ACM-GIS'98

6th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, November 6-7, 1998

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday November 6, 1998

9.00-9.30 Opening Ceremony, Chairperson Robert Laurini
9.30-10.30 Keynote Speaker Greg Smith, NIMA, USA: "Challenges Facing NIMA to 2000 and Beyond"
10.30-10.45 Break
10.45-12.15 Plenary Session S1, Chairperson Claudia Medeiros
10.45-11.45 Keynote Speaker William Campbell, NASA , USA: "A Virtual Collaboratory: A Driver For Next Generation Internet"
11.45-12.15 "Compressing TINs", L. De Floriani, P. Magillo, University of Genua, E. Puppo, IMA-CNR, Genua, Italy
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 Parallel Sessions S2 and S3
Session S2: "Integration and Generalization", Chairperson Nectaria Tryfona
- "Road Collapse in Magnum", A.N. Wilshut, R. van Zwol, N. Brasa, J. Flokstra, University of Twente,
- The Netherlands
- "Designing a Library to Support Model-oriented Generalization", G. Dettori, E. Puppo, IMA-CNR, Genua, Italy
- "Matching and Aligning Features in Overlayed Coverages", J. M. Ware, C. B. Jones University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Session S3: "Web and GIS", Chairperson Yannis Manolopoulos
- "Integrating Levels of Detail in a Web-based 3D GIS", V. Coors, S. Flick, Fraunhofer-Institute, Darmstadt, Germany
- "Interactive Map Applet for Illustrative Purposes". A. Sorokine, Regional Science Institute, Sapporo, Japan, and I. Merzliakova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- "Visualizing Real-time GPS Data Internet's VRML Worlds", I. Rakkollainen, S. Pulkkinen, A. Heinonnen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
15.15-15.45 Break
15.45-17.15 Parallel Sessions S4 and S5
Session S4: "Spatial Modeling", Chairperson J. Mark Ware
- "Bridging Vector and Raster Representation in GIS", S. Winter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- "A Software Tool and Techniques for Converting Map Data into an Object-Oriented Representation", M. Neal and M. Neal, University of Wales, UK
- "Direction as a Spatial Object: a Summary of Results", S. Shekhar, X. Liu, University of Minnesota, USA
- "Refining an Object-Oriented GIS Design Model: Topologies and Field Data", S. Gordillo, F. Balaguer, University of La Plata, Buenos-Aires, Argentina
Session S5: "Web and GIS", Chairperson Agnès Voisard
- "Development of Metadatabases for Geospatial Data in the WWW", S. Gobel, K. Lutze, Fraunhofer-Institute, Darmstadt, Germany
- " GeoMed for Urban Planning - First Experiences". B. Schmidt, C. Rinner, F. Gordon, GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- "A 3D User Interface for Visualisation of Web-Based Data-sets" I.M. Brown, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Saturday November 7, 1998

9.00-10.00 : Plenary Session S6 "New trends in GIS, Chairperson Dimitris Papadias
- "Overlapping Linear Quadtrees: a Spatio-temporal Access Method", T. Tzouramanis, M. Vassilakopoulos, Y. Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- "Geologic Hypermaps are more than Clickable Maps", A. Voisard, Free University of Berlin, Germany
10.00-10.30 Break
10.30-12.00 Plenary Session S7 "Constraint-based Spatial Modeling", Chairperson Jorg-Rudiger Sack
- "Spatio-Temporal Data Handling with Constraints", S. Grumbach, P. Rigaux, L. Segoufin, INRIA-CNAM, Paris, France
- "A Constraint-Based Spatial Extension to SQL". G. Kuper, S. Ramaswamy, K. Shim, Bell Laboratories, J. Su, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- "Constraint-Based Algorithms for Computing Clique Intersection Joins", N. Mamoulis, D. Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Parallel Sessions S8 and S9
Session S8: "Spatio-temporal Reasoning", Chairperson Ki Joune Li
- "Requirements, Definitions and Notations for Spatio-temporal Applications Environments", P. Pfoser,
N. Tryfona, Aalborg University, Denmark
- "Abstract and Discrete Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Data Types" M. Erwig, R.H. Guting, M. Schneider, M. Vazirgiannis, University of Hagen, Germany
- "An Integrated Information System on the Web for Catchment", K. Taylor, M. Cameron, J. Haines, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Session S9: Poster Session, Chairperson Kerry Taylor
- "A Spatial Data Mining Method by Clustering Analysis" EJ. Son, IS. Kang, TW Kim, and KJ LI, Pusan National University, South Korea
- "Evaluating Parallel R-tree Implementations on a Network of Workstations", N An, L. Qian, A. Sivasubramanian, T. Keefe, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- "Bulk Insertion into R-Trees Using the Small-Tree-Large-Tree Approach", L. Chen, R. Choubey, EA Rudensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
- "A Greedy Algorithm for Bulk Loading R-trees", YJ Garcia, MA Lopez, S. Leutenegger, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
- "Integration with Spatio-temporal Relationship Operators in SQL", JY Lee, KJ Oh, KH Ryu, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
- "Computational Image Models for GIS Analysis: Texture Simulation as a Tool for Thematic Mapping", GL Gimelfarb, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and NM Kovalevskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
15.00-15.30 Break
15.30-17.30 Plenary Session S10 "Terrain Modeling", Chairperson Paola Magillo
- "Greedy Cuts: An Advancing Front Terrain Triangulation Algorithm", C.T. Silva, IBM Watson Research Center, J.S.B. Mitchell, State University of New York, USA
- "Parallel Distributed Processing for Terrain Visibility Analysis", P.J. Rallings, J.A. Ware, D. B. Kidner, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- "Workflow Management in Geoprocessing Applications. Mathias Weske, Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster, Germany, Claudia Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil.
17.30-17.40 Closing ceremony

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 This 6th symposium aims at bringing together all people carrying out research in novel systems based on spatial data and knowledge, within the framework of the 7th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). of ACM. The emphasis will be essentially targeted to the development of generic principles and systems in computing based on those applications. Cross-fertilizations and synergies between several applications can help to develop new computing knowledge.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Chair: Robert Laurini, Claude Bernard University of Lyon, France

Program Committee Members

Patrick Bergougnoux, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
Azedine Boulmakoul, Hassan II University, Morocco
Patrice Boursier, University of La Rochelle, France
Eliseo Clementini, University of Aquila, Italy
Leila De Floriani, University of Genua, Italy
Geoffray Edwards, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Silvia Gordillo, La Plata University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Andreas Henrich, University of Siegen, Germany
Erlang Jungert, FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA, Greenbelt, USA
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
Richard Muntz, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Beng Chin Ooi, National University, Singapore
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong UST, China
Lutz Plümer, University of Bonn, Germany
Siva Ravada, Oracle Corporation, Virginia USA
Jorg-Rudiger Sack, Carleton University, Canada
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Tapani Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland
Shashi. Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Sylvie Servigne, INSA, Lyon, France
Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Vladimir Tikunov, Moscow State University, Russia
Nectaria Tryfona, Aalborg University, Denmark
Andrej Vckovski, Zurich, Switzerland
Agnes Voisard, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany
J. Mark Ware, The University of Glamorgan, UK
Michael F Worboys, Keele University, UK

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