Welcome to my Web page ! I am a professor in computer science and  deputy drector of the Naval Academy Research Institute (located in Brittany in North West France). I was previously head of the GIS research group at the Naval Academy Research Institute, senior lecturer in computing at the Nottingham Trent University and senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. I hold a PhD in computer science from the University of Burgundy and an "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" from the Univeristy of Rouen in France. I am also  a research associate at the Centre for Planning Studies at the Laval University and a research fellow at the Joint Laboratory for Geographical Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research work incorporates theoretical and pluri-disciplinary aspects of geographical information science. Overall my research interests are as follows (see list of publications for details):

I am currently acting as the deputy leader of the working group on the representation of movement data and spatio-temporal DBs of the European Science Foundation COST action MOVE (Knowledge Discovery form Moving Objects). I am the co-director of the French national research network in GIS, so-called, MAGIS for "Modelisation et Application des SIG". I also serve on the research management committee of the Canadian GEOIDE research network. I am currently involved in the development of several experimental WEB and wireless systems with professor Miguel Felix Mata at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico city. Another on-going collaboration is oriented to spatial modelling and spatial analysis and a research developed with professor Xiang Li from the East China Normal University, Shanghai. In particular, a sofwtare to classify and visualize geographical data with a spatia-entropy decision tree has been developed and is available on-line.  

 

Over the past few years I have been acting as a chair of several conferences amongst them the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'09) held at the Aber Wrac'h in September 2009 (with Kathleen Stewart Horsnby, Michel Denis and Gérard Ligozat),  the 4th International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2011) and the International Conference on Information Fusion and Geographical Information Systems (IF&GIS 2011 and IF&GIS 2009), while in 2010 I was one of the co-chairs of the Collaborative Interdisciplinary Specialized Workshop on Spatial Behaviour  and Linguistic Representations. I serve in the steering committees of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), the international symposiums on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS) and the International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS (SeCoGIS). I am regularly involved in the program committees of several international conferences such as GIScience, ACM SIGSPATIAL (ACMGIS), AGILE international conferences on Geographical Information Systems, Spatial Data Handling (SDH), Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) and several specialised workshops such as  Behaviour Modelling and Interpretation (BMI), Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI) and the International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA 2010).

My teaching activities include several computer science and computing courses. I have also developed several modules connected to my research activities in the domain of GIS, remote-sensing, sustainable development, simulation and multi-agent modelling. My main training activities are oriented to the engineering degree of the Naval Academy cadets, I have been more recently involved with the training program of the CLIMSAT Program of the United Nations Development Program.  

 

Naval Academy Research Institute, Lanvéoc-Poulmic, BP 600, Brest naval, France

Email: christophe.claramunt[at]ecole-navale[dot]fr