11th AGILE 2008 Conference on GI Science Announced

29 August 2007, 9:51am

28 August 2007 - On behalf of the AGILE Council and Working Groups, we invite you to participate at the 11th AGILE International Conference on GI Science, scheduled to take place in Girona, a beautiful historical city located northeast of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.

The program will offer paper presentation sessions, plenary round table debates, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share your ideas, explore on-going research, future developments, including state-of-the-art applications, and to network with the professionals from academia, industry, and government who are interested in promoting GI teaching and research activities among GI laboratories at the European level.

Submission Guidelines

Contributions are invited on all topics within the fields of geo-information, geomatics, and geocomputation.

Potential contributors are invited to submit:

Full-paper submission (maximum 6000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research. High-quality scientific submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the new Springer Lecture Notes Series on Geo-Information. We especially encourage PhD students to submit full-papers. Papers must be written in English according to the Springer formatting guidelines.

Short paper submission (3000-4000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished research work. High-quality scientific and strategic (industrial and governmental) submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the AGILE proceedings volume (with ISBN). Papers must be written in English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

Poster submission (500 to 1000-word manuscript) of original scientific and strategic research work. High-quality submissions will be accepted for poster presentations at the conference and provide the exceptional opportunity to stimulate scientific discussions and exchange novel ideas. Papers must be written in English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

Authors’ instructions are soon available under the AGILE portal www.agile-online.org.

Important Deadlines

Deadline for receipt of full paper submission - November 15th 2007
Deadline for receipt of short paper and poster submissions - December 14th 2007
Notification of full-paper acceptance - December 23th 2007
Notification of abstracts acceptance - February 15th 2008
Camera-ready full-paper copies due - January 25th 2008
Camera-ready abstract copies due - March 7th 2008
Conference - May 6-8 2008

Further details, including the conference web site URL, will be published shortly. Please keep an eye on the AGILE portal www.agile-online.org

Lars Bernard, AGILE 2008 Programme Chair,
Please contact lars.bernard@tu-dresden.de for general information on AGILE 2008

Irene Compte, AGILE 2008 Local Committee Chair,
Please contact irene@sigte.udg.es for information on sponsoring AGILE 2008

www.agile-online.org

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