Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Management (GIM '05) in conjunction with DEXA 2005 and EGOV 2005 22 - 26 August 2005 (workshop held on Thursday 25th) Copenhagen, Denmark Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

The aim of GIM 2005 is to present innovative research and development contributions in the context of Geographic Information Management. GIM should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers, users, expert scientists working in this field.

Suggested Topics:
Suggested topics for GIM 2005 include, but are not limited to:

Interoperable GI services	Conceptual modelling, knowledge engineering and management
Gazetteers, indirect referencing	Geographic Information Metadata and Catalogs
GML and other geographic languages	GI-based decision support methods and tools
GI Web services, Gridtechnologies	Mobile and distributed geographic information services
Location-based services (LBS)	Multiple representations in spatial databases
Novel and challenging applications	Visual analysis of GI
Spatial query processing and optimization	Semantic interoperability
SDI policy and applications	Spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and modelling
SDI: cross-national and cross-institution	Sensor web

Workshop Chair:
Michael Gould, University Jaume I (Castellón, Spain)

Co-chairs:
Monica De Martino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Genoa Italy)
Lars Bernard, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (Ispra Italy)

Program Committee:

Alessio Bertone, CNR, Italy
Anders Ostman, University of Lulea, Sweden
Andreas Wytzisk, ITC, The Netherlands
Arne Berre, SINTEF, Norway
Carlos Granell, University Jaume I, Spain
David M Mark, University Buffalo, USA
F.Javier Zarazaga-Soria, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Guenther Pichler, OpenGeospatial Consortium
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Hans Voss, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Hui Lin, Chinese University Hong Kong
Javier Nogueras-Iso, University of Zaragoza, Spain
José Poveda, University Jaume I, Spain
Liz Gavin, Statistics Agency, South Africa
Max Craglia, JRC, Italy
Mette Arleth, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla, Spain
Pedro Álvarez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Pedro Muro-Medrano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands
Robert Laurini, LIRIS - INSA de Lyon, France
Riccardo Albertoni, CNR, Italy
Rubén Béjar, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Sergio Rosim , INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais ), Brazil
Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia
Werner Kuhn, University Münster, Germany

Paper Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit full papers with original research contributions or experience reports representing previous unpublished work, in English.
Maximum length for DEXA workshop papers: 5 pages, double-column in IEEE format. Please use this example to guide your initial formating; accepted papers will receive full formating instructions from IEEE Computer Society Press.  All papers will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind process; please submit in MS-Word (proprietary, sorry) format, so that names and references can be easily removed for the double-blind process to work properly.

Papers should be sent by e-mail (please zip files over 1MB) to:   gim05@ge.imati.cnr.it

At least one author of a paper is obliged to register for participation in the workshop and pay the reduced (author) DEXA registration fee. One author must agree to present the paper in Copenhagen.

For registration to the workshop see http://www.dexa.org.

The registration for GIM '05 allows attendance at all DEXA conferences/workshops, and also the reception, conference dinner, proceedings,...

Workshop contact: 
For further inquiries, please contact Michael Gould

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of full papers: EXTENDED TO MARCH 11, 2005 !!!
* Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2005
* Camera-ready copies due: May 15, 2005
* GIM '05 workshop:  August 22-26, 2005

preliminary programme

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