Sixth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" GEOG-AN-MOD 11

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Sixth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis,

Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"

GEOG-AN-MOD 11


http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_an_mod_11/programme.htm

in conjunction with

The 2011 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2011)

June 20th - June 23th, 2011

University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
http://www.iccsa.org/



Description
During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was
the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of
electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a
great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information
activities (e.g. Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap), public initiatives (e.g.
Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g.
Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, etc.) produced an overabundance
of spatial data, which, in many cases, does not help the efficiency of
decision processes. The increase of geographical data availability has
not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial
decisions. The inclusion of spatial simulation techniques in recent
GIS software favoured the diffusion of these methods, but in several
cases led to the mechanism based on which buttons have to pressed
without having geography or processes in mind. Spatial modelling,
analytical techniques and geographical analyses are therefore required
in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all
levels, with a clear identification of the geographical information
needed and reference scale to adopt. Old geographical issues can find
an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are
developing, challenging the researchers for new solutions. This
workshop aims at contributing to the development of new techniques and
methods to improve the process of knowledge acquisition.

The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions
on the following Conference Themes :
Geostatistics and spatial simulation;
Agent-based spatial modelling;
Cellular automata spatial modelling;
Spatial statistical models;
Space-temporal modelling;
Space-temporal modelling;
Environmental Modelling;
Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data
analysis;
Visualisation and modelling of track data;
Spatial Optimization;
Interaction Simulation Models;
Data mining, spatial data mining;
Spatial Data Warehouse and Spatial OLAP;
Integration of Spatial OLAP and Spatial data mining;
Spatial Decision Support Systems;
Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis;
Spatial Rough Set;
Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory;
Ontologies for Spatial Analysis;
Urban modeling;
Applied geography;
Spatial data analysis;
Dynamic modelling;
Simulation, space-time dynamics, visualization and virtual reality.

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee
members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-
committee and result in one of the following final decisions:
accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for
improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this
decision will take place on January 2011.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes.


Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to
prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it.

The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to
the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher's web
site

( http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper.

Submission
papers should be submitted at:
http://ess.iccsa.org/
please don't forget to select " Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling,
Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 11" workshop from the drop-down list of
all workshops.

Proceedings
Papers accepted to " Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial
Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 11" will be published in the ICCSA Conference
proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series.

Extended version of previous GEOG-AN-MOD papers have been included in
five special issues:

Transactions on Computational Science Journal.
Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Geocomputation and Urban
Planning" Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-
Verlag, Berlin.
Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2011) "Environmental
geocomputation for sustainable development" Studies in Computational
Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information
Systems (IJAEIS), Special Issue On: "Analysing, Modelling and
Visualizing Spatial Environmental Data" Guest Editors: Beniamino
Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy - Mikhail Kanevski,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland - Antonino Marvuglia, University
College Cork, Ireland - Maurizio Cellura, University of Palermo,
Italy
Borruso G., Bertazzon S., Favretto A. Murgante B., Torre C. (2011)
“Geographic Information Analysis for Sustainable Development and
Economic Planning: New Technologies” IGI Global


Important dates

27 January , 2011: Deadline for full paper submission
7 March 2011: Notification of acceptance
4 April 2011: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
June 20-23, 2011: ICCSA 2011 Conference