Article in Proceedings INPROC-2005-02

BibliographyJakob, Mihály; Grossmann, Matthias; Hönle, Nicola; Nicklas, Daniela: DCbot: Exploring the Web as Value-added Service for Location-based Applications.
In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2005, April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
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IEEE Computer Society, April 2005.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaH.2.8 (Database Applications)
H.3.1 (Content Analysis and Indexing)
H.3.3 (Information Search and Retrieval)
Abstract

Location-based applications need information that can be spatially accessed. Typically, this data is exspecially gathered and preprocessed in a particular way (e.g. in a spatial data base). Up to now most of these applications ignore an existing large information space, the World Wide Web. Web pages can be mapped to locations and then accessed by location-aware applications with spatial predicates. We want to automate the process of mapping web pages to locations because of the huge amount of data available in the WWW. Our web robot DCbot analyses web pages using pre-defined rules and spatial knowledge and maps them to locations. In the demonstration we will show some location mapping results of DCbot and, in addition, we will let DCbot scan locally stored web pages at demonstration time, so that effects of changes of the content can be shown.

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Contactmihaly.jakob@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, B1 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems)
Entry dateNovember 12, 2004
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