[PlanetKR] 2nd CfP: Workshop Terra Cognita 2011 (in conjunction with ISWC 2011), October 23-24, 2011, Bonn, Germany

Stefan Woelfl woelfl at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Wed Jul 27 23:16:39 EST 2011


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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

Terra Cognita 2011 - Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web 
In conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) 

October 23-24, 2011, Bonn, Germany 

Workshop website: http://asio.bbn.com/terracognita2011/ 
ISWC website: http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/ 

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW 
The wide availability of technologies such as GPS, map services and social networks, has resulted in the proliferation of geospatial data on the Web. In addition to material produced by professionals (e.g., maps), the public has also been encouraged to make geospatial content, including their geographical location, available online. The volumes of such user-generated geospatial content is constantly growing. Similarly, the Linked Open Data cloud includes an increasing number of data sources with geospatial properties. 

The geo-referencing of Web resources and users has given rise to various services and applications that exploit it. With the location of users being made available widely, new issues such as those pertaining to security and privacy arise. Likewise, emergency response, context sensitive user applications, and complex GIS tasks all lend themselves toward Geospatial Semantic Web solutions. 

Researchers have been quick to realize the importance of these developments and have started working on the relevant research problems, giving rise to new topical research areas such as "Geographic Information Retrieval", "Geospatial (Semantic) Web", "Linked Geospatial Data", "GeoWeb 2.0". Similarly, standardization bodies such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have been developing relevant standards such as the Geography Markup Language (GML) and GeoSPARQL. 

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, as well as interested parties from industry and government, to advance the frontiers of this exciting research area. Bringing together Semantic Web and geospatial researchers helps encourage the use of semantics in geospatial applications and the use of spatial elements in semantic research and applications thereby advancing the Geospatal Web. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST 
Original, high-quality work related (but not limited) to one of the following research topics is welcome: 
* Data models and languages for the Geospatial Web 
* Systems and architectures for the Geospatial Web 
* Linked geospatial data 
* Ontologies and rules in the Geospatial Web 
* Uncertainty in the Geospatial Web 
* User interface technologies for the Geospatial Web 
* Geospatial Web and mobile data management 
* Security and privacy issues in the Geospatial Web 
* Geospatial Web applications 
* User-generated geospatial content 
* OGC and W3C technologies and standards in the Geospatial Web 

PAPER SUBMISSION 
Papers must not be published nor must they be submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be handled using the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=terra11). Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (Information for LNCS Authors, http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Formatted papers must be approximately 10 pages (no longer than 13) and must represent new work. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in a special volume of the CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/). At least one author must register to present an accepted paper. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
Submissions due: August 15 
Notification: September 5 
Workshop days: October 23 and 24 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 
This workshop is organized by members of the Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP), and European projects TELEIOS and Geocrowd. 

* SOCoP (http://www.socop.org/) is a geospatial semantics interest group currently mainly with members from U.S. federal agencies, academia, and business. SOCoP's goal is to foster collaboration among users, technologists, and researchers of spatial knowledge representations and reasoning towards the development of a set of core, common geospatial ontologies for use by all in the Semantic Web. 
* TELEIOS (http://www.earthobservatory.eu/) is an FP7/ICT project with the goal of building an Earth Observatory. TELEIOS concentrates heavily on geospatial data (sattelite images, traditional GIS data, geospatial Web data). 
* GEOCROWD - Creating a Geospatial Knowledge World (http://www.geocrowd.eu) is an Initial Training Network (ITN) project with the goal to promote the GeoWeb 2.0 vision and to advance the state of the art in collecting, storing, processing, and making large amounts of semantically rich user-generated geospatial information available on the Web. 

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS 
Rolf Gruetter, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, rolf.gruetter (at) wsl.ch 
Dave Kolas, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA, dkolas (at) bbn.com 
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, koubarak (at) di.uoa.gr 
Dieter Pfoser, Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS), Athens, Greece, pfoser (at) imis.athena-innovation.gr 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Jans Aasman, Franz Inc., The Netherlands 
Alia Abdelmoty, Cardiff University, UK 
Ola Ahlqvist, Ohio State University, USA 
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Thomas Barkowsky, University Bremen, Germany 
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland 
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany 
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA 
Stewart Fotheringham, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Ireland 
Christian Freksa, University of Bremen, Germany 
Alasdair J G Gray, University of Manchester, UK 
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey, UK 
Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey, UK 
Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands 
Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany 
Sergei Levashkin, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico 
Joshua Lieberman, Traverse Technologies, USA 
Michael Lutz, European Commission-DG Joint Research Center, Italy 
Stefan Manegold, CWI, The Netherlands 
Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany 
Alexandros Ntoulas, Microsoft Research 
Matthew Perry, Oracle, USA 
Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece 
Florian Probst, SAP Research, Germany 
Thorsten Reitz, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany 
Timos Sellis, IMIS, Research Center Athena, Greece 
Spiros Skiadopoulos, University of the Peloponnese, Greece 
Fabian Suchanek, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany 
Agnes Voisard, Free University Berlin, Germany 
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin, USA 
James Wilson, James Madison University, USA 
Stefan Woelfl, University of Freiburg, Germany



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