Title Experiences in Building Decision Support Systems for Traffic and Transportation GIS Authors Evtim Peytchev The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Christophe Claramunt Naval Academy, Brest, France Finding Shortest Paths in Large Network Systems Edward P.F. Chan and Ning Zhang University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Tripod: A Comprehensive System for the Management of Spatial and Aspatial Historical Objects Tony Griffiths, Alvaro A.A. Fernandes, Norman W. Paton University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Keith T. Mason, Bo Huang, Mike Worboys, Chris Johnson University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK John Stell University of Leeds, Leeds,UK A Specification of a Spatial Query Language over GML Network Planning using Geomorphology J. E. Córcoles and P. González Campus Universitario, Albacete. España. Ingo Petzold, Gerhard Gröger, Lutz Plümer University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany TGML - Extending GML by Temporal Constructs - A Proposal for a Spatiotemporal Framework in XML COPA: a GIS-based Tool for Land Consolidation Projects Alexander ZIPF and Sven KRÜGER European Media Laboratory -EML, Heidelberg, Germany J. Touriño, C.M. Dans, J. Parapar R. DoalloUniversity of A Coruña, Spain Incorporating hydrologic semantic information for interoperable GIS with hydrologic model. M.Boullón, J.D. Bruguera, F.F. Rivera,C. Álvarez, R. Crecente, X.P. González University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Thomas Brinkhoff Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven (University of Applied Sciences) Oldenburg, Germany Chen-Chieh Feng and Alexandre Sorokine SUNY at Buffalo, New York Fast Spatial Clustering with Different Metrics and in the Presence of Obstacles Vladimir Estivill-Castro and Ickjai Lee The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia Using a Cluster Manager in a Spatial Database System Supporting GI standards with a model-driven architecture Requirements and Research Issues in Geographic Data Modeling Fuzzy Topological Predicates, Their Properties, and Their Integration into Query Languages Weighting the Path Continuation in Route Planning Formalization of Temporal Thematic Map Contents A Query Transformation Method by Delaunay Triangulation for Multi-Source Distributed Spatial Database Systems New Methods for Topological Clustering and Spatial Access in Object-Oriented 3D Databases Roy Grønmo SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Forskningsveien . Oslo, Norway Anders Friis-Christensen The National Survey and Cadastre, Copenhagen, Denmark Nectaria Tryfona, and Christian S. Jensen Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Markus Schneider Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany Stephan Winter Technical University Vienna, Austria Alberto d'Onofrio European Institute of Oncology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, Milano, Italy Elaheh Pourabbas Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica-CNR, Roma, Italy Jung-Rae Hwang, Ji-Hyun Oh, and Ki-Joune Li Pusan National University, South Korea M. Breunig University of Vechta, Germany A. B. Cremers , W. Müller, J. Siebeck University of Bonn, Germany Flow Computation on Massive Grids Maintaining a Large Spatial Database with T2SM Lars Arge, Jeff Chase, Laura Toma, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Patrick Halpin, Dean Urban Duke University, Durham, NC Christopher Jermaine, Edward Omiecinski, Wai-Gen Yee Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Customized Geospatial Workflows for EGovernment Services Richard D. Holowczak Baruch College, City University of New York, New York Soon Ae Chun, Francisco J.Artigas Rutgers University, Center for Information Management, Integration Connectivity (CIMIC) Efficiently Querying Moving Objects with Predefined Paths in a Distributed Environment Vijay Atluri MSIS Department and CIMIC, Rutgers University Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Snehal Thakkar, Jose Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock University of Southern California, Los Angeles WMS and GML based Interoperable Web Mapping System Shashi Shekhar, Ranga R. Vatsavai, Namita Sahay, Thomas E. Burk, Steve Lime University of Minnesota, Minnesota R-tree-based Data Migration and Self-Tuning Strategies in Shared-Nothing Spatial Databases. Anirban Mondal, Beng Chin Ooi, and Kian Lee Tan National University of Singapore Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo, Japan A Systematic Approach to Reduction of UserPerceived Response Time for GIS Web Services Shengru Tu and Xiangfeng He University of New Orleans New Orleans Xuefeng Li Loyola University, New Orleans Improving Min/Max Aggregation over Spatial Objects Jay J. Ratcliff US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, LA Donghui Zhang, Vassilis J. Tsotras University of California, Riverside, CA GeoFrame-T: A Temporal Conceptual Framework for Data Modeling Luciana Vargas da Rocha, Nina Edelweeiss Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil A Multi Layered Functional Data Model to Support Multiple Representations and interoperability of GIS: Application to Urban Management Systems Mohamed EL ADNANI*, Kokou YETONGNON**, Djamal BENSLIMAN**, EL Hassan ABDELWAHED* * Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Marrakech, Morrocco ** Université de Bourgogne, Dijon France Boyan Brodaric and Mark Gahegan The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Learning Geoscience Categories In Situ: Implications for Geographic Knowledge Representation A Map Generalization Model Based on Algebra Mapping Transformation Tinghua Ai , Peter van Oosterom Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands