Trying to Hit a Moving Target: Report on Proposed Joint ACM/DPMA/AIS/ICIS Undergraduate IS Curriculum Update

This session is designed to obtain input from ICfS participants on the proposed undergraduate curriculum update for an IS degree program. The ICIS team took the lead to get key organizations to agree to develop a joint curriculum. The previous situation where several different organizations had released proposed curricuIm models had been confusing both to academia arid industry. The joint team has been in operation for %e pas[ year and is ready to publicly present its proposed changes for comnent

Review and synthesis of problems and directions for large scale geographic information system development

Problems and directions for large scale geographic information system development were reviewed and the general problems associated with automated geographic information systems and spatial data handling were addressed

The functionality of GIS

This chapter aims to provide a basic introduction to the generic functionality of GIS. In the context of this book, it is something of a link chapter which draws together many concepts discussed briefly elsewhere, although a number of new concepts are introduced. Functionality is defined as all the data collection, storage, manipulation, analysis and presentation operations carried out by GIS. This chapter is arranged in five sections. The first two introduce the ideas of geographical data models, data structures and geographical features which are central elements of the discussion. The third section is the most substantial and describes the generic functionality of GIS. The relationship between functionality and application is examined in the next section using four different application areas. Finally, some conclusions are drawn about the current status of GIS functionality. -Author

Future GIS technology

This paper examines some of the recent trends in GIS technology and their impact on applications. It has examined the development of desktop GIS and their role in a corporate information system policy. For the future the most significant areas of technical development are likely to be: price/performance improvement; increases in processing power per user; larger quantities of data being used in applications; more complex applications; wider use of GUIs; more networked computers; greater intra- and inter-corporation co-operation; more distributed data and processing. -from Author