Call For Papers

2nd International Workshop on

Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems (CoMoGIS2005)

http://www.cs.ucd.ie/comogis05/

In Conjunction with ER2005, October 24-28, Klagenfurt, Austria


Purpose and Scope

The recent advances in remote sensing and GPS technologies have increased
the production and collection of geo-referenced data, thus requiring the
rapid development and the wide deployment of various geographic
information systems. With the popularity of the World Wide Web and the
diversity of GISs on the Internet, geographic information can now be
available via personal devices anytime and anywhere. Nowadays GIS is
emerging as a common information infrastructure, which penetrates into
more and more aspects of our society, and converges with most areas in
the IT scenario, such as office automation, workflow, digital libraries,
Web searching, virtual reality, etc. This has given rise to new
challenges related to the development of conceptual models for GIS.
Recently several new approaches have been applied in the development of
geo-spatial systems to accommodate new user requirements.

 

The workshop on Conceptual Modeling for GIS is intended to bring together
researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research
and development in geographic information systems and conceptual
modeling, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of
these two fields. The workshop will provide a forum for original research
contributions and practical experiences of conceptual modeling for GIS
and will highlight future trends in this area. Therefore we invite
submissions that address theoretical, technical and practical issues of
conceptual modeling for GIS. Suggested topics include, but are not
limited to (as long as they are related to conceptual modelling in GIS):

- Spatial data modeling

- Conceptual and logical models for GIS

- GIS services modeling

- Ontologies for GIS applications

- Schema mapping and evolution

- Spatial data query and retrieval

- Geographical search engines

- Spatial information grid

- Digital geographical libraries

- Query languages and interfaces

- Spatial information integration

- Spatial information visualisation

- Spatial data mining and data warehousing

- Location-based services

- Peer-to-peer computing for GIS

- Semantic issues in GIS

- Interoperability and standards

- Metadata management

- GIS Middleware architectures

- Query processing and optimization

- Spatio-temporal data modeling

 

Submission guidelines

 

Authors should submit original manuscripts via email to Dr. Michela
Bertolotto (michela.bertolotto@ucd.ie), as PDF files by June 20, 2005.
The ER2005 Workshop papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
LNCS series. Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of
LNCS in parallel with the printed version, thus the electronic source of
accepted papers is required (Springer-Verlag strongly prefers the LaTeX
2e format, but Word format is acceptable). See the Springer site:

http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html

for author instructions. Please follow the author instructions carefully.

The page limit is 10 pages. We strongly suggest all authors to stick to
the page limit.

Please note that final papers which do not conform to these guidelines
will not be published.

 

Important Dates

 

Papers submission June 20, 2005

Notification July 25, 2005

Camera ready papers August 15, 2005

 

Program Chair

 

Dr. Michela Bertolotto

Department of Computer Science

University College Dublin, Ireland

Email: michela.bertolotto@ucd.ie

 

Program Committee

 

Natalia Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute AIS, Germany)

Masatoshi Arikawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Patrice Boursier (University of La Rochelle, France and Open University,
Malaysia)

Elena Camossi (IMATI-CNR Genova, Italy)

James Carswell (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)

Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy, France)

Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milano, Italy)

Max Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA)

Stewart Fotheringham (NCG Maynooth, Ireland)

Andrew Frank (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)

Michael Gould (University Jaume I, Spain)

Jihong Guan (Wuhan University, China)

Bo Huang (University of Calgary, Canada)

Zhiyong Huang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Menno-Jan Kraak (ITC, The Netherlands)

Ki-Joune Li (Pusan National University, South Korea)

Dieter Pfoser (CTI, Greece)

Philippe Rigaux (LRI, Univ. Paris-Sud Orsay, France)

Andrea Rodriguez (University of Concepcion, Chile)

Sylvie Servigne (INSA, France)

Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL, Switzerland)

George Taylor (University of Glamorgan, UK)

Nectaria Tryfona (CTI, Greece)

Christelle Vangenot (EPFL, Switzerland)

Agnes Voisard, (Fraunhofer ISST and FU Berlin, Germany)

Nancy Wiegand (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Thomas Windholz (Idaho State University, USA)

Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Ilya Zaslavsky (San Diego Supercomputer Centre, USA)

Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)