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.

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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

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