UMaine’s SCIS Represented at Geographic Information Science Conference in Vienna

Kate Beard, Max Egenhofer and Joshua Lewis presented research at the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science in September 2014. The conference, referred to as GIScience 2014, was hosted by Vienna University of Technology in Austria. Kate Beard presented her paper at the First International Workshop on Context-Awareness in Geographic Information Services, which occurred in conjunction with the main GIScience conference.

Kate Beard and Max Egenhofer are both professors in the Spatial Informatics program of the School of Computing and Information Science at UMaine. Joshua Lewis is a PhD student in the Spatial Information Science and Engineering program.

The papers which they presented are listed below:

• A Place and Event Based Context Model for Environmental Monitoring presented by Kate Beard and co-author Melinda Neville
• Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features presented by Joshua Lewis and Max Egenhofer
• Fields as a Generic Data Type for Big Spatial Data presented by Max Egenhofer and co-authors