Publications

A Place and Event Based Context Model for Environmental Monitoring

Kate Beard and Melinda Neville. A Place and Event Based Context Model for Environmental Monitoring. Published in the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness in Geographic Information Services, in conjunction with GIScience 2014, edited by Haosheng Huang, Jürgen Hahn, Christophe Claramunt, Tumasch Reichenbacher, CAGIS 2014, 23 September 2014, Vienna, Austria, 2014. Abstract: The importance of context awareness in […]

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Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features

Joshua A. Lewis, Max J. Egenhofer. Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features. Geographic Information Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8728, 2014, pp 333-348. Abstract: The typical phenomena in geographic space are 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional in nature, yet people often conceptualize some of them as 1-dimensional entities embedded in a 2-dimensional space—rivers have widths and depths, and […]

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Fields as a Generic Data Type for Big Spatial Data

Gilberto Camara, Max J. Egenhofer, Karine Ferreira, Pedro Andrade, Gilberto Queiroz, Alber Sanchez, Jim Jones, Lubia Vinhas. Fields as a Generic Data Type for Big Spatial Data. Geographic Information Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8728, 2014, pp 159-172. Abstract: This paper defines the Field data type for big spatial data. Most big spatial data sets provide […]

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Surrounds in Partitions

M. Egenhofer and M. Dube. Surrounds in Partitions. ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2014 — 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Dallas, TX Y. Huang, M. Schneider, M. Gertz, J. Krumm, and J. Sankaranarayanan (eds.), (in press). Abstract: Surrounds is a topological relation that can exist between two regions or between collections of […]

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A Java library for dynamically loading and executing remote Octave functions

Mark Royer, Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Andrei V. Kurbatov, Paul A. Mayewski. A Java library for dynamically loading and executing remote Octave functions. Borns Symposium, April 2014. Abstract: We describe a technique for loading and executing Octave functions remotely from a Java application. There are many scientific re-sampling techniques developed for Octave, and new functions are constantly being […]

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In Praise of Small Data

George Markowsky, In Praise of Small Data, International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Predictive Organization and Big Transformations Stanford, CA, USA, May 27, 2014 (in press) Abstract: Big Data tools can give “explanations” of complex and elaborate data sets. There is the danger that we might be content with the explanations that these tools produce. It is […]

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Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features

Joshua A. Lewis and Max J. Egenhofer. Oriented Regions for Linearly Conceptualized Features in: “Geographic Information Science — Eighth International Conference,” GIScience 2014, Vienna, Austria. M. Duckham, E. Pebesma, K. Stewart and A. Frank (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, September 2014 (in press). Abstract: Spatial scenes are abstractions of some geographic reality, focusing on the spatial […]

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Late noachian icy highlands: Patterns of ice accumulation and flow

J. L. Fastook and J. W. Head. Late noachian icy highlands: Patterns of ice accumulation and flow. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXXV, #1115, 2014. Introduction: The record of non-polar ice deposits throughout the Amazonian suggest a cold and dry climate not significantly different from the present climate observed on Mars [1], where latitudinal movement of ice is […]

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