GIFaR'01:
GEO INFORMATION FUSION and REVISION

Quebec, CA - 9-12 APRIL, 2001.

(Open meeting: 10-11th, days 9th and 12th on invitation only)

Organisation and program: R. Jeansoulin and G. Edwards

 

                             

Scope

Initiative:

The initiative came from the REVIGIS European (5th FP) project to hold its annual meeting and to open its thoughts and experiences to some similar research. Also, the "Data Fusion seminaire" held since October 2000 at CRG-Laval, has contributed to shape up the proposition of this meeting. The MurMur IST project, as well as people from the Dedugis, European network, decided to join. The fusion point has been found at "GI fusion and revision" and this has been enough to start collecting people interests and decision to meet.

General scientific scope:

the objective comes out from the goal of the project REVIGIS which is "Maintenance and Revision of the GI":

  1. to explain what means "maintenance and revision" for different "GI application profiles", providing the general specifications:

    The item (i) is in fact eveywhere GI is used (doesn't requires European funds to prove it !), but item (ii) needs that the applications and their associated knowledge, should be analyzed from the quality point of view: where are the issues ?, how the different qualities involved can be represented in order to be tackled together and with the application "constraints" ?, how to represent preferences (priorities) ? and limitations (frontier between uncertainty reduction or absorption) ?

    The classes of applications identified so far are characterized by: undeterminate boundaries (soft locations), many-to-many relationships (soft inferences), which are tasks of WorkPackage 2, and in WorkPackage 3: conflictual multi-sources (spatial violations), conflictual multi-use (functional violations).

  2. to provide assessment results on the ability and tractability of different approaches from the "non-classical logics" or "soft computing", to be applied to these application profiles, comparing these approaches against their ability to

    These tasks constitute the WorkPackage 1. The WP2 and WP3 will also contribute to item (iii) to help precise "reliable" and "understandable" and possibly provide tools for that (regarding metadata spec. and management).

Meeting expectation:

The expectation from this meeting is to excerpt what is the scientific share between these different European and Canadian projects, from IST and GEOIDE.

 

                             

Monday 9th, April:       (on invitation)

Three separate workshops: (at CRG, U. Laval, pavillon Casault)
lunch is possible at Casault

A (short) joint panel in the afternoon (16h, Geoide room, Casault) to help fix the Tuesday-Wednesday joint meeting programme and schedule, expectations and possible deliveries.

 

                             

Tuesday 10th, April:       Open (fee: 35$, including lunch)

joint conference: ("Le Salon Paul-Rainville", Musee du Quebec)

  1. 9h00: seminar introduction and presentation

    G. Edwards, R. Jeansoulin, S. Spaccapietra, J. Elder
    (a) quality, fusion and revision (b) multiple representations (c) perceptual fusion, cognitive fusion

  2. 9h30 to 15h30: talks (lunch at Musee restaurant)

  3. 15h45 to 17h00: first panel
    (M. Egenhofer moderator)

    framing the meeting and its objectives, general questions about scientific relevance as well as implementation and use (cf. the list of questions raised for the DUP of REVIGIS ¡), spin-off for each projects, shared objectives, major expectations, perpective for a common delivery (¡ I will provide this list of questions and more on the website)

 

                             

Wednesday 11th, April:       Open (fee: 35$, including lunch)

joint conference continued at same location ("Le Salon Paul-Rainville", Musee du Quebec)

  1. 9h00 to 14h45: more talks (lunch at Musee)

  2. 15h00 to 17h00: panel

    specific GI application features from the fusion-revision viewpoint moderated by: M. Egenhofer, G. Edwards, R. Jeansoulin conclusion of the joint meeting, major learnings

 

                             

Thursday 12th, April:       (on invitation)

separate seminars by project: (U. Laval)

REVIGIS WP1
REVIGIS WP3
MurMur

joint lunch (will be arranged)

afternoon: conclusion panel, preparation of deliveries

 

                             

Informations

courtesy CCRS:
SPOT image, October 25, 1989, 4.5 by 4.5km
quebecSPOT
(Musée du Québec is located where the red area of "Plaines d'Abraham" meets the bottom line of the picture)

Websites to visit:

  ©REVIGIS (IST-FET project) - March 2001
Credits: R. Jeansoulin, G. Edwards