Call for Papers

The First International Workshop on Web-based Geographic Information Management

(WGIM '11)

in conjunction with WAIM 2011(http://totemdb.whu.edu.cn/waim2011/index.html)

14 - 16 September 2011

Wuhan, China

The rapid development of geographic information infrastructure and increased demand for sharing useful geographic data and information through the Web, which has made a new research focus that how to manage and share geographic information on the Web efficiently. The aim of WGIM 2011 is to present innovative research and development contributions in the context of Web-base Geographic Information Management. WGIM should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers, users, expert scientists working in this field.

The Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecturer Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. It will be indexed by EI. Selected best papers will be published in international journals.

Suggested Topics:

Suggested topics for WGIM 2011 include, but are not limited to:

* Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security

* Copyright Protection

* Multiple representations in spatial databases

* Geographic Information Retrieval

* Geographic Information Metadata and Catalogs

* Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

* Spatial Data Quality and Cleaning

* Spatio-Temporal Data Management

* Geographic Recommendation Systems

* GeoSocial Networks

* Location-based Services

Workshop Co-chair:

Xiaofang Zhou , University of Queensland, Australia

Jingjue Jiang, Wuhan University, China

Program Committee:

Hoyoung Jeung, EPFL, Switzerland
Jiaheng Lu, Renmin Univeristy of China
Ke Deng, University of Queensland, Australia
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Shuliang Wang, Wuhan University, China
Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Yang Yue, Wuhan University, China
Zhiming Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences Software Institute, China

Paper Format and Submission:

All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

Papers should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission of papers must be in either PDF or Word format. The Authors should exclude the usage of non-English fonts to avoid the problems from reviewers' machines.

You may download formats by the following links:

LaTex2e Format: Local download(http://totemdb.whu.edu.cn/waim2011/files/llncs2e.zip) more(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0#anchor5)...

MS Word Format: Local download(http://totemdb.whu.edu.cn/waim2011/files/LNCS-Office2007.zip) more(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)...

All accepted papers MUST strictly follow the LNCS/LNAI Authors instructions(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0#anchor2).


Please submit your paper to whujiang@whu.edu.cn.


Important Dates

Full paper submission deadline: June 3, 2011

Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2011

Camera-ready submission deadline: June 25, 2011