A Semantic Grid Oriented to E-Tourism

With increasing complexity of tourism business models and tasks, there is a clear need of the next generation e-Tourism infrastructure to support flexible automation, integration, computation, storage, and collaboration. Currently several enabling technologies such as semantic Web, Web service, agent and grid computing have been applied in the different e-Tourism applications, however there is no a unified framework to be able to integrate all of them. So this paper presents a promising e-Tourism framework based on emerging semantic grid, in which a number of key design issues are discussed including architecture, ontologies structure, semantic reconciliation, service and resource discovery, role based authorization and intelligent agent. The paper finally provides the implementation of the framework.Comment: 12 PAGES, 7 Figure

Smart Geographic object: Toward a new understanding of GIS Technology in Ubiquitous Computing

One of the fundamental aspects of ubiquitous computing is the instrumentation of the real world by smart devices. This instrumentation constitutes an opportunity to rethink the interactions between human beings and their environment on the one hand, and between the components of this environment on the other. In this paper we discuss what this understanding of ubiquitous computing can bring to geographic science and particularly to GIS technology. Our main idea is the instrumentation of the geographic environment through the instrumentation of geographic objects composing it. And then investigate how this instrumentation can meet the current limitations of GIS technology, and offers a new stage of rapprochement between the earth and its abstraction. As result, the current research work proposes a new concept we named Smart Geographic Object SGO. The latter is a convergence point between the smart objects and geographic objects, two concepts appertaining respectively to

Historical Places In Malacca (Enhancement Of Maps Manipulation Capability Through The Website) Using MySQL

The motivation to be involved with the field of study regarding GIS, has been emerging in a fast pace in these few years.Much research had been done and performed, giving tremendous and beneficial results towards this field. But most ofthe GIS applications were developed usingthe vendors ownproprietary database, in which, this could promote many problems. Geographic Information Systems alsoknown as GIS, are all about gathering data andthen building layers upon layers of this dataand then displaying them on a computer screen. The aim and the objective of the study done through this paper wouldbe in usingMySQLfor developing a GIS application, thus showingMySQL's ability for supporting GIS-based data, or in the otherword, the spatial data. While the main objective in doing the study and developing the particular system is mainly using MySQL in managing the spatial data, the otherintegral objectives which comes along with this project are, providing better features and quality spatial data features from the system for the users and also enhancing the capability of manipulating the maps, which are provided through the system. TheMethodology beingused in developing this project is according to the RAD Methodology, which involved the stages such as Requirement Planning, User Design, Construction, and Implementation. These stages would be further discussed through Chapter 3 of Methodology and Projectwork. And as for the Conclusion, which could be derived from the entire project, from the research being done, it could be seenthat, MySQL is able to support in the development of any GIS - based application through thenew released of its database which also included the spatial data management ability

Malacca Tourism WAP Portal

Tourism sector is a leading revenue generator and an umbrella industry in Malaysia. Malacca has been chosen as the scope of study because tourism industry in Malacca has experienced a rapid and continuous growth. Nowadays, time is considered as valuable as gold. Once time is used sensibly, access to a lot of information is possible. Currently, tourists visiting Malacca having problem to search for information using paper maps. Important information such as available transportation (bus number, taxi phone number, fare), distance form one place to another place are not available in paper maps. This is because paper maps are only able to show limited information mainly determined by the map size. Tourists who want to go sightseeing in different places may need this information to plan their travel. Therefore, Malacca Tourism WAP Portal aims to ease tourists to find information about places of interest and sightseeing in Malacca using hand phone in connection with WAP service. This project covers two main areas which are GIS in tourism and WAP Based GIS. The realization of Malacca Tourism WAP Portal starts when user accesses the application and make request. Thgj-equest will be processejLbyJfacjsgebserver and MySQL.^ The result wjll be sent back to user and is displayed on the jphone screen. As a conclusion, Malacca Tourism WAP Portal aim to benefit tourists by providing essential information about tourism places in Malacca. Tourists can find information regarding tourism places (address, open hour, etc.), nearest hotel to stay and also travel information which includes available transportation, distance and others. This become as an alternative way to get information and beside that can assist them to make decision during their visit in Malacca

Proceedings of the 3rd Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium OGRS 2014

The third Open Source Geospatial Research & Education Symposium (OGRS) was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 to 13 June 2014. The symposium was hosted and organized by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aalto University School of Engineering, in partnership with the OGRS Community, on the Espoo campus of Aalto University. These proceedings contain the 20 papers presented at the symposium. OGRS is a meeting dedicated to exchanging ideas in and results from the development and use of open source geospatial software in both research and education.  The symposium offers several opportunities for discussing, learning, and presenting results, principles, methods and practices while supporting a primary theme: how to carry out research and educate academic students using, contributing to, and launching open source geospatial initiatives. Participating in open source initiatives can potentially boost innovation as a value creating process requiring joint collaborations between academia, foundations, associations, developer communities and industry. Additionally, open source software can improve the efficiency and impact of university education by introducing open and freely usable tools and research results to students, and encouraging them to get involved in projects. This may eventually lead to new community projects and businesses. The symposium contributes to the validation of the open source model in research and education in geoinformatics

Paving roads towards eGov inclusion: a portuguese inter-municipal case study

http://www.echallenges.org/e2008/This paper presents a Portuguese inter-municipal project - Vale do Minho Digital (VMD), framed by the Digital Cities and Regions (DCR) initiative. The project aims to contribute to the Inclusive eGov roadmap providing an integrated ICT solution that spans five sparse municipalities in North Portugal. Taking an orthogonal view of the VMD building blocks, from the communication infrastructure to the citizen-centric services, the discussion highlights the challenges and strategies of the VMD project design. Key development aspects and good practices to foster multiregional eGov projects implementation, deployment and success are also discussed

Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places: Guiding Principles

Provides guidance on integrating recording, documentation, and information management of territories, sites, groups of buildings, or monuments into the conservation process; evaluating proposals; consulting specialists; and controlling implementation