UDMS 2009 - 27th Urban Data Management Symposium

23 September 2008, 4:20pm

June 24-26, 2009
Ljublana, Slovenia

First Announcement and Call for Papers

UDMS, the Urban Data Management Society, has organised international symposia at various locations in Europe in order to promote the development of information systems in local government since 1971. An important aim of UDMS has been to provide a forum for people to discuss new approaches, to consider new technologies, and to share practical experiences in the field of urban data management. The focus has been on urban applications, but regional and rural issues have always been well represented and have grown recently in importance.

For the next symposium, the 27th, organised in cooperation with the University of Ljubljana and the HafenCity University Hamburg, the Organizing Committee invites you to submit a paper and take part in this important event. The International Programme Committee will consider two types of papers:

- Scientific research papers up to 6000 words (peer reviewed by three reviewers).
- Technical papers up to 3000 words.

All papers will be orally presented at the conference and printed in the UDMS proceedings that will be published by Taylor & Francis as a hardbound book.

In addition the International Programme Committee will consider proposals for the presentation of experiences given by or about Public Authorities. In this case only a A4 page abstract is required. Accepted proposals will be orally presented and copy of the presentation slides and/or papers will be made available on the UDMS web site.

The International Programme Committee would like to address the following overall themes:

- Integrated risk and disaster management for urban areas
- GIS in Urban and Regional Data Management for Sustainable Development
- Ubiquitous information cities.

In addition, topics that could be considered with reference to the overall themes include:

- Evolution of Urban Data Management to the enterprise level
- Data harmonisation and standardisation
- INSPIRE/National Information Infrastructures
- Remote sensing applications in Urban Data Management
- Systems and sensors for monitoring urban and regional environments
- Cooperation among local authorities in Urban Data Management
- Public participation systems
- Urban analysis
- Urban semantics and ontology
- Urban Location Based Services
- Integrated risk and disaster management for urban areas
- 3D visualisation and VR for municipalities and citizens
- 3D reconstruction for urban models
- Use of 3D geo-information in urban planning
- Geographic information services based upon open source code and standards.

Other topics can be addressed provided that the relation with the overall themes is
demonstrated.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Full paper submission deadline: September 29, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2008
Final papers delivered by: February 9 , 2009
UDMS 2009 in Ljubljana June 24-26, 2009

SUBMISSION:
Paper submission instructions are contained on the UDMS website, www.udms.net.

Participants will be expected to provide full papers by the above referenced dates. Upon review notification of acceptance will be accompanied by suggestions for revisions for the final paper. The website submission portal will be available by the end of July 2008.
Submitting a paper will be considered as pre-registration.

Papers will be written and presented in English.

Updated information concerning UDMS 2009 in Ljubljana will be available at the UDMS
web site, www.udms.net.

For further information:
UDMS Executive Secretary
Mrs. Elfriede M. Fendel
Section GIS technology
OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies
Delft University of Technology
Jaffalaan 9
NL-2628 BX Delft
The Netherlands
e-mail e.fendel@otb.tudelft.nl

CONFERENCE FEE:
- Conference fee, excluding conference dinner 320 Euro
- Reduced fee for students and retired persons, excluding conference dinner 275 Euro

Prof. Robert LAURINI
LIRIS - INSA de Lyon - Bât B. PASCAL - 7 av. Capelle
F - 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
Fax : +33 4 72 43 87 13
Tel : +33 4 72 43 81 72

UDMS

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