From: jayant@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jayant Sharma)
Subject: Call for Papers/Participation
Organization: NCGIA, Dept. of Surveying Engg., University of Maine. 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:07:02 GMT


Call for Papers / Call for Participation


Time in Geographic Space
Lake Arrowhead, California, May 7-11, 1993

Specialist Meeting of the NCGIA Research Initiative 10


The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis 
(NCGIA) will hold a Specialist Meeting for Initiative 10 on 
"Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in GIS" at the UCLA Conference 
Center at Lake Arrowhead, CA May 7-11, 1993. This meeting 
follows the workshop on "Temporal Relations in Geographic 
Information Systems" held in Orono (January 1990) and a joint 
seminar with European researchers on "Methods of Spatio-
Temporal Reasoning in GIS" held in San Miniato, Italy 
(September 1992), which served as a forum to assess the 
state-of-the-art in reasoning about geographic space and time 
and started a dialog among different disciplines involved in 
space-time reasoning. The goal of the Specialist Meeting is 
to identify and prioritize research needs in this area and to 
specify an appropriate agenda for undertaking the research 
over the next two years. The structure of the meeting will be 
a combination of small-group discussions about specific 
questions, and plenary sessions to identify the major 
directions. Participants will have the exciting opportunity 
to make active contributions to this process. Support for 
lodging and travel to and from the meeting may be available 
to participants selected to attend. 

The Specialist Meeting will bring together about 30 
researchers from areas that are concerned with temporal 
changes in geographic space. We want to attract researchers 
from as broad an audience as possible. Areas of particular 
interest include, but are not limited to, Geography, 
Cartography, Engineering, Computer Science (primarily 
databases, artificial intelligence, and user interfaces), 
Mathematics (primarily logic and topology), Environmental and 
Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, 
Anthropology, History, Archaeology, Geology, and Climatology. 
The Initiative's steering committee will select the majority 
of the participants for the Specialist Meeting based on the 
submission of extended abstracts; additional key participants 
may be invited to address topics not adequately covered by 
the papers selected from among submitted abstracts. 


Topics of Interest

Submissions of papers presenting original research, surveys, 
or position statements on all aspects of "Time in Geographic 
Space" are invited. Particular emphasis should be put on 
time, change, motion, or process. Topics of special relevance 
are:

*  Dependencies between time and geographic space.
*  Scales of time in geographic space.
*  Differences between temporal reasoning in small-scale and 
   large-scale space.
*  Temporal reasoning primitives such as change, motion, and 
   velocity.
*  Spatial processes in the temporal domain. 
*  Linguistic means to communicate change in geographic 
   space.
*  Formalizations of human reasoning processes about 
   time/change/process in geographic space. 
*  Dealing with incomplete and imprecise temporal and spatio-
   temporal information.
*  Applications describing specific properties of dealing 
   with time in geographic space.
*  Cultural differences in spatio-temporal reasoning.

Papers that address only geographic space without paying 
consideration to temporal changes will be given low priority, 
as will papers that focus on spatio-temporal statistics and 
space-time series analysis, which are subjects of a separate 
NCGIA initiative. 


Paper Submissions

Please submit 5 copies of an extended abstract of at least 
2,000 words (8 double-spaced pages) to the Specialist Meeting 
coordinator by February 1, 1993. The abstract must provide 
sufficient detail to allow the Steering Committee to assess 
the contributions. It must include comparisons with previous 
work and appropriate references to the pertinent literature. 
Authors should also include a biographical sketch (1/2 page). 
All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of 
the Steering Committee. Authors of accepted papers will have 
to provide a revised version based on the reviewers' comments 
to be distributed prior to the workshop and published in the 
widely distributed NCGIA Technical Report series. An edited 
volume of extended versions of selected papers of special 
merit is planned to be published after the Specialist Meeting. 


Important Dates:

Deadline for submissions of detailed abstracts:  Feb. 1, 1993
Notification of acceptance:                     March 1, 1993
Revised papers due:                            April 15, 1993
Specialist meeting:                            May 7-11, 1993


Specialist Meeting Coordinator: 

Max J. Egenhofer
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
Boardman Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5711
e-mail:   max@mecan1.maine.edu
tel.:     (207) 581-2114
FAX:	  (207) 581-2206


Initiative Co-Leaders:

Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine
Reginald G. Golledge, University of California Santa Barbara

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