Geographic Information Science: 5th International Conference, Giscience 2008, Park City, Ut, Usa, September 23-26, 2008, Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Secience, GIScience 2008, held in Park City, UT, USA, in September 2008. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. Among the traditional topics addressed are spatial relations, geographic dynamics, and spatial data types. A significant number of papers deal with navigation networks, location-based services, and spatial information query and retrieval. Geo-sensors, mobile computing, and Web mapping rank among the important new directions. Front Matter....Pages - Query Responsive Index Structures....Pages 1-19 Refining Topological Relations between Regions Considering Their Shapes....Pages 20-37 Noisy Road Network Matching....Pages 38-54 Detecting Topological Change Using a Wireless Sensor Network....Pages 55-69 Uncovering Hidden Spatial Patterns by Hidden Markov Model....Pages 70-89 Modeling Herds and Their Evolvements from Trajectory Data....Pages 90-105 New Data Types and Operations to Support Geo-streams....Pages 106-118 Turn to the Left or to the West: Verbal Navigational Directions in Relative and Absolute Frames of Reference....Pages 119-132 Effect of Neighborhood on In-Network Processing in Sensor Networks....Pages 133-150 Similarity-Based Information Retrieval and Its Role within Spatial Data Infrastructures....Pages 151-167 Geosensor Data Abstraction for Environmental Monitoring Application....Pages 168-180 The 9 + -Intersection: A Universal Framework for Modeling Topological Relations....Pages 181-198 Decentralized Movement Pattern Detection amongst Mobile Geosensor Nodes....Pages 199-216 A Framework for Sensitivity Analysis in Spatial Multiple Criteria Evaluation....Pages 217-233 Reasoning on Spatial Relations between Entity Classes....Pages 234-248 Identifying Maps on the World Wide Web....Pages 249-260 Improving Localization in Geosensor Networks through Use of Sensor Measurement Data....Pages 261-273 Simplest Instructions: Finding Easy-to-Describe Routes for Navigation....Pages 274-289 Road Networks and Their Incomplete Representation by Network Data Models....Pages 290-307 A Theory of Change for Attributed Spatial Entities....Pages 308-319 Delineation of Valleys and Valley Floors....Pages 320-336 Single-Holed Regions: Their Relations and Inferences....Pages 337-353 Validation and Storage of Polyhedra through Constrained Delaunay Tetrahedralization....Pages 354-369 Ontology-Based Geospatial Data Query and Integration....Pages 370-392 Back Matter....Pages - The GIScience conference series was founded in 2000 with the goal of providing a forum for researchers interested in advancing the fundamental aspects of the prod- tion, dissemination, and use of geographic information. The conference is held bi- nually and attracts people from academia, industry, and government across a host of disciplines including cognitive science, computer science, engineering, geography, information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social science, and stat- tics. Following a very successful conference in Münster, Germany in 2006, this year's conference was held in Park City, Utah, USA, the prior site of the 2002 Winter Ol- pics and home to the annual Sundance Film Festival. There are two forms of submission to the conference: full papers of 6000 words or less and extended abstracts of 500-1000 words for either a presentation or poster. This format was originally designed to capture the cultural difference between researchers who prefer to publish a peer-reviewed conference paper and those who would rather submit an abstract covering work in progress. This year 77 full papers were submitted and reviewed by 3 Program Committee members, of which 24 were selected for pr- entation and inclusion in this volume. Of the 115 extended abstracts that were subm- ted and reviewed by 2 Program Committee members, 47 were accepted for an oral presentation and 25 were accepted for presentation as a poster. The abstracts were published in a second booklet and are available on the GIScience website (http://www. giscience. org). Thomas J. Cova ... [et Al.] (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index.