Fifth International Workshop On

Fifth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics" GEOG-AN-MOD 10 http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_an_mod_10/index.html in conjunction with The 2010 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2010) March 23th to March 26th, 2010, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan http://www.iccsa.org/

Workshop Description During the past decades the main problem of geographical analysis was the lack of spatial data availability. Today the wide diffusion of electronic devices containing geo-referenced information generates a great production of spatial data. Volunteered geographic information activities (e.g. Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap), public initiatives (e.g. Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals) and private projects (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, etc.) produced an overabundance of spatial data which in many cases does not help the efficiency of decision processes. The increase of geographical data availability has not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. The inclusion of spatial simulation techniques in recent GIS software favoured the diffusion of these methods, but in several cases led to the mechanism of which buttons to press without having geography in mind. Spatial analytical techniques, geographical analyses and modelling methods are therefore required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels. Old geographical issues can find an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are developing, challenging the researchers for new solutions. This workshop aims at contributing to the development of new techniques and methods to improve the process of knowledge acquisition. The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions on the following Conference Themes : Geostatistics and spatial simulation; Agent-based spatial modelling; Cellular automata spatial modelling; Environmental Modelling Spatial statistical models; Space-temporal modelling; Spatial network modelling; Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data analysis; Visualisation and modelling of track data; Spatial Optimization; Interaction Simulation Models; Data mining, spatial data mining; Spatial Data Warehouse and Spatial OLAP; Integration of Spatial OLAP and Spatial data mining; Spatial Decision Support Systems; Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis; Spatial Rough Set; Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory; Ontologies for Spatial Analysis; Urban modeling; Applied geography; Spatial data analysis; Dynamic modelling; Simulation, space-time dynamics, visualization and virtual reality. Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place on 7 December 2009.

Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages). Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes. Authors Guideline Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher's web site ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Submission papers should be submitted at: http://ess.iccsa.org/ please don't forget to select "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 10" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops. Proceedings Papers accepted to GEOG-AN-MOD 10 (Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics) will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Extended version of previous GEOG-AN-MOD papers have been included in four special issues: • Transactions on Computational Science Journal. • Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Geocomputation and Urban Planning" Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. • Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Environmental geocomputation for sustainable development" Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin • International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), Special Issue On: "Analysing, Modelling and Visualizing Spatial Environmental Data" Guest Editors: Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy - Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland - Maurizio Cellura, University of Palermo, Italy

Important dates 10 November, 2009: Deadline for full paper submission 7 December 2009: Notification of acceptance 8 January 2010: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers March 23-26, 2010: ICCSA 2010 Conference Organising Committee: • Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada. • Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy • Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

Programme Committee • Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy • Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy • Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada • David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, Usa • Baris Kazar, Oracle Corporation, Usa • Alex Hagen-Zanker, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK

• Yong Ge, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences • Suzana Dragicevic, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada • Arta Dilo, University of Twente, the Netherlands • Michele Campagna, University of Cagliari, Italy • Zorica Nedovic, School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland • Allan Brimicombe, Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of East London, UK • Stefano Crocchianti, University of Perugia, Italy • Manfred Schrenk, Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria • Fabio Luino, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Italy • François Pinet, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France • Andrea Taramelli, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Usa • Nicoletta Gazzea, High Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Italy • Michela Bertolotto, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin , Ireland • Markus Wolff, Department of Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany • Nicola Masini, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy • Devis Tuia, Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Riske, Univeristy of Lausanne, Switzerland • Dmitry Kurtener , Agrophysical Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia • Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Department of Architecture and Planning - University of Sassari, Italy • Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University, Danmark • Ivan Blecic, Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari, Italy • Jérôme Gensel, Spatio-TEmporal information, Adaptability, Multimedia and knowlEdge Representation Laboratory (STEAMER), Grenoble, France • Maria Danese, University of Basilicata, Italy • Elke Moons, Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium • Didier Josselin, University of Avignon, France • Paola Perchinunno, Department of Statistical Science, University of Bari, Italy • Tomas Mildorf, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic • Christine Voiron-Canicio, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis – CNRS – UMR ESPACE, France • Rosa Lasaponara, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council, Italy • Alenka Krek, University of Hamburg, Germany • Pablo Vanegas, Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium • Marta G. Vivanco, Atmospheric Pollution Unit, Environmental Department, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain • Massimiliano Petri, University of Pisa, Italy • Bianca Schoen, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland • Luca Paolino, University of Salerno, Italy • •tzhak Omer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel • Urska Demsar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland • Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy • Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Technion –Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel • Maurizio Lazzari, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy • Dimos N. Pantazis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece • Sebastiano Trevisani, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Italy • Bahaaeddin Alhaddad, Center of Land Policy and Valuations, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain • Salvatore Manfreda, University of Basilicata, Italy • Sandro Bimonte, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France • Janusz Starczewski, Cz stochowa University of Technology, Poland • Pasquale Di Donato, University of Sapienza Roma, Italy • Salem Chakhar, University Paris Dauphine, France • Roberto De Lotto, University of Pavia, Italy • Tao Cheng, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering , University College London, UK

• Christoph Aubrecht, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria • Filomena Canora, University of Basilicata, Italy • Ioannis Dokas, University College Cork, Ireland • Hexiang Bai, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences • Silvana Grella, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy • Belen Palop, University Valladolid, Spain • Alessandra Lappucci, University of Pisa, Italy • Maurizio Gibin, School of Geography, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK • Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland Further information For further information or questions, please send an e-mail to: Giuseppe Borruso (University of Trieste, Italy) [email protected] Beniamino Murgante (University of Basilicata, Italy) beniamino.murgante@unibas. it

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