2. INTEROP 1999: Zurich, Switzerland

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/interop/1999,
  editor    = {Andrej Vckovski and
               Kurt E. Brassel and
               Hans-J{\"o}rg Schek},
  title     = {Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, Second International
               Conference, INTEROP '99, Zurich, Switzerland, March 10-12, 1999,
               Proceedings},
  booktitle = {INTEROP},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {1580},
  year      = {1999},
  isbn      = {3-540-65725-8},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Interoperability: Invited Contributions

• Gio Wiederhold: Meditation to Deal with Heterogeneous Data Sources. 1-16
• Adrian Cuthbert: OpenGIS: Tales from a Small Market Town. 17-28
• Günther Landgraf: Evolution of EO/GIS Interoperability towards an Integrated Application Infrastructure. 29-40

Identification

• Philip Sargent: Feature Identities, Descriptors and Handles. 41-53
• Yaser A. Bishr: A Global Unique Persistent Object ID for Geospatial Information Sharing. 55-64

Infrastructure

• Steve Ramroop, Richard Pascoe: Implementation Architecture for a National Data Center. 65-74
• Hermann Ludwig Möller, Marcello Mariucci, Bernhard Mitschang: Architecture Considerations for Advanced Earth Observation Application Systems. 75-90
• Peter Bitter: A Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Hindu Kush - Himalaya Region: Some Institutional and Political Issues of Interoperation. 91-100
• Karen K. Kemp, Derek E. Reeve, D. Ian Heywood: Interoperability for GIScience Education. 101-114

Implementation

• Charles Ben Cranston, Frantisek Brabec, Gísli R. Hjaltason, Douglas D. Nebert, Hanan Samet: Adding an Interoperable Server Interface to a Spatial Database: Implementation Experiences with OpenMap^TM*. 115-128
• Gilberto Câmara, Rogério Thomé, Ubirajara Moura de Freitas, Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro: Interoperability in Practice: Problems in Semantic Conversion from Current Technology to OpenGIS. 129-138
• Allan Doyle, Donald Dietrick, Jürgen Ebbinghaus, Peter Ladstätter: Building a Prototype OpenGIS Demonstration from Interoperable GIS Components. 139-149

Vectors and Graphics

• Stefan F. Keller, Hugo Thalmann: Modelling and Sharing Graphic Presentations of Geospatial Data. 151-162
• Frits C. Cattenstart, Henk J. Scholten: Towards OpenGIS Systems. The Vector Data Storage Component Evaluated. 163-176

Semantics

• Harry Uitermark, Anton Vogels, Peter van Oosterom: Semantic and Geometric Aspects of Integrating Road Networks. 177-188
• M. Andrea Rodríguez, Max J. Egenhofer, Robert D. Rugg: Asessing Semnatic Similarities among Geospatial Feature Class Definitions. 189-202
• Yaser A. Bishr, Hardy Pundt, Christoph Rüther: Proceeding on the Road of Semantic Interoperability - Design of a Semantic Mapper Based on a Case Study from Transportation. 203-215
• Catharina Riedemann, Werner Kuhn: What Are Sports Grounds? Or: Why Semantics Requires Interoperability. 217-229

Heterogeneous Databases

• Kristin Stock, David Pullar: Identifying Semantically Similar Elements in Heterogeneous Spatial Databases Using Predicate Logic Expressions. 231-252
• Hanna Kemppainen: Designing a Mediator for Managing Relationships between Distributed Objects. 253-263
• Shigeru Shimada, Hiromichi Fukui: Geospatial Mediator Functions and Container-Based Fast Transfer Interface in Si³CO Test-Bed. 265-276
• Lukas Relly, Uwe Röhm: Plug and Play: Interoperability in CONCERT. 277-291

Representation

• Stephan Winter, Andrew U. Frank: Functional Extensions of a Raster Representation for Topological Relations. 293-304
• Roy Ladner, Kevin Shaw, Mahdi Abdelguerfi: 3D Synthetic Environment Representation Using the "Non-Manifold 3D Winged-Edge" Data Structure. 305-314
• Daria Martinoni, Bernhard Schneider: Pluggable Terrain Module - Moving Digital Terrain Modelling to a Distributed Geoprocessing Environment. 315-327