CTS Events
SEMINAR
November 14, 2012

Dr. Nebiyou Tilahun, UPP, presents a seminar entitled "An agent based model of origin destination estimation (ADOBE)" Wednesday, November 14th at 4:00 pm in Rm 1127 SEO

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SEMINAR
November 7, 2012

Mr. Thomas Murtha, CMAP, will address the CTS-IGERT community at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.

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SEMINAR
October 24, 2012

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Bo Zou, CME, on Wednesday, October 24th, Room 1127 SEO, 4:00 p.m.

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CTS Happenings
September 25, 2012

Award Received by Joshua Auld, CTS-IGERT alumnus.

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April 20, 2012

Congratulations to James Biagioni, CTS Fellow and CS PhD candidate, winner of the Dean's Scholar award.

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January 2, 2012

James Biagioni, CTS Fellow, receives "Best Presentation Award" at SenSys2011

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July 30, 2010

Dr. Ouri Wolfson, Dr. Phillip Yu, and Leon Stenneth, CS student and CTS Associate, recently had a paper accepted to the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2010).

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July 12, 2010

Joel Booth, CTS Fellow, will present a seminar entitled "Transportation Databases: A Brief Survey" on Monday, July 12,2010 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO.

One article sited:
Author: Ralf Hartmut Gting, Victor Teixeira de Almeida and Zhiming Ding. Title: "Modeling and querying moving objects in networks". Journal: The VLDB Journal, Volume 15, Number 2 / June, 2006. http://www.springerlink.com/content/731k56656384jx24/

Abstract:
In this presentation I will introduce the notion of a transportation database and present a brief historical survey of such systems. I begin by identifying the key attributes of the transportation system, which in turn defines the requirements of the database model. I will then show the progression from very simple graph-based models through more and more advanced spatial, temporal, and moving objects models. Each step in the evolution provides a richer and more powerful representation of the transportation system as a whole. Topics include the data types, functions, predicates, models, and query languages needed in the transportation domain.

Because this is a survey, I will stick to the "big picture". Detailed references will be made available for those looking for more further information.

Biography:
Joel Booth is a Ph.D. candidate, CTS IGERT Fellow and student in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests lie between multiple interrelated fields: natural language processing, semantic web, and databases. His dissertation research focuses on developing database models for transportation systems as well as natural language interfaces that facilitate their access by lay-users. He completed his B.A. in Computer Science at Kalamazoo College in 2005, and joined UIC in the fall of 2005.