Geographic Information Science: 4th International Conference, GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 20-23, 2006, Proceedings: 4197 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4197) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540445269 ISBN 13: 9783540445265

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

The GIScience conference series (www. giscience. org) was created as a forum for all researchers who are interested in advancing research in the fundam- tal aspects of geographic information science. Starting with GIScience 2000 in Savannah, Georgia, USA, the conferences have been held biennially, bringing together a highly interdisciplinary group of scientists from academia, industry, and governmentto analyze progressand to explore new researchdirections. The conferences focus on emerging topics and basic research ?ndings across all s- tors of geographic information science. After three highly successful conferences in the United States, this year’s GIScience conference was held in Europe for the ?rst time. The GIScience conferences have been a meeting point for researchers coming from various disciplines, including cognitive science, computer science, engine- ing, geography,information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology,social science, and statistics. The advancement of geographic information science - quiressuchinterdisciplinarybreadth,andthisisalsowhatmakestheconferences so exciting. In order to account for the di?erent needs of the involved scienti?c disciplines with regard to publishing their research results, we again organized two separate stages of paper submission: 93 full papers were each thoroughly reviewed by three Program Committee members and 26 were selected for p- sentation at the conference and inclusion in this volume. Then, 159 extended abstracts, describing work in progress, were screened by two Program Comm- tee members each. Subsequently, 42 of them were selected for oral presentation, and 46 for poster presentation at the conference.

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Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2006, held in Munster, Germany in September 2006. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. Among the traditional topics addressed are spatial representations and data structures, spatial and temporal reasoning, computational geometry, spatial analysis, and databases. A significant number of papers deal with navigation, interoperability, dynamic modeling, ontology, and semantics. Geosensors, location privacy, social issues and GI research networks rank among the important and exciting new directions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540445269
• ISBN 13: 9783540445265
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Raubal Martin, Miller Harvey J., Frank Andrew U., Goochild Michael F.