International Geographical Union Regional Conference (IGU) 

Commission on Modelling Geographical Systems (CMGS)
         Conference
Brisbane, 3rd – 7th July 2006

Title: ‘Spaced In or Spaced Out
                          ncluding special sessions on

‘The Legends of Quantitative Geography’

Call for Papers

IGU Conference will be held in Brisbane from July 3-7th 200with the New 
Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geograh Annual 
Conference.

The conference page is located at: www.igu2006.org   The Chair of the 
Conference Organisation Committee is Professor John Holmes.Email: 
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The CMGS is sponsoring a number of sessions in this conference with support 
from the Australian Research Council Research Network in Spatially 
Integrated SoScience (ARCRNSISS). As a major initiative, it is organising 
special sessions under title, ‘Legends of the Quantitative Revolution in 
Geography’, to celebrate the achievements of sixty years of theoretical and 
quantitative geography. An important theme for this conference is to 
recognise the major contributions of scholars to the evolution of 
geographical models, theory and quantitative methods.

The conference is entitled: ‘Spaced In or Spaced Out’

A number of sessions are planned which include the following modelling and 
quantitative themes:

• Statistics in Spaces
• Economy in Spaces
• Migration in Spaces
• Behaviour in Spaces
• Change in Spaces
• The Language of Spaces
• Visualisation of Spaces
• Geometry in Spaces
• Networks in Spaces
• Simulation in Spaces
• Nature in Spaces
• Mapping of Spaces
• Health in Spaces
• Data Mining of Spaces
• Computation of Spaces

The Commission wants to include special sessions together within the above 
themes (or others) under the following title
 
• Legends of the IGU Modelling Commission

The Commission will solicit papers from scholars who have made a 
substantial contribution to the evolution of knowledge through the IGU in 
the above or other themes.  It is hoped that they will provide an overview 
of their work and developments in their fields as the basis for plenary 
sessions. This will form a special section of the conference and as part of 
the celebration, a conference dinner will be held and where formal 
recognition will be made of the ‘Legends’ and a memento presented to every 
conference participan. This will be dependent on funding.

Other key issues could be discussed in forums within the conference, such 
as:

• Are There Limits to Local Spatial Statistical Methods?  
• The Future of Geographical Modelling?

The Legends’ papers will provide the first section of a proposed book 
entitled ‘Legends of Geography: Celebrating Sixty Years of Theoretical and 
Quantitative Geography’ commemorating the discipline since  the beginning  
of quantitative revolution in geography and the role that the IGU Modelling 
Commission has had in the development of theoretical and quantitative 
geography. The second section of the book will be a selection of focused 
papers  Brisbane conference or developed from it and preferably on the 
Legends’ themes. Other papers under different themes could be published in 
special editions of books or journals.

We also hope to provide a good social time for our participants and there 
will be a social convener for this conference to achieve this goal

Those interested in submitting an abstract and attending the conference 
please return the pre-registration form by September 30 2005 (email or fax) 
to:

Dr Robert Baker
School of Human and Environmental Studies
University of New England
Armidale 2350
NSW Australia
Fax: 61-2-67730303
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We also plan to offer a joint session with the IGU Commission 
on “Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow”, on the theme of Monitoring Urban 
Systems: Theory and Applications.

Papers are encouraged that incorporate recent developments from:

• modelling cities of the future;
• multi-level modelling;
• spatial analysis of urban form and process;
• spatial statistics in an urban context;
• geoscience in monitoring urban systems; 

although other papers relevant to the theme are also very welcome.






Those interested in submitting an abstract and attending this session(s) 
please return the pre-registration form by September 30 2005 (email or fax) 
to:

Prof. Barry Boots
Dept of Geography
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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Fax: +1-519-725-1342

OR     OR
Prof. Gerhard Braun                                 Prof. Yuji Murayama
Dept. of Geography                                  Dept. of Geography
Freie Universitaet Berlin                           University of Tsukuba
Malteserstrasse 74-100                            Tsukuba 305-8571, JAPAN
12249 Berlin, GERMANY                          [log in to unmask]
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There could be other sessions co-sponsored with Commissions such 
as “Applied Geography’

Individuals who wish to present a paper to any of the above sessions should 
submit an abstract (maximum length 250 words) to the above organisers.  
Abstracts must reach the organiser by e-mail before 20th December, 2005. 
Then, a decision on whether the abstract has been accepted for presentation 
will be communicated to you before 30th January, 2006. Accepted abstracts 
will be submitted to the Main Conference Organisers by the CMGS on your 
behalf.


Those interested in organising a workshop on any of these themes, please 
let the organisers know asap.

IGU Conferences present unique opportunities for the presentation of new 
research and to network with an international audience.  Further, it 
provides an opportunity to recognise major contributions of scholars to 
theoretical and quantitative geography. Without your support this would not 
be possible.

Best Wishes

Dr Robert Baker 
Chair CMGS