GeoDBIS 2011 - 1st International Workshop on Geometric Objects in Databases and Information Systems

1st International Workshop on Geometric Objects in Databases and Information Systems (GeoDBIS) co-located with ADBIS 2011 (15th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases & Information Systems)
September 19-23, 2011, Vienna, Austria

In recent years, there are increasing demands from applications to store, process and manage geometric objects. Applications that use geometric objects include geographical information system (GIS), environmental management, urban planning, transportation, land use management, CAD-CAM, architecture science, visual perception and autonomous navigation, tracking and medical imaging. The GeoDBIS workshop tries to bring together researchers in the areas of data and information systems who work on aspects of geometric objects. In particular, the workshop seeks original contributions and practical experiences of modeling, managing and utilizing geometric objects in databases and information systems, fostering interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of handling geometric objects in databases and information systems. Topics of research papers can be the following:

Spatial-temporal data modeling
Spatial services modeling
Spatial data infrastructures, interoperability, and standards
Spatial data mining and statistics
Spatial decision making
Semi-structured geometric data modeling and reasoning
Data-intensive geographic information systems
Geometric information integration in data and knowledge bases
Knowledge discovery in geometric data and information systems
Logical and mathematical foundations of semantics
Semantics in geo-spatial data-intensive applications
Semantic web and spatial data applications
Ontologies for spatial information systems
The workshop theme is linked to the main ADBIS conference, but more specific. Furthermore, as we intend to produce post-conference journal, it will give the opportunity to participants to contribute work that is still in progress to some degree. Furthermore, the workshop format puts more emphasis on discussions.

Submission

Authors are cordially invited to submit original research papers in PDF using the electronic submission system, which is available at

www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geodbis2011

All initial submissions have to be in PDF format. The final submissions have to be in LaTeX format, alternatively in Rich Text Format (RTF). The paper must be formatted according to LNCS style, which can be found at the Springer LNCS website. The length of the final camera-ready version will be strictly limited to 16 pages in LNCS style; paper submissions should not exceed 18 pages using this style.

Simultaneous submission to any other conference, workshop or journal is strictly excluded. In case a double submission is discovered, the corresponding paper will immediately be rejected.

It is intended to publish the best accepted papers in a Springer LNCS workshop volume dedicated to ADBIS 2011. All other accepted papers of the workshop will be included in additional proceedings published in CEUR-Workshop proceedings. The targeted acceptance rate is 30 %.

Program Committee Chairs

Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Publicity Chair:

René Noack, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Program Committee

Alia I. Abdelmoty, UK
Spiridon Bakiras, USA
Peter Baumann, Germany
Elena Camossi, Ireland
Christophe Claramunt, France
Eliseo Clementini, Italy
Padraig Corcoran, Ireland
Clodoveu Davis, Brazil
Rainer Duttmann, Germany
Sven Hartmann, Germany
Hui Ma, New Zealand
Rene Noack, Germany
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Greece
Bernhard Thalheim, Germany
Nancy Wiegand, USA
Important Dates

Abstract submission: April 2, 2011

Full paper submission: April 9, 2011

Author Notification: May 24, 2011

Camera-ready paper submission: June 24, 2011

Workshop: September 19-23, 2011

Further information

Workshop web site:

http://www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/events/GeoDBI...

ADBIS 2011 web site:

http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ADBIS2011/