2009 International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN 09)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/xingx/LBSN2009.htm

Nov. 3, 2009, Seattle, WA, USA Held in conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
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 LBSN 2009 (529.6 kB) 

Aim and Scope
Social networking services have become extremely popular in recent years, especially for young people. However, they are still rooted in the virtual world. People usually need to sit behind a desktop computer to upload photos, write blogs and communicate with friends. The development of wireless networks and location sensing technologies have made it easier to track and share personal location information on the fly. By adding a location dimension, we can bring social networking back from the virtual world into real life and allow real-life experiences to be shared in a more convenient way. We define Location Based Social Networks (LBSN) as social network services where people can track and share location related information with each other, via either mobile or desktop computers. As location is one of the most important aspects for peoples everyday lives, a lot of novel application scenarios can be supported by LBSN. For example, we can collect and share more trustworthy location recommendations within LBSN and use them to rank interesting locations, discover new places, people and activities.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in emerging innovative research for location based social networks.

Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects of location based social networks:
* Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery
* Personal location/trajectory data mining
* Spatial query log mining
* Geo-tagged multimedia mining
* Opinion mining for location related information
* Spatial data indexing
* Hybrid index for spatial, textual and multimedia data
* Index for moving objects
* Location based social network analysis
* Geographical information extraction and retrieval
* Spatial data acquisition and pre-processing
* Spatial data visualization and computer human interface
* Location privacy, data sharing and security
* Navigation and traffic prediction
* Systems, architectures and middleware

Submission
We seek three kinds of submissions related to location based social networks:
* Full research papers V up to 8 pages
* Vision papers and short technical papers - up to 4 pages
* Demo papers V up to 2 pages
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
Papers must be submitted electronically, via the submission website on or before the submission deadline. All accepted papers will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates
Paper submission: Aug. 18, 2009
Notification of acceptance: Sep. 7, 2009 Camera-ready copies due: Sep. 28, 2009 Workshop date: Nov. 3, 2009

General Chair
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland (Australia)

Program Chair
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Demo Chair
Gang Guan, Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Program Committee
Xin Chen, NAVTEQ (USA)
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research (Australia) Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University (USA) Iqbal Mohomed, Microsoft Research (USA) Sung Hyon Myaeng, Korea Advanced Institute of Sci. and Tech. (Korea) Yanwei Pang, Tianjin University (China) Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo (Japan) Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong) Nenghai Yu, University of Science and Technology of China (China) Yang Yue, Wuhan University (China)

Contact Information
For enquiries and further information, please contact:
Xing Xie (xingx at microsoft.com)
Xiaofang Zhou (zxf at itee.uq.edu.au)
Gang Guan (gguan at Microsoft.com)

QUeST 2009

Call for Papers

1st SIGSPATIAL ACM GIS International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data November 3, 2009, Seattle, WA, USA

http://www.dbs.ifi.lmu.de/~berneck/quest/

Please see attached file for more details

  1st SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Uncertain Data (39.97 kB) 

Dear Colleague,

We cordially invite you to submit a paper to and participate in the upcoming International Symposium on Geography (GEOMED2013), to be held from 10-13 June 2013, in Antalya, Turkey.

The purpose of this symposium is to share your experience, knowledge and research on all aspects of geography, ecology, environment and culture in general.

Call for abstracts and papers is now open. Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be submitted by January 15, 2013.

Attached herewith please find the first announcement of GEOMED2013. For more information and updates about the symposium; please visit the Symposium website at: http://web.deu.edu.tr/geomed Looking forward to welcome you to Antalya, Turkey during 10-13 June 2013.

We shall feel indebted if you can circulate this announcement among your interested friends and colleagues.

For any questions or enquiries do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards.

Prof.Dr.Recep Efe

Symposium Co-chair

On Behalf of the Organizing Committee-GEOMED2013

The European Institute of Retailing and Service Studies (EIRASS)

July 2-5, 2010.

Istanbul, Turkey,

If you are not familiar with our conference, it may be of interest to you if

(1) you are interested in cross-disciplinary research in retailing and consumer services

(2) are interested in a truly international conference (we typically have delegates from 25-30 different countries)

(3) wish to have flexibility (we consider completed work and work in progress)

(4) appreciate a personal approach (same team has been organising this conference for many years)

(5) appreciate a relaxed, high quality environment to discuss your work and expand your network of contacts.

The call for papers and a template for abstracts are attached. When submitting an abstract, please make sure it is the same as the example in terms of font (sizes), order of information and layout.

For more details see attached files:

 EIRASS_CfP (118.38 kB) 

 EIRASS abstract example (84.5 kB) 

Invitation from the Conference Co-chairs

It is with great pleasure that we extend you this invitation to attend the 23rd International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition in Melbourne, Australia, to be held from August 11th to 14th, 2013. The event will be jointly hosted by ASEG and PESA.

The theme for the conference is “The Eureka Moment” – capturing ASEG’s and PESA’s quest for discovery, insight and learning, but also with a sub-contextual nod to the golden riches of Victoria’s past.

This ASEG-PESA hosted conference is a recognised industry forum in which to present and learn about the newest geophysical techniques and practices. All delegates are invited to submit abstracts for posters and presentations in the five concurrent technical streams that we will be running over the three days of the conference. As always, case histories will be well received. We are lining up a number of terrific national and international key-note speakers to kick off the technical sessions. Several workshops and courses are being developed to serve the training needs of members of both host societies.

We are very proud of the venue for the conference and exhibition. The Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) was only recently constructed and will provide a stunning venue on the southern bank of the Yarra River in the heart of Melbourne. The exhibition hall will be located on the same level as, and immediately next to, the technical session meeting rooms, thus fully meshing the exhibition with the conference, and maximising exhibitor- delegate interaction. With more than 100 exhibitor booths, the exhibition hall is the perfect place to get up-to-date on the latest geophysical technologies.

The conference is the largest exploration geophysical conference in the southern hemisphere, attracting geophysicists from minerals and hydrocarbon exploration in equal numbers. Preparations for the conference are advancing at a rapid pace. In particular, tailored sponsorship packages are currently being developed for companies willing to support the conference.

We look forward to seeing you in Melbourne for the 23rd International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition!

Asbjorn Norlund Christensen
Fugro Airborne Surveys
Co-chair (Minerals)

Jarrod Dunne
MEO Australia
Co-chair (Petroleum)

If you would like more information on the 23rd International Geophysical Conference & Exhibition 2013, please visit our website: www.aseg-pesa2013.com.au

GI_Forum 2010 First Call for Papers

http://www.gi-forum.org/

 GI Forum 2010 CFP (40.39 kB) 

The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) is scheduled for July 6-9, 2010, at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Audience. GI_Forum focuses on an international audience that shares an interest in Applied Geoinformatics. This Call for Papers aims at researchers who design, develop and apply advanced methods and techniques of Geoinformatics to a broad range of application domains.

Themes & Application Fields. GI_Forum solicits contributions on emerging topics and research outcomes related to current Geoinformatics methodology, and especially wishes to attract submissions pertaining to the following topics:
• Advances in Geovisualization and Cartography (in cooperation with InterCarto-InterGIS)
• Spatial Data Infrastructure
• Mobile GIS and Location Based Services
• Digital Terrain Representation and Analysis
• Digital Cities and Urban Sustainability Digital Cities are meant to provide a collaborative platform based on modelling of existing and planned urban infrastructure. This concept supports applications of a wide scale range, from the whole city, a city quarter, or a group of buildings down to a single building. We welcome contributions focused on applications as well as conceptual views.
• Global Change: Monitoring and Modelling “Global change” – a short formula for a multitude of anticipated shifts in societal and environmental domains due to strong global drivers such as climate change – calls for monitoring and modelling techniques to better understand regional implications and potential dynamics of such changes in a geospatial manner. International programmes and visions (GEO, GMES, SEIS, …) envisage unified systems based on quality standards for data, products and services to establish optimized observation and forecasting capacity within Europe, and globally.
• Vulnerability: Spatial Assessment and Analysis This topic is expected to highlight different developed and currently investigated methodologies to spatially assess vulnerability. It will specifically address the issue of vulnerability assessment, independent from conceptual discussions. The focus will be on the review and discussion of different methods of GIScience employed to assess, quantify and represent vulnerability as integrated spatial phenomena. Within a workshop session, current achievements and future research challenges will be identified and formulated.
• Learning with Geoinformation We encourage contributions discussing various issues related to geoinformation in education. In 2010 a special focus is put on the concept of 'Spatial Citizenship' and the role of GI-based learning in developing the relevant competences. The bilingual conference on Learning with Geoinformation will host such contributions in sessions partially shared with GI_Forum. Please refer to the separate CFP (www.gi-forum.org/learning). These contributions will be published in separate proceedings.

Submission: Types & Deadlines. GI_Forum 2010 gives authors choices about the type of submission they want to make in order to accommodate a variety of interdisciplinary contributions. Submissions are expected in English language according to the formatting guidelines published on the conference website.
• Deadline for submission of full papers for oral presentation and publication in the conference proceedings; and extended abstracts for discussion sessions: February 1, 2010.
• Late deadline for submission of extended abstracts for poster presentation: June 7, 2010.
We will accept online submissions only, starting from December 2009 at http://www.gi-forum.org/

Publication. Accepted full paper submissions will be published by Wichmann Verlag as a book. Extended abstracts for discussion sessions will be acknowledged in the proceedings.

We are looking forward to your contribution!
Conference Chair: Josef Strobl
Programme Chair: Adrijana Car
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II Congreso Internacional de Desarrollo Local 
6 al 9 de noviembre de 2013
Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, Cuba

More information at: http://www.desarrollolocalcuba.com/index.php?module=default%2Fprincipal

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HOUSING? HOUSING IN AN ERA OF CHANGE
The 2010 Housing Studies Association conference

14-16 April 2010
University of York

The Call for Papers for the 2010 HSA Conference in York is now open.

 HSA 2010 Call for Papers (542.89 kB) 

 HSA 2010 Booking Form (96.66 kB) 

We welcome papers covering any aspect of housing studies, including
policy and practice. We would particularly welcome papers that address
the conference theme of new directions in the face of economic and
political change. Please send a short abstract outlining your proposed
paper and giving full contact details for the corresponding author to:

Ed Ferrari, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield
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The closing date for abstracts is 31 January 2010.

Please see the attached PDF flyer for more details about the conference.
The conference website will be updated with new information as it
becomes available:

http://www.housing-studies-association.org/spring10

Please also find attached a Booking Form. Please note in particular the
Early Bird booking deadline of 26 February 2010.

*** 2010 Early Career Housing Scholar stream ***
For details of the Early Career Housing Scholar stream, please LINK TO DETAILS

The International Input-Output Association (http://www.iioa.org/) announces that the 21st International Input-Output Conference will be held on July 9-12, 2013, in Kitakyushu, Japan.

The goal of the conference is to promote and stimulate the worldwide exchange of ideas among economists and between them and government officials, policy makers, engineers, national accountants and managers with interests in input-output analysis and related methods.  In particular, the theme of conference is set as ‘Toward New Horizons of Innovation, Environment, and Trade” to highlight the current affairs of research activities and the hosting city’s history and planning.

Best regards,