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On behalf of (GEOG-AN-MOD 10) Programme Committee, it is a pleasure to
invite you to participate to the:

Fifth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis,
Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"
GEOG-AN-MOD 10
  http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_an_mod_10/index.html

in conjunction with

 The 2010 International Conference on Computational

Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2010)

March 23th to March 26th, 2010,

Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

http://www.iccsa.org/

 *Workshop Description
*During the past decades the main problem of geographical analysis was the
lack of spatial data availability. Today 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 of which buttons to press
without having geography in mind. Spatial analytical techniques,
geographical analyses and modelling methods are therefore required in order
to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels. 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;
Spatial network 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 7 December 2009.

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.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
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/

please don't forget to select "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling,
Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 10" workshop from the drop-down list of all
workshops.

*Proceedings
*Papers accepted to GEOG-AN-MOD 10 (Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling,
Spatial Statistics) will be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings,
in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Extended version of previous GEOG-AN-MOD papers have been included in four
special issues:

   - Transactions on Computational Science Journal.
   - Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Geocomputation and Urban
   Planning" Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-Verlag,
   Berlin.
   - Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Environmental
   geocomputation for sustainable development" Studies in Computational
   Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
   - International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information
   Systems (IJAEIS), Special Issue On: "Analysing, Modelling and Visualizing
   Spatial Environmental Data" Guest Editors:  Beniamino Murgante, University
   of Basilicata, Italy - Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
   - Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland - Maurizio Cellura,
   University of Palermo, Italy

*Important dates

10 November, 2009: *Deadline for full paper submission*
7 December 2009: *Notification of acceptance*
8 January 2010: *Deadline for Camera Ready Papers*
March 23-26, 2010: *ICCSA 2010 Conference

*Organising Committee:*

   - Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada.
   - Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
   - Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

*Programme Committee*

• Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
• Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
• Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada
• David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, Usa
• Alex Hagen-Zanker, Department of Architecture, University of  Cambridge,
UK
• Yong Ge, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information
System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Suzana Dragicevic, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University,
Canada
• Arta Dilo, University of Twente, the Netherlands
• Allan Brimicombe, Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of East
London, UK
• Stefano Crocchianti, University of Perugia, Italy
• Manfred Schrenk, Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and
Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria
• Fabio Luino, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, National
Research Council, Italy
• François Pinet, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and
processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France
• Andrea Taramelli, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
Usa
• Nicoletta Gazzea, High Institute for Environmental Protection and
Research, ISPRA, Italy
• Bianca Schoen, University College Dublin , Ireland
• Markus Wolff, Department of Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Nicola Masini, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National
Research Council, Italy
• Devis Tuia, Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Riske, Univeristy of
Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dmitry Kurtener , Agrophysical Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Department of Architecture and Planning - University
of Sassari, Italy
• Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University, Danmark
• Ivan Blečić, Department of Architecture and Planning, University of
Sassari, Italy
• Jérôme Gensel, Spatio-TEmporal information, Adaptability, Multimedia and
knowlEdge Representation Laboratory (STEAMER), Grenoble, France
• Maria Danese, University of Basilicata, Italy
• Elke Moons, Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University,
Belgium
• Didier Josselin, University of Avignon, France
• Paola Perchinunno, Department of Statistical Science, University of Bari,
Italy
• Tomas Mildorf, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic
• Christine Voiron-Canicio, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis – CNRS – UMR
ESPACE, France
• Rosa Lasaponara, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis,
National Research Council, Italy
• Alenka Krek, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Pablo Vanegas, Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium
• Marta G. Vivanco, Atmospheric Pollution Unit, Environmental Department,
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
• Massimiliano Petri, University of Pisa, Italy
• Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Itzhak Omer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• Urska Demsar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
• Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
• Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Technion –Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Israel
• Maurizio Lazzari, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute,
National Research Council, Italy
• Dimos N. Pantazis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
• Sebastiano Trevisani, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection,
National Research Council, Italy
• Bahaaeddin Alhaddad, Center of Land Policy and Valuations, Polytechnic
University of Catalonia, Spain
• Salvatore Manfreda, University of Basilicata, Italy
• Sandro Bimonte, Research Centre on Tecnologies, information systems and
processes for agriculture (TSCF), Clermont Ferrand, France
• Janusz Starczewski, Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland
• Pasquale Di Donato, University of Sapienza Roma, Italy
• Salem Chakhar, University Paris Dauphine, France
• Roberto De Lotto, University of Pavia, Italy
• Tao Cheng, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering ,
University College London, UK
• Christoph Aubrecht, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Filomena Canora, University of Basilicata, Italy
• Ioannis Dokas, University College Cork, Ireland
• Hexiang Bai, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental
Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources
Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Silvana Grella, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
• Belen Palop, University Valladolid, Spain
• Alessandra Lappucci, University of Pisa, Italy
• Baris Kazar, Oracle Corporation, Usa
• Maurizio Gibin, School of Geography, Birkbeck College, University of
London, UK
• Antonino Marvuglia, University College Cork, Ireland

*Further information*
For further information or questions, please send an e-mail to:
Giuseppe Borruso <giuseppe.borr...@econ.units.it> (University of Trieste,
Italy) giuseppe.borr...@econ.units.it
Beniamino Murgante <beniamino.murga...@unibas.it> (University of Basilicata,
Italy) beniamino.murga...@unibas.it
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