Monday 17 November
Afternoon—Evening Workshop
Participants Arrive
3:00PM— 6:00PM Registration, Lobby
5:00PM— 8:00PM Dinner,
Cafeteria
Tuesday 18 November
8:00AM— 10:30AM Registration,
Lobby
8:30AM— 9:45AM Room
N3-585
Introduction—Barbara Buttenfield, Harvey Miller, Lynn Usery
Overview
and Charge to the Smaller Group of 25 – setting forth
the mechanics of the
coming two days – who will lead the small
groups, who will summarize and report
discussions to the rest of
the group of 25, goals and topics for the small
groups, and overall
objective of prioritizing research for the KD and VIS
communities.
9:45AM— 10:15AM Break
10:15AM— 10:30AM Open Plenary Session
N3-365
Welcome
Barbara Buttenfield
10:30AM— 11:05AM Plenary Talk 1—Harvey Miller, University of Utah
Geospatial and Spatio-temporal Knowledge
Discovery:
Overview and Agenda
11:05AM— 11:40AM Plenary Talk
2—May Yuan, University of Oklahoma
GIS Representation
for Visualizing and Mining Geographic
Dynamics
11:40 AM—12NOON Discussion Question and Answer
Moderator Barbara Buttenfield
12NOON— 1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM— 1:35PM Plenary
Talk 3—Nick Faust, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Integration of Dynamic Data Within The Georgia Tech Virtual
Geographic Information System (GTVGIS) Global Framework
1:30PM— 2:10PM Plenary
Talk 4—Keith Clarke, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Wearable GIS for Homeland Security Applications:
Accomplishments, Prospects and Research
Issues
2:10PM— 2:30PM Discussion Question and Answer
Moderator Lynn Usery
2:30PM Open
Plenary Session Closes
2:30PM— 3:00PM Break
3:00PM Convene
the invited workshop
Room N3-585
3:05PM— 4:30PM Breakout #1
Rooms
N3-781, N3-783, N3-784, N3785, N3-786, N3-787
Spatiotemporal data modeling and algorithms in large
GIS databases. The topic is related to "Management of large volume
datasets" and "Information search and retrieval" but with
greater emphasis on (1) representing geographic knowledge, (2) incorporating
semantic, spatial, and temporal information, and (3) linkages between data
models and analytical methods.
Small Group Leaders – Hornsby, Shekhar, Wilson, Findley
4:30PM— 5:15PM Small Group Reports—Session Moderator: Harvey Miller
5:15PM— 6:00PM Open
Discussion—Moderator Harvey Miller
5:30PM— 6:30PM Welcome
Reception
Room
N3-367
6:30PM— 8:00PM Dinner
Room
N3-367
Wednesday 19 November
8:45AM— 9:00AM Room
N3-585
Announcements Barbara Buttenfield
9:00AM—10:30AM Breakout
#2
Rooms N3-781, N3-783, N3-784, N3785, N3-786, N3-787
Graphic
user interfaces for geographic knowledge discovery software environments,
specifically developing dynamic and linked modes of user interaction.
Representing confidence, relevance and uncertainty. Usability and customized
access to meet the needs of very different user groups.
Small
Group Leaders – Fabrikant, Smith, Usery, Gahegan
Small
Group Leaders – Hornsby, Shekhar, Wilson, Findley
10:30AM—11:00AM Break
11:00AM—11:45AM Small Group Reports—Session Moderator Barbara Buttenfield
Room
N3-585
11:45AM—12:30PM Open
discussion—Moderator Barbara Buttenfield
12:30PM— 1:30PM Lunch,
Cafeteria
1:30PM— 3:00PM Breakout
#3
Rooms N3-781, N3-783, N3-784, N3785, N3-786, N3-787
Potential
biases (computational and assumptional) related to outcomes of DM/KD
software. Scale dependence, for example -- we know that geospatial data
are sensitive to resolution, but we don't know at this point if resolution of
features or attributes affects modeling results, or if so, how. The
issue with statistical assumptions is also a consideration. Many
researchers adopt statistical tools (neural net regression, e.g.) in DM/KD
environments without establishing whether the method assumptions can be met
with unknown data cases. In what research situations does this create
problems? Third, what is the effect of transforming data architecture on the
DM/KD outcomes, e.g., spatialization or other strategies for improving access.
Small
Group Leaders –Mennis, Miller, Merry, Landvoigt
Small
Group Leaders – Fabrikant, Smith, Usery, Gahegan
Small
Group Leaders – Hornsby, Shekhar, Wilson, Findley
3:00PM— 3:30PM Coffee
Break
3:30PM— 4:15PM Small Group Reports—Moderator
Lynn Usery
Room
N3-585
4:15PM— 5:00PM Open
Discussion—Moderator Lynn Usery
5:00PM— 7:00PM Break
for dinner
Cafeteria
7:30PM— 9:30PM Dessert
Suzy
Jampoler’s
Transportation
Provided
Thursday 20 November
8:15AM— 8:30AM Room
N3-585
Announcements Barbara Buttenfield
8:30AM—10:00AM Breakout
#4
Rooms N3-781, N3-783, N3-784, N3785, N3-786, N3-787
Visualization
techniques to support 'meta-mining' (mining the results of conventional data
mining techniques). For example, association rule mining may extract tens
of thousands of rules from even a moderately sized database, but only a few may
be considered non-trivial or interesting. How can visualization be used
to explore such a 'rule space'? Many visualization techniques are
available to explore data; how can these techniques be adapted to explore
derived knowledge?
Small
Group Leaders –Yuan, Stuekerjuergen, Clarke
Small
Group Leaders – Mennis, Miller, Merry, Landvoigt
Small
Group Leaders – Fabrikant, Smith, Usery, Gahegan
Small
Group Leaders – Hornsby, Shekhar, Wilson, Findley
10:00AM—10:30AM Break
10:30AM—11:15AM Small Group Reports—Moderator
John Wilson
Room
N3-585
11:15PM—12NOON Open Discussion—Moderator John Wilson
12NOON— 1:00PM Lunch
Cafeteria
1:00PM— 2:00PM Plenary Wrap-up
Room
N3-585
Barbara Buttenfield, Lynn Usery,
Harvey Miller
Summarizing
and prioritizing research needs
Re-capping
the workshop venue -- feedback
2:00PM— 2:30PM Plans for
moving forward, proposals, publications, etc.
2:30PM Adjourn
the workshop
Pick
up travel snack
Bus
leaves for Dulles International Airport
3:00PM Arrive Dulles International Airport
