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1 MONDAY 9:00 5:00 Workshops and Tutorials Geographic Information Observatories (GIO 2015): How, Who, and Why of Spatial Information Benjamin Adams, Mark Gahegan, Ola Ahlqvist Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspectives Heather Burte, Tomi Kauppinen Events and Processes in Collectives (EPIC) Zena Wood, Antony Galton, Mike Worboys, Matt Duckham Cognitive Engineering for Spatial Information Processes: From User Interfaces to Model-Driven Design Sven Bertel, Peter Kiefer, Alexander Klippel, Simon Scheider, Tyler Thrash Commonsense Visuo-Spatial Reasoning: Theory and Applications Mehul Bhatt, Carl Schultz 6:00 8:30 Welcome Reception and Poster Session Natural language queries for data visualization Sarah Battersby Measuring Space and Behavior: A Visual Summary Approach Mark Simpson, Kai-Florian Richter, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Alexander Klippel A Similarty Measure for Collectives Zena Wood Mapping the risk of avian influenza in wild birds and poultry in China Ping Zhang Computing with Core Concepts of Spatial Information Sara Lafia, Werner Kuhn, Andrea Ballatore How Many Pointers? Use of Multiple Small-Screen Displays on Maps to Refer to Off-Screen Locations Sven Bertel, Dora Spensberger Identifying Patterns in Geospatial Natural Language Kristin M. Stock Burst Analysis with Spatial Constraints for Spatiotemporal Events Eun-Kyeong Kim TUESDAY 9:00 10:00 Keynote Hugo Spiers

2 10:00 10:30 Break 10:30 12:30 Formalizing and Modeling Space-time Outline of a Formal Theory of Processes and Events, and Why GIScience Needs One Antony Galton Modelling Spatial Structures Franz-Benjamin Mocnik and Andrew U. Frank Strong Spatial Cognition Christian Freksa Extracting Causal Rules from Spatio-temporal Data Antony Galton, Matt Duckham and Alan Both 12:30 3:00 Lunch on the town 3:00 5:00 Qualitative Spatio-temporal Reasoning and Representation I A Conceptual Quality Framework for Volunteered Geographic Information Andrea Ballatore and Alexander Zipf A Coq-based Axiomatization of Tarski's Mereogeometry Richard Dapoigny and Patrick Barlatier Shape similarity based on the qualitative spatial reasoning calculus eopra Christopher Dorr, Longin Latecki and Reinhard Moratz From Metric to Topology: Determining Relations in Discrete Space Matthew Dube, Jordan Barrett and Max J. Egenhofer Dinner on the town WEDNESDAY 9:00 10:30 Language and space

3 Where Snow is a Landmark: Route Direction Elements in Alpine Contexts Ekaterina Egorova, Thora Tenbrink and Ross S. Purves Spatial Natural Language Generation for Location Description in Photo Captions Mark Hall, Christopher Jones and Philip Smart More Than a List: What Outdoor Free Listings of Landscape Categories Reveal about Commonsense Geographic Concepts and Memory Search Strategies Flurina M. Wartmann, Ekaterina Egorova, Curdin Derungs, David M. Mark and Ross S. Purves 10:30 11:00 Break 11:00 12:30 Signs, Images, Maps, and other representations of space Identifying the Geographical Scope of Prohibition Signs Konstantin Hopf, Florian Dagef orde and Diedrich Wolter Conceptualizing Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Landscape Categories with Navajo and English-speaking Participants Alexander Klippel, David M. Mark, Jan Oliver Wallgr un and David Stea Citizen Science Land Cover Classification Based on Ground and Aerial Imagery Kevin Sparks, Alexander Klippel, Jan Oliver Wallgr un and David M. Mark 12:30 for remainder of day Explore Santa Fe and surrounding environs THURSDAY 9:00 10:00 Keynote Claudia Bauzer Medeiros 10:00 10:30 Break 10:30-12:30 Qualitative Spatio-temporal Reasoning and Representation II

4 Swiss Canton Regions: A Model for Complex Objects in Geographic Partitions Matthew Dube, Max J. Egenhofer, Joshua Lewis, Shirly Stephen and Mark Plummer Spatial Symmetry Driven Pruning Strategies for Efficient Declarative Spatial Reasoning Carl Schultz and Mehul Bhatt On Distributive Subalgebras of Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Calculi Zhiguo Long and Sanjiang Li What is in a Contour Map? A Region-based Logical Formalization of Contour Semantics Torsten Hahmann and Lynn Usery 12:30 3:00 Lunch on the town 3:00 5:00 Navigation by humans and machines Lifelong Learning of Spatial Models for Navigation Susan Epstein, Anoop Aroor, Matthew Evanusa, Elizabeth Sklar and Simon Parsons Defensive Wayfinding: Incongruent Information in Route Following Martin Tomko and Kai-Florian Richter A Wayfinding Grammar Based on Reference System Transformations Peter Kiefer, Simon Scheider, Ioannis Giannopoulos and Paul Weiser Quantifying the Significance of Semantic Landmarks in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments Teriitutea Quesnot and Stephane Roche 6:00 Banquet FRIDAY 9:00 5:00 Doctoral Colloquium Semiotics of Addressing Systems Negar Alinaghi, Farid Karimipour, Paul Weiser and Andrew Frank Integrated modelling with fields and agents Merijn de Bakker, Kor de Jong, Oliver Schmitz and Derek Karssenberg

5 Mapping of accessibility for persons with motor disabilities-based on Disability Creation Process (DCP) model Amin Gharebaghi and Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi Cortical Correlates of Reference Frame Switching Daniel Barto News and Events, Politics and Sport: Reading Geopolitical Conveyance in Digital News Media Sam Stehle Spatial preposition specification for improved scene descriptions Stacy Doore Exploring the spatial and temporal dimensions of fossils Rory Browne Know your Surroundings Better with a User Friendly Interactive Map Sanorita Dey New Immersive Virtual Reality Technologies and Spatial Cognition Mark Simpson Local Indicators of Temporal Burstiness for Spatio-Temporal Event Analysis Eun-Kyeong Kim Incorporating Audio into Thematic Map Design: Communicating Distribution Megen Brittell Geo-ontology Quality Evaluation and Difference Measurement Bo Yan Closing the Data-Gap with Theoretical Geography and Synthetic Geographic Information Carlos Baez

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