Publications

This is an old version of my website at Cardiff University. If you should require any preprint version of my publications and you can not access it via my website, please contact me via email.

Journals

• Florian A. Twaroch, Paul Brindley, Paul D. Clough, Christopher B. Jones, Robert C. Pasley & Sue Mansbridge (2019): Investigating behavioural and computational approaches for defining imprecise regions, Spatial Cognition & Computation, 19:2, 146-171
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• Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Florian A. Twaroch (2011): Generating approximate region boundaries from heterogeneous spatial information: An evolutionary approach. Inf. Sci. 181(2): 257-283
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Book Chapters

• Twaroch F.A., Jones, C.B. and Abdelmoty, A.I. (2008): 'Acquisition of Vernacular Place Footprints from Web Sources' in Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Irwin King (Eds.): "Weaving Data, Location, Services, and People". on the WWW" by Springer
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Conference Proceedings (Full paper review)

• Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones (2010): A web platform for the evaluation of vernacular place names in automatically constructed gazetteers. GIR 2010
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• Philip D. Smart, Christopher B. Jones, Florian A. Twaroch (2010): Multi-source Toponym Data Integration and Mediation for a Meta-Gazetteer Service. GIScience 2010: 234-248
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• Twaroch, F., Purves, R. and Jones, C. (2009): 'Stability of Qualitative Spatial Relations between Vernacular Regions Mined from Web Data', In Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information on the Internet, Toulouse, France, April 6th, 2009
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• Pasley, R., Clough, P., Purves, R. and Twaroch, F. (2008): 'Mapping Geographic Coverage of the Web in Great Britain', In Proceedings of 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), Article Nr. 19, no page numbers.
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• Twaroch F.A., Smart, P.D., and Jones, C.B. (2008): 'Mining the Web to Detect Place Names'. 5th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, GIR 2008, Napa, California, USA
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• Twaroch F.A., Jones, C.B. and Abdelmoty, A.I. (2008): 'Acquisition of a Vernacular Gazetteer from Web Sources'. Workshop on Location on the Web 2008, Locweb 2008, Beijing, China, pp. 61-64
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• Jobst, M. and Twaroch, F. A. (2006): 'An Evaluation Method for Determining Map-Quality'. In Progress in Spatial Data Handling: 12th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling - SDH 2006, pp: 293 - 304 Vienna
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• Pontikakis, E. & Twaroch, F. (2006): 'Schematic Maps as an Alternative to Point Coverages when Topographic Maps are not Available'.  In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Information Visualization IV06, 5-7.7.2006, London, IEEE Computer Society, pp: 297 - 303
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• Twaroch, F. A. (2005): 'An Interstage Change Model for Sandbox Geography', GeoSpatial Semantics: First International Conference, GeoS 2005, Mexico City, Mexico, November 29-30, 2005.pp: 250 - 257
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• Navratil, G., Twaroch, C., & Twaroch, F. (2005): 'Nutzung von Katasterdaten - wie genau wird die Grenze benötigt?' In Proceedings of Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XVII, (Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., & Griesebner, G., eds.), in Salzburg, Published by Wichmann, pp: 493 - 502
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• Achatschitz, C., Twaroch, F., & Aigner, W. (2005): 'Freie und quelloffene Software + GIS = Naives GIS ?' In Proceedings of Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XVII, (Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., & Griesebner, G., eds.), in Salzburg, Published by Wichmann, pp: 1 - 10
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• Navratil, G., Twaroch, F., & Frank, A. U.(2005): 'Complexity vs. Security in the Austria Land Register', In Proceedings of the CORP 2005 & Geomultimedia 05, Vienna, Manfred Schrenk, pp: 159 - 164
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• Twaroch, F.A., & Frank, A.U.(2004): 'Sandbox Geography - To learn from children the form of spatial concepts'. In Proceedings of Spatial Data Handling '04., Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, New York , pp: 421 - 433
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• Twaroch, F., Achatschitz, C., & Hofer, B.(2004): 'OGC Web Map Services im wirtschaftlichen Vergleich'. In Proceedings of Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XVI, (Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., & Griesebner, G., eds.), in Salzburg, Published by Wichmann, pp: 706-714.
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• Malek, M.R., & Twaroch, F.(2004): 'An Introduction to Intuitionistic Fuzzy Spatial Region'. In Proceedings of ISSDQ '04, (Frank, A.U., & Grum, E., eds.), 15.-17.04.2004, in Bruck a.d. Leitha, Published by Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Geoinfo Series, Vol. 28a (Volume 1), pp: 125-138.
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• Twaroch, F., Steiner, T., & Malits, R.(2003): 'Effiziente Topologiebestimmung von Vektor-GIS-Daten'. In Proceedings of Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XV, (Strobl, J., Blaschke, T., & Griesebner, G., eds.), in Salzburg, Published by Wichmann, pp: 520-529.
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• Twaroch, F., Heisler, M., & Timpf, S.(1998): 'Zur Verfügbarkeit von Geodaten im Internet'. In Proceedings of AGIT'98, (Dollinger, J.S.u.F., ed.), in Salzburg, Published by Wichmann Verlag, Vol. 1, pp: 393-402.
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Other Conference Proceedings (abstract review)

• Twaroch, F. (2006): 'Sandbox Geography', JSC '06 TU Vienna, Poster presentation, awarded by the program comitee
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• Twaroch, F. & Achatschitz C. (2005): 'Conceptual Model for a Hotel Seeking Agent', In Proceedings of 1st IWWPST '05 (Frank, A., ed.), in Tampere, Finnland, Published by Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Geoinfo Series, Vol. 31, pp. 5 - 16
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• Steiner, S., Hofer, B., & Twaroch, F.(2004): 'The Issues of System and Data Interoperability for a European Tourist Information System'. In Proceedings of CORP 2004 - CDROM, (Schrenk, M., ed.), February 2004, in Vienna, Published by Manfred Schrenk.
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• Twaroch, F.(2003): 'GEORAMA - A Web Portal for Mountain and Countryside Tourism'. In Proceedings of ESRI 2003 18th European User Conference & 10. deutschsprachige Anwenderkonferenz, in Innsbruck.
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Thesis

• Twaroch, F. (2007): 'Sandbox Geography - How To Structure Space in Formal Models', Ph.D., Vienna University of Technology
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• Twaroch, F. (2001): 'Modellgestützte Rekonstruktion von Gebäuden und deren Verwaltung in einem Topographischen Informationssystem', Master Thesis, Vienna University of Technology
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Other

• Twaroch, F.(2003): 'Neue Methoden fuer moderne Geo-Software'. In GeoNews 1/2003, pp: 10-11.
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• Twaroch, F.(2003): 'Improving the Understanding of Space through Language'. In Proceedings of the COSIT Doctoral Colloquium, (Duckham, M., ed.), in Ittingen, Switzerland, pp: 79-81.
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Presentations

• Bremen
• Cardiff - KIS/VLunch