High-Performance Geospatial Computing

  1. Jianting Zhang, Simin You* and Le Gruenwald (2014). Parallel Online Spatial and Temporal Aggregations on Multi-core CPUs and Many-Core GPUs. To appear in Information System (Elsevier journal). [Link 21 formatted pages] [Manuscript (33 unformatted pages)]
  2. Simin You*, Jianting Zhang, and Le Gruenwald (2013). GPU-based Spatial Indexing and Query Processing Using R-Trees . Proceedings of  ACM SIGSPAIAL BigSpatial'12 Workshop. [Link (8 formatted pages)] [Project Page]
  3. Jianting Zhang and Simin You* (2013). High-Performance Quadtree Constructions on Large-Scale Geospatial Rasters Using GPGPU Parallel Primitives.  International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences (IJGIS), 27(11), pp. 2207-2226,Taylor& Francsis.  [Link (20 formatted pages)] [Manuscript]
  4.  Jianting Zhang and Simin You* (2012).  CudaGIS: Report on the Design and Realization of a Massive Data Parallel GIS on GPUs. To appear in ACM SIGSPAIAL IWGS Workshop. [Draft][Project Page]
  5.  Jianting Zhang and Simin You* (2012). Speeding up Large-Scale Point-in-Polygon Test Based Spatial Join on GPUs. To appear in ACM SIGSPAIAL BigSpatial'12 Workshop. [Draft] [Project Page]
  6.  Jianting Zhang, Simin You and Le Gruenwald (2012). High-Performance Online Spatial and Temporal Aggregations on Multi-core CPUs and Many-Core GPUs. To appear in ACM CIKM DOLAP'12 Workshop[Draft] ][Project Page]
  7. Jianting Zhang, Simin You and Le Gruenwald. U2STRA: High-Performance Data Management of Ubiquitous Urban Sensing Trajectories on GPGPUs. To appear in ACM CIKM CDMW Workshop. [Draft][Project Page]
  8.   Jianting Zhang, Hongmian Gong, Camille Kamga, Le Gruenwald (2012). U2SOD-DB: Design of an Efficient Database System to Manage Large-Scale Ubiquitous Urban Sensing Origin-Destination Data. ACM SIGKDD workshop on Urban Computing [Link][Local Copy]
  9.  Simin You* and Jianting Zhang (2012). Constructing Natural Neighbor Interpolation Based Grid DEM Using CUDA. Proceedings of COM.Geo 2012. [Link][Local Copy] 
  10.  Jianting Zhang (2012). A high-performance web-based information system for publishing large-scale species range maps in support of biodiversity studies. Ecological Informatics 8: 68-77. [Link][Local Copy][Online Demo] (doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.01.004)
  11.  Jianting Zhang and Simin You* (2012). Simplifying High-Performance Geospatial Computing on GPGPUs Using Parallel Primitives: A Case Study of Quadtree Constructions on Large-Scale Geospatial Rasters. Technical Report. [Draft][Project Page with Source Code Release]
  12. Jianting Zhang, Simin You* and Le Gruenwald (2012). Speeding High-Performance Spatial Join Processing on GPGPUs with Applications to Large-Scale Taxi Trip Data. Technical Report. [Draft] [Project Page]
  13. Simin You* and Jianting Zhang. GPU-based Spatial Indexing and Query Processing Using R-Trees . Technical Report [Link] [Project Page]
  14. Jianting Zhang, Simin You* and Le Gruenwald. Parallel Quadtree Coding of Large-Scale Raster Geospatial Data on GPGPUs. Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011). [Link][Extended Version] [Source Code] [Poster] (doi: 10.1145/2093973.2094047)
  15. Jianting Zhang. Speeding Up Large-Scale Geospatial Polygon Rasterization on GPGPUs. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems 2011 (HPDGIS11). [Link][Local Copy] [Source Code][Presentation] (doi: 10.1145/2070770.2070772)
  16. Jianting Zhang, Simin You* and Le Gruenwald. Indexing Large-Scale Raster Geospatial Data Using Massively Parallel GPGPU Computing. Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS10). Nov. 3-5, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0428-3. (doi: 10.1145/1869790.1869859) (Full+poster paper acceptance rate 74/172). [Link][Local Copy][Extended Version][ Source Code] [Presentation][Poster]
  17.  Jianting Zhang. Towards Personal High-Performance Geospatial Computing (HPC-G): Perspectives and a Case Study (Accepted as a full paper). Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems 2010 (HPDGIS10). Nov. 2, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0432-0 (doi:10.1145/1869692.1869694) (Full paper acceptance rate 3/10). [Link][Local Copy] [Presentation]

Spatial databases

  1. Jianting Zhang, Simin You* and Le Gruenwald (2014). Parallel Online Spatial and Temporal Aggregations on Multi-core CPUs and Many-Core GPUs. To appear in Information System (Elsevier journal). [Link 21 formatted pages] [Manuscript (33 unformatted pages)]
  2. Simin You*, Jianting Zhang, and Le Gruenwald (2013). GPU-based Spatial Indexing and Query Processing Using R-Trees . Proceedings of  ACM SIGSPAIAL BigSpatial'12 Workshop. [Link (8 formatted pages)] [Project Page]
  3. Jianting Zhang, Michael Gertz, Le Gruenwald (2009). Efficiently Managing Large-Scale Raster Species Distribution Data in PostgreSQL. Proceedings of ACMGIS09, Nov. 4-6, Seattle, WA. (doi: 10.1145/1653771.1653815) (Full paper acceptance rate 38/185).
  4. Jianting Zhang (2009). Efficiently managing large scale species range maps in a spatial database environment, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on GeoInformatics, Aug 12-14, 2009, Fairfax, VA. (DOI: 10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2009.5293395).
  1. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald, Optimizing Data Placement over Wireless Broadcast Channel for Multi-Dimensional Range Query Processing. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM04), Berkeley, California, Jan. 2004, pp. 256-265. (Acceptance rate: 30/120) ISBN 0-7695-2070-7. [doi:10.1109/MDM.2004.1263071]
  2. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald: Efficient placement of geographical data over broadcast channel for spatial range query under quadratic cost model. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE03), San Diego, California, Sept. 2003, pp.30-37. (Acceptance rate: 9/34) ISBN 1-58113-767-2. . [doi: 10.1145/940923.940930]
  3. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald: An Access Time Cost Model for Spatial Range Queries on Broadcast Geographical Data over Air. Proceedings of the 14th Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA03), Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2736, Springer, pp.371-380. (Acceptance rate: 91/236) ISBN 3-540-40806. [doi: 10.1007/b11824]
  4. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald: Prioritized sequencing for efficient query on broadcast geographical information in mobile-computing. Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS 02), McLean, Virginia, pp.88-93. (Acceptance rate: 28/81) ISBN 1-58113-591-2. . [doi: 10.1145/585147.585166]
  5. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald, A GML-Based Open Architecture for Building a Geographical Information Search Engine over the Internet. Proceedings of WISE Workshops 2001, Web Geographical Information Systems (WGIS01), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 25-32. (Acceptance rate: 8/24) ISBN 0-7695-1393-X.
  6. Jianting Zhang, Muhammad Javed, Amir Shaheen, Le Gruenwald: Prototype for wrapping and visualizing geo-referenced data in a distributed environment using XML technology. Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS 00), Washington, D.C., Nov. 2000, pp.27-32. (Acceptance rate: 27/70) ISBN 1-58113-319-7. [doi: 10.1145/355274.355278]

GIS applications

  1. Jianting Zhang (2013). Efficient Frequent Sequence Mining on Taxi Trip Records Using Road Network Shortcuts. In Hassan Karimi (eds.) Big Data Techniques and Technologies in Geoinformatics (Taylor& Francis) [Link (16 formatted pages)] [Manuscript (13 unformatted pages)].
  2. Jianting Zhang (2012). A high-performance web-based information system for publishing large-scale species range maps in support of biodiversity studies. Ecological Informatics 8: 68-77. [Link][Local Copy][Online Demo] (doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.01.004)
  3. Jianting Zhang, Hongmian Gong, Camille Kamga, Le Gruenwald (2012). U2SOD-DB: Design of an Efficient Database System to Manage Large-Scale Ubiquitous Urban Sensing Origin-Destination Data. ACM SIGKDD workshop on Urban Computing [Link][Local Copy]  Jianting Zhang (2012). Smarter Outlier Detection and Deeper Understanding of Large-Scale Taxi Trip Records: A Case Study of NYC. To appear in Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Urban Computing. [Link][Local Copy]
  4. Jianting Zhang, Simin You, Li Chen, and Cynthia Chen. A Hybrid Approach to Segment-Type Coding of New York City Traffic Data. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application. June 21-23, Washington DC. USA. ISBN:978-1-4503-0031-5 (doi: 10.1145/1823854.1823871)
  5. Jianting Zhang, Quinn Hart, Michael Gertz, Carlos Rueda, Jeffrey Bergamini, Sensor data dissemination systems using Web-based standards: A case study of publishing data in support of evapotranspiration models in California. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 26(1), pp. 35-52. (doi: 10.1080/10286600802003567). ISSN 1028-6608.
  6. Michael Gertz, Carlos Rueda, Jianting Zhang, Interoperability and Data Integration in the Geosciences. Book chapter in Arie Shoshani and Doron Rotem (Editors): Scientific Data Management: Challenges, Existing Technology, and Deployment. Dec. 2009, Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 1420069802.
  7. Jianting Zhang, Tracking Dynamics of Geospatial Phenomena in Distributed and Heterogeneous Environments Using Scientific Workflow and Web Services Technologies. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC06), Changsha, China, Oct., 2006, pp. 474-481. (Acceptance rate: 70/407). ISBN 0-7695-2694-2. [doi: /10.1109/GCC.2006.95]
  8. Efrat Frank, Ilkay Altintas, Jianting Zhang, Bertram Ludascher, Deana Pennington, William Michener, A Scientific Workflow Approach to Distributed Geospatial Data Processing using Web Services. Proceedings of the 17th international Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM05) Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, June, 2005, pp. 87-90. ISBN Unknown. 
  9. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald: Spatial and Temporal Aware, Trajectory Mobility Profile Based Location Management for Mobile Computing. Proceedings of DEXA Workshops 2002, the 5th International Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems (MDDS02), Aix-en-Provence, France, Sept. 2002, pp. 716-720. (Acceptance rate: 12/21) ISBN 0-7695-1668-8.

Remote Sensing

1. Jianting Zhang. HC-DT/SVM: A Tightly Coupled Hybrid Decision Tree and Support Vector Machines Algorithm with Application to Land Cover Change Detections. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Data Mining for Geoinformatics 2010 (DMG2010). Nov. 2, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA. ISBN 978-1-4503-0430-6 (doi: 10.1145/1869890.1869892). (Full paper acceptance rate 6/12) [Link][Local Copy]

2. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald, Michael Gertz, VDM-RS: A Visual Data Mining System for Exploring and Classifying Remotely Sensed Images. Computers & Geosciences 35(9), 1827-1836. [doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2009.02.006]. ISSN 0098-3004. [Link][Local Copy][Source Code]

  1. Kate S. He, Jianting Zhang, Testing the Correlation between Beta Diversity and Differences in Productivity among Global Ecoregions, Biomes, and Biogeographical Realms. Ecological Informatics 4(2), 93-98. [doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.01.003] ISSN 1574-9541. [Link][Local Copy]

4. Duccio Rocchini, Kate S. He, Jianting Zhang, Is spectral distance a proxy of beta diversity at different taxonomic ranks? A test using quantile regression. Ecological Informatics 4(4), 254-259. [doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.07.001]. ISSN 1574-9541. [Link][Local Copy]

5.  Kate S. He, Jianting Zhang, Qiaofeng Zhang, 2009. Linking variability in species composition and MODIS NDVI based on beta diversity measurements, Acta Oecologica 35(1), pp. 14-21. (doi:10.1016/j.actao.2008.07.006). ISSN 1146-609X. [Link][Local Copy]

  1. Jianting Zhang, Weiguo Liu, Le Gruenwald, 2007. A Successive Decision Tree Approach to Mining Remotely Sensed Image Data. In Xingquan Zhu and Ian Davidson (Ed.), Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Challenges and Realities with Real World Data. Ideal Group, Inc., Hershey, PA, pp. 89-112. ISBN 978-1-59904-252-7.
  2. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald, Opening the Black Box of Feature Extraction: Incorporating Visualization into High-Dimensional Data Mining Processes. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM06), Hong Kong, China, Dec. 2006, pp. 1188-1192. ISBN 0-7695-2701-7. [doi: 10.1109/ICDM.2006.121]
  3. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald: An Efficient Optimal Leaf Ordering for Hierarchical Clustering in Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis. Proceedings of the DEXA Workshops 2004. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Biological Data Management (BIDM04), Zaragoza, Spain, Sept. 2004, Jan. 2004, pp. 396-400. (Acceptance rate: 44%) ISBN 0-7695-2195-9. [doi: 10.1109/DEXA.2004.33]

Geospatial visual analytics

  1. Simin You* and Jianting Zhang. Efficient Histogramming of Large-Scale Geospatial Rasters in Support of Web-Based Queries. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems 2011 (HPDGIS11). [Link][Local Copy]  (doi: 10.1145/2070770.2070779)

2.  Jianting Zhang and Simin You*. Supporting Web-based Visual Exploration of Large-Scale Raster Geospatial Data Using Binned Min-Max Quadtree. Proceedings of the 22nd International Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference (SSDBM10). June 30-July 2 2010, Heidelberg, Germany. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 6187, pp. 379-396. (10.1007/978-3-642-13818-8_27) (Full paper acceptance rate 30/81) [Link][Local Copy] [Presentation]

  1. Jianting Zhang and Simin You*. Dynamic Tiled Map Services: Supporting Query-Based Visualization of Large-Scale Raster Geospatial Data. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application (COM.Geo10). June 21-23, Washington DC. USA. ACM Digital Library DOI 10.1145/1823854.1823877. [Link][Local Copy] [Presentation]

4.  Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald, Michael Gertz, VDM-RS: A Visual Data Mining System for Exploring and Classifying Remotely Sensed Images. Computers & Geosciences 35(9), 1827-1836. [doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2009.02.006]. ISSN 0098-3004. [Link][Local Copy][Source Code]

  1. Jianting Zhang, Deana D. Pennington, Xianhua Liu, 2007. GBD-Explorer: Extending Open Source Java GIS for Exploring Ecoregion-Based Biodiversity Data. Ecological Informatics Journal, 2(2), pp. 94-102. ISSN: 1574-9541. (doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.05.001) [Link][Local Copy] [Source Code]
  2. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald, Opening the Black Box of Feature Extraction: Incorporating Visualization into High-Dimensional Data Mining Processes. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM06), Hong Kong, China, Dec. 2006, pp. 1188-1192. ISBN 0-7695-2701-7. [doi: 10.1109/ICDM.2006.121]

Environmental Cyberinfrastructure

  1.  Jianting Zhang (2012). A Practical Approach to Developing a Web-based Geospatial Workflow Composition and Execution System. Proceedings of COM.Geo 2012. [Link][Local Copy]
  2. Jianting Zhang (2012). Integrating distributed data grid, ontology and Web-based workflow technologies into geospatial cyberinfrastructure: architectural design and a case study. Technical Report. [Draft]
  3. Angelo Lucia, Jae W. Lee, Jianting Zhang, Ann Zimmerman, DataNet: An Emerging Cyber-infrastructure for Sharing, Re-Using & Preserving Data for Scientific Discovery & Learning. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal (AIChe Journal) 55(11), 2757-2764. (doi: 10.1002/aic.12085) ISSN 0001-1541 (Invited perspective article). [Link][Local Copy]
  4. Jianting Zhang, Quinn Hart, Michael Gertz, Carlos Rueda, Jeffrey Bergamini, Sensor data dissemination systems using Web-based standards: A case study of publishing data in support of evapotranspiration models in California. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 26(1), pp. 35-52. (doi: 10.1080/10286600802003567). ISSN 1028-6608.
  5. Jianting Zhang, Deana Pennington, William Michener: Performance Evaluations of Geospatial Web Services Composition and Invocation. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, pp. 1128-1135. ISBN 978-0-7695-2924-0. [doi: 10.1109/ICWS.2007.201]
  6. Jianting Zhang, Ilkay Altintas, Jing Tao, Deana D. Pennington, 2006. Integrating Data Grid and Web Services for E-Science Applications: A Case Study of Exploring Species Distributions. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (eScience06), Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dec. 2006. [doi: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2006.261115]
  7. Jianting Zhang, Deana D. Pennington, William K. Michener, Automatic Transformation from Geospatial Conceptual Workflow to Executable Workflow Using GRASS GIS Command Line Modules in Kepler. Proceedings of ICCS workshops 2006, the 1st International Workshop on Workflow systems in e-Science (WSES06), Reading, UK, May 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3993, Springer, pp. 912-919. (Acceptance rate: 9/29). ISBN 978-3-540-34383-7. [10.1007/11758532_122]
  8. Jianting Zhang, Ontology-Driven Composition and Validation of Scientific Grid Workflows in Kepler: a Case Study of Hyperspectral Image Processing, GCC Workshops 2006. Proceedings of the GCC workshops, 1st International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE06), Changsha, China, Oct., 2006, pp. 282-289. (Acceptance rate: 35%) ISBN 0-7695-2695-0. [doi: 10.1109/GCCW.2006.68]
  9. Jianting Zhang, Deana D. Pennington, William K. Michener, Using Web Services and Scientific Workflow for Species Distribution Prediction Modeling. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM05), Hangzhou, China, Oct. 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3739, Springer, pp. 610-617. ISBN 3-540-29227-6. [doi: 10.1007/11563952_53]