4th ACM International Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'96)

Proceedings of the workshop

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November 15-16
Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland, USA

In recent years computer processing of Earth observations through geographic information systems has attracted a great deal of attention from the industrial and research world. The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems will provide an effective forum for disseminating original and fundamental research and experience in the rapidly advancing area of the use of computer science for spatial studies.

Since the workshop will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'96), participants will be able to maximize their interchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and practioners across the entire field of knowledge and information management.

ACM-GIS'96 will bring together leading researchers and developers and will strive toward setting future research directions in this area. The primary focus of the workshop is on new and original research results in the areas of theorical foundations, design, implementation and applications of GIS as well as experience reports from application specialists. The goal is to exchange research ideas and results among participants.

Call For Participation
Final Programme for the Workshop
Electronic Proceedings (coming soon)
Postscript version of the Call For Papers
Registration with CIKM.

Sponsored by ACM in cooperation with CACS-USL, UT1-CERISS

The topics that will be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to:

- Query processing and optimization
- Spatio-temporal data models and languages
- Requirements analysis for GIS applications
- GIS performance modeling and evaluation
- Reasoning with GIS information
- Imprecise spatio-temporal information
- Semantics of spatio-temporal data
- Quality aspects of geographic information
- Design of spatio-temporal data structures
- Spatial indexing and storage
- Knowledge discovery
- GIS meta data
- User interfaces for GIS
- Multi-media GIS
- Digital libraries for GIS
- Virtual reality in GIS
- Interoperability among heterogeneous GIS
- Electronic geographic data interchange standards
- Parallel/distributed GIS
- GIS and internetworking
- Client-server architecture for GIS
- GIS and cooperative work
- Multidatabase GIS
- Distributed spatial objects
- Time in GIS
- Active spatio-temporal objects
- Moving objects in GIS
- Real-time GIS systems
- GIS software tools and environments
- Novel applications in scientific and environmental domains
- Integration with existing commercial products
- Reports on experience with real applications

Papers submission

Authors are invited to submit complete and original research contributions or experience reports; submissions should be written in english and should include:

- Title
- Author(s) information (Name, Affiliation, Postal address, E-mail address, Phone/Fax)
- Topic(s)
- Abstract (up to 200 words)
- Text (double-spaced and no longer than 5000 words)
- References

In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included. Submitters should indicate in a cover letter their willingness to attend the workshop and present their paper.

All submitted papers will be refereed by at least five reviewers for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM-GIS'96 proceedings. We encourage submissions from both academic and industrial spheres.

Authors will be interested to know that extended versions of out- standing papers from the workshop will be considered for publication in "GeoInformatica", an international journal on advances of computer science for GIS (by Kluwer Academic Publishers).

Proposals for panels that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative geographic information issues are encouraged as well. Panel proposals should include a summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of the panelists who have made a commitment to participate.

Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by August 4, 1996 to either Dr. Patrick Bergougnoux or Dr. Shashi Shekhar, the ACM-GIS'96 Program Co-Chairs:

European Chair

Dr Patrick Bergougnoux
c/o Michele Cuesta
The University of Toulouse
IRIT-CERISS laboratory
Place Anatole France
31042 Toulouse Cedex - FRANCE
Email : bergougn@irit.fr
Phone : (33) 09 70 13 36
Fax : (33) 61 77 06 71

USA Chair

Prof. Shashi Shekhar
4-192 EE/CS
Uiversity of Minnesota
200 Union Street S.E.
Minneapolis
MN-55455 USA
Email : shekhar@cs.umn.edu
Phone : 612-624-8307
Fax : 612-625-0572

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline August 4,1996
Notification of acceptance September 29,1996
Camera ready paper due October 27,1996
ACM-GIS'96 workshop November 15-16,1996

ACM-GIS'96 Program Committee

Steering Committee Chair

Niki Pissinou University of Southwestern Louisiana, CACS

General Chairs

Kia Makki University of Nevada, Dept of Computer Science
Niki Pissinou University of Southwestern Louisiana, CACS

Program Co-Chairs

Patrick Bergougnoux University of Toulouse 1, CERISS laboratory
Shashi Shekhar University of Minnesota

Industrial Track Chair

John Herring Oracle Corporation

Registration Chairs

S. Busovaca California State University
D. Too University of Nevada

Local Arrangements Chairs

O. Frieder George Mason University
B. Nassersharif Nat. Supercomp. Center For Energy & Env.
S. Salehi University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Program Committee

USA Acedemia
H. Adeli Ohio State University
M.P. Armstrong Univ. of Iowa
N.G. Bourbakis State Univ. of New York, Binghamton
S. Busovaca California State University
C. Faloutsos Univ. of Maryland, College Park
M. Egenhofer University of Maine
O. Frieder George Mason University
M. Fayad University of Nevada, Reno
F. Golshani Arizona State University
M.F. Goodchild Univ. of California
J. Han Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, Canada
O. Ibarra University of California, Santa Barbara
D.M. Mark State Univ. of New York, Buffalo
M. Gams Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
R. Mc Master Univ. of Minnesota
E.K. Park (treasurer) US Naval Academy
N. Pissinou Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana,
S. Ravada Univ. of Minnesota
E. A. Rudensteiner Univ. of Michigan
H. Samet Univ. of Maryland
P. Scheuermann Northwestern Univ. Evanston
Y. Song Drexel Univ.
S. Shekhar Univ. of Minnesota
J.J.P. Tsai Univ. of Illinois
N. Tryfona University of Maine
S. Urban Arizona State University
A. Vonderohe University of Wisconsin
B.W. Wah Univ. of Illinois
Y. Yao Lakehead Univ., Canada
Asia/Australia/Europe Academia
D. Abel CSIRO Division of Inf. Tech., Australia
P. Bergougnoux University of Toulouse 1, France
A. Frank Technical Univ. Vienna, Austria
O. Guenther Humboldt Univ. of Berlin, Germany
A. Henrich Praktische Informatik, Germany
R. Laurini Claude Bernard Univ. of Lyon, France
D. R. Liu National Chaio Tung University
T. Sellis Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
M. Scholl CNAM Paris, France
K.Y. Whang Kaist, S. Korea
M.F. Worboys Keele Univ., UK
X. Wu Monash University, Australia
G. Zurfluh Univ. of Toulouse 1, France

Goverment/Industrial

W.G. Aref Matsushita Information Technologie Lab.
F. Bancilhon O2 Technology
B. Campbell NASA/GSFC
M. Coyle Oracle Coprporation
T. Glaney MnDoT
M. Halem NASA/GSFC
J. Herring Oracle Corporation
B. Nassersharif Nat. Supercomp. Center For Energy & Env.
T. Sarjakoski Finnish Geodetic Inst., Helsinki, Finland
G. Strong NSF