Thursday, September 5, 2002

9:00 -10:00 Session 1 - Mobile Objects

Indexing Mobile Objects on the Plane
Dimitris Papadopoulos (UCR), George Kollios (Boston University), Dimitrios Gunopulos and Vassilis J. Tsotras (UCR)

Real-Time Traffic Updates in Moving Objects Database
Goce Trajcevski, Ouri Wolfson and Bo Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30 Session 2 - Location Data Management

Effective Management of Location Dependent Continuous Queries in Mobile Environment
Latifur Khan and Manish Gupta (University of Texas at Dallas)

Location Estimation Algorithms for Providing Location Services within a Metropolitan Area based on a Mobile Phone Network
Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Stephen Ka Chun Chan, and Kenny Ka Ho Kan (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Spatial and Temporal Aware, Trajectory Mobility Profile Based Location Management for Mobile Computing
Jianting Zhang and Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma)

Robust Similarity Measures for Mobile Object Trajectories
Michail Vlachos, Dimitrios Gunopulos (UCR) and George Kollios (Boston University)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3 -- Mobile Agents and Middleware

Middleware for Mobile Information Access
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin and Yelena Jesha (UMBC)

Structures for Protecting the Routes of Mobile Agents Dispatched in Parallel
Yan Wang, Xiaolin Pang and Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore)

From Location Databases to Pervasive Catalog
Panos K. Chrysanthis and Vladimir I. Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 4 - Data Consistency

Enhanced Multi-Version Data Broadcast Schemes for Time-Constrained Mobile Computing Systems
Hei-Wing Leung, Joe Yuen, Kam-Yiu Lam and Edward Chan (City University of Hong Kong)

Maintaining Consistency of Twin Transaction Model Using Mobility-Enabled Distributed File System Environment
Simon Cuce, Arkady Zaslavsky, Bing Hu, and Jignesh Rambhia (Monash University)

Understanding the Behavior of the Conflict-Rate Metric in Optimistic Peer Replication
An-I A. Wang, Peter Reiher, Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA), and Geoffrey H. Kuenning (Harvey Mudd College)