Council
Elisabete Martins
48th JSRSAI Conference, 8-10 Oct. 2011, Wakayama, Japan
“48th JSRSAI Conference”
Wakayama, Japan, 8th-10th October, 2011
Call for Papers
The 48th Annual Meeting of the Japan Section of the RSAI will be held in Wakayama, Japan from 8-10 October, 2011.
It is a great pleasure to welcome to you to the JSRSAI Conference.
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a paper presentation at the JSRSAI Conference.
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48th JSRSAI Annual Meeting
Venue: Wakayama University, Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city 640-8510, JAPAN
Date: 8-10 October, 2011
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JSRSAI homepage: http://jsrsai.envr.tsukuba.ac.jp/index.html
We look forward to welcoming you in Wakayama, Japan.
Call for Papers: Improving the Quality of Public Services
Call for Papers
(Extended to January 24, 2011)
Call for Papers: Improving the Quality of Public Services (180.18 kB)
Improving the Quality of Public Services
A Multinational Conference
University – Higher School of Economics
University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Conference date: June 27-29, 2011
Location: University - Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Russia
The main web page for the conference is:
http://www.umdcipe.org/conferences/moscow/moscowmain.html
Call for Papers: Regional Science Association Tripartite Workshop
Call for Papers
Regional Science Association Tripartite Workshop
British and Irish – Israeli – Netherlands Sections
May 2-4th 2011 London
Please see attached file for detailled information.
ERSA Nordic section event
Welcome to the First Nordic Winter Conference
ERSA Nordic section event
Date: March 30th - April 1st 2011
Place: Hemavan, Sweden
In the spring of 2011 CERUM together with the Nordic section, ERSA is organising a Winter Conference on Regions: Sustainabilty, Growth, and Policy
Information regarding accomodation, registration, and program will be updated continuously on website of “Centre for regional science”. (http://www.cerum.umu.se)
The conference is sponsored and supported by: The European Union Regional Development Fund, Region Västerbotten, Västerbottens läns landsting, The city of Umeå, The municipality of Skellefteå, The municipality of Lycksele, The Chamber of Commerce Västerbotten, and Swedish Federation of Business Owners Västerbotten.
For more information about the conference, contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Call for Papers_Nordic Winter Conference (447.95 kB)
Summer School SEAI (Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute)
Dear colleague
The SEAI (Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute) summer school is now
starting to organize the 2011 edition.
The updated website is now online at:
http://www.spatialeconometricsadvancedinstitute.org/
Courses will be taught by Paelinck, Kelejian, Prucha, Baltagi and myself
New features this year are:
* Extra labs in spatial statistics using R during the first week
* The labs in R in week 2, 3 and 4 are run by Roger Bivand
* we have 3 extra labs using STATA run by David Drukker
* we have two seminars given by Bill Greene and Hashem Pesaran offered also
to all previous editions alumni
Notice that the seminars by Greene and Pesaran are offered free of charge to
all former SEAI students
The deadline for appllication is february the 20th.
I hope you can give publicity to this important initiative of the
Association.
Let also draw your attention to the 2011 SEA conference to be held in
Toulouse in July. All details may be found at
http://sea2011.univ-tlse1.fr/index.html
The deadline for submitting an abstract is march the 1st 2011
Best wishes
Giuseppe Arbia
Director of SEAI
UGI 2011 Regional Geographic Conference
THE SYSTEM OF PAPERS ARE AVAILABLE.
REGISTER YOUR PAPER AND POSTER NOW!
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UGI 2011 14 to 18 November
The system for submision of papers and posters is now available to authors. This is the sole means of submitting for UGI 2011 and it also provides all information needed for participating. Abstracts should be entered into this system, for assessment by the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC) of LOC UGI 2011. Go to www.ugi2011.cl to submit your abstracts early.
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17th APDR Congress | 5th Congress of Nature Management and Conservation | Internacional Congress of APDR/AECR
17th APDR CONGRESS
5th CONGRESS OF NATURE MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF APDR/ AECR
The Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR) is organizing its 17th Annual Congress in Bragança-Zamora (http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2011/), in the 29th June to 2nd July 2011, with the collaboration of the Spanish Association of Regional Science (AECR). Similarly to 2009, the Congress will be held jointly with the 5th Congress of Nature Management and Conservation. This initiative counts with the scientific and logistical support of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) and Foundation Rei Afonso Henriques in Zamora (FRAH), in collaboration with others scientific societies like the Portuguese Association of Agrarian Economics (APDEA) or Portuguese Society for Rural Studies (SPER).
Abstracts Submission until February 28.
To submite a paper or more information go to: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2011/
Location : Bragança (Portugal) - Zamora (Spain)Contact : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
GEOG-AN-MOD 11 (ICCSA) Submission deadline is approaching: 12 days left
Sixth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis,
Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"
GEOG-AN-MOD 11
http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_an_mod_11/index.html
in conjunction with
The 2011 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2011)
June 20th - June 23th, 2011
University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
http://www.iccsa.org/
During the past decades the main problem in geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Nowadays the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap), public initiatives (e.g. Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, etc.) produced an overabundance of spatial data, which, in many cases, does not help the efficiency of decision processes. The increase of geographical data availability has not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. The inclusion of spatial simulation techniques in recent GIS software favoured the diffusion of these methods, but in several cases led to the mechanism based on which buttons have to pressed without having geography or processes in mind. Spatial modelling , analytical techniques and geographical analyses are therefore required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels, with a clear identification of the geographical information needed and reference scale to adopt. Old geographical issues can find an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are developing, challenging the researchers for new solutions. This workshop aims at contributing to the development of new techniques and methods to improve the process of knowledge acquisition.
The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions on the following Conference Themes :
Geostatistics and spatial simulation;
Agent-based spatial modelling;
Cellular automata spatial modelling;
Spatial statistical models;
Space-temporal modelling;
Space-temporal modelling;
Environmental Modelling;
Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data analysis;
Visualisation and modelling of track data;
Spatial Optimization;
Interaction Simulation Models;
Data mining, spatial data mining;
Spatial Data Warehouse and Spatial OLAP;
Integration of Spatial OLAP and Spatial data mining;
Spatial Decision Support Systems;
Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis;
Spatial Rough Set;
Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory;
Ontologies for Spatial Analysis;
Urban modeling;
Applied geography;
Spatial data analysis;
Dynamic modelling;
Simulation, space-time dynamics, visualization and virtual reality.
Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on March 2011.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes.
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it.
The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher's web site
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
Submission
papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/ please don't forget to select " Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 11" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.
Papers accepted to " Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 11" will be published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Extended version of previous GEOG-AN-MOD papers have been included in five special issues:
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Transactions on Computational Science Journal.
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Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Geocomputation and Urban Planning" Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2011) "Environmental geocomputation for sustainable development" Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
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International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), Special Issue On: "Analysing, Modelling and Visualizing Spatial Environmental Data" Guest Editors: Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy - Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland - Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland - Maurizio Cellura, University of Palermo, Italy
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Borruso G., Bertazzon S., Favretto A. Murgante B., Torre C. (2011) “Geographic Information Analysis for Sustainable Development and Economic Planning: New Technologies†IGI Global
Important dates
28 February 2011: Deadline for full paper submission
18 March  2011: Notification of acceptance
15 April 2011: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
June 20-23, 2011:Â ICCSA 2011 Conference
Beniamino Murgante
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L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T. - Facoltà di Ingegneria
Università degli Studi della BasilicataÂ
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85100 - Potenza - ItalyÂ
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CALL FOR PAPERS | Special Issue of the Journal of International Business Studies
Special Issue Editors
- Ulf Andersson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Ram Mudambi, Temple University, USA
- Srilata Zaheer, University of Minnesota, USA
Deadline for submission: November 18, 2011
Tentative publication date: Spring 2013
Introduction
Although the impact of the changing strategy of MNEs on global economic geography is beginning to receive attention in the literature, IB scholars’ understanding of space remains relatively underdeveloped (McCann and Mudambi, 2005). The O (Ownership) and I (Internalization) dimensions of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm are relatively well understood compared to the L (Location) dimension.
Because of the historical role of national borders, location in IB is often conceptualized and operationalized as a country-specific characteristic. Spatial heterogeneity exists in IB to the extent that countries differ in terms of their cultural and institutional framework, level of economic development and availability of natural resources. The IB literature tends to view space in terms of distance between countries, relying on measures such as cultural distance, institutional distance, psychic distance, distance between country centers, and so on. Whereas for some of these types of distance, the country is appropriate unit of analysis, this is not necessarily true for all. For example, the international cultural distance between two Scandinavian countries like Denmark and Sweden may well be smaller than that between two Indians, one from the Hindi-speaking North and the other from the Tamil-speaking South. Alternatively, to understand the role of geographic distance in the Canadian automotive supply chain by measuring the distance to the traditional industry cluster in Detroit would miss the emerging new automotive clusters in the American South where most non-US MNEs like Nissan, Toyota and BMW have located their assembly plants.
To improve our understanding of the spatial dimension of IB activity and the interaction of location with governance and organization aspects of MNE activity, we need to build on insights from economic and human geography and regional science. By integrating IB more closely with literatures that explicitly recognize the subtleties of geographic space, we push the frontiers of the field. In the process, we make connections with the emerging literature in international strategy that emphasizes the importance of firm-level decision-making on geographical outcomes, insights that can advance the research frontiers of economic geography (Nachum and Zaheer, 2005; Shaver and Flyer, 2000; Alcacer and Chung, 2002). At the most fundamental level, this involves incorporating the impact of sub-national locations on decision-making and performance of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We contend that uniting the IB literature’s rich insights on the organization and governance of the MNE with the nuanced analysis of space in the economic geography literature offers great opportunities for advancing our understanding of both internationalizing firms and locations.
Topics for the Special Issue
We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions, and papers adopting either a single or multi level analysis. Illustrative topics are mentioned below:
- The 'death of distance' and ‘spiky’ global innovation; some scholars have declared the globalized world to be flat, but at the same time the strategic and economic importance of geographically concentrated networks of firms has increased (e.g. Lahiri, 2010). Global connectedness is increasingly recognized as crucial determining the position of individual clusters in the global hierarchy (Cantwell and Janne, 1999; Meyer et al., 2011) and the success of firms within them. For MNEs, managing a portfolio of locations and serving as a key part of the “connective tissue” amongst clusters puts them in a powerful position. Equally, MNEs that fail to leverage their unique position may find themselves weaker in consequence. How does the increased importance of connectedness affect the traditional view in IB linking control to ownership given that connectedness does not necessarily coincide with ownership?
- While there is a rich literature in IB on the MNE’s local embeddedness (e.g., Andersson et al., 2002), its spatial aspects are often simply assumed; they have rarely been distinguished or explored in an explicit manner. Influential IB scholars have recently highlighted this lacuna (Dunning, 2009). How is IB theory and practice affected when geographical co-location and embeddedness are disentangled?
- From Ownership, Location and Internalization to Place, Space and Organization (PSO); within the OLI framework the role of transaction costs is crucial. In the core-periphery model the role of space, dominates. How does an interpretation of transaction costs along spatial dimensions (PSO) affect the predictions of the OLI framework?
- Distance and the liability of foreignness; distance is conceptualized as a multidimensional construct mostly relating to inter-country characteristics. Is it meaningful to conceptualize distance as a multidimensional construct? Can we do a better job of disentangling these dimensions, in order to distinguish more clearly what is attributable to geographic distance, and what is attributable to cultural distance? E.g. the institutions of a place may depend partly on cultural characteristics, and partly on geographic issues such as resource availability, climate, proximity and relationship to other places etc. So papers that better compared and related the dimensions of distance in an IB setting might well prove foundational for other work to be done in this domain.
- Economic geographers are concerned with firm location in general: why they start in certain places, why they tend to stick to those locations, why they sometimes move, why they expand by making investments in other locations and how they organize and co-ordinate their multi-locational activities. Is the multinational firm simply a special case of a multi-locational firm? How do the notions of place, space and organization bear on this question?
- The role of the MNE in cluster formation; clusters are known to have life cycles. Whereas MNEs can play a catalyzing role in the start of a cluster and its further development, it is not clear how clusters and the (subsidiaries of) MNEs belonging to these clusters are affected when clusters are imploding or dissolving. Economic geography provides insights on cluster life cycles, and the questions arise relating to MNEs’ roles in these life cycles. More specifically, MNEs improve the external connectivity of a cluster and we need to know more the implications of this connectivity for the development of the cluster.
- Entry mode theory and spatial heterogeneity; entry mode theory is dominated by the role of transaction costs in determining the optimal governance structure. This theory and the associated empirical studies are in general space neutral. Economic geography has shown that transaction costs are not space neutral. How are the predictions made by entry mode theory affected when we incorporate the notion of spatial transaction costs? Whereas country level institutional characteristics have been incorporated in entry mode studies, sub-national level spatial heterogeneity has so far been absent.
- Spatial antecedents and consequences of geographical value chain disaggregation; as value chains are increasingly disaggregated into activities, projects and tasks, the internal networks of MNEs are becoming more open and increasingly decentralized. What does this likely imply for the international locational dispersion of activity across the full networks orchestrated by MNEs (which may include both 'internal' and 'external' elements if we define these purely in traditional ownership terms)? Conversely, what are the implications for locations of being relatively more (or less) conducive to more open kinds of firm networks locally, e.g. with respect to their IP regimes or other local institutional conditions?
In addition, we provide illustrative examples of some more general topic areas:
- Local partners and geographic space; spatially proximate vs. spatially distant local partners;
- The disaggregation of the value chain and the location of value creation;
- Extra-organizational knowledge spillovers in industrial districts/clusters.
Submission process
All manuscripts will be reviewed as a cohort for this special issue. Manuscripts must be submitted in the window between November 1, 2011, and November 18, 2011, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jibs. All submissions will go through the JIBS regular double-blind review process and follow the standard norms and processes.
For more information about this Call for Papers, please contact the Special Issue Editors or the JIBS Managing Editor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Note: Please see full version at www.jibs.net for list of references cited in this call.
IUGG 2011 | 28 June – 7 July 2011 | Melbourne
2011 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet
28 June - 7 July 2011
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
Melbourne, Australia
IUGG 2011 will be held from 28 June – 7 July 2011 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The General Assembly will be marked by a scientific program of outstanding plenary speakers, a comprehensive program of state of the art symposia organised by each IUGG association, a compelling keynote speakers program, and the highlight of IUGG conferences, an inter-disciplinary, inter-association program of symposia addressing major scientific issues of global and regional significance and concern.
The tragedy of the recent earthquakes Haiti and Chilean anomalous weather patterns world-wide, the on-going catastrophe of cyclones, the enormous loss of life after the Indian Ocean and Samoan tsunamis, and the heartbreak of the 2009 bush fires and 2010/11 floods in Australia – serve as a timely reminder of how much we still need to learn about our changing planet. IUGG 2011 will address some of these issues, and it is arguably the most important international multi-disciplinary conference to be able to do so because of the breadth and depth of the expertise of its eight participating scientific associations.
Form more information: http://www.iugg2011.com/
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