standardization, i.e., 
    spatio-temporal datasets and benchmarks. 

 Papers must be in English and should not exceed 8 pages in VLDB
 formatting (http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~vldb06/manuscript_preparation.html).
 Papers should be in PDF format and should be submitted via the
 workshop home page (http://isel.cs.pusan.ac.kr/stdbm06/). Each paper
 must include a short abstract and a list of keywords indicating
 subject classification. All accepted papers will be published in
 on-line proceedings of CEUR
 (http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS). Acceptance
 of a paper means an obligation for at least one of the authors to
 attend the conference and present the paper. The submitted material
 must not be published or submitted for publication in other
 outlets. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an
 extended version of their papers for inclusion in a major
 international journal of GIS. For more information, please contact
 one of the workshop co-chairs, Prof. Christophe Claramunt
 (claramunt@ecole-navale.fr), Prof. Simonas Saltenis
 (simas@cs.aau.dk), and Prof. Ki-Joune Li (lik@pnu.edu).
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 Important Dates: 

  - April 23, 2006 : Abstract submission due
  - April 30, 2006 : Full paper submission due
  - June 1, 2006 : Notification of paper acceptance 
  - July 10, 2006 : Camera-ready copy due

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 Workshop Co-Chairs

  Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy, France
  Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark
  Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, Korea 

 Advisory Committee

  Ralf Hartmut Gueting, Fernuniversitat Hagen, Germany 
  Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark 
  Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
  Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece 
 
 Program Committee

  Dave Abel, CSIRO, Australia
  Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA 
  Lars Arge, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
  Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland  
  Thomas Brinkhoff, Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  Edward P.F. Chan, University of Waterloo, Canada 
  Andrew U. Frank, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
  Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy 
  Ralf Hartmut Gueting, Fernuniversitat Hagen, Germany
  Erik Hoel, ESRI, USA 
  Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine, USA 
  Christopher B. Jones, Cardiff University, UK 
  George Kollios, Boston University, USA
  Ravikanth V. Kothuri, Oracle Corporation, USA 
  Mario A. Lopez, University of Denver, USA 
  Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece 
  Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil
  Dimitris Papadias, UST Hong Kong, China 
  Jignesh M. Patel , University of Michigan, USA 
  Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece 
  Philippe Rigaux, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France 
  John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia 
  Joerg Sander, University of Alberta, Canada 
  Michel Scholl, Cedric/CNAM, France
  Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany 
  Timos Sellis, NTUA, Greece 
  Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA 
  Jianwen Su, UC Santa Barbara, USA 
  Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece 
  Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece 
  Babis Theodoulidis, University of Manchester, UK  
  Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
  Nectaria Tryfona, Talent Information System SA, Greece 
  Vassilis Tsotras, UC Riverside, USA 
  Jeffrey S. Vitter, Purdue University, USA 
  Agnes Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST & FU Berlin, Germany
  Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
  Jef Wijsen, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium 
  Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia 
  Michael Worboys, University of Maine, USA
  Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA