------------------------------------------ 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2007) Call for Papers ------------------------------------------ November 7-9, 2007 Seattle, Washington, USA In cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS Corporate Sponsorship by Microsoft (Platinum Supporter) Google (Silver Supporter) ESRI (Silver Supporter) http://www.cise.ufl.edu/dept/acmgis2007/ The ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in 2007 (ACM GIS 2007) is the fifteenth event of a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The symposium provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS and ranging from applications, user interface considerations, and visualization down to storage management and indexing issues. This year, a novelty is that ACM GIS has separated from its long-time host conference in order to become independent and more visible to the GIS community, further expand the spectrum of research topics covered by the symposium, and grow over the next years. TOPICS OF INTEREST Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Modeling and Querying * Constraint approach for spatial databases * Spatial data quality * Image Databases * Integration and management of raster and vector data * Spatial and spatio-temporal data modeling * Spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and knowledge discovery * Spatial and spatio-temporal predicates * Spatial and spatio-temporal query languages * Spatial and spatio-temporal reasoning * Spatial and spatio-temporal uncertainty, vagueness, and fuzziness * Visual query languages * Spatial and spatio-temporal visualization and analysis * 3D spatial modeling Systems and Implementation * Computational geometry * Geospatial data integration * Geospatial data versioning * Interoperability and standards * Large-scale GIS servers and parallel GIS * Middleware architectures * Multiple representations in spatial databases * Performance metrics and issues * Query processing * Spatial data warehousing and decision support * Spatial query processing and optimization * Spatial, spatio-temporal, and multidimensional access methods * Spatial data mining * Stream processing Applications like * Cartography and Geodesy * Earth observation * Geosensor networks * Geovisualization * Image databases * Location-based services * Mobile and distributed geographic computing and information services * Novel and challenging applications * Photogrammetry * Real-time applications * Risk prevention * Spatial and spatio-temporal Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) * Traffic telematics * Transportation * Urban and environmental planning * Web applications * Wireless networks PAPER FORMATTING GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers cannot exceed 8 pages in length. In addition to the regular full-length papers, the Program Committee may accept some as poster papers which may be requested to be shortened. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. All questions should be addressed to the Program Committee Chair. One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions to the conference will be electronically and online only. Authors are asked to submit an Abstract first, and then to upload the full paper in PDF file format. The online submission system will be available from April 30, 2007. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: June 11, 2007 Full Paper Submission: June 18, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: August 11, 2007 Camera Ready Copy: August 31, 2007 Symposium Date: November 7-9, 2007 ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs: Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA Program Chair: Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA Local Arrangements Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research, India Chairs: Pusheng Zhang, Microsoft Corporation, USA Treasurer: Yan Huang, University of North Texas, USA Publicity Chair: Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA Proceedings Chair: Alejandro Pauly, University of Florida, USA Poster Chair: Jagan Sankaranarayanan, University of Maryland, USA Program Committee: Peggy Agouris, George Mason University, USA Houman Alborzi, Google, USA Luc Anselin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA Lars Arge, University of Aarhus, Denmark Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland Omar Boucelma, University of Aix-Marseille, France Thomas Brinkhoff, Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France Eliseo Clementini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Leila De Floriani, Universita di Genova, Italy Matt Duckham, University of Melbourne, Australia Alon Efrat, University of Arizona, USA Claudio Esperanca, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peter Fisher, City University of London, UK Andrew Frank, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Randolph Franklin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Michael Goodchild, UCSB, USA Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA Ralf H. Gueting, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh, USA Erik Hoel, ESRI, USA Yan Huang, University of North Texas, USA Edwin Jacox, National Institutes of Health, USA Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, UK Joseph Joy, Microsoft Research, India Ibrahim Kamel, Sharjah University, United Arab Emirates Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California, USA Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Robert Laurini, National Institute for Applied Sciences, France Scott Leutenegger, University of Denver, USA Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea Mario Lopez, University of Denver, USA Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA Richard Muntz, UCLA, USA Brad Nickerson, University of New Brunswick, Canada Eyal Ofek, Microsoft Research, USA Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Peter van Oosterom, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, Hong Kong Alejandro Pauly, University of Florida, USA Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Hellas Tom Poiker, Simon Frazer University, USA Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA Philippe Rigaux, University of Paris-Dauphine, France Alan Saalfeld, Ohio State University, USA Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Hellas Sylvie Servigne, INSA, France Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Google, USA Jayant Sharma, Oracle Corporation, USA Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA Wenzhong Shi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Alfred Stein, ITC, The Netherlands Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne, Australia Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research, India Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA Vassilis Tsotras, University of California-Riverside, USA E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey, USA Agnes Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST and FU Berlin, Germany Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Michael Worboys, University of Maine, USA May Yuan, University of Oklahoma, USA Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA Pusheng Zhang, Microsoft Corporation, USA Conference Webmasters: Mark McKenney, University of Florida, USA Alejandro Pauly, University of Florida, USA Reasey Praing, University of Florida, USA