Computational Geometry and Visualization -- Consistent Handling of Linear Features in Polyline Simplification -- Cartographical Data Treatment Analysis for Real Time Three-Dimensional Terrain Visualization -- A More Efficient Method for Map Overlay in Terralib -- Spatial Databases -- Exploiting Type and Space in a Main Memory Query Engine -- Approximate Query Processing in Spatial Databases Using Raster Signatures -- A Rule-Based Optimizer for Spatial Join Algorithms -- Spatial Query Broker in a Grid Environment -- TerraHS: Integration of Functional Programming and Spatial Databases for GIS Application Development -- Spatial Ontologies and Interoperability -- An Algorithm and Implementation for GeoOntologies Alignment -- Querying a Geographic Database using an Ontology-Based Methodology -- A Method for Defining Semantic Similarities between GML Schemas -- Interoperability among Heterogeneous Geographic Objects -- Distributed GIS / GIS and the Internet -- Web Service for Cooperation in Biodiversity Modeling -- Evaluation of OGC Web Services for Local Spatial Data Infrastructures and for the Development of Clients for Geographic Information Systems -- Towards Gazetteer Integration through an Instance-based Thesauri Mapping Approach -- WS-GIS: Towards a SOA-Based SDI Federation -- Geostatistics, Spatial Statistics and Spatial Analysis -- Electricity Consumption as a Predictor of Household Income: a Spatial Statistics Approach -- Shiryaev-Roberts Method to Detect Space-Time Emerging Clusters -- Testing association between origin-destination spatial locations -- Applications -- GIS Development for Energy Distribution Network Restoration with an Integrated Interface.