Fifth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFC, Please forward this email to anyone interested. On behalf of (GEOG-AN-MOD 10) Programme Committee, it is a pleasure to invite you to participate to the: Fifth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" GEOG-AN-MOD 10 http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_an_mod_10/index.html in conjunction with The 2010 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2010) March 23th to March 26th, 2010, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan http://www.iccsa.org/ Workshop Description During the past decades the main problem of geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Today 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 of which buttons to press without having geography in mind. Spatial analytical techniques, geographical analyses and modelling meth! ods are therefore required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels. 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; Spatial network 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 7 December 2009. 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. Authors Guideline 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.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). 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 10" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. Proceedings Papers accepted to GEOG-AN-MOD 10 (Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics) will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Extended version of previous GEOG-AN-MOD papers have been included in four special issues: Transactions on Computational Science Journal. Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Geocomputation and Urban Planning" Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Environmental geocomputation for sustainable development" Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 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 Important dates 10 November, 2009: Deadline for full paper submission 7 December 2009: Notification of acceptance 8 January 2010: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers March 23-26, 2010: ICCSA 2010 Conference Organising Committee: Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada. Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy Programme Committee Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, Usa Alex Hagen-Zanker, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK Yong Ge, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Suzana Dragicevic, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada Arta Dilo, University of Twente, the Netherlands Michele CAmpagna, University of CAgliari, Italy Allan Brimicombe, Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of East London, UK Stefano Crocchianti, University of Perugia, Italy Manfred Schrenk, Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria Fabio Luino, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Italy François Pinet, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France Andrea Taramelli, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Usa Nicoletta Gazzea, High Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Italy Bianca Schoen, University College Dublin , Ireland Markus Wolff, Department of Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany Nicola Masini, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy Devis Tuia, Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Riske, Univeristy of Lausanne, Switzerland Dmitry Kurtener , Agrophysical Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Department of Architecture and Planning - University of Sassari, Italy Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University, Danmark Ivan Blecic, Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari, Italy Jérôme Gensel, Spatio-TEmporal information, Adaptability, Multimedia and knowlEdge Representation Laboratory (STEAMER), Grenoble, France Maria Danese, University of Basilicata, Italy Elke Moons, Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium Didier Josselin, University of Avignon, France Paola Perchinunno, Department of Statistical Science, University of Bari, Italy Tomas Mildorf, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic Christine Voiron-Canicio, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis – CNRS – UMR ESPACE, France Rosa Lasaponara, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council, Italy Alenka Krek, University of Hamburg, Germany Pablo Vanegas, Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Marta G. Vivanco, Atmospheric Pollution Unit, Environmental Department, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain Massimiliano Petri, University of Pisa, Italy Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland Itzhak Omer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Urska Demsar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Technion –Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Maurizio Lazzari, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy Dimos N. Pantazis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece Sebastiano Trevisani, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Italy Bahaaeddin Alhaddad, Center of Land Policy and Valuations, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Salvatore Manfreda, University of Basilicata, Italy Sandro Bimonte, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France Janusz Starczewski, Cz stochowa University of Technology, Poland Pasquale Di Donato, University of Sapienza Roma, Italy Salem Chakhar, University Paris Dauphine, France Roberto De Lotto, University of Pavia, Italy Tao Cheng, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering , University College London, UK Christoph Aubrecht, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Filomena Canora, University of Basilicata, Italy Ioannis Dokas, University College Cork, Ireland Hexiang Bai, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Silvana Grella, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy Belen Palop, University Valladolid, Spain Alessandra Lappucci, University of Pisa, Italy Baris Kazar, Oracle Corporation, Usa Maurizio Gibin, School of Geography, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland Further information For further information or questions, please send an e-mail to: Giuseppe Borruso (University of Trieste, Italy) giuseppe.borruso@econ.units.it Beniamino Murgante (University of Basilicata, Italy) beniamino.murgante@unibas.it Beniamino Murgante Beniamino Murgante, PhD L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T. - Facoltà di Ingegneria Università degli Studi della Basilicata 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 85100 - Potenza - Italy tel. +39-0971-205125 fax +39-0971-205185 Mobile: +393204238518 Skype: beniamino.murgante e-mail: beniamino.murgante@unibas.it url: http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/Benny.html