Organizer: G. William Skinner, University of California-Davis

Chair: William R. Lavely, University of Washington

1. Analyzing the Urban Hierarchy: Central Place Analysis and Hierarchical Linkages, Mark Henderson, Univ. of California-Berkeley, G. William Skinner, University of California-Davis, Lawrence W. Crissman, Griffith University

2. Constructing an Urban Rural Continuum Index, Wei Wang and G. William Skinner, University of California-Davis

3. Delineating Regional Systems and Modeling Their Core-Periphery Structures, Mark Henderson, University of California-Berkeley, and Douglas M. Messenger, University of California-Davis

4. Classifying Settlement Types in the Census Datafile and Positioning Households in Hierarchical Regional Space, Jianhua Yuan, Beijing Institute of Information and Control, and G. William Skinner, University of California-Davis

Chair: Yeqiao Wang, University of Illinois-Chicago

1. A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Soil Mapping Under Fuzzy Logic: the Concept, Xun Shi and and A-Xing Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. The Management of Regional Land Planning Information System, Tien-Yin Chou, Mei-Ling Liao and Pi-Hui Huang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

3. Land Cover Changes of Metropolitan Chicago from 1972 to 1997 and the Impact to Natural Communities in the Region, Yeqiao Wang, University of Illinois-Chicago

4. Effects of spatial measurement on landscape indices, Haiyan Liu and Yeqiao Wang, University of Illinois-Chicago

5. A Change Vector Analysis of Land-Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, 1988-1996. Karen C. Seto, Conghe Song, and Curtis E. Woodcock, Boston University

Chair: Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Organizer: G. William Skinner, University of California-Davis

Chair, Robert F. Dernberger, University of Michigan

1. Spatial Differentiation in Household Structure in the Lower Yangzi Macroregion, 1990, Michele Ladenson, University of California-Davis

2. Spatial Patterns of Sex Differentials in Chinese Infant Mortality, CA. 1990, William R. Lavely, University of Washington

3. Reproductive Behavior in Time and Space, the Lower Yangzi Macroregion, 1966-1990, G. William Skinner, University of California-Davis, and Jianhua Yuan, Beijing Institute of Information and Control

4. Periodic Marketing in the Spatial Economy of Shandong Province, 1988, Hongxing Zhu, University of California-Davis

5. Agricultural Resources and Outputs in Hierarchical Regional Space, Lawrence W. Crissman, Griffith University

Chair: Nguyen Dinh Duong, Institute of Geography, Vietnam

1. Early Contacts of South India and China: An Exploration of the Phenomenon of Hindu Diaspora, Raju Poundurai, Tamil University

2. Monitoring of Poverty in Bangladesh in Spatial Domain Analyzing Integrated Database Constituted from GIS and Socioeconomic Data, D.A. Quadir, A.Z. MD. Zahedul Islam, Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization; and Mustafa K. Mujeri, Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific

3. GIS-Database Development for Environmental Assessment in Halong Bay, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, Nguyen Dinh Duong, Institute of Geography, Vietnam

Chair: Chuang Tao, University of Calgary

Organizer: Shuming Bao, University of Michigan

Chair: Bin Li, Central Michigan University

1. Geostatistics in Environmental Sciences: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives, Pierre Goovaerts, University of Michigan

2. A Family of Geographically Weighted Regression Models, James LeSage, University of Toledo

3. Spatial Data Analysis with Spatial Statistics and GIS, Shuming Bao, University of Michigan

4. Spatial Relationship between Indoor Radon concentrations and seismic activities in Ventura, California, Yi Zhou, Kaishen Liu, Jed Waldman, California Department of Health Services, and Peng Gong, University of California-Berkeley

Chair: Yong Lao, California State University-Monterey Bay

1. Representation and Presentation of Geographical Information, A-Xing Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. Representing Animal Movement in Dynamic Heterogeneous Landscape, Zhixiao Xie, State University of New York at Buffalo

3. Multiple Artificial Neural Networks and Subpixel Spatial Pattern in Extraction and Simulation of Land Cover Proportions, Xinsheng Zhang and Yeqiao Wang, University of Illinois-Chicago

4. Constructing Contiguous Area Cartograms Using ArcView and Avenue, _ Du and Lin Liu, University of Cincinnati

5. An Object-Oriented GIS Data Model Integrating Field-Based and Object-Based Models, Jun Li, Jing Ning, and Maoyin Sun, Changsha Institute of Technology.

Chair: Hanming Tu, Premier Research Worldwide

Chair: Fahui Wang, Northern Illinois University

1. Modeling China's County-level Population Density Distribution in 1990, Fahui Wang, Northern Illinois University

2. Correlate Neighbors as a Way of Measuring Spatial Clusters, Ge Lin, University of Victoria

3. Identifying Spatial Structure of Error Terms from Spatial Models, Diana Stralberg and Shuming Bao, University of Michigan

4. Industrial Districts: Measuring Degree of Spatial Linkage within the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area, Lin Liu, Boyoung Lee and Howard Stafford, University of Cincinnati

Chair: Ron Li, The Ohio State University

1. A Hydrographic Network Database of China, Zitan Chen, ESRI

2. Spatial Modeling and Analysis of Coastal Erosion Monitoring and Shoreline Change Detection, Ron Li, Jung-Kuan Liu and Yaron Felus, The Ohio State University.

3. The Estimation of Water Conservation Capacity for Reservoir Watersheds by Integrated GIS/RS Technologies, Lung-Shin Yang and Mei-Hsin Chen, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

4. The Application of GIS to Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Guangdong, China, Weikai Huang, Rutgers University; Keqi Zhang, Florida International University; Jianwu Wang, South China Agricultural University; and Houcheng Zhou, Guangdong Center for Marine Resource R&D.

Chair: Tien-Yin Chou, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Session 7

Break

Beverages will be available in the Chemistry Atrium.

Session 8

1. Introduction to National Key Projects on NSII in China, Shouyong Yan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2. The Development and Future of the National Spatial Information Infrastructure in China, Lan Zeng and Yongling Yao, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomy.

3. Technical Framework of NSII Prototype in China, Lan Zeng, Chinese Academy of Macroeconomy; Feng Xu, National Information Center, and Shouyong Yan, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

4. The Design and Implementation of the Flood and Waterlog Information Clearinghouse, Feng Xu, Haochuan Li, Wenji Lan, Ming Lu and Chi Zhang, State Information Center of China