Agnès Voisard

Professor

Consultant

Research areas and publications

• Main research areas

  • Geospatial applications
    • Modeling geospatial data
    • Interoperable GIS
    • GUI
    • Information Integration
    • ITS
    • Location-based services
    • Architectures of sensor-based applications
  • Event notification systems, early warning systems

• Publications

  • In the database area: DBPL

  Autored books

  • M. Scholl, A. Voisard, J.-P. Peloux, L. Raynal, and P. Rigaux. SGBD Géographiques - Spécificités. Intl. Thomson Publishing France, Paris, 1996. 185 p. (in French)
  • P. Rigaux, M. Scholl, and A. Voisard. Spatial Databases – With Application to GIS, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, San Francisco, California, 2001. 432 p.

  Proceedings and special issues

  • J. Roth, J.Schiller, A.Voisard (Eds.). Proceedings of the 3^rd GI/ITG thematic days on location-based applications and services (3. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste), Freie Universität Berlin, ISBN 3-929619-39-3, 2006
  • J. Schiller and A. Voisard (Eds.). Location-based Services, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, San Francisco, California, 2004
  • S.-C. Chen and A. Voisard. Special issue of GeoInformatica (Kluwer) with the best papers of the 2002 ACM GIS Conference, September 2004
  • A. Voisard and S.-C. Chen (Eds.). Proceedings of the ACM GIS Conference, ACM Press, New York. November 2002.
  • Scholl and A. Voisard (Eds.). Advances in Spatial Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1262, Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1997

  Journal articles

  • N. Weißenberg, A. Voisard, and R. Gartmann. An Ontology-based Approach to Personalized Situation-aware Mobile Service Supply, GeoInformatica, Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 10(1):38-55, 2006
  • U. Meissen, S. Pfennigschmidt, A. Voisard, and T. Wahnfried. Resolving Knowledge Discrepancies in Situation-aware Systems, Intl. Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communication (JPCC), Troubadour Publishing, 1 (4):327-336, 2005
  • M.A. Peerbocus, C. Bauzer Medeiros, G. Jomier, A. Voisard. A System for Change Documentation Based on a Spatiotemporal Database. GeoKluInformatica, wer, 8 (2), 2004
  • P. Gupta, M. Hoffmann, B. Holtkamp, W. Möhr, J. Peters, M. Ritscher, A. Voisard. Mobile kontextabhängige Multimediadienste. Informatik Spektrum 27 (1): 35-43, 2004
  • C. Bauzer-Medeiros and A. Voisard. Documentating Map Creation for Environmental Planning Activities. To appear in the Journal Systems Analysis Modelling Simulation, Taylor & Francis, London, 2005
  • A. Voisard and B. David. A Database Perspective on Geospatial Data Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 14(2), 2002
  • G. Heyn, S. Kübler, B. Richter, W.-D. Skala, and A. Voisard. The GeoHyp Project: Representing Knowledge in Geologic Hypermap Models. Geo-InformationSysteme (Journal for Spatial Information and Decision Making), Volume 13, April 2000
  • S. Kübler and A. Voisard. GeoHyp: An Adaptive Human Interface for Geologic Maps and their Databases. International Journal of Photogrametry and Remote Sensing, 54(4), Madden, M., Sester, M., Krug, T. (Eds.), pages 234-243, October 1999
  • A. Voisard and H. Schweppe. Abstraction and Decomposition in Open GIS. International Journal of Geographic Information Science, 12 (4), Taylor & Francis, London, July 1998
  • A. Voisard. Mapgets: A Tool for Visualizing and Querying Geographic Information. International Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 6 (4), Academic Press, London, 1995

  Book Chapters and Editorials

  • A. Voisard. Spatial Operations and Map Operations. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, L. Liu and T. Özsu (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 2008 (to appear)
  • D. Pfoser, N. Tryfona, A. Voisard. Dynamic Travel Time Maps. Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, S. Shekhar and H. Xiong (Eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York ,2008 
  • J. Schiller and A. Voisard. Information handling in mobile applications: a look beyond classical approaches. Book chapter of GeoSensor Networks, S. Stefanidis and S. Nittel (Ed.), Taylor&Francis, London, 2004
  • A. Voisard. Spatial Query Languages. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), UNESCO Publications, 2003
  • A. Voisard. Editorial for GeoInformatica, 5:2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 2001
  • A. Voisard. An Introduction to Database Management Systems. Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History, R. Rojas (Ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 2001
  • A. Voisard. SQL.  Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History, R. Rojas (Ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 2001
  • A. Voisard and M. Jürgens. Geographic Information Extraction: Querying or Quarrying? In Interoperability in Geographic Information Systems, M. Egenhofer, R. Fegeas, and M. Goodchild (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, 1999
  • O. Günther and A. Voisard, Metadata in Geographic and Environmental Data Management. In Managing Multimedia Data: Using Metadata to Integrate and Apply Digital Data, W. Klas, A. Sheth (Eds.),  McGraw-Hill, San Francisco/New York, 1998
  • M. Scholl and A. Voisard. Object-Oriented Database Systems for Geographic Applications: An Experiment with O2, in The O2Book, F. Bancilhon, C. Delobel and P. Kanellakis (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California, 1992

  Conference Papers

  • U. Meissen and A. Voisard. Increasing the Effectiveness of Early Warning via Context-aware Alerting. In Proc. of the 5^th Intl. Conference, on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), F. Fiedrich and B. Van de Walle, Eds., 2008
  • U. Meissen and A. Voisard. Situation-based Alerting Strategies in Early Warning Systems. In Proc. of the IADIS Intl. Conference Wireless Applications and Computing 2007 (WAC2006)",  2007
  • D. Pfoser, N. Tryfona, and A. Voisard. Dynamic Travel Maps. In Proc. Intl. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM), 2006
  • G. Trajcevski, P. Scheuermann, O. Ghica, A. Hinze, and A. Voisard. Evolving Triggers for Dynamic Environments. In Proc. Intl. Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York ,2006
    
  • J.-H. Böse, K. Hahn, M. Scholz, H. Schweppe, and A. Voisard. Using Moving Object Databases to Provide Context Information in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In Proc. Intl. Workshop on Managing Context Information and Semantics in Mobile Environments (MCISME), in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06)
  • M. Scholl, M. Thilliez, A. Voisard. Using Vicinity for Information Delivery in P2P applications. In Proc. Intl.  Workshop on Context (CAMS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York , 2005
  • U. Meissen, S. Pfennigschmidt, A. Voisard, T. Wahnfried . Matching System Knowledge and User Expectations in Situation-Aware Systems. In Proc. Intl. IEEE Conf. on Pervasive Services (ICPS), 2005
  • G. Trajcevski, P. Scheuermann, H. Brönnimann, A. Voisard. Dynamic Topological Predicates and Notifications in Moving Databases, Proc. Intl. Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2005
  • U. Meissen, S. Pfennigschmidt, A. Voisard, T. Wahnfried,. Context- and Situation-awareness  in Information Logistics, In Proceedings Intl. Workshop on Pervasive Information Management (PIM), held with EDBT, LNCS No. 3268, Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York , 2004
  • N. Weißenberg, A. Voisard, R. Gartmann,. Using Ontologies in Personalized Mobile Applications.In Proceedings  Intl. ACM GIS Conference, ACM Press, New York, N.-Y.2004
  • A. Hinze, K. Loeffler, A. Voisard. Contrasting Object-Relational and RDF Modeling in a Tourist Information System. In Proceedings Intl. AusWeb Conference (Australia), 2004
  • R. Gartmann, A. Voisard, N. Weißenberg, Situation-Aware Service Supply. In Proceedings GI-Tage, 2004
  • A. Hinze and A. Voisard. Location- and time-based information delivery in tourism, LNCS, Springer Verlag, Proc. Of  the Internation Conference on Spatio-temporal Databases (SSTD’03), July 2003.
  • B. Aguado, A. Merceron, and A. Voisard. Extracting Information from Structured E-exercises, IEEE ITHET 2003, Marrakech, July 2003
  • B. Aguado, A. Merceron and A. Voisard. Mining Answers of On-Line Tutoring Tools. In Proceedings of the SGRRS conference, January 2003
  • A. Hinze and A. Voisard. A Parameterized Algebra for Event Notification Services, with Application to Logistics Support. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME’02), Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, July 2002
  • A. Peerbocus,  C. Bauzer Medeiros, G. Jomier and A. Voisard. Documenting Changes in a Spatiotemporal Database. XVI Brazilian Symposium on Databases, October 2001. Best paper award.
  • E. Stefanakis, M.Vazirgiannis, and A. Voisard. Decision Support under Uncertainty in Spatial Contexts: The Geologic Map Creation Case. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2000), November 2000
  • A. Voisard, C. Bauzer-Medeiros, and G. Jomier. Database Support for Cooperative Work Documentation, International Conference on Cooperative Work (COOP'2000), May 2000
  • A. Voisard. Abduction and Deduction in Geologic Hypermaps. In Advances in Spatial Databases (Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial Databases, SSD'99), Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1652, R. H. Güting and D. Papadias (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1999
  • M. Abu-Khalil, S. Kübler, W.-D. Skala, and A. Voisard. Representing Geologic Kowledge in Hypermap Models. International Conference on Mathematical Geology, August 1999
  • A.  Voisard. Geologic Hypermaps are more than Clickable Maps! Proceedings of the International ACM GIS Symposium, R. Laurini (Ed.), ACM Press, New York, 1998
  • S. Kübler, W.-D. Skala, and A. Voisard. Design and Development of a Geologic Hypermaps Prototype. In GIS - Between Visions and Applications, D. Fritsch, M. Enflich and M. Sester (Eds.). Proceedings of the SPRS Commision IV Symposium, Vol. 32, Part 4, 1998
  • H.-A. Jacobsen and A. Voisard. CORBA-Based Interoperable Geographic Information Systems. Proceedings of the European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, July 1998.
  • A. Voisard. Open GIS: A Tool for Environmental Information Management, Proceedings of the 9th Int. Symp. on Computer Science for Environment Protection, Metropolis Verlag, Marburg, Germany, 1995
  • A. Voisard and H. Schweppe. A Multilayer Approach to the Open GIS Design Problem. In Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM GIS Workshop, N. Pissinou and K. Makki (Eds.), ACM Press, New York, 1994
  • A. Voisard. Designing and Integrating the User Interface of Geographic Database Applications. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), T. Catarci et al. (Eds), ACM Press, New York, 1994
  • P. Rigaux, M. Scholl, and A. Voisard. A Map Editing Kernel Implementation: Application to Multiple Scale Display, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), A. Frank and I. Campari (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 716, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1993
  • Voisard. A Map Editing Model, in VIIIièmes Journées Bases de Données Avancées, INRIA Rocquencourt (publisher), 1992 (in French)
  • T. Smith, R. Ramakrishnan, and A. Voisard. An Object-Based Data Model and a Deductive Language for Spatio-Temporal Database Applications, in Proceedings of the Workshop of the BRA Esprit project “GOODS”, G. Gambosi, M. Scholl and H. Six (Eds.), BRA Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1991
  • A. Voisard. Towards a Toolbox for Geographic User Interfaces, in Advances in Spatial Databases, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 525, O. Günther and H. J. Schek (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1991
  • M. Scholl and A. Voisard. Thematic Map Modeling, in Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 409, A. Buchmann etal. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1990
  • S. Abiteboul, S. Grumbach, A. Voisard, and E. Waller. An Extensible Rule-Based Language with ComplexObjects and Data-functions, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL), R. Hull, R. Morrison and D. Stemple (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California, 1989

  Non-referred publications

  • S. Nittel, A. Stefanidis, I. F. Cruz, M. J. Egenhofer, D. Q. Goldin, A. Howard, A. Labrinidis, Samuel Madden, A. Voisard, M. F. Worboys: Report from the First Workshop on Geo Sensor Networks. SIGMOD Record 33 (1): 141-144, 2004.

  Magazines

  • A. Voisard and U. Meissen. Better Disaster Handling: Telling the Public. The Crisis Response Journal, 2(2), Cava Media Ltd, UK, 2006

  Interviews

  • "Better Working Conditions", Made in Germany, XXIV ( 5), September 2006, page 9

  Theses and Reports

  • A. Voisard and B. David. Mapping Conceptual Geographic Models onto DBMS Data Models. Technical Report No. 97005, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, March 1997
  • B. David and A. Voisard. A Unified Approach to Geographic Data Modeling. Technical Report No. 9316, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, September 1993
  • A.Voisard. Geographic Databases: From Data Models to User Interfaces, Ph.D. thesis, University of Paris XI at Orsay, October 1992 (in French
  • A. Voisard. PicCOLo: An Implementation of the COL Language (Complex Object Language), Master thesis report, University of Paris XI at Orsay, September 1988 (in French)

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