Mike Worboys is Professor of Information Science and Engineering at 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 member of the Association for Computing Machinery,
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, London Mathematical Society,
and 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.
Mike began his research career as a mathematician, but soon became interested
in databases and information systems. For the last eight years he
has specialized in the data models and foundations for geographic information
systems. His main research areas have been object-oriented models
for GIS and temporal GIS. He is currently interested in multi-resolution
spatial data models, and treatment of spatial imprecision.
He is founding Chair of the Steering Committee for the annual national
conference GISRUK. He is the author of the text book "GIS: A Computing
Perspective", published by Taylor and Francis, and many papers in the field.
He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of GIS, Transactions
in GIS, Geoinformatica, and the Journal of Computers in Enviromental and
Urban Systems. He is a member of the scientific committees of several
international GIS and database conferences. He is Convenor of the UK Research
Working Group (WG3) of the National Geospatial Data Framework.
Membership of Professional Societies
Member of the London Mathematical Society (elected 1974)
Member of the British Computer Society (elected 1985)
Member of the Association for Geographic Information (elected 1991)
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (1993)
Society Affiliate of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(1994)
Membership of National and International Councils and Committees
Convenor of the Research Working Group (WG3) of the National Geospatial
Data Framework 1997.
Member of the Ordnance Survey Science and Technology Advisory Committee
1997.
National Steering Committee for the annual national conference series,
GIS Research - UK (Chair 1992-95).
Council of the Association for Geographic Information (elected 1993).
Information and Education Committee of the Association for Geographic Information
(Chair from October 1995).
Steering Committee for the annual national conference series, British National
Conference on Databases (1991-95).
Committee of the British Computer Society Special Interest Group on Geographical
Information Systems (1992-94)).
Steering Committee for the USA National Center for Geographic Information
and Analysis Research Initiative 10 on Spatio-temporal Reasoning.
Editorial Boards of the Oxford University Press Spatial Information Science
Series (1997- ).
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Geographical Information
Systems, published by Taylor and Francis (1994- ).
Editorial Board of the Transactions on GIS, published by Longmans (1996-
).
Editorial Board of GeoInformatica, published by Kluwer (1997- ).
Editorial Board the Journal of Computers in Enviromental and Urban Systems,
published by Pergamon (1998- ).
Secretary, RRL.net, The Regional Research Laboratories Network 1995-97.
International Programme Committees, including
· Conference on Spatial Information Theory
· International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases
· International Workshop on Constraint Databases
· ACM International Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information
Systems
· International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling