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This volume contains the prepublished papers from the Eighth Inter national Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography. The printed papers serve the registrants and speakers during the meeting, but they also serve as a permanent record of the state of knowledge in 1987.
This volume contains the overwhelming majority of the papers to be presented at AUTO-CARTO 8. Papers are ordered in the volume in the order of presentation during the week, allowing for the overlapping of concurrent sessions. The author index provides alternate access.
The Director and Program Committee of AUTO-CARTO 8 are deeply grateful to each author and their support staff who made this volume possible. Without their effort, cooperation and attention to detail, the whole could not be assembled from so many parts.
The papers presented in this volume and at the symposium were selected from a large pool of abstracts. The authors of all the 160 abstracts submitted deserve thanks, particularly those whose proposals were not selected. There is a difficult problem involved in selection of papers for an event as diverse as AUTO-CARTO 8. To some extent, all persons working in the field should have access to the forum to share their ideas. The conventions operated on that principle turn into massive concurrent programs with no coherence and espirit. Over the history of AUTO-CARTOs, there has been increasing attention to a review process to ensure a coherent focus at the event. The Director wishes to thank the members of the Program Committee and others colleagues who assisted in this task. As the papers arrived, the quality seems to equal the standards of any previous AUTO -CARTO.
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