22 October 2009, 4:05pm
The 9th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WEB AND WIRELESS GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (W2GIS 09) will be held on December 7-8, 2009, at the National Centre for Geocomputation, Maynooth, Ireland
REGISTRATION CLOSES NOV. 15th
Registration form available at the link below.
* Early Registration €250,
* Student Registration €50,
* Late Registration €350
The 2009 Symposium is the 9th in the series and intends to provide an up-to-date review of the advances and recent developments in Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS). The continuing advances in the development of Wireless and Internet technologies generate ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of geo-referenced data of all types - geomedia. Spatially aware wireless and Internet devices also offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information in both real-world and virtual spaces. Consequently, new challenges and opportunities have been provided that expand the traditional GIS research scope into the realm of Intelligent Media including geomedia with context-aware behaviours for self-adaptive use and delivery. Our common aim is research-based innovation that increases the ease of creating, delivering and using geomedia across different platforms and application domains that continue to have a dramatic effect on society.
Invited Speakers:
Prof. Hanan Samet, SFI Walton Fellow at the National Centre for Geocomputation, NUIM, Ireland & Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, USA
Dr. Peter Fröhlich, Senior Researcher and Project Manager, FTW - Telecommunications Research Center, Vienna, Austira
Presentations and Papers:
Moving Phenomenon: Aggregation and Analysis of Geotime-Tagged Contents on the Web
Kyoung-Sook Kim, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, Yasushi Kiyoki
GeoPW: Towards the Geospatial Processing Web
Peng Yue, Jianya Gong, Liping Di, Jie Yuan, Lizhi Sun, Qian Wang
Towards an Integration of Space and Accessibility in Web Personalization
Mohamed Ramzi Haddad, Hajer Baazaoui, Marie Aude Aufaure, Christophe Claramunt, Yves Lechevallier, and Henda Ben Ghezala
Tiled Vectors: A Method for Vector Transmission over the Web
Vyron Antoniou, Jeremy Morley, Mordechai (Muki) Haklay
Semantic Challenges for Sensor Plug & Play
Arne Bröring, Krzysztof Janowicz, Christoph Stasch, Werner Kuhn
Providing Universal Access to History Textbooks A Modified GIS Case
Dieter Pfoser, Alexandros Efentakis, Thanasis Hadzilacos, Sophia
Karagiorgou, Giorgos Vasiliou
Data Integration GeoService: A First Proposed Approach Using Historical Geographic Data
Eric Grosso, Alain Bouju, Sébastien Mustière
A Study of Spatial Interaction Behaviour for Improved Delivery of Web-based Maps
Eoin Mac Aoidh, David C. Wilson, Michela Bertolotto
EgoViz A Mobile Based Spatial Interaction System
Keith Gardiner, Junjun Yin, James D. Carswell
Wired Fisheye Lens: A Motion-based Improved Fisheye Interface for Mobile Web Map Services
Daisuke Yamamoto, Shotaro Ozeki, Naohisa Takahashi
Automatic Generation of an Adaptive WebGIS
Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Gavin McArdle, Giacomo Petillo
Campus Guidance System for International Conferences Based on OpenStreetMap
Ricky Jacob, Jianghua Zheng, Blazej Ciepluch, Peter Mooney, Adam C.
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Symposium Chairs
* J.D. Carswell, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
* S. Fotheringham, National Center for Geocomputation, Ireland
* G. McArdle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Local Organiser
* E. Mac Aoidh, National Centre for Geocomputation, Ireland
Steering Committee
* M. Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
* J.D. Carswell, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
* C. Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
* M. Egenhofer, NCGIA, USA
* K.J. Li, Pusan National University, Korea
* T. Tezuka, Kyoto University, Japan
* C. Vangenot, EPFL, Switzerland

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