SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter March 2019 (Volume 11, Number 1): Spatial Query Processing and Traffic Simulation

Volume 11, Number 1, March 2019

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Forewordi-ii
Message from the Editor
Andreas Züfle 
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Section 1: Special Issue on Spatial Query Processing and Traffic Simulation
Introduction to this Special Issue 
Andreas Züfle
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Spatial Pattern Matching: A New Direction for Finding Spatial Objects 
Yun Li, Yixiang Fang, Reynold Cheng, Wenjie Zhang
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Spatial Joins: What’s next? 
Panagiotis Bouros, Nikos Mamoulis
13-21
Generating Traffic Data for Any City using SMARTS Simulator 
Hairuo Xie, Egemen Tanin, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Shanika Karunasekera, Lars Kulik, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi 
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Section 2: Event Reports
Conference Report: The 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on 
Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018)
Seattle, Washington, USA November 6-9, 2018 

Ralf Hartmut Güting, Roberto Tamassia, Li Xiong, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Erik Hoel 
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ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup 2018 – Identifying Upstream Features in Large Spatial Networks 
Dev Oliver, Bo Xu, Yuanyuan Pao 
32-35
Spatial Gems: A New Type of Workshop at the SIGSPATIAL Conference 
John Krumm, Cyrus Shahabi, Andreas Züfle 
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