Research Trends in Geographic Information Science

In June/July 2008 the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology organized a scientific colloquium in this city, where 15 well-known scientists presented their ideas on research for the upcoming decade. This book contains papers prepared by the participants as well as by other researchers. The eighteen papers in this book reflect the opinion of a core group of Geoinformation scientists about future research topics. Dealing with these topics poses multiple research questions for the coming years

The Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography series provides a contemporary view of current research and development in Geoinformation and Cartography, including GIS and Geographic Information Science. Publications with associated electronic media examine areas of development and current technology. Editors from multiple continents, in association with national and international organizations and societies bring together the most comprehensive forum for Geoinformation and Cartography.

Ontology, epistemology, teleology : triangulating geographic information science / Helen Couclelis — Geonoemata elicited : concepts, objects, and other uncertain geographic things / Marinos Kavouras — Virtue ethics for GIS professionals / Nancy J. Obermeyer — Why is scale an effective descriptor for data quality? : the physical and ontological rationale for imprecision and level of detail / Andrew U. Frank — Semantic engineering / Werner Kuhn — A common spatial model for GIS / Christopher Gold — Computation with imprecise probabilities / Lotfi A. Zadeh — Spacial data quality : problems and prospects / Gary J. Hunter ... [et al.] — Latent analysis as a potential method for integrating spatial data concepts / Richard A. Wadsworth ... [et al.] — Stereology for multitemporal images with an application to flooding / Alfred Stein ... [et al.] — Modeling spatiotemporal paths for single moving objects / Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Naicong Li — Moving objects in databases and GIS : state-of-the-art and open problems / Markus Schneider — The degree distribution of random planar graphs / Michael Drmota — Geographical information engineering in the 21st century / Gilberto C