Mike Worboys

Mike has a PhD in mathematics and 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 (NCGIA) at the University of Maine, USA. He is also a cooperating professor in the Department of Mathematics, and holds a professorial fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was honored to receive the 2008 UCGIS Research Award.

Mike has worked for many years at the boundary between computer science, mathematics, and geographic information science. His current research interests include

Ontologies and data models for dynamic geographic phenomena sensed by wireless sensor networks;
Qualitative approaches to spatial reasoning under uncertainty;
The interplay between textual and graphical representations of geographic information.

Current funded projects

ITN+T: Research sponsored by the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain on enhancement of the Integrated Transportation Network (ITN) with temporal capabilities.

Monitoring Dynamic Spatial Fields Using Responsive Geosensor Networks: Project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, grant number IIS-0534429, abstract may be found here, project website may be found here.

Information Integration through Events: Project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, grant number IIS-0429644,, summary may be found here.

The 2nd edition of GIS: A Computing Perspective has been published. Details may be found at GIS: A Computing Perspective .

Contact details

Dr. Michael Worboys
Professor and Chair
NCGIA and Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
Room 348A, 5711 Boardman Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5711,USA

phone: (207) 581-3679
fax: (207) 581-2206
Email: worboys@spatial.maine.edu