| Geographic Information Science: Second International Conference, Giscience 2002, Boulder, Co, Usa, September 25-28, 2002. Proceedings 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Egenhofer, Max J. (Editor), Mark, David M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540442537 ISBN-13: 9783540442530 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2002, held in Boulder, Colorado, USA in September 2002. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 paper submissions. Among the topics addressed are Voronoi diagram representation, geospacial database design, vector data transmission, geographic information retrieval, geo-ontologies, relative motion analysis, Web-based maps information retrieval, spatial pattern recognition, environmental decision support systems, multi-scale spatial databases, mobile journey planning, searching geographical data, indexing, terrain modeling, spatial allocation, distributed geographic internet information systems, and spatio-thematic information programming. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Databases - General - Computers | System Administration - Storage & Retrieval - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology |
| Dewey: 910.285 |
| LCCN: 2002030608 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 362 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The initiation of the GIScience conference series came with the observation that the GIScience ?eld has a widely fragmented conference landscape. Many papers on geographic information science are presented not only at such specialized meetings as the biennial Conferences on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), the Symposia on Spatial and Temporal databases (SSTD), the International Symposia on Spatial Accuracy, the Symposia on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), or the ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), but also at the large meetings of the professional organizations that deal with - ographic information systems. The lack of an opportunity to exchange ideas across the disciplinary specializations led to the creation of the GIScience c- ference series as a forum for all GIScience researchers who are interested in the advances in research in the fundamental aspects of geographic information s- ence. The ?rst meeting was held in Savannah, Georgia, USA, in October 2000 (www. giscience. org/GIScience2000) with 120 paper presentations (selected from the submission of extended abstracts) and over 300 attendees. GIScience 2002 in Boulder, Colorado, USA followed this highly successful inaugural meeting. Atrademarkoftheresearch?eldofgeographicinformationscienceisthed- ciplinary mixture of researchers contributing the advancement of our knowledge. One typically ?nds cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, geog- phers, informationscientists, mathematicians, philosophers, psychologists, social scientists, andstatisticians. Ofcourse, thislistisneitherexhaustivenorexclusive. Acriticalaspectforthesuccessofthe?eldisthedialogamongtheseresearchers, becauseadvancesalongthemanyintersectionsofthecontributingdisciplinesare paramount for geographic information science, requiring the concurrent att- tionfromresearchersfrommultipledisciplines. TheGIScienceconferencesaimto serve as the disciplinary melting pot for geographic information science research. |
