Andrew U. Frank (born February 3, 1948) was a Swiss-Austrian professor for geoinformation at Vienna University of Technology from 1992 until 2016.
[5] From this line of research resulted eventually "Towards a Spatial Query Language: User Interface Considerations"[6] (with Max J. Egenhofer) published 1988 again in VLDB and the DE-9IM standard.
He organized with David M. Mark the NATO financed conference "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space"[7] in Las Navas del Marqués.
[9] Together with Sabine Timpf he published "Multiple representations for cartographic objects in a multi-scale tree—An intelligent graphical zoom"[10] and refined the ideas to "Tiers of ontology and consistency constraints in geographical information systems".
He served as Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and lead the operations at the University of Maine.