Faculty - Spatial Information Engineering
Michael Worboys
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5711 Boardman Hall
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Orono, ME 04469
Mike Worboys is Professor and Chair of the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering and a member of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine. Until 2001, he was Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Geographic Information System Research Group at Keele University, England. Mike is a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery, and member of the London Mathematical Society. He has held posts at several UK universities, the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory at Oxford and has held visiting professorships at the University of Maine, USA, and the Technical University of Vienna. He is also an honorary professor at University of Melbourne, Australia.
Research interests
Dr. Michael Worboys has worked for many years at the boundary between computer science, mathematics, and geographic information science. His current research interests include the development of ontologies and data models for dynamic geographic phenomena, approaches to reasoning with uncertainty in geographic phenomena, and the interplay between textual and graphical representations of geographic information. His work is currently funded by grants from the National Science Foundation. In the recent past, when working in England, he was funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the European Union. He has also been funded by industry and commerce. Dr. Worboys has a PhD in mathematics and is a full professor and Chair of the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering. He is also a cooperating Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
Publications
- Worboys, M.F. Event-oriented approaches to geographic phenomena. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, accepted for publication, 2005.
- Duckham, M. and Worboys, M., An algebraic approach to automated information fusion. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, accepted for publication, 2005.
- Worboys, M.F. and Duckham, M., Geographic Information Systems: A Computing Perspective (2nd Edition), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, ISBN: 0415283752, 2004.
- Worboys, M.F. and Hornsby, K. From objects to events: GEM, the geospatial event model, Third International Conference on GIScience, accepted for publication, 2004.
- Worboys, M.F., Goodwin, J., Greenwood, J. and Pendlington, M. Ontology of an Event-Based Transportation Network System, Third International Conference on GIScience, 2004.
- Zhang, R. and Worboys, M.F. Event Hierarchies for Modeling Dynamic Geographic Phenomena, Third International Conference on GIScience, 2004.
- Duckham, M., Kulik, L. and Worboys, M., Imprecise navigation, GeoInformatica 7:2, 79-94, 2003.
- Kuhn, W., Worboys, M.F., Timpf, S. (editors). Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science; Proceedings of International Conference, COSIT 2003, Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2825, Springer-Verlag Berlin, ISBN: 3-540-20148-3, 2003.
- Duckham, M, Goodchild, M., Worboys, M.F. (editors), Foundations of Geographic Information Science, Taylor and Francis, London, 2003.
- Worboys, M.F. Communicating geographic information in context. In ‘Perspectives in Geographic Information Science', ed. M. Duckham, M. Goodchild, and M. Worboys, London: Taylor and Francis, 2003.
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