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.
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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
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