From rhoskins@home.com Mon Apr 12 14:52:39 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id OAA43634 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:52:39 -0700 Received: from ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id OAA26585 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:52:38 -0700 Received: from c501552a ([24.5.121.123]) by ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA15953 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:52:37 -0700 Message-ID: <003801be852e$bf7d43c0$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Richard E. Hoskins" To: Subject: WAPHGIS: ACM International Symposium Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:52:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0035_01BE84F4.12F3B240" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01BE84F4.12F3B240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear GISers: This conference is very good for the heavy duty GIS types among you. No = health component to speak of but very good on technical issues and = research systems. I went a few years ago - it was superb. One of the = very nice things about this was there is no particular vendor = orientation. There are a lot of computer science people out there who = have written their own GIS and a lot of it is very good if not = spectacular. Of course if you are the average public health practitioner = you have no money to go anywhere much less to this one, but I suggest = tracking the web site, links to free stuff and new contacts may appear = later.=20 7th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems Preliminary Call for Papers November 5-6, 1999,=20 Kansas City, USA http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~cmbm/acmgis99=20 This symposium aims at bringing together people carrying out research in = novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge. ACM GIS'99 will=20 happen, within the framework of the 8th International Conference on=20 Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). Papers covering areas with=20 cross-fertilizations among domains and synergies between several=20 applications are encouraged. Among others, we are looking for papers=20 dealing with: =20 - Embarked GIS=20 - Spatial aspects of mobile computing - Spatial Decision Support Systems and CSCW - CASE tools for geomatics=20 - Real time GIS, especially based on GPS=20 - Interactive mapping, visualization and interface design - Multidatabase spatial data structures and indexing=20 - Animated cartography=20 - Multi-source fusion=20 - Quality control and re-engineering=20 - Management of parallel and distributed GIS=20 - Spatial knowledge discovery, knowledge engineering=20 - Spatial data mining=20 - GIS metadata=20 - Multimedia GIS=20 - Digital libraries for GIS=20 - Virtual reality in GIS=20 - Interoperability, heterogeneous GIS and geographic data interchange = standards=20 - GIS and the internet=20 - Systems for spatial reasoning and negotiation=20 - Spatial data warehousing and indexing=20 - 3D GIS=20 - Spatio-temporal databases=20 =20 Novel applications include (but are not restricted to):=20 =20 - Urban and environmental planning=20 - Risk prevention=20 - Earth observation=20 - Marine cartography and oceanography=20 - Transportation=20 - Geomarketing=20 - Geological information systems=20 - Extraterrestrial mapping=20 - Telegeomonitoring=20 - Precision farming and agriculture applications=20 - Archeology Chair: Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Institute of Computing, UNICAMP, Brazil. = Email: cmbm@dcc.unicamp.br ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01BE84F4.12F3B240 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear GISers:
 
This conference is very good for the = heavy duty GIS=20 types among you. No health component to speak of but very good on = technical=20 issues and research systems. I went a few years ago - it was superb. One = of the=20 very nice things about this was there is no particular vendor = orientation. There=20 are a lot of computer science people out there who have written their = own GIS=20 and a lot of it is very good if not spectacular. Of course if you = are the=20 average public health practitioner you have no money to go anywhere much = less to=20 this one, but I suggest tracking the web site, links to free stuff  = and new=20 contacts may appear later.
 
 
7th ACM International Symposium
on = Geographic=20 Information Systems

Preliminary Call for Papers

November = 5-6,=20 1999,
Kansas City, USA

http://www.dcc.unicamp.= br/~cmbm/acmgis99=20

This symposium aims at bringing together people carrying out = research in=20
novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge. ACM GIS'99 = will=20
happen, within the framework of the 8th International Conference on=20
Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). Papers covering areas = with=20
cross-fertilizations among domains and synergies between several=20
applications are encouraged. Among others, we are looking for papers =
dealing with:
 
- Embarked GIS
- Spatial aspects of = mobile=20 computing
- Spatial Decision Support Systems and CSCW
- CASE tools = for=20 geomatics
- Real time GIS, especially based on GPS
- Interactive = mapping, visualization and interface design
- Multidatabase spatial = data=20 structures and indexing
- Animated cartography
- Multi-source = fusion=20
- Quality control and re-engineering
- Management of parallel = and=20 distributed GIS
- Spatial knowledge discovery, knowledge engineering =
-=20 Spatial data mining
- GIS metadata
- Multimedia GIS
- = Digital=20 libraries for GIS
- Virtual reality in GIS
- Interoperability,=20 heterogeneous GIS and geographic data interchange standards
- GIS = and the=20 internet
- Systems for spatial reasoning and negotiation
- = Spatial data=20 warehousing and indexing
- 3D GIS
- Spatio-temporal databases=20
 
Novel applications include (but are not restricted to):=20
 
- Urban and environmental planning
- Risk prevention =
-=20 Earth observation
- Marine cartography and oceanography
- = Transportation=20
- Geomarketing
- Geological information systems
- = Extraterrestrial=20 mapping
- Telegeomonitoring
- Precision farming and agriculture=20 applications
- Archeology

Chair: Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, = Institute=20 of Computing, UNICAMP, Brazil. Email: cmbm@dcc.unicamp.br

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