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EE 598: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SEMINAR COURSE #13

Speaker: Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, PhD, Computer Science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Talk Title: Indexes for Efficient Spatial Query Processing on Cloud

Series: EE598 Seminar Course

Abstract: With exclusive access to geospatial data and the hardware platform to develop and serve data-rich geospatial applications, large IT companies have created a monopoly on development of these applications; hence, hindering healthy competition and economic growth. We argue that introduction of cloud computing has recently opened the door to break this monopoly by providing open access to both data and hardware platform, and consequently, enabled any interested entity to develop cloud-based geospatial services and applications. Accordingly as a means to facilitate this transition, we investigate, design and develop Geo-SaaS (short for Geospatial Software-as-a-Service), a framework for geospatial service/SaaS development on cloud platforms. Geo-SaaS provides the programming environment and the query re-writing toolset required for porting the existing geospatial queries and access methods to the parallel platform of cloud. Practitioners (e.g., various businesses) can use the geospatial services developed based on GeoSaaS to implement their cloud-based geospatial applications, and academics can extend the toolsets provided by GeoSaaS by developing their own geospatial services. In this talk, I start by further motivating Geo-SaaS, and then review sample results from our prior work as well as our ongoing work.

Biography: Farnoush Banaei-Kashani is a Research Associate and Associate Director of Research at NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1996, and his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Networks and Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His research is focused on fundamental and applied data management with special interest in Data-driven Decision-making Systems (DDSs), i.e., systems that automate the process of decision-making based on data. Toward this end, his research objective is to introduce novel solutions for all components of the DDS data management cycle (namely, data collection, transfer, preprocessing, storage for querying, analysis and mining, visualization, and actuation) under various combinations of the Big Data V3 challenges relevant for the desired DDS applications. Dr. Banaei-Kashani has authored more than forty research articles in the areas of Sensor and Peer-to-Peer Databases, Distributed Databases, and Spatial Databases, Data Streams, Cloud Computing, and Social Network Analysis. He regularly serves on the program committee of various database conferences.

Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna

More Information: Course Announcement_EE598_Focused on parallel and distributed computing_(Spring 2013) 2.pdf

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Janice Thompson