David M. Mark is a Professor of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has been a Research Scientist with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) since its
inception. Since 1995, Mark has been Director of the Buffalo NCGIA site, and in the NCGIA's Varenius project, he chairs the panel on cognitive models of geographic space. David Mark has written or co-authored over 180
publications, including 70 refereed articles, 3 edited books, 20 book chapters, 60 conference proceedings articles, and 25 technical reports.  Marks background and graduate education were mainly in biology, physical
geography, and computing, but he became interested in cognitive issues in the mid-1980s, begining with an interest in expert systems. His cognitive research next focussed on wayfinding, navigation, and vehicle navigation systems. More recently, Mark has concentrated on formal models of spatial relations and ontology of geographic objects and categories, supporting both lines of research with human subjects testing.
 

Publications:

 Mark, D. M., and Gould, M. D.  1992. Wayfinding as discourse: A comparison of verbal directions in English and Spanish.  Multilingua, 11(3), 267-291.

Mark, D. M.,  1993. Toward a Theoretical Framework for Geographic Entity Types.  In Frank, A. U., and Campari, I, editors, Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences No. 716, pp. 270-283.

Mark, D. M., 1993. Human spatial cognition.  In Medyckyj-Scott, D., and Hearnshaw, H. M., editors, Human Factors in Geographical Information Systems, Belhaven Press, 51-60.

Mark, D. M., and Egenhofer, M. J., 1994. Modeling Spatial Relations Between Lines and Regions: Combining Formal Mathematical Models and Human Subjects Testing.  Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, October 1994, v. 21, No. 4, pp. 195-212.

Egenhofer, M. J., and Mark, D. M.,  1995. Naive Geography.  In Frank, A. U. and Kuhn, W., editors, Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences No. 988, pp. 1-15.

Mark, D. M., and Freundschuh, S. M., 1995. Spatial Concepts and Cognitive Models for Geographic Information Use.  In Nyerges, T. L., Mark, D. M., Laurini, R., and Egenhofer, M., editors.  Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 21-28.

Mark, D. M., and Frank, Andrew U., 1996. Experiential and Formal Models of Geographic Space.  Environment and Planning, B, v. 23, pp. 3-24.

Mark, D. M.  1997. Cognitive perspectives on spatial and spatio-temporal reasoning.  In Craglia, M., and Couclelis, H., Geographic Information Research Bridging the Atlantic, London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 308-319.

Mark, D. M., 1999. Spatial Representation: A Cognitive View.  In Maguire, D. J., Goodchild, M. F., Rhind, D. W., and Longley, P. (editors) Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications, Second edition, v. 1, pp. 81-89.

Shariff, A. R., Egenhofer, M. J., and Mark, D. M., 1997. Natural-language spatial relations between linear and areal objects: the topology and metric of English-language terms.  International Journal of GIS, v. 11, No. 3, pp. 215-246.

Smith, B., and Mark, D. M.,  1998. Ontology and Geographic Kinds. in T. K. Poiker and N. Chrisman (eds.), Proceedings. 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH98), Vancouver: International Geographical Union, 1998, 308320.

Smith, B., and Mark, D. M., 1999. Ontology with Human Subjects Testing. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, v. 58: 2, April 1999.

Mark, D. M.,  Smith, B., and Tversky, B. 1999. Ontology of Geographic Categories: Theory and Empirical Testing.  In Freksa, C., and Mark, D. M., editors, Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences No. 1661.

For David Mark's complete publication list, see http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~dmark/cv/pub0.html