[UCI-Calit2] ResCUE Seminar--GeoDec: Enabling Geospatial Decision Making

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Title:                           GeoDec: Enabling Geospatial Decision
Making

 

Speaker:                    Cyrus Shahabi, associate professor and
director of the Information Laboratory, University of Southern
California

 

Time:                          10:45 a.m., refreshments; lecture to
follow

 

Date:                           Friday, January 27, 2006

 

Location:                    Calit2 Building, Room 3008

 

Abstract:                     The vision of GeoDec is to enable an
information-rich and realistic 3-dimensional visualization and/or
simulation of a geographical location (e.g., a city), rapidly and
accurately. The idea is not just to allow navigation through a 3-D
model, but to be able to ask queries and get information about the area
seamlessly and effortlessly. The main challenge is: How to quickly and
cheaply integrate, visualize, and simulate all aspects of a geographic
region. The ability to create high-fidelity information-rich models of
cities is critical for a wide variety of decision makers. For example,
in the United States, GeoDec can be used by city managers, city
planners, emergency response planners and first responders.

 

Shahabi will first give his motivation for GeoDec and explain his
vision. Next, he will briefly discuss current activities in the
realization of GeoDec, concluding with a demonstration of the current
prototype.

 

Bio:                             Cyrus Shahabi is an associate professor
and the director of the Information Laboratory (InfoLAB) in the computer
science department and a research area director at the NSF's Integrated
Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. He
is also the CTO of Geosemble Technologies. He received his M.S. and
doctorate degrees in computer science from the University of Southern
California in May 1993 and August 1996, respectively. He has a
bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Sharif University of
Technology, Iran, and has published two books and more than 100
articles, book chapters and conference papers in the areas of databases
and multimedia. Shahabi's current research interests include
peer-to-peer systems, streaming architectures, geospatial data
integration and multidimensional data analysis.  He is currently an
associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems (TPDS) and is on the editorial board of ACM Computers in
Entertainment magazine. He is also the program committee chair of ICDE
NetDB 2005 and ACM GIS.

 

Additional Information:         Faculty sponsor is Ramesh Jain. For more
information, contact Quent Cassen, (949) 824-1741, or cassen at uci.edu.

RELATED LINKS: http://infolab.usc.edu/Shahabi/index.html,
http://infolab.usc.edu/projects/geodec/index.jsp

 

 

 

 

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