Call for Papers
The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Open
GIS Consortium Inc. announce an International Conference on Interoperating
Geographic Information Systems, to be held in Santa Barbara, CA, December
3-4, 1997. Topics to be addressed at the conference include, but are not
limited to,
* the current state of research in related disciplines concerning the
technical, semantic, and organizational issues of GIS interoperation;
* case studies of GIS interoperation;
* theoretical frameworks for interoperation;
* interoperation of data and metadata;
* interoperation in GIS application areas, including environmental
modeling; and
* evaluations of alternative approaches.
Authors should submit an extended (1000-word) abstract by e-mail to
i20@ncgia.ucsb.edu prior to September 15, 1997. Full versions of accepted
papers will be due by the conference date and will be published in the
post-conference proceedings.
Venue
The conference will be held in the Radisson Hotel in Santa Barbara, CA. A
block of rooms is being held there. For reservations, identify the NCGIA
Conference on Interoperating GIS group to take advantage of the special
rates provided ($89 plus tax; $79 plus tax government rate). Last date for
reservations to received these rates is November 2, 1997.
Radisson Hotel
1111 East Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 92101, USA
phone: (800) 643-1994
fax: (805) 962-0985
Conference co-chairs:
Mike Goodchild (UC Santa Barbara)
Max Egenhofer (University of Maine)
David Schell (Open GIS Consortium)
Program committee:
David Abel (CSIRO)
Kurt Buehler (Open GIS Consortium)
Robin Fegeas (US Geological Survey)
Alan Gaines (National Science Foundation)
John Herring (Oracle Corporation)
Cliff Kottman (Open GIS Consortium)
Werner Kuhn (University of Muenster)
Richard Muntz (UCLA)
Terence Smith (UC Santa Barbara)
Andrej Vckovski (University of Zurich)
Agnes Voisard (Free University of Berlin)
Maria Zemankova (National Science Foundation)
Important Dates:
September 15, 1997 Abstract deadline
November 2, 1997 Hotel reservations deadline
November 15, 1997 Early-registration deadline
December 3-4, 1997 Conference
___________________
Max J. Egenhofer
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
and
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Science
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA
max@spatial.maine.edu
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~max/max.html
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