GeoSpatial Semantics First International Conference, GeoS 2005, Mexi

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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M. Andrea Rodríguez Isabel F. Cruz Max J. Egenhofer Sergei Levashkin (Eds.)

GeoSpatial Semantics First International Conference, GeoS 2005 Mexico City, Mexico, November 29-30, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors M. Andrea Rodríguez Universidad de Concepción, Departamento de Ingeniería y Ciencias de Computación Edmundo Larenas 215, Concepción, Chile E-mail: [email protected] Isabel F. Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Computer Science 851 S. Morgan St. (M/C 152), Chicago, IL 60607, USA E-mail: [email protected] Max J. Egenhofer University of Maine, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering 348B Boardman Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA E-mail: [email protected] Sergei Levashkin UPALMZ, Centro de Investigación en Computación Building 07738, Mexico City, Mexico E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005935535 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.2.8, H.3, I.2, H.4, C.2 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

GeoS 2005 was the 1st International Conference on Geospatial Semantics. It was held in Mexico City, November 29 and 30, 2005. Within the domain of geographic information science (GIS), semantics has become one of the most prominent research themes over the last few years. Suc