Max Egenhofer
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Dr. Max J. Egenhofer is professor in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, and cooperating professor in Computer Science. He has held a Libra Professorship at the University of Maine and was a Visiting Professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (2004) and the Università de L'Aquila, Italy (1993).
EducationPh.D. University of Maine (1989); M.S. University of Stuttgart (1985) Research interests
Dr. Egenhofer's research interests include spatio-temporal reasoning, user interfaces for geographic information systems, the design of spatial database systems, and mobile spatial information appliances. Current and past funded research includes grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Federal Geographic Data Committee, the US Air Force Research Laboratory, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Maine Science and Technology Foundation, Digital Equipment Corporation, Lockheed-Martin Management and Data Systems, the GE Corporate Research and Development Center, Intergraph Corporation, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Space Imaging, and Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. He is the recipient of the 2002 University of Maine Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award and recipient of the 2003 UCGIS Research Award.
Publications
- Y. Kurata and M. Egenhofer, Structure and Semantics of Arrow Diagrams, in: A. Cohn and D. Mark (eds.), COSIT ‘2005, Ellicottville, NY, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3693, Springer, pp. 232-250, September 2005.
- L. Kulik, M. Duckham, and M. Egenhofer, Ontology-Driven Map Generalization, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 16(3): 245-267, 2005.
- A. Rodríguez and M. Egenhofer, Determining Semantic Similarity Among Entity Classes from Different Ontologies, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 15(2): 442-456, 2003.
- F. Fonseca, M. Egenhofer, P. Agouris, and G. Camara, Using Ontologies for Integrated Geographic Information Systems, Transactions in GIS 6(3): 231-257, 2002.
- M. Egenhofer and R. Shariff, Metric Details for Natural-Language Spatial Relations. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 16(4): 295-321, 1998.
- M. Egenhofer, Spatial SQL: A Query and Presentation Language. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 6 (1): 86-95, 1994.
- M. Egenhofer and D. Mark, Naive Geography, in: A. Frank and W. Kuhn (eds.), COSIT `95, Semmering, Austria, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 988, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-15, September 1995.
- M. Egenhofer and R. Franzosa, Point-Set Topological Spatial Relations. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 5(2): 161-174, 1991.
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