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November 8, 2002 (Friday)
9:00 - 9:10	Opening Ceremony
9:10 - 11:10	Session 1: GIS and the Internet
	Session Chair: Erik Hoel
Remote Access to Large Spatial Databases Egemen Tanin, Frantisek Brabec, Hanan Samet
Analysis of different approach alternatives for a spatial query language over GML J. E. Corcoles, P. Gonzalez
Web Architectures for Scalable Moving Object Servers Cedric du mouza and Philippe Rigaux
A WFS-based Mediation System for GIS Interoperability Omar Boucelma, Mehdi Essid, Zoe Lacroix
11:10 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	Session 2: Data clustering
	Session Chair: Walid Aref
Gravity Based Spatial Clustering M. Indulska, M.E. Orlowska
Opening the Black Box: Interactive Hierarchical Clustering for Multivariate Spatial Patterns Diansheng Guo, Donna Peuquet, Mark Gahegan
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30	Session 3: Location-based services and mobile computing: Algorithms
	Session Chair: Shu-Ching Chen
Vector Map Compression: A Clustering Approach S. Shekhar, Y. Huang, J. Djugash, C. Zhou
A User-Aware Tour Proposal Framework using a Hybrid Optimization Approach Matthias Joest, Wolfgang Stille
Prioritized Sequencing for Efficient Query on Broadcast Geographical Information in Mobile-Computing Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald
A Road Network Embedding Technique for K-Nearest Neighbor Search in Moving Object Databases Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Mehdi Sharifzadeh
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00	Session 4: Applications
	Session Chair: Silvia Nittel
ATLAS: A distributed system for the simulation of large-scale systems Cyril Ray, Christophe Claramunt
Achieving Interoperability for Integration of Heterogeneous COTS Geographic Shengru Tu, Liang Xu, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Jay Ratcliff
Handling Semantic Heterogeneities using Declarative Agreements Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, Nancy Wiegand
Augmenting Reality with Geo-Referenced Information for Environmental Management Teresa Romco, Nuno Correia, Eduardo Dias, Adelaide Trabuco, Carlos Santos, Rossana Santos, Edmundo Nobre, Antsnio Cbmara, Josi Danado, Lums Romero

November 9, 2002 (Saturday)
9:15 - 10:15	Invited Talk - Einstein Room
	Session Chair: Agnes Voisard
Speaker : Dr. Max Egenhofer (University of Maine and NCGIA) “Toward the Semantic Geospatial Web”
10:15 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 12:00	Session 5: Location-based services and mobile computing: Data models
	Session Chair: Robert Laurini
Multidimensional data modeling for location-based services Christian S. Jensen, Augustas Kligys, Torben B. Pedersen, Igor Timko
Design of Field Wrappers for Mobile Field Data Collection Peisheng Zhao, Sarah Nusser, Leslie Miller
Metadata Modeling in a Global Computing Environment Dieter Pfoser, Evaggelia Pitoura, Nectaria Tryfona
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30	Session 6A: Spatio-temporal Data Handling
	Session Chair: Philippe Rigaux
The 2-3TR-tree, A Trajectory-Oriented Index Structure for Fully Evolving Valid-Time Spatio-Temporal Datasets J. Givaudan, M. Abdelguerfi, K. Shaw, R. Ladner
Spatio-Temporal Evolution: Querying Patterns of Change in Spatio-Temporal Databases Nassima Djafri, Alvaro A.A. Fernandes, Norman W. Paton and Tony Griffiths
Enhancing GISs for spatio-temporal reasoning A. Raffaeta, C. Renso, F. Turini
Integration and Comparison of Trajectories Nirvana Meratnia, Rolf A. de By
13:30 - 15:30	Session 6B: User Interfaces
	Session Chair: Leila de Floriani
A Tabu Search Approach to Automated Map Generalisation J. M. Ware, I. D. Wilson, J. A. Ware, C. B. Jones
Interactive 3D Visualization of Vector Data in GIS Oliver Kersting, Jurgen Dollner
Management and visualization of large, complex and time-dependent 3D objects in distributed GIS Serge Shumilov, Andreas Thomsen, Armin B. Cremers, Bjorn Koos
Designing a Human-Centered, Multimodal GIS Interface to Support Emergency Management Ingmar Rauschert, Pyush Agrawal, Sven Fuhrmann, Isaac Brewer, Rajeev Sharma, Guoray Cai, Alan MacEachren
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30	Session 7: Raster data, *Data Structures and Computational Geometry*
	Session Chair: Ivan Radev
Extraction of Qualitative Information from the Weighted Walkthroughs Serafino Cicerone and Eliseo Clementini
Regular and Irregular Multi-Resolution Terrain Models: a Comparison Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo
Performance of Multi-Dimensional Space-filling Curves Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, and Ibrahim Kamel
17:30 - 17:45	Closing Ceremony

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