Apologies for the duplication! The "Proceedings" (about 770 pages) of the AGILE Conference which was held in Brno on April 19-21, 2001 are available from Milan Konecny, Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 611 37 BRNO, Czech Republic or by email at <[log in to unmask]> for 50 EUR and equivalents in dollars, etc. Milan is an ICA Vice President and was one of the editors of the proceedings. The table of contents is attached. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alberta Auringer Wood, Maps, Data and Media Librarian & ICA Vice President Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, CANADA A1B 3Y1 phone: 709-737-8892; fax: 709-737-2153; net: [log in to unmask] http://www.mun.ca/library/maps http://www.mun.ca/library/maps/mapbib.html http://www.mun.ca/library/media http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~awood Make molehills out of mountains. Sachez réduire la taille de vos problèmes à leur juste mesure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 4th AGILE conference on geographic science GI in EUROPE: Integrative - Interoperable - Interactive Proceedings table of content Thursday, April 19, 2001 9.30-10.30 Opening session (room 1) Word of welcome Rhind D, United Kingdom: Global and national Geographic Information policies, practice and education in a g-business world 15 11.00-12.30 Plenary session 1, GI policies (room 1) Craglia M, Annoni A (United Kingdom/Italy): Towards the development of a Geographic Information Policy for the European Commission 28 Craglia M, Dallemand J-F, Masser I (United Kingdom/Italy/The Netherlands): The role of geographic information in facilitating accession into the European Union 38 Konecny M, Stanek K (Czech Republic): SDI in Czech Republic: Portal age 51 Valpreda E, Cremona G, Venditti A, Milillo A (Italy): A Shared GIS for the Hydrological Risk Management at National Level 57 13.30-14.30 Working group meeting, Environmental modelling (room 1) 13.30-14.30 Working group meeting, Education (room 2) Toppen F (The Netherlands): Towards an AGILE Working Group on GI Education 67 Johnson A (USA): Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching GIS: "Hook Them or Sink Them" 68 Johnson A (USA): GIS and Distant Education - Using the Virtual Campus to Expand University GIS Programs 72 Salvemini M, Toppen F (Italy/The Netherlands): Certification of the GI professional, an issue (again) or not (yet)? 73 14.30-16.00 Plenary session 2, Environmental modelling (room 1) Bogner D, Dabernig M, Koren G (Austria): Assessment of Agricultural Landuse in Urban Regions as a Decision Support System Using Web-GIS 74 Suarez J, Evans S, Randle T, Henshall P, Houston T, Gardiner B, Dunham R (United Kingdom) The development of a generic framework for model integration in forest management. The UK Forestry Commission CoreModel programme 79 Clare J, Ray D (United Kongdom): A Spatial Model of Ecological Site Cla ssification for forest management in Britain 93 Haase m, Beuerle R, Barnikel G, Moser M, Stegmaier A (Germany): Evaluation of the Ecomorphological Quality of Running Waters using a GIS 112 Laube P (Switzerland): A Classification of Analysis Methods for Dynamic Point Objects in Environmental GIS 121 16.30-18.00 Parallel session 1, Socio-economic modelling (room1) Benenson I, Omer I, Hatna E (Israel): Agents in GIS environment - Modeling Urban Population Distribution 135 Bittner S (Austria): An agent-based architecture for the simulation of social reality in a cadastre 145 Staunstrup J K (Denmark): Generalization of Cadastral CHanges 156 Morojele N, Krygsman S, de Jong T (South Africa/The Netherlands): An evaluation of retail potential using GIS-based Decision Support functionality; a case study of Cape Town, South Africa. 165 de Jong T, Maritz J, van Eck J R (The Netherlands/South Africa): Using optimization techniques for comparison of the accessibility criteria of facility sitting scenarios; a case study of sitting police stations in South Africa's Bushbuckridge area. 177 16.30-18.00 Parallel session 2, Location based and mobile services (room 2) Corona B, Winter S (Austria): Navigation information for pedestrians from city maps 189 Reinhardt W, Joos G (Germany): Concept of a GIS and location based services for mountaineers 198 Timpf S (Switzerland): The Information Broker: Problem-solving knowledge for location-based services 203 Maula H (Finland): Mobile GIS and Multimedia as Fieldwork Support in Helsinki Water 205 Lehto L, Kahkonen J (Finland): Multi-purpose Publishing of Geodata in the Web 209 Friday, April 20, 2001 09.00-10.30 Parallel session 3, Spatial data infrastructure (room 1) Reicken J (Germany): The improvement of the access to public geospatial data of cadastral and surveying and mapping as a part of the development of a NSDI in Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany 215 Karnavou E, Gritzas G (Greece): Assessing achievements and prospects of GI and GIS in Greece: Towards a generic conceptual framework 222 Bernabe M A, Gould M, Muro-Medrano P R, Nogueras J, Zarazaga F J (Spain): Effective steps toward the Spain National Geographic Information Infrastructure. 236 Ionita A (Romania): The premises for the building of Geographical Information Infrastructure in Romanian's Society of the 21st Century 244 Gouveia C, Henriques P, Nicolau R, Rocha J, Santos M (Portugal): Moving from CEN TC 287 to ISO/TC 211 - The approach of the Portuguese National Geographic Information Infrastructure 260 Bielecka E (Poland): Potential Users of the Polish Information System and Their Needs in the Field of Spatial Information 270 09.00-10.30 Parallel session 4, Young researcher's forum (room 2) Kolodziej K (USA): Using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to Model Distributed GIS Components for Improving Interoperability 274 Bucher B (France): A Model to Store and Reuse Geographic Application Patterns 289 Campagna M, De Montis A (Italy): Geographic Spaces / Digital Places: Towards a Communicative Approach for Urban and Regional Planning 296 Ostlaender N (Germany): Evaluating the suitability of digital datasets for cause studies on nutrient contents of a specific region - Focused on satellite imagery (IRS -1D) and ATKIS data 314 Fahller M (Sweden): Geostatistics for marine geological mapping 318 Schroeder L (Denmark): Data Quality Declarations concerning Building Objects in Maps and Registers 320 Tikunov A V (Russia): Cartographic Evaluation of Innovation Potential 322 Trnka J (Sweden): HAZMAT Transportation Routing, Monitoring and Incident Solving in GIS Environment 327 11.00-12.30 Plenary session 3, Interoperability I (room 1) Dessard V, Margoulies S (Belgium): Interoperability on the Web ! (Using OpenGIS Interfaces) 345 Cantan O, Casanovas M, Gutierrez J, Nogueraz J Zarazaga F J (Spain): Joining Geographic Catalog Services and Map Servers with GIS applications 347 Bernard L, Einspanier U, Streit U (Germany): Developing OpenGIS Catalog Services for a GDI - Lessons learned 355 Friis-Christensen A (Denmark): Modeling Geographic Data Using UML 361 Wei S, Joos G, Reinhardt W (Germany): Management of spatial features with GML 370 13.30-14.30 Working group meeting, Interoperability (room 1) 13.30-14.30 Working group meeting, GI policy (room 2) 14.30-16.00 Parallel session 5, Interoperability II (room 1) Wirtz D (Switzerland): Pluggable Terrain Module - An implementation architecture for distributed digital terrain modeling 376 Hakimpour F, Timpf S (Switzerland): Using Ontologies for resolution of Semantic Heterogeneity in GIS 385 Bernard L, Wytzisk A, Streit U (Germany): Dynamic Interoperable GeoProcessing and Geosimulation - Scenarios, FRAmeworks, AND prototypes 396 14.30-16.00 parallel session 6, Planning (room 2) Geertman S (The Netherlands): An Internet-based inventory of Planning Support Systems: some tentative results 400 Jiang B, Huang B, Vasek V (Sweden/Czech republic): Geovisualisation for Planning Support Systems 404 Pundt H, Moltgen J (Germany): GI-Components to Support Participation in Environmental Planning Processes 415 16.30-18.00 Parallel session 7, Environmental modelling and remote sensing (room 1) Shanker G H (India): Terrain Evaluation for Eco-Restoration using Remote Sensing and GIS 424 Mostaccio C, Laurini R (Argentina/France): Structuring and Indexing Field-oriented Databases 435 Sobchuk R (Russia): Geological hazards at coastal zones modelling based on Remote Sensing Data for Intelligent Environmental Emergency & Risk Management Systems Toolbox 449 Luoto M, Toivonen T, Heikkinen R K (Finland): Prediction of total and rare plant species richness from satellite images and GIS data in agricultural landscapes 456 Markov N, Napryushkin A (Russia): Self-organizing GIS for solving problems of ecology and landscape studying 462 16.30-18.00 Parallel session 8, GI in the new economy (room 2) Senkler K, Remke A (Germany): Requirements of interoperable e-commerce services within an infrastructure for distributed GI-Services 468 Gabriel P, Wagner R (Germany): GIS meets E-Commerce: First Steps towards a General Architecture for Geodata Markets 476 Brox C, Kuhn W (Germany): Marketplaces for Geographic Information 487 Banares J A, Alvarez P, Cantan O, Fernandez P, Casanovas M, Muro-Medrano P R (Spain): Integration of location-based services for Field support in CRM 501 Frank A U, Martinez-Asenjo B (Austria): The Transformation of NMAs from Government Departments to Independent Organizations: An Economic Overview 509 Saturday, April 21, 2001 9.00-10.30 Parallel session, GI processing and usability (room 1) Castelloe D, Mooney P, Winstanley A (Ireland): Multi-Objective Optimisation on Transportation Networks 523 Brindley P, Fryers P, Maheswyran R, Wise S (United Kingdom): An empirical study to assess the accuracy of simple aerial interpolation methods 531 Podobnikar T, Ostir K, Stancic Z, Veljanovski T (Slovenia): Archaeological Predictive Modelling in Cultural Resource Management 535 de Bruin S (The Netherlands): The value of spatial information - Decision-analytical assessment of a quality component 545 O'Donoghue D, Winstanley A (Ireland): Finding Analogous Structures in Cartographic Data 553 9.00-10.30 Parallel session 10, Visualisation (room 2) Quingwen Q P R (China): Application of GeoObject-Graphic-Pattern (TUPU) in Cartographic Generalization 561 van Oosterom P, Tijssen T, Alkemade I, de Vries M (The Netherlands): Multi-source Cartography in Internet GIS 562 Gadal S, Nicolas G (France/Switzerland): Locus-Object Semantic in Digital Cartography. 574 Emmer N (The Netherlands): Determining the effectiveness of animations to represent geo-spatial temporal data: a first approach 585 11.00-12.00 Plenary session 4, Strategic questions (room 1) Annoni A (Italy): European Projections Interoperability 590 Moellering H (USA): Analytical Cartography: Past, Present, and Future 599 Gould M, Herring J (Spain/USA): Redefining GIS 615 12.00-13.00 AGILE business meeting (chair: Mauro Salvemini) Poster session Wegner H (Germany): Developing a GIS-based Cadastral Map for Compensatory Landuses 621 Tikunov V, Berdnikov K (Russia): Experimental determination of semantic space in Geographic Information Sciences 628 Bortone N, Virgilio G (Italy): GIS Platform Oriented Towards the Building Restoration and Regeneration Processes of the Historical and Architectural Heritage Protection 634 Kolodziej K (USA): Intelligent Agents in a Distributed GIS for Improving Interoperability 641 Ali D, Angryk R, Bjursell J, Cobb M, Gibutowski M, Kolodziej K, Paprzycki M, Rahimi S (USA/Poland): Comparison of Mobile Agent Frameworks for Distributed Geospatial Data Integration 643 Charvat K, Krivanek Z, Holy S, Gnip P, Fryml J (Czech Republic): Wireless supporting of agricultural and forestry information systems - WirelessInfo 656 Dominiguez J, Navarro J, Marti I, Garcia C (Spain): Environmental Modeling for wind farm location using desktop GIS 667 Alvares P, Banares J A, Bejar R, Blasco S, Latre M A (Spain): Integration of MapServer capabilities in an Automatic Vehicle Monitoring System to extend access through the Internet 676 Blat J, Navarrete T (Spain): The CD-ROM ATLES DE LES ILLES BALEARS: Methodological, Usability and Programming Issues when Using Web-based Multimedia for Exploring and Teaching Geographical Information 683 Bejar R, Fernandez P, LAtre M A, Muro-Medrano P R, Rioja R, Zarazaga J (Spain): Interoperation of distributed GIS components in a Hydrological Data Inventory System 685 Keyes L, Winstanley A (Ireland): A Comparison of Methods used for Cartographic Object Classification 693 Klenov V I (Russia): Information demands for multi-scale river basin simulation for flood monitoring and forecasting 695 Oinonen K (Finland): The Planner's TOOLBOX 699 Stanek K (Czech Republic): Cartographic Generalisation as a Interoperability Issue 707 Friedmannova L, Konecny M, Stanek K, Vasek V, Vesely M (Czech Republic): CASTOR - System for Automated Cartographic Analysis and Visualization 711 Zgarba V (Czech Republic): PUKNi project - easy and efficient work with data of the land and property register 712 Zgarba V (Czech Republic): LHK SSL - GI systém for the state administration in forestry 712 Zgarba V (Czech Republic): Echo Local - SW provides monitoring and managing of the safety system 712 Hoffman G, Hoffman F (Germany): From ADAPT via INTERREG to GI2001 713 Deplano G, Campagna M, De Montis A (Italy): Regional and local planning system monitoring. The GIS as support in spatial development management. 715 Zakharova A A, Kovin R V, Markov N G, Spitsyn V G (Russia): Geoinformation system for modeling processes of surface waters infiltration into geological medium 720 Friedmannova L (Czech Republic): Multiconditional Visualization of Geographic Data 726 Bonini E S, Eremitaggio A M, Maggi T, Moretti C (Italy): Hydrogeological Hazard Map in a District of Rome Area: an Overview 733 Rothova H (Czech Republic): Comparison of Digital Terrain Models from Hydrological Point of View 739 Wysocka E (Poland): Concept of the Polish Spatial Information System 742 Sen S (India): Interoperability Factor in Natural Language Interfaces to GIS 753 Alexeenko N (Russia): Landscape planning and its cartographical support 758 Slaboch V, Hnojil J (Czech Republic): Activities of VUGTK in the Field of National Administrative Boundaries Policy 759 Hajek M, Chalachanova J, Cernansky J (Slovakia): Integration of Sources Spatial Data for Agricultural Database 760 Mitasova I, Fencik R, Kozuch M (Slovakia): Updating of position the objects in the agricurtural geoinformation system