From: Thomas Roos <roos@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:21:39 +0200 (MET DST)
To: eppstein@ics.uci.edu
Subject: ACM-GIS 96
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- 4th ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP -
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- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS -
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Rockville, Maryland, USA
November 15-16, 1996
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Sponsored by ACM
in cooperation with CACS-USL, UT1-CERISS
in conjunction with the Fifth International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM'96)
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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.
Therefore the topics that will be addressed 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:
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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 numbers)
- Topic(s)
- Abstract (up to 200 words)
- Text (double-spaced and no longer than 5 000 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: USA Chair:
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Dr Patrick Bergougnoux Prof. Shashi Shekhar
c/o Michele Cuesta 4-192 EE/CS
The University of Toulouse 1 University of Minnesota
IRIT-CERISS laboratory 200 Union Street S.E.
Place Anatole France Minneapolis
31042 Toulouse Cedex - FRANCE MN-55455 USA
Email : bergougn@irit.fr Email : shekhar@cs.umn.edu
Phone : (33) 09 70 13 36 Phone : 612-624-8307
Fax : (33) 61 77 06 71 Fax : 612-625-0572
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Paper submission deadline : August 4, 1996
Notification of acceptance : September 29, 1996
Camera ready paper due : October 27, 1996
ACM-GIS'95 workshop date : November 15-16, 1996
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ACM-GIS'96 Program Committee
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Steering Committee Chair:
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Niki Pissinou Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, CACS
General Chairs:
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Kia Makki Univ. of Nevada, Dpt of Computer Science
Niki Pissinou Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, CACS
Program Co-Chairs:
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Patrick Bergougnoux Univ. Toulouse 1, CERISS laboratory
Shashi Shekhar Univ. of Minnesota
Industrial Track Chair:
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John Herring Oracle Corporation
Registration Chairs:
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S. Busovaca California State University
D. Too University of Nevada
Local Arrangements Chairs:
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O. Frieder George Mason University
B. Nassersharif Nat. Supercomp. Center For Energy & Env.
S. Salehi University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Program Committee:
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USA Acedemia:
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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
B. Campbell, NASA/GSFC
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
M. Halem, NASA/GSFC
O. Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara
D.M. Mark, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo
B. Nassersharif, Nat. Supercomp. Center For Energy & Env.
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,
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
G. strong, National Science Foundation (NSF)
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
X. Wu, Monash University, Australia
Y. Yao, Lakehead Univ., Canada
Europe/Asia Academia:
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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 University of Taiwan
T. Roos ETH Zurich, Switzerland
T. Sellis, Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
K.Y. Whang, Kaist, S. Korea
M.F. Worboys, Keele Univ., UK
G. Zurfluh, Univ. of Toulouse 1, France
Industrial:
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W.G. Aref, Umatsushita Information Technologie Lab.
F. Bancilhon, O2 Technology
M. Coyle, Oracle Coprporation
J. Herring, Oracle Corporation
T. Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Inst., Helsinki, Finland