Conference Background
The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Open GIS Consortium Inc announce an International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, to be held in Santa Barbara December 3-4, 1997, and to be followed December 5-6 by an invitational Workshop. Topics to be addressed at the conference include the current state of research in related disciplines concerning the technical, semantic, and organizational issues of GIS interoperation; case studies of GIS interoperation; theoretical frameworks for interoperation; and evaluations of alternative approaches. The program will include invited keynote presentations and contributed papers; limited space will also be available for posters, demonstrations, and exhibits.  This conference is part of the Varenius Project's research initiative on Interoperating GIS.  The original proposal for this initiative can be found here.
Conference Scientific  Program Committee
David Abel CSIRO, Australia  Kurt Buehler Open GIS Consortium  Max Egenhofer University of Maine (co-chair)  Robin Fegeas US Geological Survey  Alan Gaines US National Science Foundation  Michael Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara (co-chair)  John Herring Oracle  Cliff Kottman Open GIS Consortium	Werner Kuhn University of Munster  Richard Muntz UCLA  David Schell Open GIS Consortium (co-chair)  Greg Smith US National Imagery and Mapping Agency  Terence Smith University of California, Santa Barbara  Andrej Vckovski University of Zurich  Agnes Voisard Free University of Berlin  Maria Zemankova US National Science Foundation