Seventh International Conference on "Geographical Analysis,
Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"
GEOG-AN-MOD 12

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in conjunction with

The 2012 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2012)

June 18th  - June 20th, 2012

Federal University of Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
<http://www.iccsa.org/>http://www.iccsa.org/


Description
During the past decades the main problem in 
geographical analysis was the lack of spatial 
data availability. Nowadays 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 based on which 
buttons have to pressed without having geography 
or processes in mind. Spatial modelling, 
analytical techniques and geographical analyses 
are therefore required in order to analyse data 
and to facilitate the decision process at all 
levels, with a clear identification of the 
geographical information needed and reference 
scale to adopt. 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;
Spatial statistical models;
Space-temporal modelling;
Space-temporal modelling;
Environmental 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 March 2012.
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.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

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/>http://ess.iccsa.org/
please don't forget to select " Geographical 
Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics 
GEOG-AN-MOD 12" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.


Proceedings
Papers accepted to "Geographical Analysis, Urban 
Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 12" will 
be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, 
in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by Scopus and DBLP.
Participants to "Geographical Analysis, Urban 
Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 12" will 
be invited to submit an extended version of their 
paper for special issues on International 
Journals and for the book: Murgante B., Borruso 
G., (2012) "Geocomputation 2.0" Studies in 
Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin

Extended version of previous GEOG-AN-MOD papers 
have been included in the following special issues:
    * 
<http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-10648-4/#section=640528&page=1>Transactions 
on Computational Science Journal VI Vol. 
5730-0324, Springer-Verlag, Berlin ISSN: 1611-3349.
    * Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) 
"<http://www.springerlink.com/content/r6430u529rn9/#section=183826&page=1>Geocomputation 
and Urban Planning" Studies in Computational 
Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
    * Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2011) 
"<http://www.springerlink.com/content/u8226618pr16/#section=877251&page=1>Geocomputation, 
Sustainability and Environmental Planning" 
Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
    * Murgante B., Kanevski M., Marvuglia A. 
Cellura M. (2012) Special Issue On 
“<http://www.igi-global.com/journal-contents/international-journal-agricultural-environmental-information/1160>Analysing, 
Modelling and Visualizing Spatial Environmental 
Data”International Journal of Agricultural and 
Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) IGI Global volume 3(1),
    * Murgante B., Kanevski M., Marvuglia A. 
Cellura M. (2012) Special Issue On 
“<http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/Visualizing.html>Analysing, 
Modelling and Visualizing Spatial Environmental 
Data”International Journal of Agricultural and 
Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) IGI Global volume 3(2),
    * Borruso G., Bertazzon S., Favretto A. 
Murgante B., Torre C. (2012) “Geographic 
Information Analysis for Sustainable Development 
and Economic Planning: New Technologies” IGI Global
Important dates

31 January 2012: Deadline for full paper submission
10 March  2012: Notification of acceptance
5 April 2012: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
June 18-21, 2012: ICCSA 2012 Conference



Beniamino Murgante, PhD
L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T. - Facoltà di Ingegneria
Università degli Studi della Basilicata
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