Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems

The 8th edition of the International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geograp- cal Information Systems (W2GIS 2008) was held in December 2008, in the vibrant city of Shanghai, China. This annual symposium aims at providing a forum for discussing advances on recent developments and research results in the ?eld of Web and wireless geographical information systems. Promoted from workshop to s- posium in 2005, W2GIS now represents a prestigious event within this dynamic research community. These proceedings contain the papers selected for presen- tion at this international event. For the 2008 edition, we received 38 submissions from 16 countries. All subm- ted papers were related to topics of interest to the symposium. Each paper received three reviews. Based on these reviews, 14 papers were selected for presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. The accepted papers are all of excellent quality and cover topics that range from mobile networks and location-based services, to contextual representation and mapping, to geospatial Web techniques, to object tracking in Web and mobile environments. We wish to thank all authors that contributed to this symposium for the high quality of their papers and presentations. Our sincere thanks go to Springer's LNCS team. We would also like to acknowledge and thank the Program C- mittee members for the quality and timeliness of their reviews. Finally, many thanks to the Steering Committee members for providing continuous support and advice.

From the reviews:

"This book is the post-symposium proceedings, comprising 14 selected and peer-reviewed papers from the 8 International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2008). The proceedings review the state-of-the-art development of web and wireless GIS. For researchers and GIS software programmers, the book provides a good reference to system design, software implementations, and the trends in web and wireless GIS research." (Steve Liang, Geomatica, Vol. 63 (3), 2009)

Klappentext

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Web and Wirelsss Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2008, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2008. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions.

The papers span a wide area including but not limited to Conceptual and logical models, Data management and retrieval, Geographical search engines, Web services, Query languages and interfaces, 2D and 3D information visualization, Exploratory cartography and interfaces, Data mining, Security and usability, Location-based services, Peer-to-peer computing, Cyber-geography, Semantic geo-spatial web, Mobile & Wireless GIS, Telematics and GIS Applications, Ubiquitous GIS, Personalization and adaptation as well as Wayfinding and navigation.

Inhalt
Indoor Space: A New Notion of Space.- HyperSmooth: A System for Interactive Spatial Analysis Via Potential Maps.- SVG-Based Spatial Information Representation and Analysis.- Design and Implementation of GeoBrain Online Analysis System (GeOnAS).- Semantic Analysis for the Geospatial Web Application to OWL-DL Ontologies.- Automatic Transformation from Semantic Description to Syntactic Specification for Geo-Processing Service Chains.- Online Generation and Dissemination of Disaster Information Based on Satellite Remote Sensing Data.- A Toponym Resolution Service Following the OGC WPS Standard.- Sensor Web Oriented Web-Based GIS.- A Design Process for the Development of an Interactive and Adaptive GIS.- Towards a Conceptual Model of Talking to a Route Planner.- Estimation of Geographic Relevance for Web Objects Using Probabilistic Models.- Efficient Vessel Tracking with Accuracy Guarantees.- Spatial Factors Affecting User's Perception in Map Simplification: An Empirical Analysis.- Location-Aware Reminders with Personal Life Content on Place-Enhanced Blogs.