----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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. **** Registration forms etc. can be obtained from http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ If you have any questions about the workshop, contact [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ACMGIS-96 Program November 15-16 -------------- 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