ISA Project

International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness.

Co-chairs Dr. Mike Worboys, University of Maine, Orono, USA and Dr. Ki-Joune Li Pusan National University, South Korea.

In order to provide seamless services for indoor LBS and GIS in ubiquitous computing environments, it is required to establish new theories, data models, and systems. This workshop is therefore intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners carrying out research and development related to the topic of indoor spatial awareness and to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of indoor spatial awareness.

In addition to serving as co-chair of this workshop, Worboys authored a discussion paper on Indoor Spatial Theory for presentation at the ISA team project meeting that occurs following the ISA Workshop.

Indoor Spatial Theory Results

Principle Investigator Dr. Mike Worboys.

Official Project Reports:

• 2008 Project Report (Delivered August, 2008)
• 2009 Project Report (Delivered May, 2009)

Presentations and publications:

• Worboys, M. (2010). Spatial Bigraphs. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. (paper, forthcoming)
• Walton, L. and M. Worboys. (2009). An Algebraic Approach to Image Schemas for Geographic Space. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), France, September 2009. pp. 357-370, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5756, ISBN 978-3-642-03831-0, Springer. (pdf)
• Walton, L. (2009). Static and Dynamic Image Schemas for Indoor Space. 10th Annual Graduate Exposition, University of Maine, Orono. (poster)

The results above reflect research associated with the maturation of work on Tasks 1-3 and new work on Tasks 4-5. See the project scope and tasks for further details. Earlier work on Tasks 1-3 may be found in our unpublished technical reports and presentations:

• What is Indoor Space? (2008 presentation addressing Task 1).
• What is Building Information Modeling? (2008 report addressing Task 1).
• ISA Formal Model (2008 presentation addressing Tasks 2 and 3).