Call for Papers

Join us in San Francisco, California for the 56th North American Regional Science Association International (RSAI) Conference sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA). The conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt in Union Square, from Wednesday, November 18 to Saturday, November 21 2009.

For your convenience, we have updated our on-line abstract submission and payment registration system. You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference at the NARSC Website at:

http://www.narsc.org/

It is easy to register. Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference. To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area via the button that is located at the top left of the webpage. If you attended the NARSC conference last year, or a recent conference organized by WRSA, MCRSA/CRSA, SRSA, or RSAmericas, and remember your username and password, you are ready to proceed. If you attended an earlier conference, attended one of the conference mentioned above and forgot your username/password, or are a member of a North American regional science organization who never attended any of these meetings, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password when you reach the login page of the User Area. Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

Once logged in, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference starting on May 22, and check the status of your registration. You will be able to come to login to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password. In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a click on the “Forgot your password?” link in the User Area, enter your e-mail address and your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you do not receive your password via e-mail, check to make sure that there are no messages from narsc.org that were caught by your spam filter.

Individual papers and sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the Website between May 22 and August 1, 2009. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. We are also pleased to continue the graduate student paper competition. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics inclusive within the diverse realm of regional science. We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use. We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography. The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world.

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Grand Hyatt at a rate of $199 per night. We advise you to make your reservations early to secure your own spot on the premises of what will be another memorable event.

This year, a new schedule for conference registration and placement of paper on the conference program will be implemented. Once you have been received notification from the Program Chair of acceptance of an abstract or organized session, all participants are required to register and pay the conference registration fee within two weeks in order to confirm placement on the Program. In no case will a paper or session be included on the Preliminary Program posted on or around October 1 unless all relevant participants are registered. In the case of a paper submission, this means payment by at least one (presenting) author. In the case of an organized session, this means payment by at least one (presenting) author for each of the included papers in the session. Acceptance notification will be issued before August 15, 2009.

If you have questions about the program, local arrangements, or submitting a paper or session, or experience any difficulties, contact the 2009 Program Chair, Serge Rey

Tel.: 480-965-7533

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For local arrangements issues, please contact the 2009 Local Organizing Committee Chair, David Plane

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We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

2013 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

Come join us at the Key Bridge Marriott (April 4-6) for the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association.  Our Program Chair and President-elect is Michael Lahr, Rutgers University. Attendees are encouraged to organize special sessions on topics of their choosing and of interest to regional scientists. Example topics from prior years include regional climate change issues, education policy, environmental issues, energy issues, input-output analyses, labor market analyses, migration analyses, location analyses, program evaluations, real estate & housing, regional data development, regional modeling, rural development, skills and innovation, social policy, spatial econometrics, state and local public finance issues, transportation studies, and urban economics.

For conference registration and abstract submission, simply visit

http://conference.srsa.org

2nd International Workshop on

Computational Transportation Science 2009 Call for Papers November 3, 2009, Seattle, WA, USA
http://www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/iwcts09/

 2nd IWCTS 2009 (31.04 kB) 

In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement in the performance of existing applications. However, information technology (IT) has not had the dramatic impact on day-to-day transportation that it has had on other domains such as business and science. In terms of the real-time information available to most travelers, with the exception of car navigation systems, the transportation experience has not changed much in the last 30-40 years. During this same time, the miniaturization of computing devices and advances in wireless communication and sensor technology have been propagating computing from the stationary desktop to the mobile outdoors, and making it ubiquitous. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for this ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs. A related development is the emergence of increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. These factors have the potential to revolutionize traveler services, and the provision and analysis of related information. In this revolution, travelers and sensors in the infrastructure and in vehicles will all produce a vast amount of data that could be interpreted and acted upon to produce a sea change in transportation.

The emerging discipline of computational transportation science
(CTS) combines computer science and engineering with the modeling, planning, and economic aspects of transportation. The discipline goes beyond vehicular technology, and addresses pedestrian systems on hand-held devices, non-real-time issues such as data mining, as well as data management issues above the networking layer. CTS applications will improve efficiency, equity, mobility, accessibility, and safety by taking advantage of ubiquitous computing.

SCOPE OF THE SUBMISSION
The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers on CTS issues. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are invited from industry as well as academia. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged:

* Uncertain information distributed among moving travellers/
vehicles and the infrastructure
* Information in pedestrian, biking, and other non-motorized
transportation applications
* Ride- and car-sharing using social networks
* Computation of costs of multi-modal travelling
* Information regarding transfers to alternate modes of transportation
* Data mining techniques for travel information
* Dynamic shortest path computations using forecasts
* Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
* Privacy and security issues in transportation information
* Social and institutional information related to travel
* Real-time negotiation among travellers
* Mobile artificial-intelligence aspects related to transportation
* Sensor information related to transportation
* Wireless communication with travelers and vehicles

Submission Instructions
Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6 pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages. Each submission should start with: the title, abstract, and names, contact information of authors, type of the submission (research paper or position paper). Authors are asked to register the titles and abstract of their papers in advance. To register or submit a paper, please visit https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IWCTS09/
or see the workshop website for more details. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the ACM digital library. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.

Important Dates:
Paper submissions due: July 31, 2009
Notification to the authors: September 14, 2009
Camera ready papers due: September 28, 2009
ACM GIS 2009 Conference: November 4-6, 2009
IWCTS Workshop: November 3, 2009

General co-Chairs:
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Glenn Geers, NICTA, Australia

Program committee co-Chairs:
Sangho Kim. ESRI
Betsy George, Oracle

Steering Committee:
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Program Committee:
to be determined

For more information: http://www.ersa.org/events/ersa-workshops/

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)