Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
10th International Symposium, W2GIS 2011, Kyoto, Japan, March 3-4, 2011, Proceedings
Published on 15. February 2011
X, 241 pages
978-3-642-19173-2 (ISBN)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2011, held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2011. A total of 13 full and 3 short papers plus 2 short keynote papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including geographic information retrieval on the web, geo-spatial semantic and sensor web, location-based services, advanced GIS visualization techniques, personalization and adjustment for mobile GIS applications, and geo-spatial data quality and context processing.
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Katsushi Tanaka | Peter Fröhlich | Kyoung-Sook Kim
Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
10th International Symposium, W2GIS 2011, Kyoto, Japan, March 3-4, 2011, Proceedings
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Content
- Title Page
- Preface
- W2GIS 2011 Organization
- Table of Contents
- Invited Talks
- Build Intelligence from the Physical World
- How OpenStreetMap Is Changing the World
- Geographic Information Retrieval
- GeoST: Geographic, Thematic and Temporal Information Retrieval from Heterogeneous Web Data Sources
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Ontology Approach and Data Modeling
- Ontology Structure
- Retrieval Methodology
- Retrieval Mechanisms: Principles
- Retrieval from the Web
- Retrieval Evaluation
- Conclusion
- References
- Extraction and Geographical Navigation of Important Historical Events in the Web
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Historical Event Extraction
- Extracting Historical Events from the Web
- Location Estimation of Historical Event
- Location Estimation of Event with Collective Intelligence
- Evaluation of Location Estimation
- Computing ``Impacts'' of Historical Entities
- Wikipedia Link Structure Analysis
- Temporal Impact Calculation
- Spatial Impact Calculation
- Experiments
- Geographical Navigation of Historical Events
- Application Overview
- System Structure and Procedure
- Layout of Virtual History Tour
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- References
- Investigation of Recommendation Method Considering Region-Restrictedness of Spots
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Recommendation Method Considering Region-Restrictedness
- Acquire Home Spots and Destination Spots
- Extract Phrases from Text Data of Each Destination Spot
- Calculate Region-Restrictedness Score of Extracted Phrase
- Recommend Spots Based on Region-Restrictedness Score
- Experiments
- Data Set
- Quantitative Analysis of Region-Restrictedness Score
- Qualitative Analysis of Region-Restrictedness Score
- Discussion of Phrases Depending on Destination Areas
- Discussion of Phrases Depending on Home Areas
- Conclusion
- References
- Geospatial Semantic and Sensor Web
- A Case Study of Participatory Data Transfer for Urban Temperature Monitoring
- Introduction
- System Model
- Application Model
- PDT Model
- Problem Definition
- Complexity
- Case Study
- Experimental Setup
- Results
- Observations
- Related Work
- Conclusions and Future Directions
- References
- A Folksonomy-Based Recommendation System for the Sensor Web
- Introduction
- Contribution
- Related Work
- Semantic Sensor Web
- Tag Suggestion
- Tag Browsing
- Tag Searching
- Folksonomies in Geospatial Contexts
- Tag Suggestions
- Tag Browsing
- Tag Searching
- User Similarity
- Implementation
- Experimental Evaluation
- Experimental Setup
- Experimental Results
- Limatations of the Experimental Setup
- Conclusion and Further Work
- Conclusion
- Future Work
- References
- Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis
- Introduction
- Related Work
- System Architecture
- System Functionality
- The Web Graphical User Interface
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Location-Based Services and Applications
- A Mobile Navigation and Orientation System for Blind Users in a Metrobus Environment
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Methodology
- Orientation and Location Schemes
- Orientation Algorithm
- Audible Menus
- Experiments and Results
- Conclusion
- References
- A Rich Cloud Application to Improve Sustainable Mobility
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Lift4U: The Proposed Platform
- The Features Offered by Lift4U
- Technological Details on Lift4U
- The Lift4U Architecture
- Integration with External Services
- How the System Works
- The Multichannel Clients
- Conclusions
- References
- Mobile Task Computing: Beyond Location-Based Services and EBooks
- Introduction
- Task Computing
- Ontologies in a Task-Oriented Environment
- Task Modeling
- System Architecture
- The TALOS Prototype
- General Information
- Task Authoring
- Content Authoring
- iPhone Interface
- Conclusion
- References
- Advanced GIS Visualization Techniques
- $Cinematic Street$: Automatic Street View Walk-through System Using Characteristics of Modified Maps
- Introduction
- Our Approach
- Definition of Geographical Objects
- Outline of Cinematic Street's Procedures
- Analysis of Modified Maps
- Concept of Analysis of Modified Maps
- Extraction of Equivalent Relations among Nodes
- Determination of Types of Modified Maps
- Transforming Modified Maps into Streaming Video
- Application of Film Syntax to Street View
- Route Map
- Object Map
- Mixed-Feature Map
- Evaluation
- Conclusions
- References
- HYDROSYS - A Mixed Reality Platform for On-Site Visualization of Environmental Data
- Introduction
- Previous Work
- System Design
- System Requirements
- System Architecture
- Mixed Reality Clients
- Sensor and Simulation Data
- Data Handling in Smart Clients
- Mobile Networking
- Mobile Graphics and Interaction
- Cell Phone Platform
- Handheld Platform
- Application Feedback
- Conclusions
- References
- Inferring and Focusing Areas of Interest from GPS Traces
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Observations
- Proposed System
- Overview
- Fragmentation
- Defragmentation
- Areas of Interest Extraction and Focusing
- Evaluation
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Web and Mobile Map Adaptation
- Remote-Evaluation of User Interaction with WebGIS
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Theoretical Framework
- User Study
- Analytical Methods
- Evaluation
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- $Touch2Query$ Enabled Mobile Devices: A Case Study Using OpenStreetMap and iPhone
- Introduction
- Understanding Spatial Information Retrieval for Mobile Devices
- Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI)
- Spatial Information Retrieval for Mobile Devices
- $Touch2Quey$ Application Architecture
- Data Integration Model
- Helper Utilities
- $Touch2Query$ on the iPhone
- Touch Screen for Customized Spatial Query Shape
- Data Integration and Exchange Models
- An Example of Execution Flow
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Geospatial Data Quality and Context
- Delimiting Imprecise Regions with Georeferenced Photos and Land Coverage Data
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Delimiting Vague Regions
- Delimiting Vague Regions With Kernel Density Estimation
- Refining the Density Estimates through Region Shrinkage
- Experimental Validation
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Visualization of Relationships among Historical Persons Using Locational Information
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Mining Historical Documents
- Spatial Clustering Analysis and Visualization
- Method
- Information Extraction
- Clustering
- Visualization
- Experiments
- Visualizing Relationships among Persons
- Analysis of Significant Place Names
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Author Index
