The paper A Motion-Aware Approach for Efficient Evaluation of Continuous Queries on 3D Object Databases, authored by Mohammed Eunus Ali, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, and myself, has been accepted for the VLDB Journal. The full citation is under my publications.
A paper authored by Tanzima Hashem, myself, and Rui Zhang on Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbor Queries has been accepted for EDBT 2010. The acceptance rate was 17.6%.
A position paper about our Spatio-Temporal Database Research at the University of Melbourne is available now via SIGMOD Record.
Our poster (authored by Muhammad Umer, Egemen Tanin, and myself) on Opportunistic Sampling in Wireless Sensor Networks has won the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 best poster award.
One full paper authored by Muhammad Ziyuan Wang, myself, and Rao Kotagiri on Robust Traffic Merging Strategies for Sensor-Enabled Cars Using Time Geography has been accepted for ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009. The acceptance rate for full papers was 20.5%.
One short paper authored by Muhammad Umer, Egemen Tanin, and myself on Opportunistic Sampling in Wireless Sensor Networks has been accepted for ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009.
The full citations are under my publications.
The paper Analysis and Evaluation of V*-kNN: An Efficient Algorithm for Moving kNN Queries, authored by Sarana Nutanong, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, and myself, has been accepted for the VLDB Journal. The full citation is under my publications.
A paper authored by Hairuo Xie, myself, and Egemen Tanin on Privacy Aware Traffic Monitoring has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The full citation is under my publications.
A letter on Privacy for real-time location-based services has been published at ACM SIGSPATIAL Special. The full citation is under my publications. The article is available via the ACM portal.
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Hebden for completing his PhD. Dr Adrian Pearce and I were Peter’s supervisors. His thesis Self Organisation of Wireless Sensor Networks for Data-Centric Routing using Bloom Filters is available here.
I am delighted to become a member of the editorial board of GeoInformatica. GeoInformatica is a journal to publish “the most innovative research results in the application of computer science applied to geographic information systems”. More information about GeoInformatica is available under the journal website.
A paper authored by Muhammad Umer, myself, and Egemen Tanin on Optimizing Query Processing Using Selectivity-awareness in Wireless Sensor Networks has been accepted for Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems (CEUS). The full citation is under my publications.
A paper authored by Muhammad Umer, myself, and Egemen Tanin on Spatial Interpolation in Wireless Sensor Networks has been accepted for publication in GeoInformatica. The full citation is under my publications.
On September 1st 2008 I was promoted to senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. A big thank you to my friends and colleagues for their support.
A paper authored by Muhammad Atif Mehmood, myself, and Egemen Tanin on Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Agents Using RFID-Enabled Space Partitions has been accepted for ACM GIS 2008. The full citation is under my publications. Read the rest of this entry »
A paper authored by Sarana Nutanong, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, and myself on The V*-Diagram: a Query-Dependent Method for Moving kNN Queries has been accepted for VLDB 2008. The acceptance rate was 16.5%. The full citation is under my publications. Read the rest of this entry »
ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Grant, $200,000. BigNet: A Distributed Wireless Sensor Network Testbed. Chief investigators: M. Palaniswami, R. Kotagiri, R. Tucker, I. Atkinson, P. Pathirana, C. Leckie, P. Mendis, R. Buyya, M. Duckham, S. Halgamuge, G. Woods, L. Kulik, E. Tanin, S. Dey, B. Vo, K. Smith-Miles, M. Zukerman. BigNet will be the first large scale deployment of sensors in Australia and will provide a platform for testing and validation of advanced algorithms and tools.
A journal paper authored by Matt Duckham, myself, Mike Worboys, and Antony Galton on the Efficient Generation of Simple Polygons for Characterizing the Shape of a Set of Points in the Plane has been accepted for publication in the Pattern Recognition. The full citation is under my publications. Read the rest of this entry »
ARC Discovery Project Grant, $590,000. EPOS: Efficient Processing of Moving Object Streams in Data Management Systems. Chief investigators. R. Kotagiri, L. Kulik, R. Zhang, H. Samet, H.V. Jagadish. EPOS is a new data management system that will enable monitoring of large numbers of moving objects that have a high number of location updates.
A paper authored by Mohammed Eunus Ali, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, and myself on A Motion-Aware Approach to Continuous Retrieval of 3D Objects has been accepted for ICDE 2008. The acceptance rate was 12.1%. The full citation is under my publications. Read the rest of this entry »
A paper authored by Tanzima Hashem and myself on Safeguarding Location Privacy in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks has been accepted for Ubicomp 2007. The full citation is under my publications. Read the rest of this entry »