Due to request of delaying the submission by several authors, the
deadline of "!Intelligent Spatial Decision Analysis" ISDA '10
(
http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/isda_10/ISDA.html) for
submitting full paper has been extended to
Wednesday 17 March 2010
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Workshop Description
Within the study on decision-making essence and its links with some
strictly related concepts as evaluation and choice, it is possible to
state that whereas decision can be mostly considered as a “political”
process, evaluation mainly includes technical issues, while choice
induces both sides problems.
- Evaluation concerns an initial phase of a cognitive process
and the decision terms of reference defining the boundaries within which
the entire process takes place and the evaluation purposes are defined.
- Decision is a deliberative act which temporarily closes a long
and predominantly political process where the relationship among
individuals of a community (and therefore among contrasting interests)
needs to be regulated.
- Choice ends an evaluation process which aims to select a
decisional alternative among many ones, on the base of different and
often conflictual criteria and points of view. So it reminds the
necessity to screen and compare many alternatives and to make a
selection.
How does Information Technology application in spatial analysis modify
the way of making decisions? Decision Theory based its fundamentals on
limited sets of solution and evaluation criteria for a long time, but the
way of describing spatial issues of governance, characters and
constraints of physical space shows a further complexity that can not be
described without the use of new methods, in order to increase decision
quality. Even if the core nature of decision approach still remains the
same, the number of complexities connected within the process increases
rapidly. The interaction among evaluation methods, and the new described
complexity of the physical urban space create a new era for spatial
decision support involving several disciplines, and domains of
knowledge.
In relation to what above, a decision process necessarily involves the
existence of several social actors, usually called “stakeholders”,
contributing to the final choice definition and enforcement; it is
therefore important to stress the distinction between decision making and
decision aiding, sometimes wrongly adopted as synonyms. While a decision
maker is the subject able, at the same time, to give the knowledge and to
have the responsibility to make a choice, a decision aiding context
involves the existence of two distinctive subjects at least: the analyst
(or a group of them) aiding the decision via a deep scientific knowledge
and the client (public or private) to whom such support is directed.
Therefore, in the first case the following elements are usually
considered: a well defined set of possible decisional alternatives, a
well defined preference system already clear in the decision maker mind
and a correctly formulated mathematical problem. A decision! aiding
approach implies a set of not necessary stable potential actions compared
on the base of n criteria able to reflect, under a natural uncertainty,
the social actor preferences; in this case, then, a well formalized
mathematical problem is quite impossible. In this context Intelligent
Spatial Analysis Systems represent a fundamental support to decision
making processes in conformity with a double reading perspective:
- they comprise a coherent set of methods and techniques which enable
to deepen the investigation on the scientific aspect of decision making
process, adopting several rigorous tools and models belonging to
different fields as machine learning (i.e. cellular automata, multi-agent
systems, Bayesian networks, artificial neural networks, etc.),
geostatistics (i.e. kernel methods, kriging, support vector machines,
etc.), remote sensing, spatial data warehousing and Spatial OLAP, and
spatial data mining;
- they represent an innovative mean to enhance and guarantee
participation (i.e. spatial multicriteria decision aiding, electronic
meetings, focus groups, etc.), consensus building and communicability
consensus building and communicability of decision making scenarios among
stakeholders, in order to reach a transparent and accepted final choice.
The aim of the workshop is to investigate such connections among
disciplines, by theoretical debates and tales on case studies.
The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions
on the following Conference Themes :
- Decision Support Theory;
- Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis;
- Spatial Rough Set;
- Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory;
- Ontologies for Spatial Analysis;
- Environmental data mining;
- Learning from geospatial data;
- Machine Learning and Geostatistics;
- Artificial neural networks;
- Web-based decision analysis tools;
- Wireless Sensor Networks for Spatial Apllications
- Ant-based Algorithms;
- Cellular automata;
- Bayesian reasoning;
- Statistical learning theory: support vector machines, kernel methods;
- Remote sensing and remote sensed image processing;
- Geographical approach to risk analysis;
- Spatial Data warehousing foundations and architectures;
- Spatial Data extraction, cleaning, and loading;
- Spatial Multidimensional modeling and queries;
- Spatial OLAP visualization;
- New Spatial OLAP applications;
- Spatial OLAP as support for intelligent spatial analysis (data
mining, multi-criteria, etc...);
- Spatial data mining: algorithms and visualization;
- New spatial data mining applications;
- Coupling spatial data mining and Spatial OLAP;
- Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data
analysis;
- Visualisation and modelling of track data.
Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to
prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it.
For formatting information, see the publisher's web site
(
http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0
).
Papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer format. Papers longer than
this will be subject to an additional charge. Shorter papers will be
acceptable if they adequately convey the material to be described, and
are not so short as to be trivial or lacking in depth.
Submission
Papers for review for the conference must be submitted electronically
in PDF form using the PROSE online submission and review system
access.
You may submit a paper to “Intelligent Spatial Decision Analysis” Session
selecting the session from a drop-down box when you submit the paper.
Please ensure you select the correct session.
If you wish to submit a paper to an Invited Session, and the session is
not shown on the drop-down box, please wait until the session has been
set up.
Once the paper has been submitted you may check its progress by login in
to the PROSE review system using the login details you have been supplied
with
(
http://idt-10.kesinternational.org/prose.php).
Proceedings
Accepted papers will be published by prestigious publishing house,
Springer Verlag, as book chapters in a volume of their Engineering Series
and indexed in ISI conference publications, EI, INSPEC, etc.
Outstanding papers will be invited to a submission in two special issues:
Important dates
17 March 2010: Deadline for full paper submission
7 April 2010: Notification of acceptance
19 April 2010: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
28-30 July 2010: ISDA '10 (IDT'10) Conference
Programme Committee
- Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
- Alessandra Lappucci, University of Pisa, Italy
- Sandro Bimonte, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems
and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France
- Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland
- Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
- Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
- Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer Institute of Intelligent Analysis and
Information Systems, Germany
- Menno-Jan Kraak, International Institute for Geoinformation Science
and Earth Observation, University of Twente , the Netherlands
- Karine Zeitouni, University of Versailles, France
- Jose Norberto Mazón López, University of Alicante, Spain
- Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
- Sonia Rivest, Laval University, Canada
- Michele Ottomanelli, Department of Environmental Engineering and
Sustainable Development, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
- Florence Le Ber, Ecole Nationale du Génie de l’Eau et de
l’Environnement de Strasbourg, France
- David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, Usa
- Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada
- Baris Kazar, Oracle Corporation, Usa
- Alex Hagen-Zanker, Department of Architecture, University
ofCambridge, UK
- Maria Cerreta, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Yong Ge, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental
Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural
Resources Research, ChineseAcademy of Sciences
- Suzana Dragicevic, Department of Geography, SimonFraserUniversity,
Canada
- Arta Dilo, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Zorica Nedovic-Budic, School of Geography, Planning &
Environmental Policy, UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland
- Allan Brimicombe, Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of
East London, UK
- Massimo Di Gangi, University of Messina, Italy
- Manfred Schrenk, Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and
Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria
- Roberto De Lotto, University of Pavia, Italy
- Ma gorzata Hanzl, Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning,
TechnicalUniversity of Lodz
- Fabio Luino, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection,
National Research Council, Italy
- François Pinet, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems
and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France
- Andrea Taramelli, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia
University, Usa
- Lalan Kumar, Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, India
- Nicoletta Gazzea, High Institute for Environmental Protection and
Research, ISPRA, Italy
- Michela Bertolotto, School of Computer Science & Informatics,
UniversityCollegeDublin , Ireland
- Grazia Concilio, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
- Markus Wolff, Department of Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Nicola Masini, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute,
National Research Council, Italy
- Devis Tuia, Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Riske, Univeristy
of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Department of Architecture and Planning -
University of Sassari, Italy
- Ivan Blecic, Department of Architecture and Planning, University of
Sassari, Italy
- Jérôme Gensel, Spatio-TEmporal information, Adaptability, Multimedia
and knowlEdge Representation Laboratory (STEAMER), Grenoble, France
- Maria Danese, University of Basilicata, Italy
- Elke Moons, Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University,
Belgium
- Paola Perchinunno, Department of Statistical Science, University of
Bari, Italy
- Christine Voiron-Canicio, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis – CNRS
– UMR ESPACE, France
- Rosa Lasaponara, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental
Analysis, National Research Council, Italy
- Pablo Vanegas, Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Massimiliano Petri, University of Pisa, Italy
- Bianca Schoen, School of Computer Science & Informatics,
UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland
- Farid karimipour, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Shamim Akhter, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
- Luca Paolino, University of Salerno, Italy
- Urska Demsar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
- Maurizio Lazzari, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute,
National Research Council, Italy
- Dimos N. Pantazis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens,
Greece
- Bahaaeddin Alhaddad, Center of Land Policy and Valuations,
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
- Salvatore Manfreda, University of Basilicata, Italy
- Francesco Rotondo, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
- Janusz Starczewski, Cz stochowa University of Technology, Poland
- Pasquale Di Donato, University of Sapienza Roma, Italy
- Tao Cheng, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic
Engineering , UniversityCollegeLondon, UK
- Christoph Aubrecht, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
- Belen Palop, University Valladolid, Spain
- Maurizio Gibin, School of Geography, BirkbeckCollege, University of
London, UK
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Beniamino Murgante, PhD
L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T. - Facoltà di Ingegneria
Università degli Studi della Basilicata
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