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International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases

SSTD 2001: Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases pp 117–135Cite as

A Model-Based, Open Architecture for Mobile, Spatially Aware Applications

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With the emerging availability of small and portable devices that are able to determine their position and to communicate wirelessly, mobile and spatially aware applications become feasible. These applications rely on information that is bound to locations. In this paper we present neXus, a platform for such applications, which is open for both new applications and new information providers, similar to the World Wide Web. Distributed servers provide location-based information, which is federated to an integrated view for the applications. To achieve this goal, we present the concept of the Augmented World Model, which is a common data model for location-based information. We give an example to show how applications can use this platform.

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  1. Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR), Breitwiesenstr. 20-22, 70565, Stuttgart, Germany

    Daniela Nicklas, Matthias Großmann, Thomas Schwarz & Bernhard Mitschang

  2. Institute for Photogrammetry (ifp), Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D, 70174, Stuttgart, Germany

    Steffen Volz

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7E, 9220, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

    Christian S. Jensen

  2. Praktische Informatik IV, FernUniversität Hagen, 58084, Hagen, Germany

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  3. Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032, Marburg, Germany

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  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

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Nicklas, D., Großmann, M., Schwarz, T., Volz, S., Mitschang, B. (2001). A Model-Based, Open Architecture for Mobile, Spatially Aware Applications. In: Jensen, C.S., Schneider, M., Seeger, B., Tsotras, V.J. (eds) Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases. SSTD 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2121. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47724-1_7

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