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Organization

• General Co-Chairs
• Varun Chandola (SUNY Buffalo)
• Ranga Raju Vatsavai (NCSU)

08:50-09:00 : Opening Remarks

09:00-10:35 : Session 1

09:00-09:45 : Storage and Indexing of Spatial data on HDFS -- Dr. Siva Ravada (Oracle) -- Keynote Talk

09:45-10:10 : Partitioning Strategies for Spatio-Textual Similarity Join
Jinfeng Rao (University of Maryland College Park), Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland College Park) and Hanan Samet (University of Maryland College Park)

10:10-10:35 : HAGGIS: Turbo Charge A MapReduce based Spatial Data Warehousing System with GPU
Ablimit Aji (HP Labs), Fusheng Wang (Emory University) and George Teodoro (Emory University)

10:35-11:00 : Coffee Break

11:00-11:25 : A Computational Framework for Ontologically Storing and Analyzing Very Large Overhead Image Sets
Randy Brost (Sandia National Laboratories), William McLendon (Sandia National Laboratories), Ojas Parekh (Sandia National Laboratories), Mark Rintoul (Sandia National Laboratories), David Strip and Diane Woodbridge (Sandia National Laboratories)

12:10-14:00 : Lunch

14:00-14:45 : SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data -- Professor Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota) -- Keynote Talk

14:45-15:10 : High Performance Integrated Spatial Big Data Analytics
Xin Chen (Emory University), Hoang Vo (Emory University), Ablimit Aji (HP Labs) and Fusheng Wang (Emory University)

15:10-15:35 : A Map-Reduce Algorithm to Create Contiguity Weights for Spatial Analysis of Big Data
Xun Li (Arizona State University), Wenwen Li (Arizona State University), Luc Anselin (Arizona State University), Sergio Rey (Arizona State University) and Julia Koschinsky (Arizona State University)

15:35-16:00 : Coffee Break

16:00-17:15 : Session 4

16:00-16:25 : An efficient GPU multiple-observer siting method based on sparse-matrix multiplication
Guilherme Pena (Universidade Fed. de Viços), Salles Magalhas̃ (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Marcus Andrade (Universidade Fed. de Viços), Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Chaulio Ferreira (Universidade Fed. de Viços), Wenli Li (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Daniel Benedetti (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

16:25-16:50 : A Computational Framework for Finding Interestingness Hotspots in Large Spatio-Temporal Grids
Fatih Akdag (University of Houston), Christoph F. Eick (University of Houston) and Josh Urban Davis (University of Houston)

16:50-17:15 : Parallel QuadTree Encoding of Large-Scale Raster Geospatial Data on Multicore CPUs and GPGPUs
Nathalie Kaligirwa (University of Oklahoma), Eleazar Leal (University of Oklahoma), Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma), Jianting Zhang (City College of New York) and Simin You (CUNY Graduate Center)

17:15-17:20 : Closing Remarks