Faculty - Spatial Information Engineering
Max Egenhofer
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Orono, ME 04469
Dr. Max J. Egenhofer is the director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of Maine, professor in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, and cooperating professor in Computer Science. He was a Visiting Professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (2004) and the Università de L'Aquila, Italy (1993).
Education
Ph.D. University of Maine (1989); M.S. University of Stuttgart (1985)
Research interests
Dr. Egenhofer's research interests include spatio-temporal reasoning, user interfaces for geographic information systems, the design of spatial database systems, and mobile spatial information appliances. He is director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of Maine, professor in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, and cooperating professor in Computer Science. Current and past funded research includes grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and numerous additional grants from further agencies the corporate sector. He has held a Libra Professorship, been recognized by a Joint Order of the State of Maine's Senate and House of Representatives, was recipient of the 2002 University of Maine Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award and recipient of the 2003 UCGIS Research Award.
Publications
- Y. Kurata and M. Egenhofer, Structure and Semantics of Arrow Diagrams, in: A. Cohn and D. Mark (eds.), COSIT ‘2005, Ellicottville, NY, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3693, Springer, pp. 232-250, September 2005.
- L. Kulik, M. Duckham, and M. Egenhofer,
Ontology-Driven Map Generalization, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 16(3): 245-267, 2005.
- A. Rodríguez and M. Egenhofer,
Determining Semantic Similarity Among Entity Classes from Different Ontologies, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 15(2): 442-456, 2003.
- F. Fonseca, M. Egenhofer, P. Agouris, and G. Camara,
Using Ontologies for Integrated Geographic Information Systems, Transactions in GIS 6(3): 231-257, 2002.
- M. Egenhofer and R. Shariff, Metric Details for Natural-Language Spatial Relations. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 16(4): 295-321, 1998.
- M. Egenhofer, Spatial SQL: A Query and Presentation Language. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 6 (1): 86-95, 1994.
- M. Egenhofer and D. Mark, Naive Geography, in: A. Frank and W. Kuhn (eds.), COSIT `95, Semmering, Austria, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 988, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-15, September 1995.
- M. Egenhofer and R. Franzosa, Point-Set Topological Spatial Relations. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 5(2): 161-174, 1991.
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