ISDA '10 Deadline Extended to 17 March 2010

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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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Intelligent Spatial Decision Analysis
ISDA '10
http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/isda_10/ISDA.html

in conjunction with

International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT'10)

InnerHarbor, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 28-30 July 2010
http://idt-10.kesinternational.org/

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:

Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal ( http://idt-journal.kesinternational.org/).
Journal of Decision Systems (http://jds.revuesonline.com/ ).

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
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