Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of myself and my colleagues I am pleased to announce a Call
for Papers/Participation in our workshop called ACTIVITY at the AGILE
2013 conference in Belgium in May.
I have included the CFP in this email.
Please consider our workshop as a option to present your current work
and results. Please also distribute this CFP to your email contacts
and encourage your colleagues, associates, and students to consider
submission.
With every best wish,
Peter Mooney
Department of Computer Science,
NUI Maynooth,
Ireland
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney
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WORKSHOP: Action and Interaction in Volunteered Geographic Information
(ACTIVITY)
We are very pleased to announce a call for participation in our
pre-AGILE 2013 workshop Action and Interaction in Volunteered
Geographic Information (ACTIVITY). Please consider joining us in
Leuven, Belgium in May for this workshop on this exciting and
emerging research area.
The amount and variety of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is
growing rapidly. There are many different VGI sources (e.g.
OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia, Panoramio, GeoNames) addressing different
types of spatially-explicit as well as spatially-implicit content,
being collected by voluntary people. Some of these sources involve
active participation (e.g. editing map features in OSM) while others
require more passive modes of participation (e.g. enabling geolocation
in Twitter feeds). The growing trend to ubiquitous data collection
results in massive datasets, waiting to get leveraged by a
continuously growing number of emerging applications such as wildfire
tracking, volunteer response coordination during natural disasters or
road navigation. The collective intelligence formed by the
collaboration or competition among its individual members of VGI
communities is unique. Analysing VGI datasets is one of the domain’s
currently hottest research topics. Only a small amount of research has
been carried out into the behaviour of VGI communities. How do such
communities evolve? What are their patterns of contribution? Are such
communities a single large collaborating ecosystem of data and
information generators or are communities acting within smaller
networks or cliques of groups working collectively? How do
contribution patterns influence the outcome?
This workshop aims at bringing together leading researchers in this
domain to discuss relevant questions in the context of action and
interaction of VGI communities. It is directed at social and
information scientists by addressing behavioural as well as technical
questions.
Scope
Potential participants in the ACTIVITY are invited to submit short
papers (maximum 6 pages) written in English and addressing their
ongoing research work in some of the above mentioned topics. The short
papers shall be reviewed and some will then be selected for a paper
presentation during the workshop. The papers may present either a
finished work, a work in progress, or development of methodologies,
software, concepts in the area of ACTIVITIY. Cross disciplinary work
is particularly welcome. Contributions are welcomed from all
researchers including senior researchers and PhD students.
The proceedings will be published online, open access, on the ACTIVITY
Website http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/geomatics/agile2013/index.html
Workshop Structure
The workshop will be held on Tuesday May 14th 2013 09:30 - 17:00
before the main AGILE conference at Leuven, Belgium. Potential
participants are reminded to register on the AGILE website
[http://agile.gis.geo.tu-dresden.de/web/index.php/conference/conference-2013?layout=edit&id=153]
There will be two sessions for the presentation of papers at the
workshop. In the afternoon the workshop will change to an open
workgroup format where the participants will break into two focus
groups and discuss the identified research problems within the
workshop. Dr. Rehrl and Dr. Mooney will act as the chairs of the
discussions and the rapporteurs. At the end of the focus groups the
rapporteurs will report on the key points of the discussions. We feel
that this could act as a catalyst for future collaborations amongst
the workshop participants leading to future linkages to AGILE, journal
publications, or potential EU COST Actions, Horizon 2020 targets etc.
A short report (by Drs. Mooney, Rehrl, and Hochmair) will be produced
and made available, open access, online outlining some of the key
outcomes. The convenors of the workshop will seek opportunities to
generate to special issue publication opportunities in the following
journals.
Social Networks: An International Journal of Structural Analysis
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-networks/
Journal of Spatial Statistics:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/spatial-statistics/
Taylor and Francis: Journal of Location-based Services
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tlbs20/current
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information — Open Access Journal
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi
Important Dates and Deadlines
March 29th 2013 - Call for Papers ends. Review process begins.
April 10th 2013 - Review process ends - Programme committee decides on
selected papers - authors notified.
April 24th 2013 - Camera ready copies due
April 30th 2013 - Abstracts of selected papers available on the ACTIVITY Website
May 14th 2013 - ACTIVITY Workshop
Submission Procedure:
All submissions should be emailed before the submission deadline to
Karl Rehrl (karl.rehrl AT salzburgresearch DOT at) AND Peter Mooney
(peter.mooney AT nuim DOT ie)
Submission Template:
The submission templates are available from the ACTIVITY website
(http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu/geomatics/agile2013/index.html). These
templates follow the style and structure of the AGILE 2012 and AGILE
2013 paper templates.
Registration:
A registration procedure will be made available on the main AGILE
website: http://agile.gis.geo.tu-dresden.de/web/index.php/conference/conference-2013?layout=edit&id=153
Program Committee:
Dr. Peter Mooney, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
Dr. Karl Rehrl, Salzburg Research, Austria
Prof. Georg Gartner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Hartwig Hochmair, University of Florida, USA
Prof. Alexander Zipf, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham UK
Dr. Padraig Corcoran, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Marcus Goetz, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Yola Georgiadou, University of Twente (ITC), The Netherlands
Prof. Stéphane Roche, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Prof. Bin Jiang, University of Gävle, Sweden
Dr. Jukka Krisp, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany
Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Principal Organizers:
Dr. Peter Mooney, NUI Maynooth, Ireland and Dr. Karl Rehrl, Salzburg
Research, Austria. All queries and further information requests should
be emailed directly to Karl Rehrl (karl.rehrl AT salzburgresearch DOT
at) AND Peter Mooney (peter.mooney AT nuim DOT ie)
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