Another very technocentred but interested and relevent conference...

David.


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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS | dg/sum'07

ISSNIP/ISPRS joint international workshop on distributed geoinformatics
and sensing, ubiquity, and mobility. September 19, 2007 Melbourne,
Australia

Held in conjunction with COSIT 2007, the International Conference on
Spatial Information Theory in Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23,
2007.
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Theme

Recent technological advances have led to an abundance of sensor, image,
and streaming information. The ubiquitous availability of mobile
processing devices, wireless sensor networks, and RFID tags in tandem
with novel distributed computing architectures will enable a new range
of applications. Most of the information generated by these distributed
systems and applications is spatially referenced. Managing, processing,
and using this geospatial information presents significant new research
challenges in distributed information systems, including:

- efficient distributed, ad-hoc, and in-network geospatial information
processing;
- algorithms and data structures that integrate a mobile user's context,
such as identity, location, activity, and intentions using sensed
information;
- models of dynamic, real-time, and spatiotemporal data; and
- uncertainty and redundancy in geospatial sensor, image, and streaming
data.

Further, emerging technologies have important implications across many
application domains, including:

- transportation, tracking, navigation;
- active environments reacting to a mobile user's context;
- sustainable management of natural environments; and
- emergency preparedness and response.


Goals

This workshop is concerned with new advances in both the theory and
applications of distributed spatiotemporal information processing and
analysis, for example using geosensor networks, active environments, or
distributed image-based systems. Specifically, this workshop aims to
bring together researchers with interests in spatial information theory
and researchers with interests in specific spatial problem domains, such
as ecology, natural resource management, and marine science;
transportation and human navigation; and emergency management and
logistics.

The organization of the workshop will be designed to foster
interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration between researchers with
diverse topic domains but a common interest in modeling, processing,
use, or application of distributed geoinformation technologies, and
sensor enabled, ubiquitous environments that can support mobile users.


Scope

The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited to:

- Information management and coordination in geosensor networks and
ubiquitous computing environments
- Spatiotemporal algorithms and data structures for mobile ad-hoc
networks, geosensor networks and distributed geoinformation processing
- Embedding spatial intelligence in active, natural and built
environments
- Efficient synchronization, localization, and tracking
- Processing image, video, and stream data for distributed
geoinformatics applications
- Automated and semi-automated distributed geoinformation fusion
- Querying and data mining for distributed geoinformation systems
- Qualitative spatial reasoning in distributed geoinformatics
- Uncertainty and redundancy in ubiquitous environments and geosensor
networks
- Collaborative navigation support and route finding
- Dynamic spatiotemporal models and architectures for distributed
processing
- Real-time sensor web and geosensor network middleware
- Environmental, safety-critical, transportation, and innovative
applications of mobile ad-hoc and geosensor networks
- Privacy-aware algorithms for active environments
- Visualization as well as simulation environments for distributed
geoinformatics


Paper submissions

All submissions must be original unpublished work written in English
that is not currently under review in any other outlet. Submitted papers
must not exceed 5000 words. All papers will be reviewed by at least
three members of the program committee. Submissions of that attempt to
bridge the gap between spatial information theory and applications of
theory to specific problem domains are especially encouraged. Please
submit your manuscript to [log in to unmask] .

Instructions for authors: http://www.geosensor.net/dgsum/ifa

Unless authors instruct us otherwise, accepted papers will appear on a
workshop proceedings-CD, that will be distributed at the workshop.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised and
extended version to a special issue of the Elsevier journal Computers,
Environment, and Urban Systems. CEUS is noted for its interdisciplinary
readership across spatial information theory and applications. 


Important dates

Submission deadline: May 28, 2007
Notifications: June 29, 2007
Workshop date: 19 September 2007


Programme Committee

Mike Batty, University College London, UK
Alistair Edwardes, University of Zurich, CH
Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA 
Mark Gahegan, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Georg Gartner, Vienna University of Technology, AT
Joachim Gudmundsson, National ICT Australia, AU
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California Riverside, USA
Kim Lowell, University of Melbourne, AU
Marimuthu Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, AU 
Dieter Pfoser, Computer Technology Institute, GR
Femke Reitsma, University of Edinburgh, UK
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, NL
Tim Wark, CSIRO ICT, AU
Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, AU
Ouri E. Wolfson, University of Illinois, USA
Mike Worboys, University of Maine, USA 
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, AU


Workshop Website
http://www.geosensor.net/dgsum/


Organization

DG'07 chairs:
Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne, AU
Arie Croitoru, University of Alberta, CA
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University, USA

SUM'07 chairs:
Lars Kulik, University of Melbourne, AU
Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne, AU

Local chair: Patrick Laube, University of Melbourne, AU

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