This announcement contains

- the Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals, and

- the (detailed) Call for Workshop Proposals for ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010.

 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 (26.44 kB)

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18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference

on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

(ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010)

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals

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November 2-5, 2010

San Jose, CA, USA

http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2010 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010) is the eighteenth event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to storage management and indexing issues. This conference is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL).

Researchers, students, and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions to ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

* Cartography and Geodesy

* Computational Geometry

* Computer Vision Applications in GIS

* Distributed and Parallel algorithms for GIS

* Earth Observation

* Geographic Information Retrieval

* Human Computer Interaction and Visualization

* Image and Video Understanding

* Location-based Services

* Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security

* GIS Performance Evaluation

* Photogrammetry

* Similarity Searching

* Spatial Analysis and Integration

* Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Acquisition

* Spatio-temporal Data Analysis

* Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

* Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty

* GPU and Novel Hardware Solutions for GIS

* Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms

* Spatial Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Decision Support

* Spatial Information and Society

* Spatial Modeling and Reasoning

* Spatial Query Processing and Optimization

* Spatio-temporal Data Management

* Spatio-temporal Sensor Networks

* Spatio-temporal Stream Processing

* Spatio-textual Searching

* Standardization and Interoperability for GIS

* Storage and Indexing

* GIS Architectures and Middleware

* Traffic Telematics

* Transportation

* Urban and Environmental Planning

* Visual Languages and Querying

* Wireless, Web, and Real-time Applications

Paper Format: Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at

http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Submission length is limited to 10 pages. In addition to the regular full-length papers, the Program Committee may accept some as poster papers which may be requested to be shortened. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be considered for 'Best Paper Award'.

Ph.D. Dissertation Showcase Paper Format: Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit their Ph.D. research contributions and work-in-progress. Submission length is limited to 6 pages -- Add (Ph.D. Showcase) to the title. Student authors of the accepted papers will be given an opportunity to present a summary of their research at the conference. Successful Ph.D. showcase papers will appear in the ACM SIGSPATIAL Newsletter.

Industrial Paper Format: Authors are invited to submit industrial experience papers that describe their original industrial experiences, challenges, and applications to be presented during the conference. Industrial paper submission length is limited to 10 pages

-- Add (Industrial Paper) to the title. The accepted industrial experience papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings.

Demonstration Paper Format: Authors are invited to submit demo papers that describe their original demonstrations to be presented during the conference. Submission length is limited to 2 pages -- Add (Demo

Paper) to the title. The accepted demo papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings.

Submission: Submissions should be uploaded through the submission site at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GIS2010/Default.aspx. One author per accepted paper, poster, Ph.D. Dissertation showcase, industrial paper, or demo is required to register and attend the conference and to present the accepted submission. Otherwise, the accepted submission will not appear in the published conference proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the conference proceedings. All questions should be addressed to the Program Committee Chair.

IMPORTANT DATES (Research, Ph.D, and Demo papers)

Abstract Submission:         June 17, 2010

Full Paper Submission:       June 24, 2010

Notification of Acceptance:  Sep.  2, 2010

Camera Ready Copy:           Sep.  9, 2010

Conference Date:             Nov. 2-5, 2010

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 will also hold one day co-located workshops on the day immediately preceding the first day of the conference.

Hence, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 invites proposals for workshops to be submitted in pdf format to the Workshop Chair, Markus Schneider ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), by May 15, 2010. The duration of a workshop is one day. Workshops will take place on November 2, 2010, at the location of the conference. The proceedings of the workshops are expected to be published jointly with the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. For details on how to prepare a workshop proposal and what the workshops entail, see http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/workshops, or read the special 'Call for Workshop Proposals' at the end of this 'Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals'.

IMPORTANT DATES (Workshops)

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 15, 2010

Notification of Acceptance:   June 15, 2010

Organization Committee

General Chairs

Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Pusheng Zhang, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Program Committee Chairs

Amr El Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs

Shawn Newsam, University of California, Merced, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Treasurer

Yan Huang, University of North Texas, USA

Sponsors Co-Chairs

Erik Hoel, ESRI, USA

Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA

Workshop Chair

Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA

Registration Chair

Chengyang Zhang, University of North Texas, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

Wei Ding, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA

Proceedings Co-Chairs

Peer Kroger, University of Munich, Germany Andrew Danner, Swarthmore College, USA

Poster Co-Chairs

Mohamed Ali, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Jagan Sankaranarayanan, University of Maryland, USA

Webmasters

Nagender Bandi, Oracle, USA

Shiyuan Wang, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

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18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference

on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

(ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010)

Call for Workshop Proposals

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November 2, 2010

San Jose, CA, USA

http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/workshops

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS) traditionally holds one day co-located workshops on the day immediately preceding the first day of the conference. ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 aims to continue this practice and invites proposals for workshops to be submitted in pdf format to the Workshop Chair, Markus Schneider ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), by May 15, 2010.

The duration of a workshop is one day. Workshops will take place on November 2, 2010, at the location of the conference.

The proceedings of the workshops are expected to be published jointly with the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Workshops will benefit from the registration process of ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010. All workshops will have a common continental breakfast and common morning and afternoon coffee breaks. The workshops focus on particular aspects of our field and are intended to enhance the conference experience for those attending the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference. Thus, all workshop attendees must also register for the main ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference. The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference sets the registration fees for the workshops which are the same for each workshop and are set at a minimum level to recover costs of room rental, refreshments, and AV.

No complimentary registration is provided to workshop organizers. If workshop organizers wish to have invited speakers, any additional financial support must come from funds that are raised by the workshop organizers.

One author per accepted workshop contribution (paper, poster, demo) is required to register for the workshop and the conference as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted submission. Otherwise, the accepted submission will appear neither in the published workshop proceedings nor in the ACM Digital Library version of the workshop proceedings.

Each workshop proposal must contain all pertinent information, including the following:

* workshop title

* short description of the topic and the format of the workshop

* explanation of why the proposed workshop is a good match with

ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010

* names and contact information of the workshop organizer(s)

* names of the members of the program committee (at least 50% must

be already known and confirmed at the time of the proposal)

* proposal for important dates (paper submission deadline,

notification deadline, etc.)

* expected number of participants

* in case of previous instances of the workshop, the historical

numbers of participants

* in case of previous instances of the workshop, the historical

submission and acceptance counts

The decision about acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made by the Workshop Chair in consultation with the SIGSPATIAL Executive Committee and the General Chairs, taking into account venue capacity as well as viability.

Evaluation criteria include overall quality and the fit with respect to the expected ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 program. Note that proposals are especially encouraged on emerging topics that are relevant to spatial information systems and algorithms (including location-based services and geographic information systems). Notification will be given by June 15, 2010.

The organizers of successful workshops will be responsible for their own review process. Publicity will be handled jointly with the workshop organizers being responsible for the creation of a workshop website. The local arrangements chairs may require that all workshops adhere to a specific general timetable to facilitate catering.

Workshop organizers must inform the Workshop Chair of the numbers of submissions and acceptances as soon as these numbers become available. Workshops with fewer than 20 expected registrants may be canceled at the discretion of the conference organizers.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Proposal Submission Deadline:    May 15, 2010

Send proposal to Workshop Chair: Markus Schneider

( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Notification of Acceptance:      June 15, 2010

INVEST.INNOVATE.INTEGRATE

23^rd November 2010, the Square, Brussels

Dear participant of previous European Colloquia on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography (or Theoretical and Quantitative Geography), 

We are pleased to invite you to the 17th European Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography (ECQTG2011), which will take place in the campus of the Harokopio University of Athens, Greece from the 2th to the 5th of September, 2011.

The conference is formally organized by the Greek Society for Demographic Studies and hosted by the Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece.

Please find attached the first called for papers. Please also visit our website http://gisc.gr/ecqtg11 regularly for an up to date information about the conference. Facebook users will also find a group referring to this conference. Further details will follow later this year.

We wish you a nice summer and we are looking forward to receiving your abstract and meeting you in early September 2011.

 ECQTG 2011 Call for Papers (604.79 kB)

Third General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association

"Microsimulation and Policy Design”

June 8th to 10th, 2011
City Conference Centre Stockholm
Drottninggatan 71 b
SE-107 26 Stockholm, Sweden

Call for Papers

The third General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association will be hosted by Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Mininstry of Finance and will take place in the City Conference Center in Stockholm, Sweden from June 8^th to 10^th, 2011.

The conference focuses on microsimulation models and their applications. The conference is of interest to both creators and users of microsimulation models in authorities, government departments and companies. It will consist of a range of plenary sessions. A number of moderated panel discussions on topics of general interest to the microsimulation modeling community are also planned.

We invite you to submit a short abstract (up to 250 words) for a paper to be given at the above conference. Areas to be potentially covered by the conference include:

• Static (cross-sectional) microsimulation models, including models of taxes and transfers;
• Dynamic (longitudinal) microsimulation models;
• Spatial microsimulation models;
• Behavioural (interacting agent) microsimulation models;
• Health and long-term care microsimulation models;
• Other types of microsimulation models (e.g. infectious disease, housing, child care);
• Issues relating to data underlying microsimulation models;
• Issues relating to statistical methods underlying microsimulation models;
• Microsimulation models used as input for policy decisions;
• Methods for forecasting;

Papers can be:

• Applied (e.g. reporting results of model simulations);
• Theoretical (e.g. reporting innovative techniques and methodologies); and
• Descriptive (e.g. describing existing models, new models or the development of particular modules or applications).

If you wish to present a paper, please submit a title and a short one paragraph abstract to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by October 29th, 2010. We expect to advise which papers and models have been selected by early January, 2011.

If you wish to attend the conference but do not plan to present a paper, please express your interest by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This will allow us to keep you informed of any updates. Attendance at the conference is limited, so early registration of interest is advisable.

Please visit www.scb.se/IMA2011 regularly to get upcoming details on the program, registration fees, accommodation, tourism information and more.

Please direct all enquiries and submissions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Call for Papers

Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA 2010)

http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/winter/isa.html

In conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010

http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/

November 2, 2010, San Jose, CA, USA

 ISA_2010_CF (130.31 kB)

With the rapid progress of location based services, geographic information systems, and ubiquitous computing technologies, the space that we are dealing with is no longer limited to outdoor space but being extended to indoor space. Indoor space has some differences from outdoor space, most notably by its relevant third dimension, but also by its privately regulated accessibility. Therefore to provide integrated seamless services across spaces it is required to establish new theories, data models, and systems. For this reason, research has begun to extend the scope of LBS and GIS to indoor space for the applications such as indoor orientation and navigation services, emergency management, indoor space management and 3D cadastre. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners carrying out research and development related to the topic of indoor spatial awareness and to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of in!

door spatial awareness.

The topics of workshop include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

* indoor spatial data models

* handling moving objects in indoor space

* positioning, tracking and navigation in indoor space

* indexing and query processing of indoor spatial databases

* construction of indoor spatial databases

* context-awareness in indoor space

* indoor space analysis

* ontology for indoor space

* interoperability and standards

* applications and services for indoor space

Information for authors

The workshop solicits regular papers and work-in-progress papers. Submissions must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other forum. Papers must be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html, and are limited to 8 and 4 pages, respectively. They must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isa20100.

Acceptance will be based on relevance to the workshop and technical quality, originality, and potential impact, as well as clarity of presentation. All submitted papers will be assigned to at least 3 referees.

The workshop also solicits demo papers that describe demonstrations of prototype systems of relevance to the workshop. Such papers must be formatted and submitted as described above, but are limited to 2 pages. In addition to  relevance to the workshop, acceptance will be based on perceived interest to the workshop participants and the value of the demonstration.

Authors of accepted full and work-in-progress papers will be given the opportunity to also demonstrate prototype systems at the workshop and thus do not need to also submit corresponding demo papers.

The proceedings of the workshops will be published jointly with the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. One author per accepted workshop contribution is required to register for the workshop and the conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted submission. Otherwise, the accepted submission will not appear in the workshop proceedings.

Important Dates

* Sunday, 1 August 2010: paper submission deadline

* Monday, 30 August 2010: notification of acceptance

* Monday, 6 September 2010: camera ready final papers due

* Tuesday, 2 November 2010: Second International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness, San Jose, CA

Workshop General Chair

* Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Program Co-Chairs

* Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

* Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea

Program Committee

* Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland

* Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France

* Andrew U. Frank, Technical University Vienna, Austria

* Chris Gold, Glamorgan University, UK

* Ralf Hartmut Güting, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany

* Christoph Hölscher, Universität Freiburg, Germany

* Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, University of Iowa, USA

* Christopher B. Jones, Cardiff University, UK

* Chulmin Jun, University of Seoul, Korea

* Thomas H. Kolbe, TU Berlin, Germany

* Dik Lun Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong

* Hugo Ledoux, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

* Hua Lu, Aalborg University

* Peter van Oosterom, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

* Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece

* Kai-Florian Richter, Universität Bremen, Germany

* Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece

* Sabine Timpf, Universität Augsburg, Germany

* Michael Worboys, University of Maine, USA

* Sisi Zlatanova, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

If you have any further questions please contact the workshop general chair at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Dear Sir / Madame,

We are pleased to announce the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Economy and Management Transformation (EMT ’10) which will be held in Timisoara, Romania, on October 24-26, 2010. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, whitin the West University of Timisoara.

Full papers should be directly submitted electronically on the conference website, according with the previously established instructions regarding the paper format, until August 26, 2010.

Please find the attached invitation for the conference. For further information, please visit the website http://www.feaa.uvt.ro/conference/

 CfP EMT 2010 (204.27 kB)

Sincerely yours,

The EMT ’10 Organizing Committee

The Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association is pleased to announce that it is hosting its 34th annual conference in Melbourne, Australia, at the Rydges on Swanston hotel from 7 to 10 December 2010.

The theme of the conference is Innovation and Regions: Theory, Practice and Policy. Details such as links for registration, submission of abstracts and booking of accommodation at the conference venue are on our website at www.anzrsai.org

Please note that the final date for the submission of abstracts is 3 September, and the final date for early bird registration is 24 September.

After the great success of the PRSCO 2009 conference last year, we are looking forward to welcoming people to our ANZRSAI 2010 conference. I warmly invite RSAI members to consider joining us in Melbourne in December.

For detailed information please see attached file  ANZRSAI Conference 2010 (122.66 kB)

Date for your diary:

The 9th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International with the theme Changing Spatial Patterns in Globalising World will take place in Timisoara, Romania, on 9-12 May 2012.

It is organized by the West University of Timisoara - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (http://www.uvt.ro/en/academic/facul...) and the Romanian Regional Science Association (www.rrsa.ro).

For more information please see: http://www.rsai2012.uvt.ro/

Call for Papers: 17th ecQTG, 2nd – 5th September 2011, Athens, Greece - http://gisc.gr/ecqtg11

Session Title: Quantitative methods in health geography – development and application

Session Organizer: Dr. Melanie Tomintz, Geoinformation, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Session Reviewers: Scientific Committee, Session Organizer(s) and external experts

 ecQTG2011_health geography_special session (538.68 kB)

Session Abstract: It is known that the health of people is heavily influenced by their surrounding environment. Therefore, research in the area of health geography is a broad and fast growing research discipline addressing topics such as the spread of diseases, health facility planning, adequate allocation of resources, tackling health inequalities and how the environment may influence people’s health. There are different ways on how to approach health geography research and one is to use quantitative methods, which are highly supportive in this research area.

Hence, this session seeks abstracts in the area of health/medical geography with the focus on quantitative methods. Attention should be given to the development of new methods in the area of health geography and also on various application areas where quantitative methods play a major role. Therefore, papers are invited but not limited to the following topics:

• New developments in quantitative methods for health geographic research
• Spatial modelling of access to and usage of health facilities
• Spatial simulation of diseases and health risks
• Privacy issues in quantitative health research

Please submit your abstract (up to a maximum of 1 page) to Dr Melanie Tomintz (via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by the 30th March 2011. Guidelines for abstract format can be found here.

Important deadlines:

• Abstract submission: 30th March 2011
• Abstract acceptance notification: 15th April 2011
• Full Papers submission: 15th May 2011