[ ARCHIVE ] Second International Workshop on Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems (SeBGIS'06)

Oct 29 - Oct 30, 2006
Montpellier, France

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

WORKSHOP THEME

The recent years brought many developments that radically changed how we understand information processing. Data warehouses and OLAP systems are nowadays a fundamental component of decision-support systems. By extracting semantics from the raw data contained in a data warehouse, organizations are able to optimize their business processes. Further, the success of Internet has generated a paradigm shift in distributed computing leading to the area of Semantic Web, in which semantics is the fundamental component for achieving communication both for humans and applications. In addition, mobile and wireless computing have entered everyoneÕs life through dedicated devices leading to location-based services. Finally, Grid computing pushes the frontier of global interoperability by enabling applications to integrate computational and information resources managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations.

The fact that all these developments have entered the spatial domain increases the importance of the elicitation of the semantics of geographical information. 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.


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:

  • Definition, extraction, elicitation, and capture of spatial semantics
  • Multi-resolution and multi-representation in GISs
  • 3D GIS
  • Temporal and Spatio-Temporal GIS
  • Interoperability and Standards for GIS
  • Spatial Data Infrastructures
  • Semi-structured Geographic Data Modeling and Reasoning
  • Distributed GIS
  • Conceptual Modeling for GIS
  • Semantic Web and GIS
  • Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Ontologies
  • Mobile and Location-based GIS
  • Spatial Data Warehouses, Spatial Data Mining, Spatial Decision Making
  • Grid computing for GIS


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Esteban Zimanyi
Department of Computer Network Engineering,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Program Committee Members

Gennady Adrienko, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Yvan Bédard, Université de Laval, Canada
David Bennett, University of Iowa, USA
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
Roland Billen, Université de Liège, Belgi
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Bénédicte Buch, Institut Géographique National, Franc
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
Eliseo Clementini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Nadine Cullot, Université de Bourgogne, France
Fernando Ferri, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali, Italy
Anders Friis-Christensen, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
Robert Laurini, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France
Sergei Levashkin, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Thérèse Libourel, Université de Montpellier II, France
Peter van Oosterom, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Maurizio Rafanelli, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica, Italy
Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Nectaria Tryfona, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia