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The Second International Workshop on
Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems
(SeBGIS'06)
In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
**** Extended Deadlines ****
WORKSHOP THEME
The recent years brought many developments that have radically changed how
we understand information processing. Data warehouses and OLAP systems are
nowadays a fundamental component of decision-support systems. By extracting
semantics from the raw data contained in a data warehouse, organizations
are able to optimize their business processes. Further, the success of
Internet has generated a paradigm shift in distributed computing leading
to the area of Semantic Web, in which semantics is the fundamental component
for achieving communication both for humans and applications. In addition,
mobile and wireless computing have entered everyone's life through dedicated
devices leading to location-based services. Finally, Grid computing pushes
the frontier of global interoperability by enabling applications to integrate
computational and information resources managed by diverse organizations
in widespread locations.
The fact that all these developments have entered the spatial domain
increases the importance of the elicitation of the semantics of geographical
information. New applications ask for enriching the semantics associated to
geographical information in order to support a wide variety of tasks including
data integration, interoperability, knowledge reuse, knowledge acquisition,
knowledge management, spatial reasoning and many others. Examples of such
semantic issues are temporal and spatio-temporal data management,
3D manipulation, spatial granularity and multiple resolutions, multiple
representations (providing different perspectives of the same information),
vague and ambiguous geographic concepts, the relationship between geographic
and physical concepts, and identity of geographic objects through time.
OBJECTIVES
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and
industry as well as practitioners for discussing views on how to integrate
semantics into current geographic information systems, and how this will
benefit the end users. The workshop will be organized in a way to highly
stimulate interaction amongst the participants. To this aim, an important
part of each regular time slot will be reserved for discussion.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The relevant topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to
the following:
- Definition, extraction, elicitation, and capture of spatial semantics
- Multi-resolution and multi-representation in GISs
- 3D GIS
- Temporal and Spatio-Temporal GIS
- Interoperability and Standards for GIS
- Spatial Data Infrastructures
- Semi-structured Geographic Data Modeling and Reasoning
- Distributed GIS
- Conceptual Modeling for GIS
- Semantic Web and GIS
- Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Ontologies
- Mobile and Location-based GIS
- Spatial Data Warehouses, Spatial Data Mining, Spatial Decision Making
- Grid computing for GIS
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All
submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format
and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format.
Authors' instructions can be found at the address:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The paper submission site is located at the address:
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/sebgis/2006/papers
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically
excludes a paper from the proceedings.
LOCATION
The workshop in Montpellier, France, will be held in conjunction with
the OTM conference in October/November 2006. The working language will
be English.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract Submission Deadline June 30, 2006
Paper Submission Deadline July 10, 2006
Acceptance Notification August 10, 2006
Camera Ready Due August 20, 2006
OTM Conferences October 29 - November 3, 2006
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ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
Esteban Zimányi
Department of Computer & Decision Engineering, CoDE
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Belgium
email: ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Gennady Adrienko, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Yvan Bédard, Université de Laval, Canada
David Bennett, University of Iowa, USA
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
Roland Billen, Université de Liège, Belgium
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Bénédicte Bucher, Institut Géographique National, France
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
Eliseo Clementini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Nadine Cullot, Université de Bourgogne, France
Fernando Ferri, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali, Italy
Anders Friis-Christensen, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
Robert Laurini, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France
Sergei Levashkin, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Thérèse Libourel, Université de Montpellier II, France
Peter van Oosterom, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Maurizio Rafanelli, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica, Italy
Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Nectaria Tryfona, Talent Information Systems, SA, Greece
Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia
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