Spatial Information Science
Research Interest Group

Advances in Spatial Information Science
Research Symposium
May 24 & 25, 2007

Thursday May 24th

Venue: Holiday Inn Select, Carnegie Room

6:30 pm - Reception

7:00 pm - Dinner and Keynote Address

Keynote Address

The speaker for the keynote address will be Robert Regan who serves as a Research Professor at the School of Information Sciences. Regan is the author of two recent books that were created utilizing GIS and other spatial information systems: “The Steps of Pittsburgh – Portrait of a City” and “The Bridges of Pittsburgh.” 

Friday May 25th

Venue: School of Information Sciences, Room 501

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8:30 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast and Coffee

9:00 am - 10:30 am

• William Harbert, Pittsburgh
• Geospatial Analysis of Geohazards
• Alex Klippel, Penn State
  • Toward A Framework for Geographic Event Conceptualization
• Jonathan Raper, City University (UK)
  • Situated Searching on Mobile Location-Aware Guides: What People Want to Know, Where

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Louise Comfort, Pittsburgh
  • Managing Risk in Real-Time: Vulnerability Assessment for Flooding in the Mon Valley
• Mei-Po Kwan, Ohio State
  • Visual Analysis of Human Activities

  12:15 pm - 1:15 pm - Lunch

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

• Ken Sochats, Pittsburgh
  • Dynamic Discrete Disaster Decision Simulation System (D4S2)
• Gouray Cai, Penn State
  • Contextualization of Geospatial Data Semantics

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Round Table Discussion

3:00 pm - Closing Reception