GeoVISTA Center participants at GIScience 2010

The GeoVISTA Center will have a strong presence at the upcoming Sixth international conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010), being held in Zurich, Switzerland September 14-17. Below is a list of GeoVISTA member contributions:

Workshops:

• Krzysztof Janowicz is one of the organizers for the Workshop On Linked Spatiotemporal Data
• Alexander Klippel is one of the organizers for the Workshop on Movement Pattern Analysis
• Anthony Robinson is one of the organizers for the Studying Use of Spatial Technologies GIScience workshop

Full Papers:

• Xiao Zhang, Prasenjit Mitra, Alex Klippel and Alan MacEachren: Automatic Extraction of Destinations, Origins and Route Parts from Human Generated Route Directions
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Benjamin Adams and Martin Raubal: Semantic Referencing - Determining Context Weights for Similarity Measurement
• Stephanie Duce and Krzysztof Janowicz: Microtheories for Spatial Data Infrastructures - Accounting for Diversity of Local Conceptualizations at a Global Level
• Alexander Klippel, Rui Li, Frank Hardisty and Chris Weaver: Cognitive ! Invarian ts of Geographic Event Conceptualization: What Matters and What Refines?

Extended Abstracts:

• Amy Griffin and Anthony Robinson: Comparing Color and Leader Line Approaches for Highlighting in Geovisualization
• Anusuriya Devaraju, Holger Neuhaus, Krzysztof Janowicz and Michael Compton: Combining Process and Sensor Ontologies to Support Geo-Sensor Data Retrieval
• Barbara Buttenfield, Lawrence Stanislawski and Cynthia Brewer: Multiscale Representations of Water: Tailoring Generalization Sequences to Specific Physiographic Regimes
• Jeremy White and Robert Roth: TwitterHitter: Geovisual Analytics for Harvesting Insight from Volunteered Geographic Information
• Robert Roth, Kevin Ross, Benjamin Finch, Wei Luo and Alan MacEachren: A user-centered approach for the design and development of spatiotemporal crime analysis tools
• Simon Scheider and Krzysztof Janowicz: Places as Media of Containment

For more information, contact Krista Kahler at kck12@psu.edu