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The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services GEOWS 2009 February 1-7, 2009 - Cancun, Mexico |
| Call for Papers |
Geographical sensors and satellites provide a huge volume of spatial data which is available on the Web. Making use of Web Services, the users are able for provisioning and using these services instead of only for document searching. These services are published in a directory and may be automatically discovered in a given context by software agents. Accessing large digital geographical libraries with geo-spatial information raises some challenges with respect to data semantics, interfaces, data accuracy and updates, distributed processing, as well as with discovery, indexing and integration of geographical information systems; this raise the issue of distributed catalogs forming a federation of spatial databases. Some spatial data infrastructures use service-oriented architecture for accessing these large databases via Web Services.
The goal of the International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services, GEOWS 2009, is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address fundamentals of advances in geographic information systems and the new applications related to them using the Web Services. Such systems can be used for assessment, modeling and prognosis of emergencies. As an example, it can be used for assessment of accidents from chemical pollution by considering hazardous chemical zones dimensions represented on a computer map of the region's territory.
The conference will provide a forum where researchers shall be able to present recent research results and new research problems and directions related to them. The conference seeks contributions presenting novel research in all aspects of techniques and technologies applied to geographic information systems and Web Services
Topics of special interest (but not limited to):
- Fundamentals of geoinformation
- Syntax and semantic-based description
- Conceptual and logical models for GIS&WS
- Techniques for geographical representation
- Query languages and interfaces for GIS&WS
- Integrated architectures for geospatial information
- Web services and geospatial systems
- Semantic geo-spatial web
- Web mapping services interfaces
- 2D and 3D information visualization
- Simulation modeling dynamic geo processes
- Geospatial data in net-centric environment
- Discovery, indexing and integration of geographical information systems
- Mining GIS&WS information
- Semantic interoperability of distributed geoservices
- Spatial data infrastructure
- Web services interoperability
- Distributed simulations and sensor webs
- Geographical search engines and web services
- Geoinformation processing
- Web-based geographic information systems
- Geoprocessing of distributed data
- Natural resource information systems
- Exploratory cartography and interfaces
- Digital geographical libraries
- Geospatial technology
- Telematics and GIS Applications
- Mobile & Wireless GIS
- Personalized services for GIS&WS
- Geology and hydrogeology geographical data
- Standardization of geodata and geoservices
- Environment and land surveying
- Oceanographic geoinformation
- Sensors and remote sensing
- Digital cartography
- Managing uncertainty in spatial information
- Automatic mapping (possibly web-based ...)
- Digital elevation/shape modeling
- Exploratory spatial data analysis
- Web-based visualization of statistical data within a geographic framework
- Tools and links between GIS and statistical software packages
- Business Mapping (spatial analysis for business processes as customer segmentation, churn analysis, etc.)
We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in experimental consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics, short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas.
Industrial presentations are not subject to these constraints. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
The GEOWS 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Important deadlines:
| Submission (full paper) | September 10, 2008 |
| Authors notification | |
| Registration | October 27, 2008 |
| Camera ready | November 1, 2008 |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
Poster Forum
Posters on work-in-progress are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Contributors are invited to submit up to four-page papers, following the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics.
Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org
Panel proposals:
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies.
For more information, petre@iaria.org
Workshop proposals
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.
