11TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems

April 12-13, 2012 – Naples, Italy

Keynote

Invited Speaker: Christopher B. Jones from the School of Computer Science at Cardiff University (UK).

Title: Where on Earth was that? Automated photo captioning with geographical context.

Short Bio:

Chris Jones has been Professor of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the School of Computer Science & Informatics at Cardiff University, UK, since 2000. He has held previous academic positions at the University of Glamorgan and the University of Cambridge. Prior to his academic career, he was employed on geological computing applications at BP Exploration and at the British Geological Survey.
Current research interests focus on the area of geographical information retrieval including the development of online gazetteers, semantic enrichment of 3D city models and the use of spatial language in mobile applications for photo captioning and augmented reality. He has also worked in the areas of automated cartographic design with regard to map generalisation and automated text placement; multiscale spatial databases; environmental change detection; spatio-temporal data modelling; and the computer reconstruction and visualisation of fossils.
Research in the field of map labelling led to the initial development of the Maplex label placement software marketed by ESRI.
He has received research funding from UK Research councils, industry and the European Commission and has published widely in journals and conferences in the field of geographical information science, as well as publishing a text book on GIS and Computer Cartography.

Accepted Conference Papers

Session 1: Geo Semantics

A Context-Aware Web Content Generator Based on Personal Tracking
Reinaldo Bezerra Braga, Socrates De Moraes Medeiros Da Costa, Windson Viana De Carvalho, Rossana Maria De Castro Andrade and Herve Martin
Recommendations Based on Region and Spatial Profiles
Gavin Mcardle, Mathieu Petit, Cyril Ray and Christophe Claramunt
A holistic semantic similarity measure for viewports in interactive maps
Andrea Ballatore, David Wilson and Michela Bertolotto

Session 2: Positioning

Asynchronous Ultrasonic Trilateration for Indoor Positioning of Mobile Phones
Viacheslav Filonenko, Charlie Cullen and James Carswell
A Semantic Resolver for Coordinate Reference Systems
Peter Baumann, Dimitar Misev and Mihaela Rusu

Session 3: Spatial Human-Computer Interaction

Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Exploration and Visualization with a new Visual Metaphor for Hierarchical and Stratified Temporal Domain
Francesco Cerasuolo, Francesco Cutugno and Vincenza Anna Leano
Tag@Map: A Web-based Application for Visually Analysing Geographic Information through Georeferenced Tag Clouds
Davide De Chiara, Vincenzo Del Fatto, Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello and Genoveffa Tortora

Session 4: 3D and Multimodal Spatial Interaction

Effects of Variations in 3D Spatial Search Techniques on Mobile Query Speed vs Accuracy
Junjun Yin and James Carswell
ARCAMA-3D - A Context-Aware Augmented Reality Mobile Platform for Environmental Discovery
Betul Aydin, Jerome Gensel, Sylvie Calabretto and Bruno Tellez
Speech and Multimodal Interaction in mobile GIS Search: a case study
Franco Cutugno, Vincenza Anna Leano, Roberto Rinaldi and Gianluca Mignini

Session 5: Sensor Networks

Discovering Sensor Services with Social Network Analysis and Expanded SWQRL Querying
Mohamed Bakillah and Steve H. L. Liang
Integrating Trend Clusters for Spatio-Temporal Interpolation of Missing Sensor Data
Anna Ciampi, Annalisa Appice, Pietro Guccione and Donato Malerba
Leveraging Power of Transmission for Range-free Localization of Tiny Sensors
Marcello Cinque, Christian Esposito and Flavio Frattini

Session 6: Trajectory Analysis

Clustering User Trajectories to Find Patterns for Social Interaction Applications
Reinaldo Bezerra Braga, Ali Tahir, Michela Bertolotto and Herve Martin
Making a Pictorial and Verbal Travel Trace from a GPS Trace
Pablo Martinez Lerin, Daisuke Yamamoto and Naohisa Takahashi
Event Processing and Real-time Monitoring over Streaming Traffic Data
Kostas Patroumpas and Timos Sellis

Program

To Be Defined.