Geographic Information Science : Third International Conference, GI Science 2004 Adelphi, MD, USA, October 20-23, 2004 Proceedings

by Egenhofer, Max J.; Freksa, Christian; Miller, Harvey J.

• ISBN13: 9783540235583
• ISBN10: 3540235582
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Geographic Information Secience, GIScience 2004, held in Adelphi, MD, USA in October 2004. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from many submissions. Among the topics addressed are knowledge mapping, geo-self-organizing maps, space syntax, geospatial data integration, geospatial modeling, spatial search, spatial indexing, spatial data analysis, mobile ad-hoc geosensor networks, map comparison, spatiotemporal relations, ontologies, and geospatial event modeling.

Table of Contents

Contested Nature of Place: Knowledge Mapping for Resolving Ontological Distinctions Between Geographical Concepts	1	(21)
Pragya Agarwal
Geo-Self-Organizing Map (Geo-SOM) for Building and Exploring Homogeneous Regions	22	(16)
Fernando Bação, Victor Lobo, and Marco Painho
Can Relative Adjacency Contribute to Space Syntax in the Search for a Structural Logic of the City?	38	(13)
Roderic Béra and Christophe Claramunt
Semi-automatic Ontology Alignment for Geospatial Data Integration	51	(16)
Isabel F. Cruz, William Sunna, and Anjli Chaudhry
Modeling Surface Hydrology Concepts with Endurance and Perdurance	67	(14)
Chen-Chieh Feng, Thomas Bittner, and Douglas M. Flewelling
Procedure to Select the Best Dataset for a Task	81	(13)
Andrew U. Frank, Eva Grum, and Bérengère Vasseur
Floating-Point Filter for the Line Intersection Algorithm	94	(12)
Andras Frankel, Doron Nussbaum, and Jörg-Rudiger Sack
Project Lachesis: Parsing and Modeling Location Histories	106	(19)
Ramaswamy Hariharan and Kentaro Toyama
The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing	125	(15)
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Finch, Gaihua Fu, and Subodh Vaid
Comparing Exact and Approximate Spatial Auto-regression Model Solutions for Spatial Data Analysis	140	(22)
Baris M. Kazar, Shashi Shekhar, David J. Lilja, Ranga R. Vatsavai, and R. Kelley Pace
3D GIS for Geo-coding Human Activity in Micro-scale Urban Environments	162	(17)
Jiyeong Lee
Arc_Mat, a Toolbox for Using ArcView Shape Files for Spatial Econometrics and Statistics	179	(12)
James P. LeSage and R. Kelley Pace
A Predictive Uncertainty Model for Field-Based Survey Maps Using Generalized Linear Models	191	(15)
Stefan Leyk and Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Information Dissemination in Mobile Ad-Hoc Geosensor Networks	206	(17)
Silvia Nittel, Matt Duckham, and Lars Kulik
Public Commons of Geographic Data: Research and Development Challenges	223	(16)
Harlan Onsrud, Gilberto Camara, James Campbell, and Narnindi Sharad Chakravarthy
Alternative Buffer Formation	239	(12)
Gary M. Pereira
Effect of Category Aggregation on Map Comparison	251	(18)
Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr. and Nicholas R. Malizia
Simplifying Sets of Events by Selecting Temporal Relations	269	(16)
Andrea Rodriguez, Nico Van de Weghe, and Philippe De Maeyer
Towards a Temporal Extension of Spatial Allocation Modeling	285	(14)
Takeshi Shirabe
Formalizing User Actions for Ontologies	299	(14)
Keanhuat Soon and Werner Kuhn
Landmarks in the Communication of Route Directions	313	(14)
Elisabeth Weissensteiner and Stephan Winter
From Objects to Events: GEM, the Geospatial Event Model	327	(18)
Michael Worboys and Kathleen Hornsby
Author Index	345