Due to request of delaying the submission by several authors, the deadline of GEOG-AN-MOD 09 ( http://www.lisut.org/workshop/GEOG-AN-MOD09/) for submitting full paper has been extended to Friday, 27 February, 2009.
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On behalf of (GEOG-AN-MOD 09) Programme Committee, it is a pleasure to invite you to participate to the:


Fourth International Workshop on "Geographical Analysis,
Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics"
GEOG-AN-MOD 09
http://www.lisut.org/workshop/GEOG-AN-MOD09/

in conjunction with


The 2009 International Conference on Computational
Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2009)
June 29th to July 2rd, 2009
Kyung Hee University-Global Campus, Yongin (Korea)
http://www.iccsa.org/



Workshop Description
The growth of Spatial Data Infrastructures, Geo-portals and private sector initiatives (e.g. Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, etc.) produced an increase of geographical data availability at any scale and worldwide. This growth has not been fully coupled by an increase of knowledge to support spatial decisions. Spatial analytical techniques and geographical analysis and modelling methods are therefore required in order to analyse data and to facilitate the decision process at all levels. Old geographical issues can find an answer thanks to new methods and instruments, while new issues are developing, challenging the researchers for new solutions. This workshop is aimed at contributing to the development of new techniques and methods to improve the process on knowledge acquisition


The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions on the following Conference Themes :
Geostatistics and spatial simulation;
Agent-based spatial modelling;
Cellular automata spatial modelling;
Spatial statistical models;
Space-temporal modelling;
Spatial network modelling;
Geovisual analytics, geovisualisation, visual exploratory data analysis;
Visualisation and modelling of track data;
Spatial Optimization;
Interaction Simulation Models;
Data mining, spatial data mining;
Spatial Data Warehouse and Spatial OLAP;
Integration of Spatial OLAP and Spatial data mining;
Spatial Decision Support Systems;
Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis;
Spatial Rough Set;
Spatial extension of Fuzzy Set theory;
Ontologies for Spatial Analysis;
Urban modeling;
Applied geography;
Spatial data analysis;
Dynamic modelling;
Simulation, space-time dynamics, visualization and virtual reality.

Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions: accepted, or accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will be incorporated, or rejected. Notification of this decision will take place March 24, 2009.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16 pages).
Accepted contributions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volumes.


Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it.
The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher's web site
( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.


Submission
papers should be submitted at:
http://cyb09.iccsa.org/
please don't forget to select "Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics GEOG-AN-MOD 09" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.


Proceedings
Papers accepted to GEOG-AN-MOD 09 (Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics) will be published in the ICCSAConference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Extended version of GEOG-AN-MOD 08 papers have been included in three special issues:
Transactions on Computational Science Journal.
Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Geocomputation and Urban Planning" Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 176. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Murgante B., Borruso G., Lapucci A. (2009) "Environmental geocomputation for sustainable development" Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Important dates

27 February 2009: Deadline for full paper submission
24 March 2009: Notification of acceptance
12 April 2009: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
June 29 - July 2, 2009: ICCSA 2009 Conference.


Organising Committee:
Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada.
Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

Programme Committee
Stefania Bertazzon, University of Calgary, Canada
Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
Yong Ge, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stefano Crocchianti, University of Perugia, Italy
David C. Prosperi, Florida Atlantic University, Usa
Andrea Taramelli, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Usa
Alex Hagen-Zanker, Urban Planning Group, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Bianca Schoen, University College Dublin , Ireland
Nicola Masini, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy
Devis Tuia, Institute of Geomatics and Analysis of Riske, Univeristy of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dmitry Kurtener , Agrophysical Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Giuseppe A. Trunfio, Department of Architecture and Planning - University of Sassari, Italy
Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University, Danmark
Ivan Blecic, Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari, Italy
Jérôme Gensel, Spatio-TEmporal information, Adaptability, Multimedia and knowlEdge Representation Laboratory (STEAMER), Grenoble, France
Maria Danese, University of Basilicata, Italy
Elke Moons, Transportation Research Institute, Hasselt University, Belgium
Paola Perchinunno, Department of Statistical Science, University of Bari, Italy
Christine Voiron-Canicio, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis – CNRS – UMR ESPACE, France
Rosa Lasaponara, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council, Italy
Pablo Vanegas, Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Marta G. Vivanco, Atmospheric Pollution Unit, Environmental Department, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
Massimiliano Petri, University of Pisa, Italy
Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
Itzhak Omer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Urska Demsar, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Carmelo Torre, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Technion –Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Maurizio Lazzari, Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy
Dimos N. Pantazis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Salem Chakhar, University Paris Dauphine, France
Sandro Bimonte, University Lumiere Lyon 2, Laboratory ERIC, Bron, France
Suzana Dragicevic, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Silvana Grella, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
Hexiang Bai, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Belen Palop, University Valladolid, Spain
Alessandra Lappucci, University of Pisa, Italy
Baris Kazar, Oracle Corporation, Usa
Maurizio Gibin, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College of London, UK
Antonino Marvuglia, University of Palermo Italy

Further information
For further information or questions, please send an e-mail to:
Giuseppe Borruso (University of Trieste, Italy) giuseppe.borruso@econ.units.it
Beniamino Murgante (University of Basilicata, Italy) beniamino.murgante@unibas.it