SIUE Engineering Duo Wins Best Paper at International Conference
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering graduate student Sheetal Bagga and recent graduate Rakeem Shelby (MS ’15) were awarded best paper at an international conference in Seattle.
The 23rd Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL) International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems was held November 3-6.
Shelby’s and Bagga’s paper, entitled “Component Moving Region Operations: Implementing Set Operations on Region Streams,” was selected by a committee of workshop organizers as the best paper of the workshop. The paper was an extension of Shelby’s thesis work and included work from Bagga’s master’s project.
A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth’s surface. GIS can show many different kinds of data on one map. This enables people to more easily see, analyze, and understand patterns and relationships.
For more information, contact Mark McKenney, assistant professor of computer science at (618) 650-2368 or marmcke@siue.edu.
