• Home
• Program
• Submissions
• Contact

GIScience 2008 Paper/Abstract Competition

On the final day of the conference, attendees voted for the best full-paper, extended abstract (oral presentation), and extended abstract (poster presentation).  Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to John Wiley & Sons for graciously donating a selection of GIS text books as awards.

Yohei Kurata (University of Bremen, Germany) received the award¹ for best full-paper for his paper and associated presentation entitled, “The 9+-Intersection: A Universal Framework for Modeling Topological Relations.”

Brent Hecht (Northwestern University) and Johannes Schöning (University of Münster) with their presentation “Mapping the Zeitgeist” tied for the award for best extended abstract² (oral presentation) with Helen Couclelis (University of California Santa Barbara) for her presentation entitled, “Ontology, Epistemology, Technology: Triangulating Geographic Information Science.”

Tetsuo Kobayashi (University of Utah) received the award³ for best extended abstract (poster presentation) for his poster, “An Interactive Visualization Tool for Mobile Objects.”

¹ Wilson, J.P. and Fotheringham, A.S. (eds.) 2008. The handbook of geographic information science. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

² Agarwal, P. and Skupin, A. (eds.) 2008. Self-organizing maps: applications in geographic information science.  Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

³ Fisher, P. and Unwin, D. (eds.) 2008. Re-presenting GIS. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons., Ltd.