Web And Wireless Geographical Information Systems : 4th International Workshop, W2gis 2004, Goyang, Korea, November 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

Kwon, Yong-jin (EDT); Bouju, Alain (EDT); Claramunt, Christophe (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3540260048 / ISBN 13: 9783540260042

Published by Springer, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Web And Wireless Geographical Information Systems : 4th International Workshop, W2gis 2004, Goyang, Korea, November 26-27, 2004, Revised Selected Papers
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540260048
• ISBN 13: 9783540260042
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

2 TheaimoftheannualW GIS workshop is to provide an up-to-date review of advances on recent development of Web and wireless geographical information systems, and new challenges and opportunities for researchers, developers and 2 users in the GIS community. The main topic of the W GIS workshop is theor- ical and technical issues of Web and wireless geographical information systems. This workshop followed the successful 2001, 2002 and 2003 editions, held in - oto, Singapore and Rome, respectively. The 2004 edition was held in Goyang, Korea. 2 In its 4th year, W GIS reached new heights of recognition as a quality wo- shopforthedisseminationanddiscussionofnewwaysofaccessingandanalyzing geospatial information. This year, 39 papers were submitted from 15 countries, and 20 papers were accepted from 11 countries. Similarly, the Program C- mittee consisted of 39 members from 16 countries. We had the privilege of having three distinguished invited talks: "Eliciting User Preferences in Web Urban Spaces," Yanwu Yang and Christophe Cla- munt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France; "Discovering Regional Inf- mation from Web: Localness and Landmark Computation," Katsumi Tanaka, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto U- versity, Japan; and "Towards Knowing, Always and Everywhere, Where - erything Is, Precisely," Christian S. Jensen, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2004, held in Goyang, Korea in November 2004. The 19 revised full papers presented went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from initially 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web GIS, mobile GIS and LBS, interoperability and security in W2GIS, indexing and query processing in W2GIS, map services for location-based services, and 3D GIS and telematics.