Published: Jul 12, 2012 Author(s): Brodaric, Boyan, Hahmann, Torsten Abstract: Voids are extremely important to water science, because their size and connectivity determines the storage and flow of water both above and below the ground surface. While previous formal theories about voids strictly consider holes hosted inside objects, we generalize voids to also include spaces between objects, and distinguish voids in macroscopic […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Taro Ubukawa, Alex De Sherbinin, Harlan Onsrud, Andy Nelson, Karen Payne, Olivier Cottray, and Mikel Maron, A Review of Roads Data Development Methodologies, Data Science Journal, Vol. 13: 45-66, 2014.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

J. L. Fastook and J. W. Head. Concentric crater fill: Rates of glacial accumulation, infilling and deglaciation in the amazonian and noachian of mars. Lunar and Planetary Science XXXXV, #1227, 2014. Introduction: Concentric Crater Fill (CCF) [1-6] is one of many features on Mars that are thought to either contain ice, or to have been formed by […]