Research Trends in Geographic Information Science

Section I: Philosophical background and Semantics.- Ontology, Epistemology, Teleology: Triangulating Geographic Information Science.- Geonoemata Elicited: Concepts, Objects, and Other Uncertain Geographic Things.- Virtue Ethics for GIS Professionals.- Why Is Scale an Effective Descriptor for Data Quality? The Physical and Ontological Rationale for Imprecision and Level of Detail.- Semantic Engineering.- Section II: Mathematical Methods.- A Common Spatial Model for GIS.- Computation with Imprecise Probabilities.- Spatial Data Quality: Problems and Prospects.- Latent Analysis as a Potential Method for Integrating Spatial Data Concepts.- Stereology for Multitemporal Images with an Application to Flooding.- Modeling Spatiotemporal Paths for Single Moving Objects.- Moving Objects in Databases and GIS: State-of-the-Art and Open Problems.- The Degree Distribution of Random Planar Graphs.- Section III: Tools and Applications.- Geographical Information Engineering in the 21 Century.- Towards Visual Summaries of Geographic Databases Based on Chorems.- Intelligent Spatial Communication.- Training Games and GIS.- Cadastre and Economic Development.