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Academic and Professional 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

Online Presence

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Professional Memberships and Services

• Program Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009
• Program Committee Member, ACM GIS 2008

Patents

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

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 January 17, 2010