GI Science Doctoral Colloquium

6^th International Conference on Geographic Information Science

(GIScience 2010)

Zürich, Switzerland, September 18th, 2010

NEWS

We have have selected 16 of the 25 submissions for presentation at the colloquium (see list below). You can find the program for the colloquium here. Speakers will get an email with further information regarding their presentations soon.

ACCEPTED PAPERS

Kenan Bektas. Development and Implementation of Geofoveation (GeoF)

James Cheshire. Establishing Spatial Concentrations of Surnames Using Kernel Density Estimation

Tanmoy Das. Visualization of User-Generated Geo-Content (UGGC)

Clemens Eisank. A Hierarchical System for Multi-Scale and Object-Based Landform Classification

Juliane Exeler. Sensor trajectory planning in environmental observations

Darren Hardy. Spatial Behavior in Volunteered Geographic Information

Robert Hecht. Classification of Building Footprints

Hendrik Herold, Gotthard Meinel, and Elmar Csaplovics. An Approach to Spatio-Temporal Information Retrieval from Map Series for Monitoring Urban Dynamics

Muhammad Imran. SDI-based architecture for integrated agricultural assessments and decision-making by farmer communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vasileios Kalpakis. Animated Mapping of Spatiotemporal Information

Tatjana Kutzner. The Unified Modeling Language for the Translation of Spatial Data on Conceptual Level – Challenges and Limitations

Irma Kveladze. Design guidelines and visualization strategies for the use of the Space Time Cube to visualize large amounts of movement data

Edward Pultar. The Synergy of Social, Transportation, Communication and Data Networks

Thorsten Reitz. Methods for Identifying, Describing and Reducing Mismatches in Geospatial Conceptual Schema Mapping

Gaurav Singh. Use of Semantic Technology for Geocoding Entry Descriptions from Historic Gazetteers

Jia Wang. A Formal Logic Language for Sketch Representation and Analogy

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

OVERVIEW

The International Research Training Group (IRTG) on Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information (University of Münster, University of Bremen, University at Buffalo) in collaboration with University of Zürich are organizing a Doctoral Colloquium in Geographic Information Science. The colloquium will be held in Zürich, Switzerland, on 18th September 2010 in conjunction with the GIScience 2010 conference.

The aim of the colloquium is to give young GI Science researchers the opportunity to present and get feedback on their research.It will also allow the participants to further develop their research network.

TOPICS

We encourage submissions related to the full spectrum of Geographic Information Science. As an interdisciplinary colloquium we welcome researchers from all connected disciplines (e.g., Geography, Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, Cognitive Science).

BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION

The Doctoral Colloquium will provide an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their research to an international and interdisciplinary audience and to interact with and get feedback from invited senior researchers as well as fellow students. The accepted papers will be published in the ifgi Prints series (http://www.aka-verlag.com/).

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Doctoral students in ALL stages of their dissertation process can apply for participation in the doctoral colloquium.

Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Colloquium should submit an extended abstract describing their work (not exceeding 1500 words including references). The extended abstract must be written in English according to the formatting guidelines specified here [WordTemplate] [LateXStylefile].

We recommend the following structure for your abstract :

Background and Motivation
Research Questions
Overview of related work in the area of the PhD work
Methodological approach
Research carried out
Research contribution to GI Science

The extended abstract should be in PDF format and submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irtgdc2010. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Participants will be selected on the basis of blind reviews of the extended abstracts and will be invited to give a talk at the colloquium.

IMPORTANT DATES

Extended abstract submission: 30 April 2010 - submission closed

Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2010 - notifications sent

Camera ready submission of extended abstract: 30 June 2010 - proceedings in preparation

Registration deadline: 30 June 2010

REGISTRATION

Due to a strict limit on the number of participants, registration will take place by invitation and personal communication only. The participation fee is 60ChF and covers proceedings and catering during the event.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Giorgio De Felice	Anusuriya Devaraju
Paolo Fogliaroni	Tomi Kauppinen
Mareike Kritzler	Jens Ortmann
Anna-Katharina Lautenschütz	Alejandro Llaves
Jan Oliver Wallgrün

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jan Oliver Wallgrün (University of Bremen; chair)	Anna-Katharina Lautenschütz (University of Zurich; chair)
Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds)	Roland Billen (University of Liege)
Thomas Bittner (University at Buffalo)	Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France)
Eliseo Clementini (University of L'Aquila)	Arzu Coltekin (University of Zurich)
Matt Duckham (University of Melbourne)	Andrew Frank (TU Vienna)
Christian Freksa (University of Bremen)	Mike Goodchild (University of California)
Stephen C. Hirtle (University of Pittsburgh)	Krzysztof Janowicz (Pennsylvania State University)
Alexander Klippel (Pennsylvania State University)	Antonio Krüger (Saarland University)
Werner Kuhn (University of Münster)	Holger Neuhaus (Tasmanian ICT Centre, CSIRO)
Martin Raubal (University of California)	Femke Reitsma (University of Canterbury)
Kathleen Stewart (University of Iowa)	Sabine Timpf (University of Augsburg)
Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne)

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