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The Preliminary Call for Paper

The 8th ACM Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Washington DC November 10-11, 2000

http://acmgis.cs.pusan.ac.kr/html/acmgis2000/index.html
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~siva/acmgis2000/index.html  

Scope
The 8th International Symposium of ACM GIS will take place in
Washington D.C. during the first week of November 2000. This symposium
will bring together researchers, users, and developers, carrying out
research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data 
and knowledge. The symposium of ACM GIS will happen within the 
framework of the 8th International Conference on Information and 
Knowledge Management (CIKM).

The symposium will provide a forum for original research contributions
and practical system design, implementation, and applications of GIS.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
 Animated cartography
 Digital libraries for GIS
 Geographic data interchange standards
 GIS and the internet
 Interactive mapping
 Interoperability & heterogeneous GIS
 Multi-database spatial data structures
 Multi-source fusion
 Quality control and re-engineering
 Spatial aspects of mobile computing
 Spatial data warehousing and indexing
 Spatial indexing and query processing
 Spatio-temporal databases
 CASE tools for GIS
 Embarked GIS
 GIS as components in large systems
 GIS metadata
 Interface design & visualization
 Management of parallel and distributed GIS
 Multimedia GIS
 Open GIS
 Real time GIS, especially based on GPS
 Spatial data mining
 Spatial decision support systems and CSCW
 Spatial knowledge discovery
 Virtual reality and 3D GIS

Paper Submission
The ACM GIS Symposium is geared towards novel research and
application results. Therefore, papers must describe original work,
and must not be under consideration or published elsewhere.
All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and
relevance by the Program Committee. All questions should be
addressed to PC co-chairs. The best papers of the conference will
be considered for a special issue of GEOINFORMATICA.

Abstract submission
Authors must submit an abstract of the paper (in ascii) by email, to 
one of the program co-chair by May 5th, 2000. This will ensure that 
your paper is processed correctly. The easiest way to do this is to use
the abstract submission form. Your abstract must be preceded by
paper identification containing paper title, contact author and data,
which will allow proper administration of the paper.

Paper electronic submission
An electronic version (PDF format) should be submitted by
May 10th 2000 to one of the program co-chairs. This version
should be prepared using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Papers must
be prepared in such a way that ensures they will print anywhere.
Thus, you should avoid using special fonts. Please do not include
color figures.

Industrial Session
The symposium program will include a number of papers devoted
industrial developments, applications, and experience in using GIS.
Papers intended for this program should be clearly marked as
industrial session papers at the time of submission.

Paper format
Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation,
e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address on the first
page. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is
responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready
paper for the proceedings. Papers for research sessions and industrial
sessions should not exceed 6000 words and 2000 words respectively.
And please indicate whether the paper is for industrial or research
sessions on the first page.

Important Dates
Abstract Submission : 8 May 1999 (e-mail in ascii)
Paper Submission : 15 May 1999 (PDF format and only black and white )
Notification of Acceptance : 15 July 1999
Camera Ready Copies : 15 August 1999 (In hardcopy and PDF)
Notifications to Authors and Camera Ready Copy

Notification to Authors and Camera Ready Copy
The contact author will be notified of the outcome of the refereeing
process by July 15 2000. This notification will use the data provided
in the abstract submission form. The final format will be defined by
ACM, and should be very similar to that of other ACM conferences.
Authors wishing to prepare papers in that format can use the
instructions
at ACM. The specific format for ACM GIS 2000 will be made available
at acceptance time. At least one author of each accepted paper must
register for ACMGIS 2000. Otherwise the paper will not be included
in the conference proceedings.  The camera ready copy should be
sent by August 15, 2000. Details on the final submission will be
provided
in the acceptance notification message. Accepted papers should be sent
both electronically and on paper to the program committee chair.

Program Committee

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National Univ. Korea ([log in to unmask])
Siva Ravada, Oracle, USA ([log in to unmask])

Preliminary Program Committee Members
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Patrick Bergougnoux, IRIT-SIG Laboratory, France
Sang-Kyun Cha, Seoul National Univ., Korea
Silvia Gordillo, Univ. de la Plata, Argentina
Wolfgang Kainz, ITC, Netherlands
Ravi Kothuri, Oracle, USA
Scott Leutenegger, Univ. of Denver, USA
Scott Morehouse, ESRI, USA
Beng Chin Ooi, Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Ivan Radev, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
Markus Schneider, Fern Univ. Hagen, Germany
Sylvie Servigne, INSA, France
Kerry Talyor, CSIRO, Australia
Agnes Voisard, Freie-Univ. Berlin, Germany
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea
Marek Zaremba, Univ. Quebec at Hull
Walid G. Aref, Purdue Univ., USA
Patrice Boursier, Univ. de La Rochelle, France
Max Egenhofer, Univ. of Maine, USA
Thanasis Hadzailacos, CTI, Greece
Hassan Karimi, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
Nick Koudas, ATT Research, USA
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle Univ., Greece
Robert Laurini, INSA and Univ. of Lyon, France
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil
Juliano Lopes de Oliveira, Univ. of Goias, Brazil
Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, Hong Kong
Philippe Rigaux, CNAM, France
Tapani Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland
Shashi Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Nectaria Tryfona, Aalborg Univ., Denmark
Hans Voss, GMD, Germany
Ouri Wolfson, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Further details about the symposium
A home page and a mirror site are under construction. It will be
available in the near future.

     http://acmgis.cs.pusan.ac.kr/html/acmgis2000/index.html 
     http://www.cs.umn.edu/~siva/acmgis2000/index.html  

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