5th ACM Workshop on
Geographic Information Systems
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
November 13-14, 1997

Call for Papers

Scope of the conference:

The scope of this conference will be to regroup all people carrying out researches in novel systems based on spatial data and knowledge. The emphasis will be essentially targeted to the development of generic principles and systems in computing based on those applications. For cross-fertilizations and synergies between several applications can help to develop new computing knowledge. Among others, we are especially looking for papers dealing with:

Among novel applications, attention will overall be paid to domains such as:

Submission

Please, send full papers (4 copies), limited to 12 pages, together with authors' names and addresses to the Program Committee Chairman by May 1st, 1997. For electronic submission, only texts in Word will be accepted. Address:

Prof. Robert LAURINI, ACM-GIS'97
LISI - 404 - INSA - University of Lyon
F-69621 Lyon - Villeurbanne Cedex
FRANCE
Fax: +33 4 72 43 88 99
E-mail: Robert.Laurini@if.insa-lyon.fr

Organization

General Chairs
Nikki Pissinou, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
Kia Makki, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Patrick Bergougnoux, The University of Toulouse, France
Program Chairs
Robert Laurini, INSA and University of Lyon, France
William Campbell, NASA, Greenbelt, USA
Program Committe Members
Marc P. Armstrong, The University of Iowa, USA
Antonio Morais Arnaud, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Kirsi Artimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Azzedine Boulmakoul, Mohammedia Hassan II Univ., Morocco
Patrice Boursier, University of Paris-Sud, France
John V. Carlis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
SK Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Nicholas Chrisman, University of Washington, Seattle USA
Bianca Falcidieno, IMA-CNR, Genua, Italy
Chris Gold, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Michael F. Goodchild, NCGIA, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Silvia Gordillo, La Plata University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oliver Günther, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Henrich, University of Siegen, Germany
John R. Herring, Oracle Corporation, Virginia, USA
Erlang Jungert, FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada
Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland
Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea
Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
Christine Parent, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lutz Plümer, University of Bonn, Germany
Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polyt. Inst. MA, USA
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Michel Scholl, CNAM, Paris, France
Shashi Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
Sylvie Servigne, INSA, Lyon, France
Terence R. Smith, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Nectaria Tryfona, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, South Korea
Michael F Worboys, Keele University, UK

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: May 1, 1997
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 1997
Camera ready paper due: October 15, 1997
ACM-GIS'97 workshop date: November 13-14, 1997

Preliminary Program

November 13, 1997

9.00-9.30 Opening ceremony; Chair: Robert Laurini9.30-10.30 Key note speaker 1

10.30-10.45 Break

10.45-12.15 Session 1: Query Processing 1; Chair:

- Relation-Based Similarity, Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong), Vasilis Delis (Greece)

- Using B+- Trees in a Two Disk-Single Processor Architecture to Efficiently Process Inclusion Spatial Queries, Mario Nascimento (Brazil), Margaret Dunham (USA)

- Dynamic Map Synthesis Utilizing Extended Thesauruses and Reuse of Query Generation Process, Kenichi Horikawa Masatoshi Arikawa, Hiroki Takakura, Yachiko Kambayashi (Japan)

12.15-2.00pm Lunch

2.00-3.30 Session 2: Terrain Modeling and Visualization; Chair: Silvia Gordillo

- VARIANT - Processing and Visualizing Terrains at Variable Resolution, Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo, Enrico Puppo (Italy)

- A Triangle-Based Surface Model for 3D-GIS J. Mark Ware, Christopher B. Jones (UK)

- Progessive TINs: Algorithms and Applications Anil Maheshwari, Pat Morin, Jorg-Rudiger Sack (Canada)

3.30-4.00 Break

4.00-5.30 Session 3: Spatial Modeling; Chair:

- Generating the Architecture of GIS Applications with Design Patterns Silvia Gordillo, F. Balaguer, F. Das Neves (Argentina)

- A Spatial Data Mining Method by Delaunay Triangulation In-Soo Kang, Taewan Kim, Ki-Joune Li (Korea)

- Provably Correct and Complete Transaction Rules for GIS Gerhard Gruger, Lutz Plumer (Germany)

November 14, 1997

9.00-10.00 Key note speaker 2; Chair: Patrick Bergougnoux

10.00-10.30 Break

10.30-12.00 Session 3: Query Processing 2; Chair: Patrice Boursier

- Transaction Synchronization in Structures for Point Data, Eleanna Kafeza, Thanasis Hadzilacos (Greece)

- Parallelizing the Refinement-Step of Spatial-Join, Sivakumar Ravada, Shashi Shekhar (USA)

- Speeding up Bulk-Loading of Quadtrees, Gisli Hjaltason, Hanan Samet, Yoram Sussmann (USA)

12.00-1.45pm Lunch

1.45-2.45 Session 4: Raster-based GIS; Chair :

- Towards Comprehensive Database Support for Geoscientific Raster Data, N. Widmann, P. Baumann (Germany)

- Geographical Image Classification and Retrieval, G. Sheikoleslami, A. Zhang, L. Bian (USA)

2.45-3.00 Break

3.00-4.45 Session 5: Data Integration and Applications; Chair : Ki Joune Li

- A Practical Solution to the Geospatial Data Barrier Problem, Christian Larouche, Gilles Clement, Denis Goin, Paul Morin (Canada)

- Distributed Land-Cover Change Simulation Using PVM and MPI, MW Berry, KS Minser (USA)- Map Integration Judith van Putten, Frank van Wijngaarden, Peter van Oosterom, Harry Uitemark (The Netherlands)

4.30-4.45 Break

4.45-5.30 Panel: GIS and the Web, Ki Joune Li (Korea), Robert Laurini (France), Niki Pissinou (USA)

5.30 Closing ceremony