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Progress in Location Based Services 2018

  • Presents selected papers from the Location Based Services (LBS) conference, which has a long tradition in this field and is the only international event of its kind
  • Will be of interest for various disciplines due to the interdisciplinary content
  • Completes the series as the successor of the former Springer books on the LBS (LBS, LBS II, Advances in LBS, Progress in LBS, Progress in Location-Based Services 2016)
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Positioning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Locations Selection for Periodic Radio Map Update in WiFi Fingerprinting

      • Germán M. Mendoza-Silva, Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín Huerta
      Pages 3-24
    3. Task-Oriented Evaluation of Indoor Positioning Systems

      • Robert Jackermeier, Bernd Ludwig
      Pages 25-47
    4. An Original Approach to Positioning with Cellular Fingerprints Based on Decision Tree Ensembles

      • Andrea Viel, Andrea Brunello, Angelo Montanari, Federico Pittino
      Pages 49-70
  3. Mapping

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
    2. Road Network Fusion for Incremental Map Updates

      • Rade Stanojevic, Sofiane Abbar, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Sanjay Chawla, Fethi Filali et al.
      Pages 91-109
    3. Topology Extraction from Occupancy Grids

      • Martin Werner
      Pages 133-149
    4. Discovering and Learning Recurring Structures in Building Floor Plans

      • Andreas Sedlmeier, Sebastian Feld
      Pages 151-170
  4. Landmarks and Mobility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
    2. Extracting Rankings for Spatial Keyword Queries from GPS Data

      • Ilkcan Keles, Christian S. Jensen, Simonas Saltenis
      Pages 173-194
    3. Towards a Dynamic Isochrone Map: Adding Spatiotemporal Traffic and Population Data

      • Joris van den Berg, Barend Köbben, Sander van der Drift, Luc Wismans
      Pages 195-209
    4. An Overall Framework for Personalised Landmark Selection

      • Eva Nuhn, Sabine Timpf
      Pages 231-253
  5. Location Based Social Media and Citizen Participation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
    2. Data Quality of Points of Interest in Selected Mapping and Social Media Platforms

      • Hartwig H. Hochmair, Levente Juhász, Sreten Cvetojevic
      Pages 293-313

About this book

This book gathers a selection of the best papers presented during the 14th International Conference on Location Based Services, which was held in Zurich (Switzerland) between the 15th and 17th January 2018. It presents a general overview of recent research activities related to location based services. Such activities have grown in importance over the past several years, especially those concerning outdoor/indoor positioning, smart environments, spatial modeling, personalization and context-awareness, cartographic communication, novel user interfaces, crowdsourcing, social media, big data analysis, usability and privacy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Peter Kiefer, Martin Raubal

  • Geographic Information Science, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Haosheng Huang

  • Cartography & GIS, Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Nico Van de Weghe

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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