Invited Speaker : Li Ki-Joune

Bio: Professor Li is currently working at the Pusan National University in South Korea since 1992. He received a bachelor and master degrees in computer science from the Seoul National University and Ph. D. from INSA de Lyon, France in 1992. His research interests include spatial and spatio-temporal databases, and GIS.

He served as PC co-chairs of several international conferences on GIS such as ACM-GIS in 2000, W2GIS in 2005, SSDBM in 2006, etc.. Prof. Li is also working for ISO/TC211 as the leader of the project 19154, which aims to clarify the standardization requirements for ubiquitous public access. He is serving as the director of an international collaboration project team, called ISA (Indoor Spatial Awareness), funded by the ministry of land, transportation and maritime affairs of Korean government since 2007. This project covers from the establishment of the theoretical basis for indoor space to the development of indoor spatial data management. A part of the keynote of W2GIS will be given on this project.

Abstract: With the rapid progress of GIS and ubiquitous computing technologies, the space that we are dealing with is no longer limited to outdoor space but being extended to indoor space. Indoor spaces has a number of differences from outdoor space, which make it difficult to realize GIS for indoor space. In order to extend the scope of GIS to indoor space, and provide integrated and seamless services, it is required to establish new theories, data models, database management systems for indoor spatial data, and applications for indoor space. In this presentation, we investigate the research issues of indoor space and indoor GIS.

Industrial speaker: Hao Wang

Bio: Dr. Hao Wang is graduated from National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). He is associate supervisor of Satellite Navigation and Position R&D center in NUDT. He is senior member of China Satellite Navigation Application Association and IEEE fellow. His research interests are communication and information system, satellite navigation and position, digital signal processing, spread spectrum communication, electronic system integration.

Abstract: This presentation introduces principles, architectures and components of COMPASS positioning system. Several successful application fields of COMPASS system in China are described such as railway traffic, fishery, hydrologic monitoring, and fighting forest fire. Perspectives and future advances of COMPASS system are finally sketched.