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.

For details, please see attached file

 ecQTG2011_2nd call for papers (1.05 MB)

International Conference "Spatial Thinking and Geographic Information Sciences" (STGIS2011)

Tokyo, Japan, 14-16 September 2011

http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/index.html

The international conference "Spatial Thinking and Geographic Information Sciences" will take place at the University of Tokyo from the 14th through the 16th September, 2011. This conference will be a great opportunity for all scholars studying on spatial thinking and geographic information science to get together. We will be able to share our findings and world-leading research from our contributors with participants from all over the world.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you in Tokyo!

Date: 14th - 16th of September, 2011

Venue: Hongo campus, The University of Tokyo

Registration fee: Free of charge (registration is required)

[Call for papers]

Authors are also invited to submit original and unpublished papers. Submissions should beno longer than 8000 words including a short abstract, tables, equations, etc. The abstract should not be repeated in the first paragraph.  Submission will be possible  from October 1st to December 15, 2010 and the submitted papers will be peer reviewed afterwards. Only the authors of the accepted papers will be given the opportunity to present their research. Furthermore, we will select the highest quality papers and publish in a special issue  of the Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. Again, the papers can be submitted from October 1st to December 15th, 2010 at our webpage:http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/

[Conference topics]

Contributions dealing with (but not limited to) the following fields are encouraged:

- Geospatial predictability and decision making

- Spatial thinking and GIS

- Spatial and spatiotemporal data analysis and visualization

- Web and mobile services, geospatial systems and applications

- GIScience Education and Training

- Political and social system and spatial thinking

- Spatial thinking for planning

- Public management and spatial thinking

- Environmental psychology

- Spatial thinking models

For more information: http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/

Flyer of the conference:http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/flyer.pdf

Call for papers:http://curricula.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/stgis2011/call_stgis2011.pdf

Please circulate our call for papers to your networks.

Inquiry:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2011

Website: http://www.csedu.org

May 6 - 9, 2011

Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands

In cooperation with WfMC and ACM SIGITE

In collaboration with IICREST

Sponsored by INSTICC

Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI

The 3rd International Conference on Computer Supported Education steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the CSEDU-2011 Conference, to be held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. The deadline for paper submission is September 30th, 2010.

The CSEDU program will include a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers. Their names are now available at the conference Website (list not yet complete).

Last year's edition of CSEDU received 304 paper submissions from 64 countries in all continents. After reviewing, only 30 papers were selected to be published and presented as full papers, i.e. completed work (8 pages in proceedings / 30' oral presentations) and 79 papers, describing work-in-progress, were selected as short papers for 20' oral presentation leading to a total oral paper acceptance ratio of less than 36%. These ratios denote a high level of quality, which we intend to maintain or reinforce in the next edition of this conference. EJNR

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and CD-ROM support.

All presented papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session

Please check further details at the CSEDU 2011 conference web site (http://www.csedu.org). There you will find detailed information about the conference structure and its main topic areas. This conference is co-located with WEBIST 2011 (7th International Conference on Web Information Systems - http://www.webist.org/) and CLOSER 2011 (1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - http://www.closer.scitevents.org/). Registration to CSEDU will enable free attendance to any sessions of all co-located events.

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please send a proposal to the CSEDU secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

CSEDU Website: http://www.csedu.org/

 IMPORTANT DATES:

 Regular Paper Submission: September 30, 2010

  Authors Notification (regular papers): January 06, 2011

  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: January 27, 2011

  Conference date: 6 - 9 May, 2011

  Location: Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands

  In cooperation with WfMC and ACM SIGITE

  In collaboration with IICREST

  Sponsored by INSTICC

TOPIC AREAS:

AREA 1: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING LEARNING

   - Web-based learning, Wikis and Blogs

   - Virtual learning environments

   - e-learning platforms, portals

   - Authoring tools and content development

   - Groupware Tools

   - Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning

   - Security Aspects

   - AV-communication and multimedia

   - Mobile learning

   - Ontologies and meta-data standards

   - Intelligent Tutoring Systems

   - e-learning hardware and software

   - Digital Libraries for e-learning

 AREA 2: LEARNING/TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT

   - Supervising and managing student projects

   - Simulated communities and online mentoring

   - Pedagogy enhancement with e-learning

   - Educating the educators

   - Immersive Learning

   - Blended learning

   - Mobile learning (M-learning)

   - Computer-aided assessment

   - Metrics and performance measurement

   - Assessment software tools

   - Assessment methods in blended learning environments

   - e-testing and new test theories

AREA 3: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

   - Learning Organizations

   - Collaborative Learning

   - Community Building

   - Lifelong Learning: Continuing Professional Training & Development

   - Theoretical bases of e-learning environments

   - International Partnerships in Teaching

   - Distance and e-learning in a global context

   - Cooperation with Industry in teaching

   - Context dependent learning

   - Higher Education vs. Vocational Training

AREA 4: DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES

   - e-learning success cases

   - Errors in e-learning

   - Critical Success Factors in Distance Learning

   - e-learning in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Information Engineering

   - Medical Applications

   - Interdisciplinary programs for distance education

   - Impact and achievements of International initiatives

   - Joint-degrees

   - Virtual Labs: Examples, Architecture and Organization

   - Virtual Universities and Classrooms

AREA 5: QUALITY, EVALUATION AND ACCREDITATION POLICIES

   - Benchmark metrics for broad domain learning

   - Standards and interoperability

   - Course design and e-learning curriculae

   - Emerging and best practices

   - Managing quality in e-learning

   - e-learning tactics and strategies

   - Course/program evaluation

   - Teacher Evaluation

   - Accessibility to disabled users

   - Quality Assurance: Recognition; Accreditation; Certification

   - Assessment and accreditation of courses and institutions

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, U.S.A.

Rachelle Heller, The George Washington University, U.S.A.

Lauri Malmi, Aalto University School of Science and Technology,

Finland (List not yet complete)

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:

Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal / INSTICC, Portugal

Boris Shishkov, IICREST / Delft University of Technology, The

Netherlands

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Please check the program committee members list at

http://www.csedu.org/program_committee.asp

Call for papers for the European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) International Workshop on
Evaluating Innovation Policy: Methods and Applications
Florence (Italy), 5-6 May 2011

 EUNIP International Workshop 2011 (430.01 kB)

The Tuscany’s Regional Institute Economic Planning of Tuscany (IRPET,
Italy), the University of Limerick (Ireland) and Aston University (UK)
jointly invite you to submit a paper to the EUNIP International Workshop on
Innovation Policy Evaluation: Methods and Applications.

Location: Florence (Italy)
Dates: 5-6 May 2011
The workshop aims to gather methodological and applied contributions
focussed on the ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the following kinds of
national or regional innovation policies:
·    R&D and innovation incentives at the level of single firms;
·    business networking;
·    technology transfer;
·    formation of innovative enterprises;
·    financial engineering.

Organising committee
Nicola Bellini (IRPET and Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies);
Helena Lenihan (University of Limerick); Mark Hart (Aston University);
Marco Mariani (IRPET); Fabrizia Mealli (University of Florence and IRPET)

Key deadlines
·    Deadline for the submission of an extended abstract: 19 December 2010
·    Notification of paper acceptance: 30 January 2011
·    Deadline for paper submission: 17 April 2011

Please see the attached file for further information and forward this call for papers to anyone who might be interested.
The call for paper is also downloadable at :
http://www.irpet.it/index.php?page=evaluating-innovation

The CEEP (European consortium on landscape economics) would like to announce to the RSAI members the 2nd International conference on Landscape Economics. It will take place in Padua (Italy) on July 4-6, 2011. Deadline for paper submission is March 7, 2011.

For further information see attached file

 CEEP 2011 (26.12 kB)

Dear all,

We would like to bring to your attention the upcoming 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010) that will be held in San Jose, CA, on November 2-5, 2010.  This year's Conference builds on the great success of last year's Conference where more than 200 people attended, and on being the premier annual conference of the newly established ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL http://www.sigspatial.org/).

The invited speakers include:

- Prof. Maneesh Agrawala, University of California at Berkeley

- Prof. Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University

The program:

 ACMGIS2010 (63.59 kB)

This year we will also feature a Ph.D. showcase track and a demo track.

The information can be found at http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/ and the program is there as well. The program is also repeated below. There are also seven pre conference workshops on November 2, 2010. We hope that you will be able to attend and we look forward to your participation.

Registration site: http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/registration.html

(Early registration extended until October 21, 2010.)

Divyakant Agrawal  Pusheng Zhang  Amr El Abbadi  Mohamed Mokbel

General Chair            General Chair    Program Chair   Program Chair

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18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on

Advances in Geographic Information Systems

(ACM GIS 2010)

Call for Participation

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November 2-5, 2010

San Jose, California, USA

http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu

Corporate Sponsorship by

Google

National Science Foundation

ESRI

Microsoft

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2010 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010) is the eighteenth event of 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 interface considerations, and visualization down to storage management and indexing issues. This year's conference builds on last year's conference great success and on being the premier annual conference of the newly formed ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS will have two invited speakers, 36 research papers, 37 poster papers, 4 industry papers, 5 Ph.D. showcases, and 12 demos.

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Invited Lectures

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Designing Maps to Help People

Maneesh Agrawala (University of California at Berkeley)

Invited Lecture

Photographing the World Ground Up

Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University)

Session 1: GIS Privacy

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Privacy-Preserving Matching of Spatial Datasets with Protection against Background Knowledge Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University);Carmen Ruiz Vicente (Aalborg University);Ning Shang (Purdue University);Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)

Privacy-Preserving Data-Oblivious Geometric Algorithms for Geographic Data David Eppstein (University of California, Irvine);Michael T. Goodrich (University of California, Irvine);Roberto Tamassia (Brown University)

VeriPlace: A Privacy-Aware Location Proof Architecture Wanying Luo (University of Waterloo);Urs Hengartner (University of Waterloo)

Session 2: GeoWeb

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Deep integration of spatial query processing into native RDF triple stores Andreas Brodt (Universit?t Stuttgart);Daniela Nicklas (Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg);Bernhard Mitschang (Universit?t Stuttgart)

Determining the Spatial Reader Scopes of News Sources Using Local Lexicons Gianluca Quercini (University of Maryland);Hanan Samet (University of Maryland);Jagan Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland);Michael D. Lieberman (University of Maryland)

An Efficient Location Extraction Algorithm by Leveraging Web Contextual Information Teng Qin (Peking University);Rong Xiao (Microsoft Research Asia);Lei Fang (Tsinghua University);Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia);Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia)

Supporting Location-Based Approximate-Keyword Queries Sattam Alsubaiee (University of California, Irvine);Alexander Behm (University of California, Irvine);Chen Li (University of California, Irvine)

Session 3: Road Networks

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Best Point Detour Query in Road Networks Shuo Shang (The University of Queensland);Ke Deng (The University of Queensland);Kexin Xie (The University of Queensland)

Probabilistic Modeling of Traffic Lanes from GPS Traces Yihua Chen (University of Washington);John Krumm (Microsoft Research)

Scalable Shortest Paths Browsing on Land Surface Songhua Xing (University of Southern California);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

T-Drive: Driving Directions Based on Taxi Trajectories Jing Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China);Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia);Chengyang Zhang;Wenlei Xie (Microsoft Research Asia);Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia);Guangzhong Sun (University of Science and Technology of China);Yan Huang (University of North

Texas)

Local Network Voronoi Diagram

Sarana Nutanong (University of Melbourne);Egemen Tanin (University of Melbourne);Mohammed Eunus Ali (University of Melbourne);Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne)

Session 4: Industrial Session

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Efficiently Locating Photographs in Many Panoramas Michael Kroepfl (Microsoft);Yonatan Wexler (Microsoft);Eyal Ofek (Microsoft Research)

Location Disambiguation in Local Searches Using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees Ritesh J. Agrawal (AT&T Interactive);James G. Shanahan (AT&T Interactive Research)

Detecting Nearly Duplicated Records in Location Datasets Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia);Xixuan Feng (Microsoft Research Asia));Shuang Peng (Search Technology Center, Microsoft);James Fu (Search Technology Center, Microsoft);Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Geospatial Editing Over a Federated Cloud Geodatabase for the State of NSW Kalyan K. Janakiraman (Land and Property Management Authority & Macquarie University);Mehmet A.

Orgun (Macquarie University);Abhaya Nayak (Macquarie University)

Session 5: Computational Geometry

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Cleaning Massive Sonar Point Clouds

Lars Arge (Aarhus University);Kasper Green Larsen;Thomas M?lhave (Duke University);Freek van Walderveen (Aarhus University)

Tolerance Geometry - Euclid's First Postulate for Points and Lines with Extension Gwen Wilke (Vienna University of Techology);Andrew U. Frank (Vienna University of Technology)

Natural Neighbor Interpolation Based Grid DEM Construction Using a GPU Alex Beutel (Duke University);Thomas M?lhave (Duke University);Pankaj K. Agarwal (Duke University)

Measuring Consistency with Respect to Topological Dependency Constraints M. Andrea Rodriguez (Universidad de Concepcion);Nieves Brisaboa (Universidade da Coru?a);Yasna Meza (Universidad de Concepcion);Miguel R. Luaces (Universidade da Coru?a)

Optimal and Topologically Safe Simplification of Building Footprints Jan-Henrik Haunert (Universit?t W¨¹rzburg);Alexander Wolff (Universit?t W¨¹rzburg)

Session 6: Spatio-temporal Data

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An Algorithmic Framework for Segmenting Trajectories based on Spatio-Temporal Criteria Maike Buchin (TU Eindhoven);Anne Driemel (Utrecht University);Marc van Kreveld (Utrecht University);Vera Sacrist¨¢n (Universitat Polit¨¨cnica de Catalunya)

A Lagrangian Approach for Storage of Spatio-Temporal Network Datasets: A Summary of Results Michael R. Evans (University of Minnesota);KwangSoo Yang (University of Minnesota);James M. Kang (University of Minnesota);Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota)

Selecting Tracking Principals with Epoch Awareness Oliviu Ghica (Northwestern University);Goce Trajcevski (Northwestern University);Fan Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China);Roberto Tamassia (Brown University);Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University)

A Variant of Particle Filtering Using Historic Datasets for Tracking Complex Geospatial Phenomena Anand Panangadan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory);Ashit Talukder (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Usability Analysis of Compression Algorithms for Position Data Streams Nicola H?nle (Universit?t Stuttgart);Matthias Grossmann (Universit?t Stuttgart);Steffen Reimann (Universit?t Stuttgart);Bernhard Mitschang (Universit?t Stuttgart)

Session 7: Visualization

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Bridge Detection in Grid Terrains and Improved Drainage Enforcement Ryan Carlson (Swarthmore College);Andrew Danner (Swarthmore College)

Annotating and Navigating Tourist Videos Bo Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia);Qinlin Li (Sun-Yatsen University);Hongyang Chao (Sun-Yatsen University);Bill Chen (Microsoft Corporation);Eyal Ofek (Microsoft Corporation);Ying-Qing Xu (Microsoft Research Asia)

Bag-Of-Visual-Words and Spatial Extensions for Land-Use Classification Shawn Newsam (University of California at Merced);Yi Yang (University of California at Merced)

Generating Synthetic Meta-data for Georeferenced Video Management Sakire Arslan Ay (University of Southern California);Seon Ho Kim (University of Southern California);Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore)

Session 8: Map Matching and Labeling

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On Map Matching of Wireless Positioning Data: A Selective Look-ahead Approach Matt Weber (Georgia Institute of Technology);Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology);Kipp Jones (Skyhook Wireless);Michael J. Covington (Georgia Institute of Technology);Lama Nachman (Intel Corporation);Peter Pesti (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Qualitative Matching of Spatial Information Jan Oliver Wallgr¨¹n (University of Bremen);Diedrich Wolter (University of Bremen);Kai-Florian Richter (University of Bremen)

Dynamic One-Sided Boundary Labeling

Martin N?llenburg (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of California, Irvine);Valentin Polishchuk (University of Helsinki);Mikko Sysikaski (University of Helsinki)

Beyond Rasters: Introducing The New OGC Web Coverage Service 2.0 Peter Baumann (Jacobs University)

Semi-Automatic Interpretation of Buildings and Settlement Areas in User-Generated Spatial Data Stefan Werder (Leibniz Universit?t Hannover);Birgit Kieler (Leibniz Universit?t Hannover);Monika Sester (Leibniz Universit?t Hannover)

Session 9: Spatial Queries

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Energy-Efficient Processing of Spatio-Temporal Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks Markus Bestehorn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology);Klemens B?hm (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology);Erik Buchmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology);Stephan Kessler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Verifying Spatial Queries Using Voronoi Neighbors Ling Hu (University of Southern California);Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University);Spiridon Bakiras (City University of New York);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

Easiest-to-Reach Neighbor Search

Jie Shao (University of Melbourne);Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne);Egemen Tanin (University of

Melbourne)

Spatial Outlier Detection: Random Walk Based Approaches Xutong Liu (Virginia Tech);Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech);Feng Chen (Virginia Tech)

Topological Reasoning Between Complex Regions in Databases with Frequent Updates Arif Khan (Unversity of Florida);Markus Schneider (University of Florida)

Poster Session

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9+-Intersection Calculi for Spatial Reasoning on the Topological

9+Relations between Heterogeneous

Objects

Yohei Kurata (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

A Managed Object Based Method for Representing Interactive and Dynamic Features Wan Wen (Aalborg University);Xing Lin (Peking University)

A User Location Anonymization Method for Location  Based Services in a Real Environment Akiyoshi Suzuki (Osaka University);Mayu Iwata (Osaka University);Yuki Arase (Microsoft Research Asia);Takahiro Hara (Osaka University);Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia);Shojiro Nishio (Osaka

University)

Algorithms for Compressing GPS Trajectory Data: An Empirical Evaluation Jonathan Muckell (University at Albany -- SUNY);Jeong-Hyon Hwang (University at Albany -- SUNY);Catherine T. Lawson (University at Albany -- SUNY);S. S. Ravi (University at Albany -- SUNY)

Augmented Internet Maps with Property Information from Aerial Imagery Philipp Meixner (Graz University of Technology);Franz Leberl (Graz University of Technology)

On Continuous Monitoring Top-k Unsafe Moving Objects Jian Wen (University of California, Riverside);Vassilis J. Tsotras (University of California,

Riverside)

Decentralized Querying of Topological Relations Between Regions without Using Localization Matt Duckham (University of Melbourne);Myeong Hun Jeong (University of Melbourne);Sanjiang Li (University of Technology Sydney);Jochen Renz (Australian National University)

Derivation of Road Network from Land Parcels Jiantong Zhang (Technische Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Yueqin Zhu (Technische Universit?t M¨¹nchen and China University of Mining and Technology);Jukka Krisp (Technische Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Liqiu Meng (Technische Universit?t M¨¹nchen)

DualgridFF: a Robust, Consistent and Efficient Physical Data Model for Spatial Databases Jose Antonio Cotelo-Lema (Universidade da Coru?a);Miguel Rodr¨ªguez Luaces (Universidade da Coru?a)

Efficient Indexing Structure for Scalable Processing of Spatial Alarms Myungcheol Doo (Georgia Institute of Technology);Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology);Nitya Narasimhan (Motorola Applied Research Center);Venu Vasudevan (Motorola Applied Research Center)

Evaluation of Cardinal Direction Developments between Moving Points Tao Chen (University of Florida);Hechen Liu (University of Florida);Markus Schneider (University of

Florida)

Exploiting Local Node Cache in Top-k Queries within Wireless Sensor Networks Johannes Niedermayer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Marioi A. Nascimento (University of Alberta);Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Peer Kr?ger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen)

Extracting Moving Regions from Spatial Data Mark McKenney (Texas State University);James Webb (Texas State University)

Finding Similar Users Using Category-Based Location Histories Xiangye Xiao (Microsoft Research Asia and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology);Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia);Qiong Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology);Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

GeoLinked Data and INSPIRE through an Application Case Luis M. Vilches-Bl¨¢zquez (Ontology Engineering Group);Boris Villaz¨®n-Terrazas (Ontology Engineering Group);Victor Saquicela (Ontology Engineering Group);Alexander de Le¨®n (Ontology Engineering Group);Oscar Corcho (Ontology Engineering Group);Asunci¨®n G¨®mez-P¨¦rez (Ontology Engineering Group)

Indexing Large-Scale Raster Geospatial Data Using Massively Parallel GPGPU Computing Jianting Zhang (City College of New York);Simin You (City University of New York Graduate Center);Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma)

Kernelized Map Matching

Ahmed Jawad (Fraunhofer IAIS);Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS)

Location Recommendation for Location-based Social Networks Mao Ye (The Pennsylvania State University);Peifeng Yin;Wang-Chien Lee (The Pennsylvania State

University)

Memory-Efficient A*-Search Using Sparse Embeddings Franz Graf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Matthias Schubert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen)

Spatial Probabilistic Modeling of Calls to Businesses Ramaswamy Hariharan (AT&T Interactive Research);Ji Meng Loh (AT&T Labs - Research);James G. Shanahan (AT&T Interactive Research);Kenji Yamada (AT&T Interactive Research)

Modelling Spatial Video as part of a GIS Video Analysis Framework Paul Lewis (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

A Case for Time-Dependent Shortest Path Computation in Spatial Networks Ugur Demiryurek (University of Southern California);Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Southern California);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

Optimal Network Location Queries

Parisa Ghaemi (University of Southern California);Kaveh Shahabi (University of Southern California);John P. Wilson (University of Southern California);Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Southern California)

Quantitative Analysis of Simulated Erosion for Different Soils Zhongxian Chen (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute);Christopher Stuetzle (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute);Barbara Cutler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute);Jared Gross;Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute);Thomas Zimmie (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Querying the Future of Spatio-Temporal Objects Philip Schmiegelt (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg);Bernhard Seeger (Philipps-Universit?t Marburg)

Regional Behavior Change Detection via Local Spatial Scan Jing Dai (IBM T.J. Watson Research);Feng Chen (Virginia Tech);Sambit Sahu (IBM T.J. Watson Research);Milind Naphade (IBM T.J. Watson Research)

Reverse k-Nearest Neighbor Monitoring on Mobile Objects Tobias Emrich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Peer Kr?ger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Naixin Xu (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen);Andreas Z¨¹fle (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M¨¹nchen)

Spatial Extensions to Kernel Methods

Alexei Pozdnoukhov (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

sTrack: Tracking in Indoor Symbolic Space with RFID Sensors Hye-Young Kang (Pusan National University);Joon-Seok Kim (Pusan National University);Ki-Joune Li (Pusan National University)

Spatial Indexing on Tetrahedral Meshes

Leila De Floriani (University of Genova);Riccardo Fellegara (University of Genova);Paola Magillo (University of Genova)

Time Geography Inverted: Recognizing Intentions in Space and Time Peter Kiefer (Universit?t Bamberg);Martin Raubal (University of California, Santa Barbara);Christoph Schlieder (University of Bamberg)

Towards Quality Metrics for OpenStreetMap Peter Mooney (National University of Ireland, Maynooth);Padraig Corcoran (National University of Ireland, Maynooth);Adam C. Winstanley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

Voronoi-Based Aggregate Nearest Neighbor Query Processing in Road Networks Liang Zhu (Fudan University);Yinan Jing (Fudan University);Weiwei Sun (Fudan University);Dingding Mao (Fudan University);Peng Liu (Fudan University)

Ph.D. Showcase

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3D Oceanographic Data Compression Using 3D-ODETLAP You Li (RPI), Tsz-Yam Lau (RPI), Christopher S. Stuetzle (RPI), Peter Fox (RPI), and W. Randolph Franklin (RPI)

A Model for Progressive Transmission of Spatial Data based on Shape Complexity Fangli Ying (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), Peter Mooney (Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland), Padraig Corcoran (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), and Adam C. Winstanley (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)

Applications of Graph Algorithms in GIS

St¨¦phanie Vanhove (Ghent University) and Veerle Fack (Ghent University)

Haptic-GIS: Exploring the possibilities

Ricky Jacob (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), Peter Mooney (Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland), Padraig Corcoran (NUI Maynooth, Ireland), and Adam C. Winstanley (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)

Slope Preserving Lossy Terrain Compression Zhongyi Xie (RPI), W. Randolph Franklin (RPI), and Daniel M. Tracy (RPI)

Demo Session

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Analyzing Semantic Location Cloaking Techniques in a Probabilistic Grid-Based Map Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan);Claudio Silvestri (University of Venice);Elisa Bertino (Purdue University)

Automatic Construction and Multi-level Visualization of Semantic Trajectories Zhixian Yan (EPFL);Lazar Spremic (EPFL);Dipanjan Chakraborty (IBM Research, India);Christine Parent (University of Lausanne);Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL);Karl Aberer (EPFL)

CBGIR: Content-Based Geographic Image Retrieval Shawn Newsam (University of California at Merced);Daniel Leung (University of California at Merced);Oscar Caballero (University of California at Merced);Justin Floreza (University of California at Merced);Jesus Pulido (University of California at Merced)

A Spatio-Temporal-Textual Crime Search Engine Xutong Liu (Virginia Tech);Changshu Jian (Virginia Tech);Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech)

Exploring Labeled Spatial Datasets Using Association Analysis Tomasz F. Stepinski (Lunar and Planetary Institute);Josue Salazar (Lunar and Planetary Institute);Wei Ding (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Geoblogging - User-Contributed Geospatial Data Collection and Fusion Dieter Pfoser (Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena);Charikleia Lontou (Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena);Euthymios Drymonas (Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Athena);Savvas Georgiou (National Technical University of Athens)

GQBox: Geospatial Data Quality Assessment Yassine Lassoued (CMRC, University College);Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek (Alactel-Lucent Bell Labs);Omar Boucelma (LSIS - Aix-Marseille Universit¨¦);Feranando Lemos (PRiSM, University of Versailles);Mokrane Bouzeghoub (PRiSM, University of Versailles)

INTACT: A Spatial Query Integrity Assurance Framework for Location-based Services Chih-Jye Wang (Auburn University);Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University);Ling Hu (University of Southern California);Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

Keyword Search in Geospatial Database

Kavita V. V Ganeshan (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore);N. L. Sarda (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay);Sanchit Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

Ontuition: Intuitive Data Exploration via Ontology Navigation Marco D. Adelfio (University of Maryland);Michael D. Lieberman (University of Maryland);Hanan Samet (University of Maryland);Kashif A. Firozvi (Georgetown University)

Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Analytics using Microsoft StreamInsight Mohamed Ali (Microsoft SQL Server);Badrish Chandramouli (Microsoft Research);Balan S. Raman (Microsoft SQL Server);Ed Katibah (Microsoft SQL Server)

Strabo: A System for Extracting Road Vector Data from Raster Maps Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California);Craig A. Knoblock (University of Southern

California)

Second Workshop on Dynamic Games in Economics

The Rimini Center for Economic Analysis, Rimini, Italy
December 13-14, 2010

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss recent advances in the applications of dynamic games to economic problems.  Topics include differential games, evolutionary games, and multi-stage games, repeated and stochastic games.  All applications in economics and management science are welcomed.  To maximize interaction among participants, no parallel sessions are planned.

Organizers:
Luca Lambertini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Georges Zaccour, GERAD, HEC Montréal, Canada

Invited speakers:
Hassan Benchekroun, McGill University, Canada
Engelbert Dockner, University of Vienna, Austria
Santiago Rubio, University of Valencia, Spain

Sponsors:
The Rimini Center for Economic Analysis, Italy (http://www.rcfea.org/)
Chair in Game Theory and Management, HEC Montréal, Canada

Registrations fees:
90 euros (include lunches, coffee breaks and one dinner)
RCEA registered scholars are exempted from paying this registration fee. However they must pay a booking fee of 50 euros upon paper submission or online registration. This booking fee will be refunded to scholar  at registration in Rimini . This booking fee will not be refunded if the RCEA scholar will not show up at the workshop.

Deadlines:
Submission of one-page abstract: October 30,  2010
Notification of  acceptance: November 7,  2010
Registration: November 15, 2010
Final Program: November 20, 2010

(To be included in the final program, at least one author must register by the deadline)

Call for Papers

The 22nd PRSCO Conference will be scheduled during 3-6 July, 2011, Seoul, Korea.

Please see attachment for more information.

 22nd PRSCO 2011 (147.69 kB)

Official home page address is http://www.prsco2011.com.

Call for Papers

International workshop "Regional  competitiveness and international factor movements" that LEO  (Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orleans) CNRS UMR 6221 and INFER will organize in Orleans (France) on March 17-18, 2011.

Please find attached more details:

 Workshop INFER (141.47 kB)

The workshop website : http://www.univ-orleans.fr/leo/infer

UDMS 2011

28TH URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM

September 28-30, 2011

DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS

 CfP UDMS 2011 (49.63 kB)

The Urban Data Management Society has organised international symposia at various locations throughout Europe since 1971, and UDMS 2011 will mark its 40th anniversary.

For this anniversary the Board of UDMS has decided to hold the conference in Delft, The Netherlands, a city and a country we have called home for many years. For this symposium the Board has decided to call attention to the 40 years of UDMS, certain that this is an experience not to be found elsewhere and a valuable basis on which to form planning for the future.

Consequently the general theme chosen of UDMS 2011 is UDMS at 40 years: making contributions to the future As in the UDMS tradition we will provide a forum in which representatives from local authorities, universities, research centers and professionals can join together to discuss new approaches, to consider new technologies, and to share practical experiences in the field of urban and regional data management.

UDMS 2011 will include dynamic Discussion Working Sessions in which academics, representatives from local authorities and professionals will discuss relevant topics and problems for which solutions are required. The results of the discussion will be presented by a rapporteur in a final session. These sessions will facilitate the effective creation of collaboration and synergies between participants in addition to the conventional Sientific and Technical Sessions.

Representatives from local authorities in Europe will be invited to participate to the conference and take part to the Discussion Working Sessions.

The organising committee invites you to submit a paper for presentation and to take part in this important event.

Three types of submissions will be considered:

- Scientific papers up to 6000 words, for full paper peer review by three reviewers.

- Technical papers up to 3000 words presenting new solutions, review of potential new technologies and project results, for abstract review

- Technical papers, especially from local authorities and professionals, presenting the description of experiences, solutions or problems requiring solutions, for abstract review All accepted papers will be orally presented at the conference.

Scientific papers and a selection of Technical papers will be printed in the UDMS proceedings that will be published by Taylor & Francis as a hardbound book.

The three best of papers in each category will receive an award of recognition.

The International Programme Committee would like to receive proposals addressing the following symposium areas and topics:

UDM Technical Issues:

- 3D for municipalities and citizens: reconstruction, processing, analysis & visualisation

- Systems and sensors for monitoring urban and regional environments

- Semantic web for urban applications

UDM Practitioner issues:

- Cooperation among local authorities in urban data management

- Lessons learned from 40 years of experience and their future application

- Impacts & implications of social networks/twitter Google Earth and other internet services to government IT/data production/distribution/use

- Uses and applications of UDM among local and national governments Other topics can be addressed provided that the relation with the overall theme is demonstrated.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Full scientific paper submission deadline: December 6, 2010 Abstract technical paper submission deadline December 13, 2010 Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2011 Final papers delivered by: May 30, 2011 UDMS 2011 in Delft September, 28-30, 2011

SUBMISSION:

Paper submission instructions can be found on the UDMS website, http://www.udms.net.

Participants will be expected to provide full papers and abstracts by the above referenced dates.

Following review the notification of acceptance will be accompanied by suggestions for revisions for the final paper.

The website submission portal will be available by the end of September 2010 Submitting a paper will be considered as pre-registration.

Authors will be required to register and commit to participation.

Papers will be written and presented in English.

Updated information concerning UDMS 2011 in Delft will be available at the UDMS web site, http://www.udms.net.

For further information:

UDMS Executive Secretary

Mrs. Elfriede M. Fendel

Section GIS technology

OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Delft University of Technology Jaffalaan 9

NL-2628 BX Delft

The Netherlands

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