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Call for Participation
8th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2008)

<< Registraion is now open at http://www.w2gis.org >>

December 11-12, 2008, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

The continuing advances in the development of Wireless and Internet technologies generate ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of geo-referenced data. Wireless and Internet devices also offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information. Consequently, new challenges and opportunities have been provided to the GIS research community.

This Symposium is intended to provide an up-to-date review of advances in recent development of Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS). It is the 8th in a series of successful events beginning with Kyoto 2001, and alternating locations between East Asia and Europe, with the most recent event held in Cardiff, UK. The list of accepted papers are available now at http://www.w2gis.org

Symposium Chairs
M. Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
X. Li, East China Normal University, China
C. Ray, Naval Academy Research Institute, France

Steering Committee
M. Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
J.D. Carswell, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
C. Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
M. Egenhofer, NCGIA, USA
K.J. Li, Pusan National University, Korea
T. Tezuka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
C. Vangenot, EPFL, Switzerland

Program Committee
A. Abdelmoty, Cardiff University, UK
S. Anand, University of Nottingham, UK
T. Badard, Laval University, Canada
A. Bouju, University of La Rochelle, France
T. Brinkhoff, IAPG, Germany
K. Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.L. Damiani, DICO - University of Milan, Italy
R.A. de By, ITC, The Netherlands
M. Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia
A. Edwardes, University of Zurich, Switzerland
R. Guting, Fernuniversitat, Hagen, Germany
B. Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Y. Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
C.S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
H.A. Karimi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
B. Kobben, ITC, The Netherlands
J. Komarkova, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Y.J. Kwon, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea
S. Li, Ryerson University, Canada
M. R. Luaces, University da Coruna, Spain
H. Martin, University of Grenoble, France
G. Mc Ardle, University College Dublin, Ireland
P. Muro-Medrano, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
S. Mustiere, IGN, France
S. Nittel, University of Maine, USA
B.C. Ooi, National University of Singapore
G. Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
D. Pfoser, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
P. Rigaux, University of Paris-Dauphine, France
M. Schneider, University of Florida, USA
C. Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
S. Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
K. Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan
Y. Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
M. Tomko, Universtiy of Zurich, Switzerland
M. Ware, University of Glamorgan, UK
R. Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
S. Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia
O. Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
A. Zipf, University of Bonn, Germany

Local Industrial Chair
L. Ye, Shanghai Galileo Industries, China

Local Organizing Committee
L.Z. Yu, East China Normal University, China (Co-chair)
J. Shu, East China Normal University, China (Co-chair)
L. Yu, Shanghai Ubiquitous Navigation Technologies Ltd, China
J.P. Wu, East China Normal University, China
M.H. Ji, East China Normal University, China
Y.F. Wang, East China Normal University, China