Proceedings 2015

The 18th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science

Geographic Information Science as an Enabler of Smarter Cities and Communities

Editors: Fernando Bacao, Maribel Yasmina Santos, Marco Painho

ISBN: 978-3-319-16787-9

This page contains the short papers and poster abstracts of the AGILE 2015 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. All submissions were peer-reviewed.

The short papers and the poster abstracts are listed separately. The short papers are located according to the AGILE 2015 conference sessions.

The copyright of the full papers is owned by Springer-Verlag, thus the full papers cannot be found here. They are published in the Springer book Geographic Information Science as an Enabler of Smarter Cities and Communities, which is part of the Springer series Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography.

Poster Abstracts

Information collection of road blockage for improving accessibility of fire brigades at a large earthquake (PDF)
Toshihiro Osaragi and Noriaki Hirokawa (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Urban Planner – ArcGIS extension for land use modelling (PDF)
Jaroslav Burian and Stanislav Stastny (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Extraction of landmarks from OpenStreetMap for use in navigational instructions (PDF)
Adam Rousell, Mohamed Bakillah, Stefan Hahmann and Amin Mobasheri (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Spatial distribution of air pollution by PM10 in Oporto in 2012 (PDF)
Rita Roquette, Sara Ribeiro, Ana Cristina Costa and Marco Painho (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Map-off the city: How uncertain places are represented in sketch maps (PDF)
Vanessa Joy Anacta, Mohammed Imaduddin Humayun and Angela Schwering (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Determination of efficient meeting points in ride sharing scenarios (PDF)
Paul Czioska and Monika Sester (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

SketchMapia: a Framework for Qualitative Alignment of Sketch Maps and Metric Maps (PDF)
Sahib Jan and Angela Schwering (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Interdisciplinary Analysis of Prosumer Map-making: Developing a Critical Understanding of Map-use (PDF)
Jana Moser, Natalia Ipatow, Tom Hoyer and Francis Harvey (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Web Mapping technologies for the valorization of slow tourism: the Via Regina project (PDF)
Maria Antonia Brovelli, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Marco Minghini and Giorgio Zamboni (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Analysis and Visualization of Geospatial Data in Enterprise Application (PDF)
Shyam Parhi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Detection of outliers in sets of GNSS tracks from volunteered geographic information (PDF)
Paula Gil, Francisco Javier Ariza-López and Antonio Tomás Mozas-Calvache (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

On the Advantages of Cluster Ensembles for the Detection of Characteristic Spatiotemporal Patterns (PDF)
Mike Sips and Patrick Köthur (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Proposing Metadata Elements for Web Processing Service (WPS) Profiles (PDF)
Barbara Hofer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Optimization of Circular Cycling Routes based on Mobile Sports Tracking Application Data (PDF)
Cecilia Bergman and Juha Oksanen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Good Practice Guidelines for Assessing VGI Data Quality (PDF)
Cidalia Fonte, Lucy Bastin, Linda See, Giles Foody and Jacinto Estima (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Algorithms and Data Structures for Large Scale Geographic Information Systems (PDF)
João Valença, Luís Paquete, Pedro Reino and Carlos Caçador (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Visualisation and Analysis of Geographic Information: Algorithms and Data Structures (PDF)
João Valença, Luís Paquete, Carlos Caçador and Pedro Reino (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

On the completeness of sidewalk information in OpenStreetMap, a case study of Germany (PDF)
Amin Mobasheri, Mohamed Bakillah, Adam Rousell, Stefan Hahmann and Alexander Zipf (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

ConnectinGEO Observations Inventory (PDF)
Daniel Nüst, Joan Masó and Stefano Nativi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Monitoring social network user density variations in areas of interest (PDF)
João Rosa, André Sabino and Armanda Rodrigues (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Short papers

Open geo-data for innovative services and user applications towards Smart Cities. The GeoSmartCity portuguese pilot. (PDF)
Nelson Mileu and João Melo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Are real and satisfaction-adjusted distances to health services related to Quality of Life? A case study in lower-income urban neighborhoods in Quito, Ecuador (PDF)
Pablo Cabrera Barona and Thomas Blaschke (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Temporal occurrence and time-dependency of georeferenced emotions extracted from user-generated content (PDF)
Eva Hauthal and Dirk Burghardt (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Detecting Mobility Patterns with Stationary Bluetooth Sensors: A real-world Case Study (PDF)
Marc Müller, Daniel Schulz, Michael Mock and Dirk Hecker (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Analysing the detection and correction parameters in the homogenisation of climate data series using gsimcli (PDF)
Sara Ribeiro, Júlio Caineta, Ana Cristina Costa and Roberto Henriques (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Subjective evaluations of urban parks and objective spatial indices (PDF)
Gyula Kothencz, Bernhard Brunner and Thomas Blaschke (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

From Snapshots to Processes Description – Spatiotemporal Modelling using RDF Datasets and Formal Ontologies (PDF)
Jaromar Łukowicz and Adam Iwaniak (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

An aggregated graph to qualify historical spatial networks using temporal patterns detection (PDF)
Benoit Costes, Julien Perret, Bénédicte Bucher and Maurizio Gribaudi (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

GIS workflow for continuous soil moisture estimation based on medium resolution satellite data (PDF)
Boudewijn van Leeuwen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Performance investigation of selected SQL and NoSQL databases (PDF)
Stephan Schmid, Eszter Galicz and Wolfgang Reinhardt (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Using Ambient Geographic Information (AGI) in order to understand emotion & stress within smart cities (PDF)
Tiago Humberto Moreira Oliveira and Marco Painho (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Feasibility of OGC’s GeoSynchronization Service for delivering the incremental updates from a national topographic database (PDF)
Eero Hietanen, Lassi Lehto and Pekka Latvala (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

smart Emergency Response System (smartERS) – the Oil Spill use case (PDF)
Gianluca Luraschi and Michele Vespe (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Passive WiFi Monitoring of the Rhythm of the Campus (PDF)
Eftychia Kalogianni, Rusnè Šilerytė, Marco Lam, Kaixuan Zhou, Martijn van der Ham, Stefan van der Spek and Edward Verbree (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Empirical construction of a landmark ontology for wayfinding in varying conditions of nature (PDF)
Pyry Kettunen and L. Tiina Sarjakoski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Hybrid geo-information processing: Crowdsourced supervision of geographic machine learning tasks (PDF)
Frank Ostermann (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Navigating on web maps: Route characteristics and performance (PDF)
Stefan Fuest, Rui Li and Angela Schwering (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Eliciting residents’ preferences for urban function change using online geo-questionnaires (PDF)
Michał Czepkiewicz, Marek Młodkowski, Zbigniew Zwoliński and Piotr Jankowski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

A SDI’s in Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula: Achieving interoperability of Cultural Heritage data in INSPIRE (PDF)
Carlos Fernández Freire, Ernesto Salas Tovar, Rocío Gutiérrez González and Juan M. Vicent García (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Self-learning Virtual Sensor networks using low-cost electronics in Urban Geosensor Networks (PDF)
Daniel Henzen, Pierre Karrasch and Lars Bernard (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Spatial data quality: What do you mean? (PDF)
Wies Vullings, J.D. Bulens, F.I. Rip, M. Boss, G. Hazeu, M. Meijer and M.H. Storm (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Service-based combination of quality assurance and fusion processes for the validation of crowdsourced observations (PDF)
Stefan Wiemann, Sam Meek, Colin Chapman, Didier Leibovici, Jamie Williams, Mike Jackson and Lars Bernard (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Implementing Naive Geography via Qualitative Spatial Relation Queries (PDF)
Paolo Fogliaroni and Heidi Hobel (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Road network segmentation for bus-based evacuation (PDF)
Md. Imran Hossain and Wolfgang Reinhardt (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Geoprocessing Appstore (PDF)
Christin Henzen, Johannes Brauner, Matthias Müller, Daniel Henzen and Lars Bernard (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Extracting Place Emotions from Travel Blogs (PDF)
Andrea Ballatore and Benjamin Adams (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Testing a Route Probability Model with Floating Car Data (PDF)
David Jonietz, Carolin von Groote-Bidlingmaier and Sabine Timpf (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

A Space in a Space: Connecting Indoor and Outdoor Geography (PDF)
Stefan Schabus, Johannes Scholz and Thomas J. Lampoltshammer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Performance Analysis of Some Machine Learning Algorithms for Regression Under Varying Spatial Autocorrelation (PDF)
Sebastian Santibanez, Tobia Lakes and Marius Kloft (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Towards regulation-aware navigation: a behavior-based mapping approach. (PDF)
Stefania Zourlidou and Monika Sester (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Using Geolocated Tweets for Characterization of Portuguese Administrative Regions (PDF)
Gaspar Brogueira, Fernando Batista and Joao Carvalho (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Motivating citizens to take action for biodiversity conservation using geospatial systems (PDF)
Jens Ingensand, Sarah Composto, Marion Nappez, Stéphane Joost, Ivo Widmer, Olivier Ertz and Daniel Rappo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Providing directions in indoor spaces: two approaches for public displays compared (PDF)
Markus Konkol, Christian Kray and Thore Fechner (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Computing Solar Radiation on CityGML Building Data (PDF)
Manfred Wieland, Alexandru Nichersu, Syed Monjur Murshed and Jochen Wendel (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Toward a collective tagging Android application for gathering accessibility-related geospatial data in European cities (PDF)
Mohamed Bakillah, Amin Mobasheri, Adam Rousell, Stefan Hahmann, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Steve H.L. Liang (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Measuring boundaries in the dialect continuum (PDF)
Péter Jeszenszky and Robert Weibel (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

An Agent-Based Simulation Framework for Location-Based Games (PDF)
Thomas Heinz and Christoph Schlieder (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

A GEO label for the Sensor Web (PDF)
Daniel Nüst and Victoria Lush (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Contextual Line Generalization – Extending ArcGIS Generalization (PDF)
Titus Tienaah, Emmanuel Stefanakis and David Coleman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Survey on Maturity Models for the Geospatial Domain (PDF)
Athanasios Karalopoulos and Marinos Kavouras (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Assessing positional accuracy of drainage networks extracted from ASTER, SRTM and OpenStreetMap (PDF)
Elisabete Monteiro, Cidalia Fonte and João Manuel Pedroso de Lima (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)