GEOG-AN-MOD 08 announcement

08 January 2008, 1:02pm

Third International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"
GEOG-AN-MOD 08

http://www.lisut.org/workshop/geog_an_mod_08/

in conjunction with

The 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2008)

June 30th to July 3rd, 2008
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

http://www.iccsa.org/

Workshop Description

To date availability of geographic data and information is growing together with the capacity of users to operate with IT tools and instruments. Spatial data infrastructures are growing and allow a wide number of users to rely on them. This growth has not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. Spatial analytical techniques and geographical analysis and modelling methods 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 is aimed at contributing to the development of new techniques and methods to improve the process on 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;
• Data mining;
• 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 March 31, 2008.

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://cyb08.iccsa.org/

Proceedings
Papers accepted to GEOG-AN-MOD 08 (Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics) will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Important dates

14 February 2008: Deadline for full paper submission
31 March 2008: Notification of acceptance
15 April 2008: Camera Ready Papers and Pre-registration deadline
30 June - 3 July 2008: ICCSA 2008 Conference.

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

www.lisut.org/workshop/geog_an_mod_08/

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