UMaine Researchers Excel with Four Full Papers at COSIT 2015
The 12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), to be held in October in Santa Fe, NM, will have strong participation of UMaine researchers in the School of Computing and Information Science. COSIT (http://www.cosit.info) is a biennial meeting with a single-track focusing on recent, innovative and significant contributions in the domain of spatial information theory. Full 20-page manuscripts were reviewed by four COSIT program committee members. Based on their assessment, the PC chairs selected in a very competitive process 22 submissions for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings, which will be published as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The Program Committee Chairs Sara Fabrikant (University of Zurich) and Martin Raubal (ETH Zurich) wrote “a large number were of very high quality, and so juggling these different criteria to achieve a balance of topics inevitably means that several papers of high quality have not been accepted.” In this light it is a great accomplishment that UMaine researchers were successful with four submissions:
Christopher Dorr, Longin Latecki and Reinhard Moratz
Shape similarity based on the qualitative spatial reasoning calculus eOPRA
Matthew Dube, Jordan Barrett and Max Egenhofer
From Metric to Topology: Determining Relations in Discrete Space
Matthew Dube, Max Egenhofer, Joshua Lewis, Shirly Stephen and Mark Plummer
Swiss Canton Regions: A Model for Complex Objects in Geographic Partitions
Torsten Hahmann and Lynn Usery
What is in a Contour Map? A Region-based Logical Formalization of Contour Semantics
These accepted papers involve five graduate students in Spatial Information Science and Engineering (Chris Dorr, Matt Dube, Joshua Lewis, Mark Plummer, and Shirly Stephen). A third student author (Jordan Barrett, now at Syracuse University) was an Upward Bound student at UMaine in the summers of 2012-2014, mentored by Matt Dube.
With four lead-authored papers, the University of Maine is the top institution with the most accepted papers at this year’s COSIT.