PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE - GISRUK 18th - 20th April 2001
Glamorgan Business Centre, University of Glamorgan


Tuesday April 17th PM

Young Researchers Forum 1:30pm until Weds 18th April Lunchtime

19:30 Early Bird "Icebreaker" Reception: Rhondda Heritage Park Museum


Wednesday April 18th PM

13:30 Welcoming Address: Dave Kidner & Gary Higgs
Opening Addresses: Professor Sir Adrian Webb, Professor Peter Hodson

13:45 Plenary Keynote Session - Chair: Chris Jones
David Maguire, ESRI: GIS Software: Progress and Prospects

14:30 Plenary Poster Introduction Session - Chair: Nick Tate

Full List of Poster Titles and Authors: Posters

16:00 Coffee Break

16.30 Parallel Session 1A - GIS & The Coastal Zone Chair: Steve Wise

Simon Gomm: Integrated Mapping of the UK Marine and Coastal Zone
Antoni Moore: An Internet-Based System for Coastal Metadata Provision
Jo Gilman, Dave Chapman & Richard Simons: GIS Systems for Coastal Process Modelling
Sayeed Ahmed & Gareth Jones: An Internet-based Decision Support System for Coastal Management
Paul Pan & Christopher G Morgan: Remote Sensing, GIS and the Coastal Environment in South Wales
L. Even, Y. Mear, E. Poizot & M. Thomas: PROFMAN - A GIS Based System For The Analysis Of Seismic Profile Data

16:30 Parallel Session 1B - GIS & Generalization I - Chair: Chris Jones

Andriani Skopeliti & Lysandros Tsoulos: The Accuracy Aspect of Cartographic Generalization
Howard I. Muten: The impact of cartographic generalisation on dimension - some preliminary analyses
Byron Nakos: On quantitative shape analysis of sliver polygons created by line simplification
Monika Sester: Optimization approaches for Generalization
Mark Ware, Chris Jones, Nathan Thomas: Map Generalization, Object Displacement and Simulated Annealing: Two Techniques for Execution Time Improvement

16.30 Parallel Session 1C - GeoComputation I Chair: Zarine Kemp

Peter Fisher: Geographic Information Science And Systems: Good Science And Bad Science With GIS
Adrijana Car: Bringing Speleological Data into GIS
Christine Dunn & Craig Williams: Integrating local knowledge and GIS: landmine threat assessment in Bosnia and north-west Cambodia
Stamatis Kalogirou: Expert Systems and GIS: An application of land suitability evaluation
Robert Frank & Zarine Kemp: Ontologies for decision support in environmental information systems

16.30 Parallel Session 1D - GIS & Remote Sensing - Chair: Jane Drummond

Lotfy Kamal Abdou Azaz: Monitor Urban growth in Alexandria- Egypt using Change detection
Bianca Hoersch, Gerald Braun, Uwe Schmidt: Analysing the Correlation between Landform and Vegetation Distribution in Alpine Regions on Multiple Scales using Remote Sensing and GIS
Gernot Paulus & Nigel Trodd: GIS-based Comparison between Topographic Lineaments, Subsurface Faults and Satellite Lineaments: A Key Issue for Understanding Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins
I.H. Abou El-Magd & A.F. Abdel Kader: Remote sensing and GIS application for monitoring the environmental changes and water quality: Case study of Lake Manzala, Egypt

18:30 Buses leave for Cardiff

19:00 Wine and Buffet Reception hosted by Elsevier - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems - Glamorgan Building, University of Wales, Cardiff

22:00 to 23:00 Buses leave Cardiff back to University of Glamorgan

 

Thursday 19th April, 2001

09:00 Parallel Session 2A - GIS & Health I Chair: Ralph Smith

Martin, D. Wrigley, H., Barnett, S. & Roderick, P: Increasing the sophistication of access measurement in a rural healthcare study
Andrew Lovett, Gilla Sünnenberg & Robin Haynes: Accessibility to GP Surgeries in South Norfolk: A GIS-based assessment of the changing situation 1997-2000
Sean White: Using GIS To Explore Variations In Primary Healthcare Provision In Rural Areas
Mandy Kelly, Robin Flowerdew, Brian Francis & Juliet Harman: Measuring Accessibility for Remote Rural Populations

09:00 Parallel Session 2B - GIS & Transport Chair: George Taylor

Fouad Chedid: On Integrating Optimization Heuristics and GIS for Solving the District Determination Problem For Mail Distribution Planning
Helena Titheridge: Using a GIS-based model to assess the transport implications of balancing housing and facility provision in Gloucestershire
Peter Mooney & Adam Winstanley: Representing Public Transport Networks as Dynamic Graphs
George Taylor, Jamie Uff & Adil Al-Hamadani: GPS positioning using map-matching algorithms, drive restriction information and road network connectivity

09:00 Parallel Session 2C - GIS & Planning I Chair: Chris Webster

Andrea Frank: Using Measures of Spatial Autocorrelation to Describe Socio-Economic Structures in Urban Areas
Fulong Wu: Geo-referencing social spatial data and intra-urban property price modelling in a data-poor context
Wanglin YAN: Open Designing as A New Concept for Collaborative Planning
Kheir Al-Kodmany: E-Community Participation: Web-based GIS Tools

09:00 Parallel Session 2D - Digital Terrain Modelling I Chair: David Kidner

Alastair Duncan & Nick Holden: Integration, Visualisation and Analysis of high resolution elevation data, derived from LiDAR Altimeter remote sensing, into GIS for operational environmental applications
Young-Hoon Kim & G Clarke: Exploring Optimal Visibility Site Selection Using Spatial Optimisation Techniques: The Potential of Geographical Information Science
David R.Miller and J.G.Morrice: Geographical Modelling the Visibility of the Coastal Zone of Wales
David B. Kidner, C. Eynon & D. Smith: Multiscale Terrain Databases

10:30 Coffee Break

11.00 Plenary Keynote Session - Chair: Bruce Gittings
Vanessa Lawrence (Director-General of OS): Ordnance Survey and Positioning it for the New Economy

11.40 Sallie Payne (O.S.): A Virtual Research Unit

12:00 LUNCH

13.00 Taylor and Francis Sponsored Plenary Keynote Session - Chair: Peter Fisher
Martien Molenaar, (ITC): Spatial Modelling, Semantics and Uncertainty

14.00 Parallel Session 3A - GIS & Health II Chair: David Martin

Clive Sabel, Paul Boyle, Robin Flowerdew & Markku Löytönen: MND Clustering in Finland: a genetic or environmental effect?
Richard Mitchell, Danny Dorling, Mary Shaw: Population Production And Modelling Mortality - An Application of Geographic Information Systems In Health Inequalities Research
Seraphim Alvanides & Kostas Daras: Designing Spatial Frameworks For Health Related Research: Boundary-Free Measures And Optimal Zones Of Population Mixing
D. Briggs, S. Cockings, K. de Hoogh, C. Hurt, I. Maitland, P.Elliott & L. Jarup: Modelling exposures to environmental pollutants using GIS: examples from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit

14.00 Parallel Session 3B - GIS & Planning II Chair: Sean White

Peter Lee & Brendan Nevin: Is poverty a driver of unsustainable and unpopular housing areas?: the case of Liverpool
Xiaonan Zhang, Nigel Trodd, Andy Hamilton: Geographical & Visual Information System to Support Urban Regeneration: a research framework
Jorma Pietala: The residential status and consumer behaviour in Helsinki metropolitan area
Ray Thomas: Mapping Unemployment
Carsten Schürmann & Ahmed Talaat: Towards a European Peripherality Index

14.00 Parallel Session 3C - GIS & Generalization II Chair: Mark Ware

J. Bobrich: Cartographic Map Generalization in Urban Districts
Lassi Lehto and Tiina Kilpeläinen: Generalisation Of XML-Encoded Spatial Data On The Web
Ola Ahlqvist: Context sensitive model generalisation
David Skogan: Dependencies in Multi-Resolution Databases
Sheng Zhou & Chris Jones: Design and Implementation of a Multi-Scale Spatial Database

14.00 Parallel Session 3D - Landscape Visualisation Chair: David Miller

Katy Appleton, Andrew Lovett, Gilla Sünnenberg, Trudie Dockerty: Rural landscape visualisation from GIS databases: A comparison of approaches, possibilities and problems
Keith W. Morrison, Ross S. Purves: Interactive, dynamic landscape visualisation over the web: An illustration utilising Java Servlets and VRML
Branko Kaucic & Borut Zalik: COMB GRID - Another approach for real-time terrain flythrough
David Thomas: The Presentation of Landscape: the Blaenavon World Heritage Site

15.30 Coffee

16:00 Parallel Session 4A - GIS & Health III Chair: Gary Higgs

Danny Dorling, R. Mitchell, M. Shaw, S. Orford, G. Davey-Smith: The Health Effects of Poverty in London in 1886 and 1991
A. Gibson, S. Asthana, P. Brigham, G. Moon, J. Dicker: Geographies of Need and the New NHS: Methodological Issues in the Definition and Measurement of the Health Needs of Local Populations
S. Cockings, L. Jarup, D. Briggs, P. Aylin, C. Hurt, I. Maitland, P. Elliott : Development Of A European Health And Environment Information System For Disease And Exposure Mapping And Risk Assessment Within A GIS Framework
Margarethe Theseira: Using Internet GIS technology for sharing health and health related data for the West Midlands Region
Darren P. Smith, Myles I. Gould & Gary Higgs: Investigating variations in the use of GIS within the NHS

16:00 Parallel Session 4B - GIS & Crime Chair: Spencer Chainey

Spencer Chainey: When is a hotspot a hotspot? A procedure for creating statistically robust hotspot maps of crime
Chris Young, Alex Hirschfield, Kate Bowers & Shane Johnson: Evaluating Situational Crime Prevention: The Liverpool 'Alleygating' scheme
Amanda Cockcroft, Graham Clarke and Linda See: Modelling Flows of Crime
Jon Corcoran & Andrew Ware: Use of Artificial Neural Network techniques for classification and prediction of crime data

16:00 Parallel Session 4C - GIS & Socio-Economic Applications Chair: Scott Orford

Martin Frost and Rich Harris: Indicators of deprivation for policy analysis in GIS: Measuring within-Ward differences
John Mooney and Gordon Walker: The Wood And The Trees: Deriving Small Scale Population Maps From Multiple Source Datasets
Zhiqiang Feng & Paul J. Boyle: Integrating British 1981 and 1991 census migration data
Stefania Bertazzon & Seraphim Alvanides: A Comparison of Methodologies for the Functional Definition of Industrial Districts in North-East Italy
Scott Orford & Andrew Schuman: The Spatial Analysis of Local Electoral Behaviour: Turnout in a Bristol Ward

16:00 Parallel Session 4D - GIS & the Environment Chair: Nick Tate

R. Broughton, J. Mason, R. Swetnam, S. Hinsley, R. Wadsworth: Can habitat quality be quantified? An application of 3D GIS
Lynn Dyson-Bruce: Historic Landscape Assessment: The East of England Experience. Paper product to GIS delivery
Iain Lake, Andrew Lovett, Kevin Hiscock, Gilla Sünnenberg & Aidan Foley: Using GIS to define groundwater nitrate vulnerable zones
Lex Comber: Uncertainty handling for spatial data and its application in automated monitoring systems
Iain Brown: Integrated Assessment Of Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation: The Key Role Of GIS

16:00 Parallel Session 4E - GeoComputation II Chair: Bruce Gittings

Anthony J. Roy: Intentional Spatial Relations
K. Nakayama: Towards the dynamical integration of heterogeneous maps in MapBrowser
A. Adamu, S. Khaddaj, M. Morad: Framework for Tracking the evolution of Objects in GIS
Ali Frihida, Danielle J. Marceau, Marius Thériault: Depiction of Individuals and Groups Travel Behaviour Using an Object-Oriented Temporal GIS
Serryn Eagleson, Francisco Escobar, Ian Williamson: Hierarchical spatial reasoning theory and GIS technology applied for the automated delineation of administrative boundaries


18:30 Buses Leave University of Glamorgan for Cardiff City Hall


19:00 Panel Discussion (Chair: Jonathan Raper) and Wine Reception (hosted by Wileys).


20:30 Conference Dinner, City Hall


22.30 to 23.30 Buses leave from Civic Centre, Cardiff for University of Glamorgan.


Friday 20th April, 2001

09:00 Parallel Session 5A - GIS & Generalization III Chair: William Mackaness

Nicolas Regnauld: Constraint based mechanism to achieve automatic generalisation using agent modelling
Cécile Duchêne: Road Generalisation Using Agents
Mathieu Barrault and Robert Weibel: Road Network Generalisation: A Framework Using A Multi Agent System Approach
Kelvin R Haire and Paul G Hardy: Active Agent Based Approaches to Automated Generalisation
Alistair Edwardes and William Mackaness: Mobile Mapping on Demand - Redefining the needs of Cartographic Generalisation

09:00 Parallel Session 5B - Digital Terrain Modelling II Chair: Peter Fisher

Bernhard Schneider: Uncertainty of Local Form in Digital terrain Modelling
Marco Hugentobler: Propogation of Uncertainties in Digital terrain Models with Interval Methods and Taylor Methods
O. De Joinville, H. Maitre, G. Maillet & M. Roux: How to Design DEM'S Assessment Maps
Y. Doytsher, Y. Katzil & A. Veidman: 3D Spatial Conflation: A Tool for Improved Digital Terrain Representation
K. Arrell, Peter Fisher & Nick Tate: A Fuzzy K-means Classification of Elevation Derivatives to Extract the Natural Landforms in Snowdonia

09:00 Parallel Session 5C - Spatial Interpolation & Spatial Statistics Chair: Peter Halls

Andy Turner and Stan Openshaw: Disaggregative Spatial Interpolation
Vincent T. Hargy: Geospatial Interpolation of Accumulated Temperature using Artificial Neural Networks
Anna Symington, Martin Charlton, Chris Brunsdon: Using Bi-dimensional Regression to Explore Map Lineage
Martyn Starkey, Richard Armitage and Tim Linsey: Analysis of Burst Water Mains using Bayesian Statistics
Laura Keyes & Adam Winstanley: Topographic Object Classification Through Shape

09:00 Parallel Session 5D - GIS & Hydrology I Chair: Neil Stuart

Lynn E. Johnson and Brian E. Skahill: Flood Runoff Predictive Uncertainty for Urbanized Watersheds
Steve Wise: The effect of DEM interpolation errors on hydrological modelling at different scales: does size really matter?
D.R.Miller, R.Dunham, T.Benham & G.Wright: A framework for the prediction of near-real time snowmelt runoff using the WWW
Sarah Harrison and Ross Purves: Spatial modelling of short-term extreme snowmelt events in the Allt A'Mharcaidh catchment, Scotland

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 Parallel Session 6A - Digital Terrain Modelling III Chair: Peter Atkinson

Ian Evans: Some Geomorphometric Characteristics of Real Land Surfaces
P. Atkinson & C. Lloyd: Non-Stationary Models for Sampling Terrain Optimally
J. Oksanen & T. Sarjakoski: DEM Geomorphometry: Error Propogation Modelling with Monte Carlo Simulation
Colin McClean & Ian Evans: Non-Fractal Behaviour Of Real Land Surfaces
C. Lloyd & P. Atkinson: Deriving Digital Surface models from LiDAR Data with Geostatistics

11.00 Parallel Session 6B - Visualisation Chair: Iain Brown

Andrew Hudson-Smith & Steve Evans: A Collaborative Three Dimensional Geographic Information System for London
Phil J. Atkinson & David J. Unwin: Mapping categorical attributes of point data
Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko: Interactive Cumulative Curves as a Tool for Exploratory Classification
Steve Wise: Raster Data Capture Using Simple Image Processing Techniques
Nicolas Regnauld, William A. Mackaness & Glen Hart: Automated Relief Representation for Visualisation of Archaeological Monuments and other Anthropogenic Forms

11.00 Parallel Session 6C - GeoComputation III Chair: Mike Lonergan

Barry Boots & Narushige Shiode: Preliminary Observations on Recursive Voronoi Diagrams
Mary Garvey, Mike Jackson, Martin Roberts: Using Persistent Java to construct a GIS
Andrew Morris, Alia Abdelmoty, Douglas Tudhope: A Flow Based Visual Query Language for Spatial Databases
L. Hughes, D.H. Smith and A. Ryley: Robust Data Compression for Digital Elevation Models
Duncan Whyatt and Adrian Maddocks: Optimising Emission Reductions from UK Industry: A Critical Loads Approach

11.00 Parallel Session 6D - GIS & Hydrology II Chair: Lynn Johnson

Marc Leblanc, Linus Mofor, Chris Jones, Moumtaz Razack: Applying GIS and Remote Sensing to Hydrology of Large Semi-Arid Basins - Case Study of the Lake Chad Basin
Asaf Sarwar and Helmut Eggers: Development and application of a conjunctive use model using Geographic Information System (GIS)
I.Holmes, R. S. Purves and M. A. Summerfield: Analysis of drainage basin morphometry on the Tibetan Plateau
Chris G. Davies and M.S. Hossain: A System for the Simulation and Prediction of Floods


12.45. AGI Sponsored Plenary Keynote - Session Chair: Chris Corbin, AGI
Professor Nick Chrisman, University of Washington: Revisiting Fundamental Principles of GIS

Prizes

Closing Address

14.00 Close of Conference


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