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Final Call for Papers:

     6th International Symposium on 
       Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2006)

      http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/w2gis06
      December 4 - 5, 2006, Hong Kong

The recent advances on the developments of Wireless and Internet
technologies have generated increasing interest in the diffusion and
processing of geo-referenced data. Wireless and Internet devices also
offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information.
Consequently, new challenges and opportunities have been provided to
the GIS research community.

This Symposium is intended to provide an up-to-date review of advances
in recent development of Web and Wireless Geographical Information
Systems (W2GIS). It is the 6th in a series of successful events
beginning with Kyoto 2001, and alternating locations between East Asia
and Europe, with the most recent event held in Lausanne 2005. We
invite submissions that address both theoretical and technical issues
of W2GIS. Reports on implementations are particularly welcome. 
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to as long as they
address issues related to W2GIS: 

      -  Conceptual and logical models for W2GIS 
      -  Data management and data retrieval methods 
      -  Geographical search engines and web services
      -  Digital geographical libraries 
      -  W2GIS query languages and interfaces 
      -  2D and 3D information visualization 
      -  Exploratory cartography and interfaces 
      -  W2GIS data mining 
      -  W2GIS security 
      -  W2GIS applications and prototypes 
      -  Location-based services
      -  Peer-to-peer computing
      -  Cyber-geography
      -  Semantic geo-spatial web
      -  Mobile & Wireless GIS
      -  Telematics and GIS Applications
      -  Ubiquitous W2GIS
      -  W2GIS personalization 
      -  Wayfinding 

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series. Each paper must be written in English,
should be limited to 6000 words, and submitted via
http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/w2gis06 in PDF file.  Acceptance of
a paper means an obligation for at least one of the authors to attend
the conference and present the paper. A selection of best papers will
be considered for a special issue journal publication.  


Important Dates:  
    July 10, 2006 (23:59 PST) - Full paper submission deadline (Extended)
    September 4, 2006 - Notification of acceptance 
    September 15, 2006 - Camera-ready copy due
    December 4-5, 2006 - Symposium


Symposium Chairs
      J.D. Carswell, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland 
      T. Tezuka, Kyoto University, Japan

Industrial Chair
      K.J. Li, Pusan National University, Korea 

Local Chair
      H. Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Steering Committee
      M. Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
      C. Claramunt, Naval Academy, France
      B. Huang, University of Calgary, Canada
      C. Vangenot, EPFL, Switzerland

Program Committee
      P. Agouris, University of Maine, USA
      M. Arikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
      A. Bouju, University of La Rochelle, France 
      T. Cheng, Sun Yat-sen University, China 
      K. Clarke,University of California, Santa Barbara
      N. Cullot, University of Burgundy, France
      M.L. Damiani, DICO - University of Milan, Italy
      R.A. de By, ITC, The Netherlands
      M. Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia
      M. Egenhofer, NCGIA, USA
      M. Gahegan, Penn State, USA
      Y. Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
      C.S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
      M.A. Kang, University Clermont-Ferrand, France
      H.A. Karimi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
      B. Kobben, ITC, The Netherlands
      Y.J. Kwon, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea
      R. Laurini, INSA Lyon, France
      H. Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
      S. Li, Ryerson University, Canada
      M. Mainguenaud, INSA Rouen, France 
      P. Muro-Medrano, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
      S. Nittel, University of Maine, USA
      B.C. Ooi, National University of Singapore
      D. Papadias, HKUST, Hong Kong
      G. Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium, USA
      D. Pfoser, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
      M. Raubal, University of Munster, Germany
      A. Rodriguez, University of Concepcion, Chile
      M. Schneider, University of Florida, USA
      S. Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
      K. Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
      Y. Tao, City University of Hong Kong
      G. Taylor, University of Glamorgan, UK
      Y. Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
      A. Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST and FU Berlin, Germany
      R. Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
      S. Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia
      O. Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
      S. Yi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
      I. Zaslavsky, San Diego Super Computer Center, USA
      A. Zipf, Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Germany 

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