Fourth International
Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues
in
Geographic Information Systems (SeCoGIS 2010)
in
conjunction with the
29th
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2010)
Final Call for
Papers
(Deadline
Extension)
Recent advances
in information technologies have increased the production, collection, and
diffusion of geographical data, thus favoring the design and development of
geographic information systems (GIS). Nowadays GISs are emerging as a common information
infrastructure, which penetrate into more and more aspects of our society. This
has given rise to new methodological and data engineering challenges in order
to accommodate new users' requirements for new applications. Conceptual and
semantic modelings are ideal candidates to contribute to the development of the
next generation of GIS solutions. They allow to elicit and capture user
requirements as well as the semantics of a wide domain of applications.
SeCoGIS is
intended to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners
carrying out research and development in geographic information systems. The
aim is to stimulate discussions on the integration of conceptual modeling and
semantics into current geographic information systems, and how this will
benefit the end users. The workshop will provide a forum for original research
contributions and practical experiences of conceptual modeling and semantic web
technologies for GIS, fostering interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of
these two fields, and will highlight future trends in this area. The workshop
will be organized in a way to highly stimulate interaction amongst the
participants.
Topics of interest
We invite submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical topics
of semantic and conceptual issues for GIS. Suggested topics include, but are
not limited to the following:
Paper
Submission
Formatting Guidelines SeCoGIS 2010 proceedings
will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Thus, authors must
submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in
Computer Science. See the page http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
for style files and details. The page limit for workshop papers in LNCS format
is 10 pages.
Submission Guidelines Submission to SeCoGIS 2010
will be electronically only. Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and
then to upload the full paper (in PDF format). The online submission system is
available at the address http://cs.ulb.ac.be/conferences/secogis10
Extended versions of a selection of best papers presented at the workshop
will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Spatial
Information Science (JoSIS).
Important
Dates
Paper abstract submission: April
19, 2010
Full paper submission: April
26, 2010
Author notification: June
4, 2010
Camera-ready paper submission: June
30, 2010
Author registration July
20, 2010
Workshop: November
1-4, 2010
SeCoGIS 2010 Workshop
Chairs
Jean Brodeur Esteban
Zimányi
Natural Ressources Canada, Canada Université Libre de
Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: brodeur@rncan.gc.ca Email: ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be
SeCoGIS
Steering Committee
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros Michela
Bertolotto
Email: cmbm@ic.unicamp.br Email:
michela.bertolotto@ucd.ie
Jean Brodeur Christophe
Claramunt
Natural Ressources
Email: brodeur@rncan.gc.ca Email:
claramunt@ecole-navale.fr
Christelle Vangenot Esteban
Zimányi
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: christelle.vangenot@epfl.ch
PROGRAM COMMITTEE