GIScience 2010

Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science

Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

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WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS ANNOUNCEMENT

OVERVIEW:
Zurich, Switzerland will be the host city of the sixth international
GIScience conference, continuing a highly successful series of biennial
conferences that commenced in 2000. GIScience 2010 aims to bring together
scientists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the
state-of-the-art in geographic information science, and explore emerging
research directions. The conference focuses on basic research findings
across all sectors of the field and has two refereed submission tracks:
full papers and extended abstracts. Pre-conference workshops and tutorials
(Sep. 14) and the main conference (Sep. 15-17) will take place at the
University of Zurich, Irchel campus, featuring state-of-the-art conference
facilities within a park-like setting. The conference site is located only
20 minutes from both downtown and Zurich Airport, and is easily accessible
through public transport.

TOPICS AND TRACKS:
Fundamental research findings and emerging topics across all sectors of
geographic information science (GIScience) are welcomed. The conference
attracts leading researchers from all cognate disciplines to reflect the
interdisciplinary breadth of GIScience, including (but not limited to)
geography, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, information
science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social science, and
(geo)statistics.

Since GIScience 2010 focuses on advances in the fundamentals of geographic
information science, submission of pure application papers is discouraged.
To accommodate the variety of publication cultures within an interdisciplinary
research community, two refereed submission tracks are provided: full papers
(NOW CLOSED) and extended abstracts.

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS TRACK:
Publication in separate Conference Proceedings Volume

Extended abstracts of 1500 words, describing work in progress, will be
reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee
and, if accepted, selected for oral or poster presentation. Extended
abstracts must be written in English according to the formatting guidelines
published at
http://www.giscience2010.org/index.php?page=submission
and submitted using EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giscience2010.

If you have not previously used EasyChair, we strongly recommend
registering with the system BEFORE the submission deadline.

WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS:
A total of 4 half-day tutorials, an innovation for GIScience, and 4
workshops have been accepted by the Programme Committee. For detailed
information, see:
http://www.giscience2010.org/index.php?page=accepted-workshops-and-tutorials

The accepted TUTORIALS are as follows:

Development of Web GIS and Web Mapping Applications with QGIS mapserver
Organisers: Ionut Iosifescu, Marco Hugentobler and Lorenz Hurni

Geometric Algorithms and Efficiency for GIScience
Organisers: Marc van Kreveld and Bettina Speckmann

A Practical Introduction to Geospatial Visual Analytics
Organisers: Natalia Andrienko and Gennady Andrienko

GISolve Toolkit: Cyberinfrastructure-based Geographical Information Systems
Organisers: Shaowen Wang, Yan Liu

The accepted WORKSHOPS are:

Emerging Methods for Studying the Use of Spatial Technologies
Organisers: Amy Griffin, Scott Bell and Mary Hegarty

Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science
Organisers: Budhendra Bhaduri, Michael Goodchild and Daniel Getman

Linked Spatiotemporal Data
Organisers: Krzysztof Janowicz, Todd Pehle, Glen Hart and Patrick Maué

Workshop on Movement Pattern Analysis
Organisers: Roland Billen, Björn Gottfried, Alexander Klippel, Patrick
Laube and Nico Van de Weghe

A DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM will also be hosted by GIScience on the 18th of
September. More details are available here:
http://irtg-sigi.uni-muenster.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25

IMPORTANT DATES
Registration open March 15, 2010
Extended abstracts due April 30, 2010
Extended abstract notification June 15, 2010
Earlybird registration closes June 30, 2010