• ICWG II/IV - DYNAMIC AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

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• WG II/1 - SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELING

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• WG II/2 - SPATIAL REASONING, ANALYSIS, AND DATA MINING

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  Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
  Liu Yaolin Dean, School of Resource & Environmental Sciences Wuhan University Wuhan 430079 China Tel: + 86 (27) 87642919 Fax: + 86 (27) 87215893 E-mail:Yaolin610@163.com E-mail:Liu00535@alumni.itc.nl Web: lazarus.elte.hu/cet/cv/cv-yaolin.htm	Abd�lvahit Torun General Command of Mapping Cartography Department 06100 Cebeci, Ankara Turkey Tel: + 90 (312) 5952129 Fax: + 90 (312) 3201495 E-mail: atorun@hgk.mil.tr E-mail:atorun@metu.edu.tr Web:	Ai Tinghua Department of Cartography and Geoinformation Engineering Wuhan University Wuhan 430079 P.R.China Tel: + 86 (27) 87430233 Fax: + 86 (27) 68778893 E-mail: tinghua_ai@tom.com Web: www.whu.edu.cn

  
  WG II/2 Terms of references

  • Spatial reasoning processes
  • Information discovery in spatial databases
  • Spatial analysis and statistics
  • Spatial data mining

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Monika Sester Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics University of Hannover Appelstraβe 9a 30167, Hannover Germany Tel: + 49 (511) 7623588 Fax: + 49 (511) 7622780 E-mail: monika.sester@ikg.uni-hannover.de Web: www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/	Lars Harrie GIS-centre Lund University Sölvegatan 12 SE-223 62 Lund Sweden Tel: + 46 (46) 222 01 55 Fax: + 46 (46) 222 83 91 E-mail: lars.harrie@lantm.lth.se Web: www.lantm.lth.se/personal/lars/	Mark Hampe Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics University of Hannover Appelstraβe 9a 30167, Hannover Germany Tel: + 49 (511) 7625285 Fax: + 49 (511) 7622780 E-mail: Mark.Hampe@ikg.uni-hannover.de Web: www.ikg.uni-hannover.de

WG II/3 Terms of references

• Generalization and data abstraction of vector, raster and surface data, as well as related to semantics
  o cartographic and model generalization
  o generalization and simplification of digital surface data
  o semantic abstraction levels
• Object representations for MRDB (Multiple Resolution / Representation Data Bases)
  o data in various levels of resolution
  o data in various thematic presentations
  o link structures between individual objects of different representations
  
• Matching of image and vector data via different scales and themes
  o automatic determination of appropriate abstraction level, where data sets are comparable
  o matching taking semantics and geometry into account
• Development of multi-scale and multiple representations analysis tools, i.e. analysis operations that make use of the MRDB-structures

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Ali Sharifi ITC - Dept. Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management P.O. Box 6 7500 AA Enschede The Netherlands Tel: + 31 (53) 4874261 Fax: + 31 (53) 4874575 Email: alisharifi@itc.nl Web: http://www.itc.nl	Shattri Mansor Spatial Numerical Laboratory Institute of Advanced Techlology, University of Putra 3400 UPM Serdang Selangor D.E. Malaysia Tel: + 60 (3) 894 97543 Fax: + 60 (3) 865 66061 Email: shattri@eng.upm.edu.my Web: http://www.eng.upm.edu.my	Christopher J. Pettit Department of Primary Industries 621 Sneydes Road Werribee Vicroria 3030 Australia Tel: + 61 (3) 97428707 Fax: + 61 (3) 97428700 Email: christopher.pettit@dpi.vic.gov.au Web: www.gs.rmit.edu.au/staffhome/c-pettit/index_cp.htm

WG II/4 Terms of references

• Theory, concepts design and development of Spatial Planning Support Systems (SPSS)
  o Modeling Spatial planning processes
  o Suitability assessment, site selection, location/allocation and resource allocation problems
  o Integration of bio-physical and socioeconomic models
  o Design and development of Planning/Spatial Support Systems (PSS, SPSS)
• Theory, concepts, design and development of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS)
  o Theory concepts and application of Spatial Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (SMCDA) in single and group environment
  o Theories and concepts of decision supports using vague information
  o Theory and application of knowledge-based systems
  o Design and development of Spatial Decision Support Systems, (SDSS)
  o Design and development of Collaborative Spatial Decision Support Systems, (CSDSS)
• Theory, concepts, design and development of Integrated Planning and Decision Support Systems (IPDSS)

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
William Cartwright Geospatial Science RMIT University GPO Box 2476V Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia Tel: + 61 (3) 9925 2423 Fax: + 61 (3) 9663 2517 E-mail: william.cartwright@rmit.edu.au Web: www.gs.rmit.edu.au/	Hiroyuki Yoshida Faculty of Policy Management SFC Keio University 5322, Endo Fujisawa Kanagawa 252-8520 Japan Tel: + 81 (466) 49 3616 Fax: + 81 (466) 493520 E-mail: kipinga@sfc.keio.ac.jp Web: vu.sfc.keio.ac.jp	Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institut Autonome Intelligente Systeme (FhG AIS) Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 Sankt-Augustin Germany Tel: + 49 (2241) 142329 Tel: + 49 (2241) 142486 Fax: + 49 (2241) 142072 E-mail: gennady.andrienko@ais.fraunhofer.de Web: http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de

WG II/5 - Terms of Reference:

• Communication of spatial information
• Geovisualization (including the Web)
• Novel methods and tools for uncertain data

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Marinos Kavouras Cartography Laboratory School of Rural and Surveying Engineering National Technical University of Athens 9, H. Polytechniou Str 157 80 Zografos Campus, Athens Greece Tel: + 30 (210) 7722731 Fax: + 30 (210) 7722734 E-mail: mkav@survey.ntua.gr Web: http://ontogeo.ntua.gr/	Stephan Winter Department of Geomatics The University of Melbourne Victoria Australia Tel: + 61 (3) 8344 7875 Fax: + 61 (3) 9347 2916 E-mail: winter@unimelb.edu.au Web: www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/	Margarita Kokla School of Rural and Surveying Engineering National Technical University of Athens 9, H. Polytechniou Str. 157 80 Zografos Campus, Athens Greece Tel: + 30 (210) 7722637 Fax: + 30 (210) 7722734 E-mail: mkokla@survey.ntua.gr Web: http://ontogeo.ntua.gr/

WG II/6 - Terms of Reference:

• Ontologies and geosemantics
• Semantic and geospatial data(base) interoperability
• Geo-spatiotemporal knowledge representation

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Wenzhong Shi Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: + 852 2766 5975 Fax: + 852 2330 2994 E-mail: lswzshi@polyu.edu.hk Web: www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk	Robert Jeansoulin Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Syst�mes CMI - 39 r. Joliot Curie 13453 Marseille Cedex 13 France Tel: + 33 4 91 11 36 08 Fax: + 33 4 91 11 36 92 E-mail: robert.jeansoulin@up.univ-mrs.fr Web: www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/	Hande Demirel Division of Photogrammetry Istanbul Technical University Maslak 34469 Istanbul Turkey Tel: + 90 (212) 2856110 Fax: + 90 (212) 2856587 E-mail: hande.demirel@itu.edu.tr E-mail: hdemirel@ins.itu.edu.tr Web: http://www.ins.itu.edu.tr/

WG II/7 - Terms of Reference:

• Quality control for spatio-temporal data
• Uncertainty propagation in spatial analysis
• Presentation of quality information by metadata in GIS
• Quality of spatio-temporal models
• Models for quality of spatio-temporal data