14th AGILE Conference on GI Science - April 2011

16 September 2010, 4:23pm

14th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
“Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World”
18‐21 April 2011
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Call for Papers

On behalf of the AGILE council, we would like to invite you to participate at the 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, scheduled to take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The program will offer parallel paper presentation sessions, keynote sessions, poster sessions and rre‐conference workshops to share your ideas, explore on‐going research and 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.

Potential contributors are invited to submit:

Full papers: maximum 6000‐words manuscript of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research. High‐quality scientific submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography. We especially encourage PhD students to submit full papers. Papers must be written in correct English according to the Springer formatting guidelines.

Note: AGILE 2011 is running a double-blind review process. In preparing your manuscript, do not include any information which could reveal your identity, or that of your co‐authors. The title section of your manuscript should not contain any author names, email addresses, or affiliation status. In the body of your submission, you should eliminate all direct references to your own previous work. That is, avoid phrases such as "this contribution generalizes our results for XYZ". Also, please do not disproportionately cite your own previous work. In other words, make your submission as anonymous as possible. We need your cooperation in our effort to maintain a fair, double-blind reviewing process.

Short papers: 2000 to 3000‐words manuscript of original and unpublished research work.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 will be published in the AGILE proceedings. Papers must be written in correct English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

Posters proposals: 500 to 1000‐words manuscript of original scientific and strategic research work. High‐quality submissions will be accepted for poster presentations at the conference, which will provide the exceptional opportunity to stimulate scientific discussions and exchange novel ideas. Posters proposals must be written in correct English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

Authors’ instructions are available at the link below. All submissions must be sent in electronically via the on‐line conference manager.

Conference Topics

Contributions are invited on all topics within the fields of geoinformation, geomatics and geocomputation, including (but not limited to):

• Perception and Representation of Geographic Phenomena
• Cognitive Aspects of Human‐Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems
• Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Modelling and Reasoning, Analysis, and Visualisation
• Uncertainty and error propagation
• 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 Collaborative planning support
• Planning Support Systems (PSS) and Geodesign
• 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
• Earth Observation Systems; Algorithms and Applications
• Image Interpretation and Image Analysis

Pre-conference workshops

The pre-conference workshops will be held on Monday, April 18 and are a complementary forum to the main conference, encouraging presentation and discussion of work in progress, and facilitating a dialogue on merging topics in small groups. A more detailed call for workshop proposals will follow later this Fall.

Travel Grants available

The AGILE Grant Program will allocate grants (scholarships) to AGILE 2011 attendees, with priority given to PhD students. An applicant must have submitted a paper or a poster. The estimated value of each grant is approximately 500 Euro (covering full conference registration and a maximum of 4 nights in a hotel chosen by the conference organizers). The call for the grants will be published on the conference web site later this Fall.

Important Deadlines

• Full paper submission: October 18, 2010
• Pre‐conference workshop proposal: November 15, 2010
• Notification of full paper acceptance: December 1, 2010
• Notification of workshop proposal acceptance: December 15, 2010
• Camera‐ready full paper copies due: January 3, 2011
• Short paper and poster submissions: January 14, 2011
• Notification of short paper and poster acceptance: February 25, 2011
• Camera‐ready short paper copies due: March 11, 2011
• Early registration: March 14, 2011
• Conference: April 18-21, 2011

Authors’ instructions

14th AGILE Conference on GI Science

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