CALL FOR PARTICIPATION WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS The following message includes the: (a) announcement; (b) technical program; (c) registration packet. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS November 5, 1993 - Washington, D.C. Sponsored by ACM and ISCA In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management to be held November 1-5, 1993 ____________________ | | THEME: | GENERAL CHAIR | | | | K. Makki | GIS'93 will serve as a forum for disseminating research | UNLV | and experience in the emerging areas of geographic | | information systems. GIS will bring together leading | PROGRAM CHAIR | researchers and developers in these areas and will | | strive toward setting future research directions. | N. Pissinou | | NSCEE | Sessions are being organized on: | | | PROGRAM COMMITTEE| o Spatial Reasoning | | o Time and Space | N. Adams | o Spatio-Temporal Knowledge | Rutgers | o Query Languages | | o User Interfaces | B. Bhargava | o Parallel and Distributed GIS | Purdue | o GIS Architectures | | o Heterogeneous Systems | M. Egenhofer | o Applications and Next Generation GIS Systems | Univ. of Maine | | | | A. Frank | | TU Vienna | PAPER SUBMISSION: | | | J. Herring | | Integraph | Authors are invited to submit complete and original work. | | Papers that may be submitted for consideration include | H. Tom | those that have not previously been published in another | NIST | forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed | | by another journal or conference. All submitted papers | E.K. Park | papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, | US Naval Academy | originality and relevance. Of particular interest are | | papers which address experiences with concrete GIS | K. Makki | systems and applications. Authors will be interested | UNLV | to know that special issues of journals containing | | outstanding papers from the workshop are being planned | R. Loganantharaj | | CACS/USL | | | An extended abstract (at most three double spaced pages) | D. Mark | should be submitted and received no later than Sept. 3. | SUNY Buffalo | Longer abstracts may be considered for evaluation. | | Submissions should include the title, author(s), | D. Peuquet | author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and | Penn State | postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication | | of which author is responsible for correspondence and | Pham | preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings | Rutgers Unv. | should also be included. Five copies of the manuscript | | should be submitted by Friday, September 3, 1993 to Dr | V. Raghavan | Niki Pissinou, the Program Chair: | CACS/USL | | | Professor Niki Pissinou | C. Shaffer | c/o Ms Chris Nienaber | Virg. Tech | National Supercomputing Center | | For Energy and the Environment | Y. Yesha | Box 454028 | UMBC | Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4028 | | pissinoi@nye.nscee.edu | WORKSHOP CHAIR | Tel: (702) 895-4024 | | Fax: (702) 895-4156 | L. Rachid | | UMD | Electronic submission is encouraged, in which case | | the message SUBJECT should include GIS submission. | | | TREASURER | | | | E.K. Park | IMPORTANT DATES | USNA | | | | LOCAL ARRANGEMENT| | | Paper submission deadline (up to 3pgs) : September 3, 1993 | S. Busovaca | Notification of acceptance : September 14, 1993 | CSUS | Camera ready papers (up to 6pgs) : September 22, 1993 | | Workshop date : November 5, 1993 | H. Tom | | NIST | |_________________ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM ------------------- Opening Session (9:00-9:05 AM) KEYNOTE TALK: (9:05-9:15 AM) SORTING IN SPACE Professor. Hanan Samet Department of Computer Science Unviversity of Maryland, College Park 10:15-10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK SESSION A: PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED GIS (10:30-12:00 AM) 1. Paradise - A Parallel Geographic Information Systems D. DeWitt, J. Luo, J. Patel, J.B. Yu (University of Wisconsin, USA) 2. Geographical Information System for Network Management S. Isobe, G. Suzuki, M. Yamamuro (NTT Network Information Systems Laboratory, Japan) 3. Multi-Agent Distributed GIS K. Makki, G. Wang (University of Nevada), Pissinou (CACS), Yesha (UMBC) SESSION B: MANAGEMENT OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA (10:30-12:00 AM) 1. Interactive Spatial Directories (Invited Paper) B.C. Schmult, H.V. Jagadish, Ganapathy (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA) 2. Managing Alternatives and Data Evolution in GIS} C.B. Medeiros (DCC-UNICAMP, Brazil), G. Jomier (University Paris, France) 3. Managing Environmental Data - An Extension to the GIS} D.D. Cowan, Grove, Mayfield, Newkirk, Swayne (University of Waterloo, CA) 4. Representation of A Spatial Model in GIS J. Glasgow (Queens University, CA) SESSION C: SPATIAL REASONING (10:30-12:00 AM) 1. A Model of Spatial Position Based on Extremal Points R. Rajagopalan (University of Texas - Austin, USA) 2. Approximate Reasoning on Categorical Coverages Without Polygon Overlay I. Zaslavsky (University of Washington, USA) 3. Spatial Reasoning with Uncertainty in Generalized Evidential Theory S. Shi, M.E.C. Hull, D.A. Bell (University of Ulster, UK) 4. Spatial Reasoning about Landmarks with Uncertain Positions E. Jungert (National Defence Research Establishment, Sweden) 12:00-1:00PM LUNCH BREAK INVITED TALK 1:15-2:15 PM ADVANCES IN CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS TO GIS. Professor Vijay Raghavan Center For Advanced Computer Studies USL, LA 2:15-2:30 PM COFFEE BREAK SESSION D: OBJECT ORIENTED GIS 2:30-4:00 PM 1. GOOSE: Geographic Object Oriented Support Environment G. Alonso, A. El Abbadi (University of California - Santa Barbara, USA) 2. Client-Server Architecture for Object-Oriented GIS through AUGO Concept Bergougnoux (Institut de Recherche En Informatique de Toulouse, France) 3. Handling the changing positions of moving object withing an Object-Oriented GIS Palazo, Bergougnoux (Institut de Recherche En Inf. de Toulouse, France) 4. A Framework for the Computer Aided Spatial Education through Geographic Microworlds T. Hadzilacos, Koutlis (Computer Technology Institute, Greece) SESSION E: QUERY PROCESSING IN GIS 2:30-4:00 PM 1. Query Optimization for GIS using filters Veenhof, Houtsma, Apers (University of Twente, Netherlands) 2. Ill-defined spatial operators in geographic databases: their nature and query processing strategies Subramanian (University of Alaska), Adams (Rutgers University) \\ 3. Towards a Fully Sheetless GIS with Incremental Querying Vadaparty, Molmen, Salem, Whiting (Case Western Reserve Univ., USA) S. Naqvi (Bell Communications Research,USA) 4. The Perseus Project N. Smith (Bowdoin, USA) SESSION F: SPATIO-TEMPORAL GIS 2:30-4:00 PM 1. Some Structure Aspects of Query Languagues In Spatio-Temporal Databases Gadia, Cheng (Iowa State University, USA) 2. What, Where and When - A Conceptual Basis For Design of Spationtemporal GIS Databases (Invited Paper) D. Peuquet (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) 3. Temporal Extent for Global Change Research Databases Dugan, Hachem, Gennert (Worcester Polytechnic University, USA) 4 Spatio-Temporal Management Using R-Trees A. Moitra (General Electric, USA) INVITED SESSION: SPATIO-TEMPORAL INFERENCING Organizer: Dr. R. Loganatharaj 2:30-4:00 PM 4:00-4:15 PM COFFEE BREAK INVITED TALK 4:15-5:15 PM GIS STANDARDS ORGANIZATION Henry Tom GIS Standards Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIKM'93 CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM --------------------------------------------- Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment. 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