13th AGILE International Conference on GI Science

29 October 2009, 1:07pm

13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science

"Geospatial Thinking"

Guimarães, Portugal, 11-14 May 2010

On behalf of the AGILE council, the programme committee and the local organizing committee, the Universities of Minho and New Lisbon are pleased to invite you to the 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science. The event will be hosted from the 11th to the 14th of May, 2010 in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, under the auspice of the university.

The program will offer parallel paper presentation sessions, keynote sessions, plenary round table debates, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share your ideas, explore on-going research, future developments, including state-of-theart 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.

Conference Topics

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

• Perception and Representation of Geographic Phenomena
• Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems
• Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Modelling and Reasoning
• Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Analysis
• Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Visualisation
• Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Spatial Semantics and Spatiotemporal Ontologies
• Semantic Web and GIS
• Web Services, Geospatial Systems and Real-time Applications
• Location Based Services and Mobile GI Applications
• Geospatial Decision Support Systems
• Public Participation GIS and Participatory uses of Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies
• Volunteered Geographic Information
• GIScience Education and Training
• Demographic and Socioeconomic Modelling
• Environmental/Ecological and Urban/Regional Modelling
• Health and Medical Informatics
• Natural Resources Management and Monitoring
• Disaster and Risk Management
• Geosensor Networks

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit full papers, short papers or posters. The accepted full papers will be published in the Springer series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Short papers will be published on CD.

PhD students are particularly encouraged to submit full papers (maximum 6000 word manuscript) of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research. Full paper submissions will be independently reviewed by 3 reviewers from the Programme Committee and will result in one of the following decisions: accepted or rejected. Authors of rejected contributions will be invited to re-submit their manuscripts as short papers, which will be reviewed again for oral presentation and publication in the conference proceedings.

Short paper submission (3000-4000 word manuscript) of original and unpublished high-quality scientific and strategic (industrial and governmental) work are encouraged as well. Finally there is a third track with poster submissions (500-1000 word manuscript) of original scientific and strategic research work. Both short paper and poster submissions will be independently reviewed by 3 reviewers from the Programme Committee and will result in one of the following decisions: accepted, conditionally accepted, or rejected. Abstracts conditionally accepted will have to satisfy the recommendation of the reviewers if the authors want them to be included in the final programme.

At the conference, prizes will be awarded to the best paper and poster, courtesy of a corporate AGILE affiliated member.


Pre-conference workshops

The conference workshops will be held on Tuesday, May 11 and are a complementary forum to the main conference, encouraging presentation and discussion of work in progress, and facilitating a dialogue on emerging topics in small groups.

Call for Grants

The AGILE Grant Programme will allocate 15 grants (scholarships) to AGILE 2010 attendees, with priority given to PhD student candidates from lesser developed regions. An applicant must have submitted a full or short paper, or a poster. The estimated value of each grant is approximately 500 Euro (including full conference registration and a maximum of 4 nights in a hotel chosen by the conference organisers). For more information on how to apply for a grant, please see the link below.

Important deadlines

06/11/09 Full Paper Submission
13/11/09 Pre-conference workshop proposal
15/12/09 Notification of workshop acceptance
21/12/09 Notification of Full Paper Acceptance
15/01/10 Camera-Ready Full Paper Copies due
01/29/10 Short paper and poster submissions
05/03/10 Notification of short paper and poster acceptance
29/03/10 Camera-Ready Short Paper Copies due
31/03/10 Early Registration
10-14/05/10 Workshops and Conference

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