Work Package 6 Dissemination

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Work Package 6Dissemination
MurMur Project Multiple Representations
Multiple Resolutions

• Christine Parent
• WP Leader UNIL

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WP6 Tasks Overview

• Acquiring information
• Follow the activities of related groups ongoing
• Attend related workshops and conferences ongoing
• Disseminating results
• Write papers on MurMur, give presentations
  ongoing
• editorial committee
• Set up a MurMur web site done
• Set up demonstrations of the MurMur GIS end of
  project
• Set up a MurMur presentation day end of project

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Presentations of the Project

• 6th EC-GI GIS Workshop, Lyon, France, June
  28-30, 2000 The MurMur Consortium"Supporting
  Multiple Representations in Spatio-Temporal
  Databases"
• Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Granularity,
  AAAI-2000, Austin, Texas, July 30, 2000 Parent
  C., Spaccapietra S., Zimanyi E., "MurMur
  Database Management of Multiple Representations"

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Presentations of the Project

• Journées CASSINI de la Recherche en SIG, France,
  La Rochelle, September 7-9, 2000 Motet, S.
  "Multi-représentation Projet MurMur"
• International Symposium on Database Applications
  in Non-Traditional Environments (DANTE'99),
  Kyoto, Japan, November 28-30, 1999Spaccapietra
  S., Vangenot C., Parent C., Zimanyi E."MurMur A
  Research Agenda on Multiple Representations"

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Done Publications (1)

• Spaccapietra S., Parent C., Vangenot C. "GIS
  Databases From Multiscale to MultiRepresentation"
  SARA 2000, Symposium on Abstraction,
  Reformulation and Approximation (SARA-2000), Lago
  Vista, Texas, July 26-29, 2000 (also in
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on
  Emerging Technologies for Geo-Based Applications,
  May 22-25, 2000, Ascona, Switzerland)On modeling
  multiple representations GIS focus
• Vangenot C., Parent C., Spaccapietra S.
  "Multi-representations and multiple resolutions
  in geographic databases"Advanced Database
  Symposium'99 (ADBS 99), IPSJ Symposium Series
  Vol.99, N19, Tokyo, Japan, December 6-7,
  1999On modeling multiple representations DB
  focus

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Publications (2)

• Parent C., Spaccapietra S., Zimanyi E.
  "Spatio-Temporal Conceptual Models Data
  Structures Space Time"7th ACM Symposium on
  Advances in GIS, Kansas City, Kansas, November
  5-6, 1999Presentation of the underlying ST data
  model MADS

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Related Groups

• ISO TC 211 , ISO/IEC JTC1
• spatial schema
• spatial SQL
• OpenGIS
• feature geometry
• web mapping
• GDR3 (French network on DB AI)
• ST sub-group
• Cassini (French network on GIS)

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European Projects

• AGENT (ESPRIT Project 1997 2000)
• Software for creating maps at different scales,
  based on multi-agent technology
• Complementarity of the two projects, MurMur and
  Agent
• REVIGIS (ESPRIT 4 Long Term Research Project)
• Uncertainty knowledge maintenance and revision in
  GIS
• Collaboration of the two projects, MurMur and
  ReviGIS
• DeduGIS (European working group)
• Logic and constraint databases for GIS
• Validation of MADS ST concepts for ecology
  applications
• Spatio-temporal reasoning

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Conferences Organized

• International Workshop on Emerging Technologies
  for Geo-Based Applications, May 22-25, 2000,
  Ascona, Switzerland

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MurMur Web Sites

• Private
• Project documents
• Managed by Star
• Public
• Description of
• MurMur project
• partners
• publications
• http//lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/MurMur/