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1. Preparing array analytics for the data tsunami / Peter Baumann, Jinsongdi Yu, Dimitar Misev, Kinga Lipskoch, Alan Beccati, Piero Campalani and Michael Owonibi -- 2. Similarity Join for Big Geographic Data / Yasin N. Silva, Jason M. Reed, Lisa M. Tsosie and Timothy A. Matti -- 3. Spatial index schemes for cloud environments / Wen-Chih Peng, Ling-Yin Wei, Ya-Ting Hsu, Yi-Chin Pan and Wang-Chien Lee -- 4. NoSQL geographic databases : an overview / Cl?udio de Souza Baptista, Carlos Eduardo Santos Pires, Daniel Farias Batista Leite, Maxwell Guimar?es de Oliveira and Odilon Francisco de Lima Junior -- 5. Web services composition and geographic information / Pasquale Di Giovanni, Michela Bertolotto, Giuliana Vitiello and Monica Sebillo -- 6. Database server models for WMS and WFS geographic web services / Nissrine Souissi and Michel Mainguenaud -- 7. Robust workflow systems + flexible geoprocessing services = geo-enabled model web? / Carlos Granell -- 8. Architecture for including personalization in a mobile GIS via semantic web techniques / Laia Descamps-Vila, Jordi Conesa, Antoni P?rez-Navarro and Joan Casas -- 9. GeoBI architecture based on free software : experience and review / Elzbieta Malinowski -- 10. Semantic similarity based on weighted ontology / Elaheh Pourabbas. "Web services, cloud computing, location based services, NoSQLdatabases, and Semantic Web offer new ways of accessing, analyzing, and elaborating geo-spatial information in both real-world and virtual spaces. This book explores the how-to of the most promising recurrent technologies and trends in GIS, such as Semantic GIS, Web GIS, Mobile GIS, NoSQL Geographic Databases, Cloud GIS, Spatial Data Warehousing-OLAP, and Open GIS. The text discusses and emphasizes the methodological aspects of such technologies and their applications in GIS"--