Travel Photography of František Brabec

Photo albums

Jamaica China Hawaii Jordan Chile Argentina New Zealand Puerto Rico Eastern Carribean Virgin Islands Ecuador Venezuela Bolivia Brazil Iceland Australia	Alaska Peru Jamaica China Hawaii Israel Chile Jordan Argentina New Zealand Puerto Rico Guadeloupe Virgin Islands Ecuador Venezuela Iceland Bolivia Brazil Australia

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Academic Curriculum

Degrees

Ph.D. (2005) in Computer Science
M.Sc. (1997) in Computer Science
M.Sc. (1994) in Informatics	Universita Karlova
B.Sc. (1993) in Informatics

Professional Memberships and Services

• Program Committee Member, ACM GIS, 2008

Patents

• United States Patent 7,409,428 - Systems and methods for messaging to multiple gateways

Online Resources

Demos	VASCO - Spatial Index Demos SAND Internet Browser
Books	John T. Sample, Kevin Shaw, Shengru Tu, and Mahdi Abdelguerfi: Geospatial Services and Applications for the Internet H. Samet: The Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures H. Samet: Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

Publications

• F. Brabec, H. Samet, Hierarchical Infrastructure for Internet Mapping Services in Geospatial Services and Applications for the Internet, Sample, J.T.; Shaw, K.; Tu, S.; Abdelguerfi, M. (Eds.), 2008, XVIII.
• F. Brabec, H. Samet, Client-Based Spatial Browsing on the World Wide Web, in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11,  no. 1,  pp. 52-59,  Jan/Feb,  2007.
• F. Brabec, Optimizing Client-Server Communication for Remote Spatial Database Access, PhD thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2005 (also available as Technical Reports CS-TR-4822, CAR-TR-1014 and UMIACS-TR-2006-39).
• H. Samet, F. Brabec, and J. Sankaranarayanan, Importing Abstract Data into the SAND Database System, in Proceedings of the 2004 National Conference in Digital Government Research, May 24-26, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• F. Brabec, and H. Samet and C. Yilmaz, VASCO: Visualizing and Animating Spatial Constructs and Operations, in Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium on Computational Geometry, June 8-10, 2003, San Diego, California, USA.
• Sankaranarayanan, J., Tanin, E., Samet, H., and Brabec, F., Accessing Diverse Geo-Referenced Data Sources with the SAND Spatial DBMS, in Proceedings of the National Conference for Digital Government Research - DGO, pp. 331-334, 2003, Boston, MA.
• H. Samet, H. Alborzi, F. Brabec, C. Esperanca, G. R. Hjaltason, F. Morgan, and E. Tanin, Use of the SAND Spatial Browser for Digital Government Applications, in Communications of the ACM, January 2003, Volume 46, Number 1, pages 61-64.
• E. Tanin, F. Brabec, and H. Samet, Remote Access to Large Spatial Databases, in ACM-GIS 2002, The 10th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, McLean, VA, November 8-9, 2002
• H. Samet and F. Brabec, Remote Thin-Client Access to Spatial Database Systems, in Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference on Digital Government Research, pages 75-82, Los Angeles, CA, May 2002.
• H. Samet, F. Brabec, and G. R. Hjaltason, Interfacing the SAND Spatial Browser with FedStats Data, in Proceedings of the 1st National Conference on Digital Government Research, pages 41-47, Los Angeles, CA, May 2001.
• Frantisek Brabec and Hanan Samet: Visualizing and Animating Search Operations on Quadtrees on the Worldwide Web, in Proceedings of Euro-CG-2000 - 16th European Workshop on Computational Geometry; Eilat, Israel, March 12-15, 2000
• Martin Dlouhy, Frantisek Brabec and Petr Svestka: A Genetic Approach to the Cleaning Path Planning Problem, in Proceedings of Euro-CG-2000 - 16th European Workshop on Computational Geometry; Eilat, Israel, March 12-15, 2000
• Charles Cranston, Frantisek Brabec, Gisli Hjaltason, Douglas Nebert, and Hanan Samet: Interoperability via the Addition of a Server Interface to a Spatial Database: Implementation experiences with OpenMap, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Interoperability and Geographic Information Systems (interop99); Zurich, Switzerland, March 10-12, 1999
• Frantisek Brabec and Hanan Samet: Visualizing and Animating Spatial Decompositions and Operations in Spatial Databases on the Worldwide Web, in Proceedings of Visual Database Systems - VDB 4; L'Aquila, Italy, May 27-29, 1998
• Frantisek Brabec and Hanan Samet: The VASCO R-tree JAVA Applet, in Proceedings of Visual Database Systems - VDB 4; L'Aquila, Italy, May 27-29, 1998

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Last updated on August 26, 2008