chapter 2 — Spatial Data Acquisition and Integration -- chapter 3 — Cognition of Geographic Information -- chapter 4 — Scale -- chapter 5 — Extensions to Geographic Representations -- chapter 6 — Spatial Analysis and Modeling in a GIS Environment -- chapter 7 — Research Issues on Uncertainty in Geographic Data and GIS-Based Analysis -- chapter 8 — The Future of the Spatial Information Infrastructure -- chapter 9 — Distributed and Mobile Computing -- chapter 10 — GIS and Society: Interrelation, Integration, and Transformation -- chapter 11 — Geographic Visualization -- chapter 12 — Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science -- chapter 13 — Remotely Acquired Data and Information in GIScience -- chapter 4 — Geospatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -- chapter 15 — Postscript on the UCGIS and Research.