Keynote Speaker

Prof. Esteban Zimányi

Keynote Talk: MobilityDB: Managing Mobility Data in PostgreSQL

Abstract:
MobilityDB is an open-source moving object database system (https://github.com/ULB-CoDE-WIT/MobilityDB). Its core function is to efficiently store and query mobility tracks, such as vehicle GPS trajectories. It implements the Moving Features specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). MobiltyDB is engineered up from PostgreSQL and PostGIS, providing spatiotemporal data management via SQL. It thus integrates with the postgreSQL eco-system allowing for complex architectures such as mobility stream processing and cloud deployments. The presentation will explain the architecture of MobilityDB, its database types, indexes, and operations. We will highlight the PostgreSQL features that enable this extension, and the would like to have features. This presentation will be of special interest to the mobility research community and to professionals in the transportation domain.

Bio:
Esteban Zimányi is a full professor and the director of the Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) at ULB. He started his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Costa Rica. He received a B.Sc. (1988) and a doctorate (1992) in computer science from the Faculty of Sciences at the ULB. During 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Database Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He co-authored and co-edited 16 books, 18 book chapters, 19 articles in international journals, and 85 papers in international conferences. He is coordinator of the BDMA and IT4BI-DC Erasmus Mundus programmes. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Data Semantics published by Springer from 2012 to 2019. His current research interests include spatio-temporal databases, geographic information systems, data warehouses, and semantic web.

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