{"title":"Supporting Multi-Modal Interfaces for Adaptive Tour Planning","authors":"Häußler Jochen, Zipf Alexander","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480663","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Typical examples for mobile GI services include tour planning and maps for navigation support (Reuter, Zipf, 2004). We have developed several prototypes of mobile GI services for navigation tasks including innovative services like user-adaptive tour planning. We are also among the first to support multi-modal (i.e. graphical, natural language and gestures based) user interfaces for such GI related mobile services in several projects like Deep Map, Crumpet and SmartKom since several years. As the development of GI services that adapt to user and context parameters as well as multi-modal interfaces for mobile navigation support are relative new research areas for GIScience it was necessary to specify interfaces for the software components that have been developed. These–relevant parts of the so-called Deep Map Objects (DMO), the XML-based message objects of the Deep Map multi agent system–will be introduced in this paper. But only very recently also the OGC Open Location Services Initiative (OpenLS) has published a specification for similar services in the area of LBS–but yet without a focus on adaptation or multi-modality. Both representations include relevant data types for route planning and map generation and are based on XML. Therefore we will compare these two representations and discuss their applicability for developing multi-modal map interaction for adaptive tour planning.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124273461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personalized Multi-Criteria Decision Strategies in Location-Based Decision Support","authors":"Rinner Claus, R. Martin","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480666","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Location-based services (LBS) assist people in decision-making during the performance of tasks in space and time. Current LBS support spatial and attribute queries, such as finding the nearest Italian restaurant from the current location of the user, but they are limited in their capacity to evaluate decision alternatives and to consider individual decision-makers' user preferences. We suggest that LBS should provide personalized spatial decision support to their users. In a prototype implementation, we demonstrate how user preferences can be translated into parameters of a multi-criteria evaluation method. In particular, the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator allows users to specify a personal decision strategy. A traveler scenario investigating the influence of different types of users and different decision strategies on the outcome of the analysis serves as a case study.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128252475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annotating Mobile Multimedia Messages with Spatio-temporal Information","authors":"Misund Gunnar, Lindh Mats","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480665","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Mobile messaging started with Short Messaging Service (SMS). Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) was recently introduced, allowing users to send and receive messages composed of text, audio, images and even movie clips. In this paper, we propose a new step in the evolution of mobile messaging by introducing the Annotated Multimedia Messaging Service (AMMS). AMMS is in short an MMS document augmented with metadata that facilitates efficient structuring, storage, search and retrieval of mobile media content. We currently restrict the metadata to describe time and place, and show how to include this information in an MMS document by using the existing specification without changes. We suggest some applications that may be realized on the foundations of this simple, yet powerful, concept, both in the personal market and in the professional domain. A prototype framework called Been-There-Done-That has been implemented, where users can generate AMMS documents and upload them to an Internet server. The messages are accessible through a web based map application.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115618929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Semantic Web Technology for Ubiquitous Location and Situation Modeling","authors":"Stahl Christoph, Heckmann Dominik","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480667","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We use semantic web technology to utilize the world wide web for a large-scale ubiquitous (qualitative and geometric) location model, in order to achieve shareability and extensibility at low operational cost. Our intention is to model location and user characteristics, in order to realize location aware applications with a focus on pedestrian navigation in buildings and situated user interaction. We present the ubiquitous symbolic location and situational context model UbisWorld and the tool Yamamoto for the modeling of hierarchical geometrical maps.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116321588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Locating and Mobile Mapping Techniques for Forestry Applications","authors":"W. G., Kellogg Loren D.","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480669","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Forest management activities include locating and mapping management boundaries, transportation networks, streams, landscape topography, forest resources, and special management areas. Locating and mapping tasks associated with forest management have traditionally been performed using manual measurement techniques with varying degrees of precision, accuracy, and efficiency. This paper examines the use and capabilities of contemporary digital measurement tools including laser range finders, global positioning systems (GPS), and total stations, in combination with geographic information systems (GIS), to digitally capture and map data associated with forestry activities. The potential contributions of these digital approaches over traditional data collection techniques are discussed. In addition, digital location-based technology advancements that might benefit forest management and planning are identified.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114987075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reasoning of Topological Relations between Imprecise Regions","authors":"M. Deng, Xiaoyong Chen, M. Kusanagi, H. Phien","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480657","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There are inevitably some errors or uncertainties in spatial data. Such kind of uncertainty will further influence the accuracy of topological relations, which are obtained by reasoning from observation data. In this paper, a determination approach based on relative possibility for topological relations under uncertainty is proposed. First, the effect of positional uncertainty on topological relations is investigated and, statistical modeling of spatial data uncertainty is provided. Then a set of uncertain topological relations for two imprecise regions were built upon a new formal model, proposed by Chen and Deng (2003). Further, some basic functions, which are used for a valid link from positional uncertainty propagating to relation uncertainty, are derived. Finally, a simple example is provided for the illustration of the approach presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132084164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change Detection from SPOT-Panchromatic Imagery at the Urban-rural Fringe of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam","authors":"Annette M. Kim, Desheng Liu, P. Gong","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480653","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper proposes a simple, automated method to detect rural to urban land use changes at the pixel level of SPOT-Panchromatic images in the developing world. The proposed method entails two tasks: (1) classification of images as either urban (built-up) or rural (non built-up) at a relatively high level of spatial detail (pixel level) in order to include the classification of houses made of natural materials. The binary classification was performed through a combined thresholding of spectral information and spatial information derived by a normalized high-pass filter. An automatic procedure was used to determine the optimal threshold (2) classified image comparison of two different dates by overlaying them to detect changes from rural to urban land use during the corresponding period. An accuracy of 82.31% was achieved for the final change map.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130912889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Geostatistical Modeling of Urban Land Values in Milwaukee, Wisconsin","authors":"Jun Luo, Y. Wei","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480654","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Most studies on urban land values focus on the determinants, using hedonic land price models with the consideration of the physical and socio-economic factors. This article employs geostatistical methods to analyze urban land values. Through a case study of Milwaukee, we set up semivariogram models and 3-D TIN surface models for urban land values, and explore anisotropy characteristics and the relationships of land values among different types of land use. We have found that spatial dependency is a salient feature of urban land values, and spatial clustering of land values varies with type and location of land use. Our models can detect and well explain spatial autocorrelations of urban land values. We demonstrate that geostatistical methods have a great potential when applied in the urban context.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123018168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of Association Rule in Disaster Weather Forecasting","authors":"Zhongyang Guo, Xiaoyan Dai, Hui Lin","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480656","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recently, the evidences have indicated that the heavy rainfall in Yangtze River Basin is directly caused by Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over the Tibetan Plateau in China. In this paper, the trajectories of MCS over the Tibetan Plateau are automatically tracked using GMS (Geostationary Meteorological Satellite) brightness temperature (Tbb) and High Resolution Limited Area Analysis and Forecasting System (HLAFS) data provided by China National Satellite Meteorological Center from June to August 1998. Based on these, the relationships between the trajectories of MCSs moving out of the Plateau and their environmental physical field values are analyzed using spatial association rule mining technique. The results indicate that at the level of 400hPa, the trajectories of MCSs, which move out of the Plateau, are mainly influenced by geopotential height, relative humidity, vorticity, divergence and vertical wind speed, while at the level of 500hPa, geopotential height, relative humidity, temperature, vertical wind speed and K index are the main factors which influence MCS to move out of the Plateau.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131239171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Participatory Virtual Studio for Environmental Planning","authors":"Yibin Zhao, Hui Lin, Haoruo Yi, David Chen","doi":"10.1080/10824000409480652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10824000409480652","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Public participation is a progress of “consensus building” about particular decision-making. Because of some intrinsic blemish, traditional public participation method always diminishes the range of public involvement. Rapidly growth of the Internet makes it one of the most massing accessed public media. Internet has an additional interactive mechanism rather than traditional public medias. Meanwhile Web GIS has developed into a mature Internet mapping and spatial analysis toolkit. Internet together with Web GIS launch a channel to get mass participation in a spatial referenced decision-making. This paper explores the use of Web GIS and other technologies to overcome the interactive information access barriers to secure a participatory process in the environmental planning. A Web GIS based Virtual Studio system is developed to demonstrate the concept.","PeriodicalId":331860,"journal":{"name":"Geographic Information Sciences","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117338361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}