Marc van Kreveld

This state-of-the-art tutorial brings together current research and development on Geographic Information Systems. In nine chapters, the authors present a unique survey, ranging from the history and basic characteristics, to current issues of precision and robustness of geometric computing.

Algorithmic Foundations of Geographic Information Systems

Mark de Berg

Mark Overmars

Otfried Cheong

This introduction to computational geometry focuses on algorithms. Motivation is provided from the application areas as all techniques are related to particular applications in robotics, graphics, CAD/CAM, and geographic information systems. Modern insights in computational geometry are used to provide solutions that are both efficient and easy to understand and implement.

Algorithms and Applications

Computational Geometry

Sara Irina Fabrikant

Tumasch Reichenbacher

Christoph Schlieder

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2010, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. While traditional research topics such as spatio-temporal representations, spatial relations, interoperability, geographic databases, cartographic generalization, geographic visualization, navigation, spatial cognition, are alive and well in GIScience, research on how to handle massive and rapidly growing databases of dynamic space-time phenomena at fine-grained resolution for example, generated through sensor networks, has clearly emerged as a new and popular research frontier in the field.

6th International Conference, GIScience 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010. Proceedings

Geographic Information Science

Bettina Speckmann

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2010, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, during September 2011. The 34 revised full papers presented together with 3 revised short and 6 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. Furthermore, the proceedings contain the abstracts of two invited talks and to commemorate Kozo Sugiyama and his pioneering research in graph drawing, the proceedings include an obituary. A unique and fun part of the symposium is the Graph Drawing Contest, which is part of the Graph Drawing Challenge. This year was the 18th edition. A report on the contest is included at the end of the proceedings.

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