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Agia Napa, Cyprus, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005
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OnTheMove - OTM 2005 Federated Conferences and Workshops
Agia Napa, Cyprus, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005 |
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WORKSHOP THEME Nowadays new applications ask for enriching the semantics associated to geographical information in order to support a wide variety of tasks including data integration, interoperability, knowledge reuse, knowledge acquisition, knowledge management, spatial reasoning and many others. Examples of such semantic issues are temporal and spatio-temporal data management, 3D manipulation, spatial granularity and multiple resolutions, multiple representations (providing different perspectives of the same information), vague and ambiguous geographic concepts, the relationship between geographic and physical concepts, and identity of geographic objects through time. At the same time the recent years brought many developments that radically changed how we understand information processing. Data warehouses and OLAP systems have evolved as a fundamental approach for developing advanced decision support systems. This lead to improved data mining techniques allowing to extract semantics from raw data. Further, the success of Internet has generated a paradigm shift in distributed information processing leading to the area of Semantic Web, in which semantics is the fundamental component for achieving communication both for humans and applications. At the same time, mobile and wireless computing have entered everyone.s life through dedicated devices leading to location-based services. Finally, Grid computing, a paradigm enabling applications to integrate computational and information resources managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations, pushes the frontier of global interoperability. The fact that all these recent developments are entering the geographic domain increases the importance of the elicitation of the semantics of geographical information. OBJECTIVES The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners for discussing views on how to integrate semantics into current geographic information systems, and how this will benefit the end users. The workshop will be organized in a way to highly stimulate interaction amongst the participants. To this aim, an important part of each regular time slot will be reserved for a discussion. TOPICS OF INTEREST The relevant topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to the following:
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Authors instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
The paper submission site is located at: Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. LOCATION The workshop in Agia Napa, Cyprus, will be held in conjunction with the OTM conference in November 2005. The working language will be English.
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