[PlanetKR] CfP: Workshop Terra Cognita 2011 (in conjunction with ISWC 2011), October 23-24, 2011, Bonn, Germany
Stefan Woelfl
woelfl at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Tue Jun 7 07:48:28 EST 2011
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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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