Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer augmented environments: back to the real world
Information translation, mediation, and mosaic-based browsing in the TSIMMIS system
SIGMOD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Communications of the ACM
A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Digital city kyoto: towards a social information infrastructure
CIA'99 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Cooperative information agents III
Web mining and its SQL based parallel execution
ITVE '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Information technology for virtual enterprises
Web Log Mining and Parallel SQL Based Execution
DNIS '00 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems
Virtual helsinki: enabling the citizen, linking the physical and virtual
Digital Cities'03 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Information Technologies for Social Capital: cross-Cultural Perspectives
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Information on the Internet is becoming more attractive and useful for our daily life. It provides things on the town, happenings on the city, and learning of the real world. If we can utilize such information for the interaction between the human and the city, it can enhance the value and the function of the city. In this paper we introduce the research project "Mobile Info Search" in which we study the method of integrating heterogeneous information in a location-oriented way for providing it in a handy form with mobile computing. We have a prototype of Mobile Info Search at http://www.kokono.net/, a location-based "search engine". Local information such as yellow pages, maps, and relevant Web pages at any location of Japan are provided with a simple interface. From the analysis of test services, we will discuss the user issues and information source issues; What kind of local information is welcomed? What can we learn from collected documents? Through the experience of handling various contents related to the real-world, we describe the potential of the Internet information for the digital city efforts.