Every attendee's email address was in the conference
handout. Much of the early results from these papers are being
put on to the individual websites.The meeting was hosted at the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences, Enschede.
There were 85 attendees representing 16 countries.
Every attendee's email address was in the conference
handout. Much of the early results from these papers are being
put on to the individual websites.
From JRC:
From EC:
Publication of the election of the AGILE committee officers, building an academic research community body as a focus for research interchange and for lobbying funding bodies.
The conference part of the meeting went as planned, with one addition: the presentation by Y.R. Reginster, GERE S.A. (on contract to DG XIII) where he strongly advised AGILE members to immediately begin lobbying for GIS within the 5th Framework Programme. [He reported on the meeting in May 1997 where the Commission invited 400 IT industry experts to advise it. Only a few were GIS experts. The results of this were fed to groups of four people ("quads") who processed the results into the programme proposal.]
There are now 30 laboratories in AGILE, and a total of 50 is expected within 1998. A website will be established, poissibly bulletin-board/mailing lists, and Fred Topham has responsibility for determining a logo.
It was agreed in open session that there would be another conference in April 1999 and that it would retain the format which encouraged hard work and also informal discussions: separate discussion groups in the evening up to 21:30 followed by a combined session in the bar. Mario Salvemini is responsible for investigating various forms of conference that might be suitable. At this meeting full papers will probably be required, not just abstracts, and publication arrangements will be agreed before the meeting (unlike this one). Mike Warboys stated that he would prefer a publication-less conference, just for talking and a "pre-press exchange", and there was support for this point of view.
At the next AGILE meeting, a proposed AGILE Research Agenda will be presented. Meanwhile, Werner Kuhn would be responsible for collating suggestions.
AGILE will be a framework in which specialist meetings can be arranged on specific subjects.
Relationships with EARSL and UCGIS need to be formally established.
Thursday 23 April 1998
Room: Auditorium, ITC
14.00 Opening and welcome address by Prof. K. Harmsen, Rector, ITC
Introduction to AGILE by Prof. I. Masser
Results of elections to AGILE Council
14.30 Keynote: The UNIGIS Research Lecture by Prof. Helen Couclelis
"GIS stands for Geographic Information and Society: some thoughts from a reformed technocrat"
15.30 Coffee/tea (outside Auditorium)
16.00 Four presentations chosen to kick off the four Themes:
Chairman: Prof. A. Ostman
Theme 1: Dynamic Modelling of Spatial Processes
Cellular automata as a tool for 3D quality assessment
B.-I. Rönnback (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden)
Theme 2: Management of Data Quality
Handling imprecision in computational geographic space
M.F. Worboys (Keele University, UK)
Theme 3: Geographical Information Infrastructures
A georeferenced decision support system for integrated
environmental management
P. Antunes, R. Santos, A. Salgueiro, N. Videira
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Theme 4: Aspects of Interoperability
Specifications for interoperability: formalizing spatial
relations
A.U. Frank (Technical University Vienna, Austria)
18.00 End of session
19.30 Conference Dinner at:
Parklocatie "De Jaargetijden"
Parkweg 49, Enschede
Friday 24 April 1998
Room: Auditorium, ITC
09.00 Chairman: Prof. A. Skidmore
Theme 1a: Dynamic Modelling of Spatial Processes (physical)
1. Interactive Learning Tools for Space-Time Modelling
of Earth Science Processes
P.A. Burrough, D.J. Karssenberg (Utrecht University, The
Netherlands)
2. Linking spatio-temporal atmospheric models and GIS -
A workflow analysis and the design of an object-oriented
integrated system
L. Bernard, B. Schmidt, U. Streit (University of Münster,
Germany)
3. Merging spatial heterogeneity statistics with
cellular automata for environmental modelling
P. Gonçalves, J. Seixas, J. Lencart (Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Portugal)
4. Modelling of Automatic Scale Transformations
O. Jaakkola (Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland)
10.30 Coffee/tea (outside Auditorium)
11.00 Chairman: Dr. M. Salvemini
Theme 1b: Dynamic Modelling of Spatial Processes
(social)
1. Spatial Planning moves out of the Flatlands
L. Bodum, I. Afman, J. Smith (Aalborg University, Denmark)
2. Interaction modelling of urban entities
A.J. Boelen (Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands)
3. A comparative evaluation of GIS-based approaches for crime
pattern analysis
M. Craglia, R. Haining, P. Wiles (University of Sheffield,
UK)
4. GIS in the 5th Framework Programm
Y.P. Reginster, (GERE S.A., on contract to
DG XIII)
12.30 Lunch at the ITC restaurant
Room: Auditorium, ITC
14.00 Chairman: Prof. W. Kainz
Theme 2: Management of Data Quality
1. Statistical Quality Control of Geodata
W. Caspary, G. Joos (Universität der Bundeswehr München,
Germany)
2. Improving Access to Geographic Information Quality
F. Harvey (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Switzerland)
3. Dependencies between Data Quality and Semantics -
Examples from the Field of Mobile Geocomputing
H. Pundt, W. Kuhn (University of Münster, Institute for
Geoinformatics, Germany)
4. Digital Terrain Models - traps for the unwary
S. Wise (University of Sheffield, UK)
5. Object recognition using segmentation pyramid
classification
B. Gorte (ITC, The Netherlands)
16.00 Coffee/tea (outside the Auditorium)Room: Auditorium, ITC
16.30 Chairman: Prof. M. Worboys
Young researchers forum
1. Identifying geometric changes of physical
environments using the concept of fuzzy objects
Tao Cheng, M. Molenaar (ITC, The Netherlands)
2. Method to assess the spatial suitability of SOTER
units to water erosion modelling, using the data capture approach
according to SOTER, expert knowledge and information abstraction
rules
J. Crompvoets (Agricultural University Wageningen, The
Netherlands)
3. Borders, frontiers and limits: concepts beyond words
S. Gadal, R. Jeansoulin (CMI - Université de Provence,
France)
4. Flood estimates using Allen representation and
revision over constraints
D. Raclot, E. Wurbel, C. Puech, R. Jeansoulin (CMI -
Université de Provence, France)
5. 3D Topological Data Modelling for Public Utilities
S. Mesgari, W. Kainz (ITC, The Netherlands)
6. Fuzzy sets theory and neural fuzzy network for
preservation of cultivated land based on GIS
Ding Zheng, W. Kainz (ITC, The Netherlands)
7. Data Structuring and Visualization of 3D Urban Data
S. Zlatanova, K. Tempfli (ITC, The Netherlands)
8. Managing Decision in Spatial Decision Support System
B. Cornélis (Université de Liège, Belgium)
9. Automated knowledge based hierarchical interpretation of
remotely sensed data in a GIS environment
U. Rhein (University of Vechta, Germany)
18.00 End
19.00 Dinner at the ITC Restaurant
Rooms: Auditorium, 2-004/008, 3-004/008
20.00 Evening discussion groups on the following topics:
Room: 2-124
20.00 AGILE Council meeting
Saturday 25 April 1998
Room: Auditorium, ITC
09.00 Parallel presentations
Chairman: Prof. M. Konency
Theme 3: Geographical Information Infrastructures
1. The first generation of national geographic
information strategies
I. Masser (University of Sheffield, UK)
2. The Portuguese National System for Geographic
Information Future Developments
C. Gouveia, R. Nicolau, J. Abreu (Centro Nacional de
Informação Geográfica, Portugal)
3. The role of GIS in the management of the Cultural
Heritage
P. Mogorovich (CNUCE, Italy)
4. Local information and national infrastructure
I. Smith (University of Westminster, UK)
5. The Geonews Concept: serving news with interoperable
geographic information objects
J. Seixas, P. Gonçalves, J.M. Remedio (Universidade Nova
de Lisboa, Portugal)
Room: 2-004-008, ITC
09.00 Chairman: Prof. W. Kuhn
Theme 4: Aspects of Interoperability
1. Aspects of Interoperability: A GII perspective
Y. Bishr, M. Radwan, M. Molenaar (ITC, The Netherlands)
2. Towards Hybrid Analysis - Specifications of High
level Analytical GIS Operators
S. Voser, S. Jung (University of Vechta, Germany)
3. A Structured Methodology for Interoperable
Geographic Applications: The Case of the Hellenic Cadastre
N. Tryfona (Aalborg University, Denmark), M. Kavouras
(University of Athens, Greece)
4. Geographical Information technology, physical
planning practice and spatial simulation modelling: some
experiences
G. Engelen (RIKS, the Netherlands), S. Geertman (NexpRI)
11.00 Coffee/tea (outside Auditorium)
Room: Auditorium, ITC
11.30 Chairman: Prof. I. Masser
Wrap up session: Future AGILE activities
12.30 End
Philip Sargent
TP 950
Centro Comune di Ricerca
I-21020 Ispra (VA)
Italia
Philip.Sargent@computer.org