Second International Workshop on
Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
W2GIS 2002

in conjunction with WISE 2002 
3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

11th December 2002, Grand Hyatt, Singapore

http://pipe.cais.ntu.edu.sg:8000/wise2002/prelim.shtml#W1S1

 
 

Thanks to recent advances on the developments of Wireless and Internet technologies, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) face some important technical and methodological challenges to answer increasing needs in the diffusion and processing of geo-referenced data. Wireless and Internet devices also offer new ways of accessing and analysing geographical-based information providing thus new challenges and opportunities to the GIS research community.

This one-day workshop is intended to provide an up-to-date review of advances on recent development of Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS). This workshop follows the successful first edition of WGIS, held in Kyoto, December, 2001, also in conjunction with the WISE conference. This year the workshop will namely integrate the wireless component in its scope to reflect the importance of location-based services and the management and delivery of GIS content in the mobile Internet.

The second edition of  W2GIS will give an audience to present and discuss the latest progress on the technological, application developments and prototypes of wireless and internet GIS. The workshop will favour exchanges and confrontations of approaches amongst academics, software industrials and users. These communities are also invited to share their experience and vision on the development of W2GIS. 

We invite submissions that address both theoretical and technical issues of W2GIS. Reports on implementations are particularly welcome.  Suggested topics include, but are not limited to as long as they address issues related to W2GIS:

  • Conceptual and logical models for W2GIS
  • Data management
  • Data retrieval methods
  • Geographical search engines
  • Digital geographical libraries
  • W2GIS query languages and interfaces
  • 2D and 3D information visualisation
  • Exploratory cartography and interfaces
  • W2GIS data mining
  • W2GIS security
  • Location-based services
  • W2GIS applications and prototypes

The W2GIS workshop papers will be included in the WISE proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of best/some selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for inclusion in World Wide Web Journal (http://www.wkap.nl/journals/wwwj)

Organisation

Workshop Chairs:

Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Centre,  USA, baru@sdsc.edu
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy, France, claramunt@ecole-navale.fr
Bo Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore, cvehb@nus.edu.sg
Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland, stefano.spaccapietra@epfl.ch

Program Committee:

Dave Abel, CSIRO, Australia, Dave.Abel@cmis.csiro.au
Gennady Andrienko, GMD, Germany, Gennady.Andrienko@gmd.de
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland, michela.bertolotto@ucd.ie
Patrice Boursier, University of La Rochelle, France, patrice.boursier@univ-lr.fr
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore, steph@nus.edu.sg
Weng Tat Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore, cvecwt@nus.edu.sg
Tien-Yin Chou, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, jimmy@gis.fcu.edu.tw
Thomas Devogele, Naval Academy, France, devogele@ecole-navale.fr
Max Egenhofer, NCGIA, USA, max@spatial.maine.edu
Mark Gahegan, Penn State, USA, mark@geog.psu.edu
Bin Jiang, Gävle University, Sweden, bin.jiang@hig.se
Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan, yahiko@db.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Menno-Jan Kraak, ITC, The Netherlands, kraak@itc.nl
Robert Laurini, INSA, France, laurini@if.insa-lyon.fr
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea, lik@hyowon.cc.pusan.ac.kr
Rongxing Li, Ohio State University, USA, li.282@osu.edu
Hui Lin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, huilin@cuhk.edu.hk
Pedro Muro-Medrano, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, prmuro@posta.unizar.es
Beng C. Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore, ooibc@comp.nus.edu.sg
Evtim Peytchev, The Nottingham Trent University, UK, evtim.peytchev@ntu.ac.uk
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA, shekhar@cs.umn.edu
Christelle Vangenot, EPFL, Switzerland, christelle.vangenot@epfl.ch
Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvâskylä , Finland, veijalai@cs.jyu.fi

Important Dates:

  • 30 June 2002 – Full paper submission (5000 words in IEEE double column format)
  • 15 September 2002 - Notification of paper acceptance
  • 15 October 2002 - Final paper due

All paper proposals should be submitted via email to Dr. Bo Huang at cvehb@nus.edu.sg (in pdf format).


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