Subject: ACM GIS 98
From: "Robert.Laurini"          <laurini@iutainfo.univ-lyon1.fr>
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 08:34:09 +0100 (MET)

CALL FOR PAPERS

6th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON 
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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

Scope of the symposium: This 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). 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. Among others, we are especially 
looking for papers dealing with:

- Multidatabase spatial data structures
- Multidatabase GIS indexing
- Embarked GIS
- Spatial Decision Support System
- CASE tools for geomatics
- Visual languages and user interfaces
- Real time GIS, especially based on GPS
- Hypermaps and interactive mapping
- Visualization and huge synoptics design
- Animated cartography
- Computer Graphics semiology 
- Multi-source fusion especially for updating
- Quality control and re-engineering
- Parallel and distributed GIS
- Knowledge discovery and mining
- GIS metadata
- Multi-media GIS
- Digital libraries for GIS
- Virtual reality in GIS
- Interoperability among heterogeneous GIS 
- Geographic data interchange standards
- GIS and internet working
- Groupware and GIS (CSCW)
- Client-server architecture for GIS
- GIS and Java 
- Distributed spatial objects
- Spatial knowledge engineering 
- Systems for spatial reasoning
- Systems for spatial negotiation
- Spatial data warehousing and indexing
- 3D GIS
- Spatio-temporal databases		

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

- Marine cartography and oceanography
- Transportation
- Geomarketing
- Urban and environmental planning 
- Risk prevention
- Earth observation
- Geological information systems
- Extraterrestrial mapping
- etc.

Submission: Please, send full papers, limited to 12 pages, together with 
authors'names and addresses to the Program Committee Chairman by 
May 10, 1998, only by electronic submission to Professor 
Robert LAURINI, E-mail: Robert.Laurini@if.insa-lyon.fr

Organization

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
	

IMPORTANT DATES----------------------------------

Paper submission deadline: 	May 1, 1998
Notification of acceptance: 	July 15, 1998
Camera ready paper due: 	October 1, 1998
ACM-GIS'98 date: 		November 6-7, 1998