[Dbworld] GEOINFO 2004 - deadline: August 15

GEOINFO 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS

VI BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON GEOINFORMATICS
November 22-24, 2004, Campos do Jordao, Brazil
Promoted by SBC (Brazilian Computing Society)
Sponsored by IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
Working Group 2.6 DATABASES
Organized by UFRGS and INPE

The GEOINFO series of conferences has been organized since 1999 and provides a premier forum for:

• sharing research solutions in the area of geoinformatics as well as
• promoting the exchange of geotechnologies and experience among researchers and application engineers, and
• identifying new issues and directions for future research in geoinformatics and beyond.

GEOINFO 2004 will be held in Campos do Jordão, an attractive tourist destination which is located at 1,700 meters above the sea level on the mountains of Serra da Mantiqueira, 186Km away from the city of Rio de Janeiro and 330Km from São Paulo. It is famous for its mild weather as well as its mountain trails. The central European heritage can be perceived in both architecture and food.

GEOINFO 2004 invites research submissions on topics related to geoinformatics, including but not limited to those listed below:

- Spatial databases
- Spatial and spatio-temporal data models and modeling techniques
- GIS interoperability and patterns
- Ontologies for geographical data
- Spatial metadata
- Spatial, spatio-temporal and multidimensional access methods
- Spatial query processing and optimization
- Multiple representations of geographical data
- Computational geometry
- Virtual reality and 3D GIS
- Very large and parallel GIS processing
- GIS and the Internet
- Mobile as well as distributed GIS services
- Real time spatio-temporal GIS
- Spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and knowledge discovery
- Geographical data quality
- Content based image retrieval
- Spatial statistics and analysis
- Innovative geoprocessing based applications


Paper Submission Guidelines:

Authors are invited to submit papers describing either ongoing or recently completed, original research.

For the first time the GEOINFO conference we will be accepting both long and short papers. Long papers must be written in English and may not exceed 8 pages. Short papers can be written either in English or in Portuguese, not exceeding 5 pages, and are meant to present results of ongoing research of graduate students.

Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Papers in English must be submitted through the site http://www.geoinfo.info/geoinfo2004/paper.html, while the submission of papers in Portuguese must be done through the site http://www.geoinfo.info/portuguese/geoinfo2004/paper.html.

The conference proceedings will be published under the ISBN of IFIP.

General Chair:
Gilberto Camara (INPE, Brazil)

Program Chair:
Cirano Iochpe (UFRGS, Brazil)

Organizing Committee Chairs:
Gilberto Camara (INPE, Brazil)
Cirano Iochpe (UFRGS, Brazil)
Marco Antonio Casanova (PUC/Rio, Brazil)


Program Committee:

Ana Carolina Salgado (UFPE, Brazil)
Andrew Frank (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Antonio Miguel V. Monteiro (INPE, Brazil)
Bernhard Mitschang (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Carlos Antonio Alvares Soares Ribeiro (UFV, Brazil)
Cirano Iochpe (UFRGS, Brazil)
Claudio Esperança (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil)
Clodoveu Augusto Davis Jr. (PRODABEL, Brazil)
Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University, USA)
Geovane Cayres Magalhaes (CPQD, Brazil)
Gilberto Câmara (INPE, Brazil)
João Argemiro Paiva (ORACLE Corporation, USA)
José Luiz de Souza Pio (FUA, Brazil)
Jugurta Lisboa Filho (UFV, Brazil)
Marcelo Tílio Monteiro de Carvalho (PUC/Rio, Brazil)
Marco Antônio Casanova (PUC/Rio, Brazil)
Marcus Vinicius Alvim Andrade (UFV, Brazil)
Max Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA)
Milton Ramirez (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil)
Renato Assunção (UFMG, Brazil)
Ricardo Ciferri (UEM, Brazil)
Robert Laurini (INSA of Lyon, France)
Stefano Spaccapietra (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland)
Valeria Times (UFPE, Brazil)
Werner Kuhn (University of Münster, Germany)
Yannis Theodoridis (University of Piraeus, Greece)


Important Dates:

- Submission of full papers (either long or short): August 15, 2004
- Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2004
- Camera-ready copies due: October 10, 2004

For further information check the website http://www.geoinfo.info/geoinfo2004/index.html.

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