Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems

Abstract

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MobiGIS 2013) which is held in conjunction with the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS 2013) on November 5, 2013 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Combining the functionality of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), wireless communication (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3/4G), and positioning technologies (GPS, Assisted GPS and GLONASS) results in a new era of mobile geographic information systems (MobiGIS) that aim at providing various invaluable services, including location-based services, intelligent transportation systems, logistics management, security and safety, etc. Many MobiGIS have been developed to solve challenging real-world problems and improve our quality of life. MobiGIS 2013 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from the GIS community, the mobile computing community, and the data management community. Many current research areas, such as spatio-temporal databases, spatio-temporal data mining, mobile cloud computing, remote sensing, participatory sensing, or social networks, raise research problems that lie at the boundary between these three communities. MobiGIS's goal is to foster an opportunity for researchers from these three communities to gather and discuss ideas that will shape and influence these emerging GIS-related research areas.