—In this paper, we discuss one approach for development and deployment of web sites (web pages) devoted to the description of objects (events) with a precisely delineated geographic scope. This article describes the usage of context-aware programming models for web development. In our paper, we propose mechanisms to create mobile web applications which content links to some predefined geographi...

Digital Earth is a virtual representation of the planet, an information system with tremendous amount of multi-resolution and multi-scale data as shown in multiple dimensions. By acquiring the large amount of data of the Earth, and utilizing the techniques of computer, image and graphic processing, network, virtual reality and so on to study the real earth and its relevant phenomena in digital ...

The neighbourhood aspect of city models is often overlooked in methods of generating detailed city models. This paper identifies two distinct styles of virtual city generation and highlights the weaknesses and strengths of both, before proposing a geo-demographically based solution to automatically generate 3D residential neighbourhood models suitable for use within simulative training. The alg...

The paper reports on a pilot study of how a virtual city can be enhanced by interlinking elements of the 3D city model with the city’s collective memory represented in various digital formats. A particular street called Jalan Malioboro in Yogyakarta Indonesia has been modeled and hosted on Google Earth. Through the questionnaires returned by the participating students, we also investigate how c...

Everywhere we see municipalities setting up projects for Smart Cities. It has become a sort of a "mantra" word. But when we look at their plans we get different perspectives on what they call a "smart city". Sometimes they refer to smoother traffic, rational use of energy, sometimes to garbage recycling, sometimes to a healthier environment, ... These are all "improvements" and obviously desira...

WDAqua is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) that employs 15 PhD students overall. The H2020 work programme aims at increasing citizens’ participation in the digital society and making infrastructures “smart”. These processes are increasingly data-driven. Our central motivation is that sharing, connecting, managing, analysing and understanding data on the Web will enable...

Information on the Internet is becoming more attractive and useful for our daily life. It provides things on the town, happenings on the city, and learning of the real world. If we can utilize such information for the interaction between the human and the city, it can enhance the value and the function of the city. In this paper we introduce the research project \Mobile Info Search" in which we...

As the nature of online gaming changes to accomodate vast, persistent virtual worlds, there is a growing need to populate them with inhabitants capable of dynamic, adaptable, fruitful interactions with players. In this paper we argue that by separately placing abstract compentencies in the agent and concrete domain knowledge in the environment, we can build simple intelligences that exhibit sop...