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7905
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495

Overview

Michael F. Worboys is affiliated with the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of fields including Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers several subfields such as Genetics, Geography, Planning and Development, History and Philosophy of Science, History, and Anthropology. Their main research topics focus on Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Geographies of human-animal interactions, Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis, North African History and Literature, African history and culture studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Gothic Literature and Media Analysis.

Michael F. Worboys has published papers in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include Manchester University Press eBooks, History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Metascience, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, and Bulletin of the history of medicine.

Their recent papers include:

  • Qualitative-geometric 'surrounds' relations between disjoint regions, 2021, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
  • Before translational medicine: laboratory-clinic relations, 2021, History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences
  • Not only laboratory to clinic: the translational work of William S. C. Copeman in rheumatology, 2020, History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences
  • Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture by Lorenzo Servitje, 2022, Bulletin of the history of medicine
  • Inventing Dog Breeds, 2021, Humanimalia

Their book publications include a title published by Winchester University Press:

  • Doggy people, 2023

Michael F. Worboys collaborates frequently with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Elizabeth Toon
  • Matt Duckham
  • Pratik Chakrabarti
  • Carsten Timmermann
  • Julie-Marie Strange

Best Publications

  • GIS : a computing perspective

    Mike Worboys;Matt Duckham

  • A Unified Model for Spatial and Temporal Information

    Michael F. Worboys

  • Foundations of Geographic Information Science

    Matt Duckham;Michael F. Goodchild;Michael Worboys

  • Object-oriented data modelling for spatial databases

    Michael F. Worboys;Hilary M. Hearnshaw;David J. Maguire

  • Event‐oriented approaches to geographic phenomena

    Michael F. Worboys

  • Efficient generation of simple polygons for characterizing the shape of a set of points in the plane

    Matt Duckham;Lars Kulik;Mike Worboys;Antony Galton

  • Object-oriented approaches to geo-referenced information

    Michael F. Worboys

  • Imprecision in Finite Resolution Spatial Data

    Michael Worboys

  • From Objects to Events: GEM, the Geospatial Event Model

    Michael F. Worboys;Kathleen Hornsby

  • A Formal Model of the Process of Wayfinding in Built Environments

    Martin Raubal;Michael F. Worboys

  • A formal approach to imperfection in geographic information

    Matt Duckham;Keith Mason;John Stell;Mike Worboys

  • Modeling indoor space

    Michael Worboys

  • Nearness relations in environmental space

    Michael F. Worboys

  • Computation with imprecise geospatial data

    Michael Worboys

  • Monitoring qualitative spatiotemporal change for geosensor networks

    Michael F. Worboys;Matt Duckham

  • Generation of navigation graphs for indoor space

    Liping Yang;Michael Worboys

  • A generic model for planar geographical objects

    Michael F. Worboys

  • GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition

    Michael Worboys;Matt Duckham

  • Processes and events in dynamic geo-networks

    Antony Galton;Michael Worboys

  • A Canonical Model for a Class of Areal Spatial Objects

    Michael F. Worboys;Petros Bofakos

Frequent Co-Authors

Antony Galton
Antony Galton University of Exeter
Michael F. Goodchild
Michael F. Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara
Max J. Egenhofer
Max J. Egenhofer University of Maine
Lars Kulik
Lars Kulik University of Melbourne
Martin Raubal
Martin Raubal ETH Zurich
Steve Benford
Steve Benford University of Nottingham
Richard Mortier
Richard Mortier University of Cambridge
Tad T. Brunyé
Tad T. Brunyé Tufts University
Holly A. Taylor
Holly A. Taylor Tufts University

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