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ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
 
********CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- ACMGIS '96 International Workshop**********
                     In conjunction with CIKM96
 
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.
 
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.
 
 
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Registration forms etc. can be obtained from
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/
 
If you have any questions about the workshop, contact
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                           ACMGIS-96 Program
 
 November 15-16
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 Friday, November 15
 
 08:30-9:00 Opening and Registration
 09:00-10:00 Session1: Keynote Address
             Chair: Elke A. Rundensteiner
     Speaker: Barbara Blaustein (NSF, DB/ES Program)
     Title: Geographic Information Management -- Challenges and Opportunities
 
 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
 
 
 10:30-12:15 Sesstion 2: Query Processing and Parallelism
             Chair: Walid Aref
     A hybrid split strategy for k-d-tree based access structures
     A. Henrich
 
     Path Queries for Transportation Networks:  Dynamic Reordering and
     Sliding Window Paging Techniques
     Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner
 
     Cascaded Spatial Join Algorithms with Spatially Sorted Output
     Walid G. Aref, Hanan Samet
 
     Parallel Neighbourhood Modeling
     D. Hutchinson, M. Lanthier, A. Maheshwari, D. Nussbaum,
     D. Roytenberg, J.R.Sack
 
     Parallel processing of nearest neighbor queries in declustered data
     A. Papadopoulos, Y. Manolopoulos
 
 
 12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
 13:30-14:30 Session3: Keynote Address
             Chair: John Carlis
           Speaker: Robert Uleman (Informix Software Inc. )
           Title: Spatial DataBlades
 
 15:00-17:00 Session4: Modeling
            Chair: Patrick Bergougnoux
 
     Towards a Model Relating DTM Accuracy to JPEG Compression Ratio
     Rob Reeves, Kurt Kubik
 
     Mapping A Common Geoscientific Object Model to Heterogeneous
     Spatial Data Repositories
     Silvia Nittel, Jiong Yang, Richard R. Muntz
 
     A "Roads" Data Model for Feature-Based Map Generalization
     Leone Barnett & John V. Carlis
 
     Scientific Modeling using Distributed Resources
     Amitabh Saran, Divyakant, Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi,
     Terence R. Smith, Jianwen Su
 
     Nested maps - a formal, provably correct object model for
     spatial aggregates"
     L. Plumer, G. Groger
 
     Two phase query processing with Fuzzy Approximations
     D. Truffet & M. Orlowska
 
 
 18:00-20:00 PC Meeting
 
 Saturday, November 16
 
 09:00-10:00 Session5: Keynote Address
             Chair: Max Egenhofer
             Speaker: Prof. William Craig
                        (President, University Consortium on GIS)
             Title: Univ. Consortium on GIS
 
 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
 
 
 10:30-12:15 Sesstion 6: Analysis  and Algorithms
                         Chair: Andreas Henrich
 
       An Automated Inference Approach to Network Derivation for
       AM/FM/GIS Systems
       David J. Russomanno
 
       Towards Declarative GIS Analysis
       D. Aquilino, C. Renso, F. Turini
 
       Hierarchival reasoning about direction relations
       D. Papadias, M.J. Egenhofer, J. Sharma
 
       Transaction synchronization in multiresolution spatial databases
       E. Kafeza, V. Delis, T. Hadzilacos
 
       Variable Resolution Operators on a Multiresolution Terrain Model
       Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo, Enrico Puppo, Michela Bertolotto
 
 
 12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
 13:30-14:30 Session 7: Keynote Address
             Chair: Shashi Shekhar
     Speaker: Col.  Richard G. Johnson
        (Deputy Director (Retd.), Topographic Engineering Center, US Army)
     Title: Operational Use of GIS in Army
 
 15:00-17:00 Session 8: Visualization and GIS Interfaces
                        Chair: R. Laurini
 
       Querying and Visualization of Geometric Data
       Edward P.F. Chan, Jonathan M.T. Wong
 
       A Presentation Language for GIS Cadastral Data
       Gilberto Camara, Marco Antonio Casanova, Ubirajara Moura De Freitas,
       Joao Pedro Cerveira Cordeiro, Lauro Hara
 
       The Linked ArcView 2.1 and XGobi Environment --GIS, Dynamic
       Statistical Graphics, and Spatial Data
       Jurgen Symanzik, James J. Majure, Dianne Cook
 
       Fuzzy Effectiveness Evaulation for Intelligent User Interfaces
       to GIS Visualization
       Volker Jung
 
       The GeoOOA-Tool and its interface to open GIS-Software
       development environments
       G. Kosters, B.U. Pagel
 
 
       Reconstruction of geological structures from heteregeneous data
       J.D. Boissonnat, S. Nullans