[dbjapan] 空間情報に関する国際会議 COSIT '07 の Call for Participation を転送させていただきます。

[Taro Tezuka <tezuka [at] dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

日本データベース学会の皆様，

京都大学の手塚です。

空間情報に関する国際会議 COSIT'07 の
Call for Participation を転送させていただきます。

空間情報という切り口から多様な研究の集まる会議です。
今年で8回目を迎え、メルボルンで行われます。
どうかよろしくお願い致します。

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Register now for COSIT'07:
Eighth International Conference on Spatial Information Theory
19-23 September 2007
Mt Eliza, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.cosit.info

General Chairs: Stephan Winter (U Melbourne), Benjamin Kuipers (U Texas)
Local Co-Chairs: Matt Duckham (U Melbourne) and Lars Kulik (U Melbourne)
Chair of Doctoral Colloquium: Alexander Klippel (Penn State U)

KEY DATES
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COSIT'07 Workshops 			19 September 2007
COSIT'07 Technical Sessions		20-22 September 2007
COSIT'07 Doctoral Colloquium		23 September 2007
Early bird registration deadline	22 June 2007

TOPIC AND TARGET GROUP
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COSIT'07 is concerned with theoretical aspects of space, time, and spatial information. Of special interest are spaces of geographic and environmental scales in which humans make decisions and carry out actions. Spatial information theory also deals with the formal and natural description of processes and events in spatial environments, thus providing a foundation for the design and construction of geographic information systems (GIS) and for spatial information in general. Empirical investigations, formal models, and the use of spatial information technologies reveal a large number of interesting research questions which require an interdisciplinary approach for their solution. 

COSIT'07 will bring together researchers from many disciplines and topics, in particular:

    * Cognitive, Perceptual, and Environmental Psychology
    * Geography and Geoinformation Science
    * Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science
    * Engineering and Human Factors
    * Cognitive Anthropology, Psycholinguistics and Linguistics
    * Ontology of the Geospatial Domain
    * Architecture, Planning, and Environmental Design

CONFERENCE STYLE AND PROGRAM
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COSIT痴 trademark is a single track conference with extensive exchange and interaction during and beyond the presentations. Staying together at a secluded location is one of the key factors to achieve this atmosphere. 

Papers are selected through a rigorous review of full paper contributions by internationally renowned reviewers. An acceptance rate of 27% in 2007 promises a stimulating and exciting event. The proceedings are published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The day before the conference, international workshops on topics relevant to the conference are offered. A Doctoral Colloquium, facilitated by a small panel of experienced researchers, will conclude the conference. It is intended as a forum where PhD students can meet, present their research, and hold discussions with others at a similar stage in their careers.

REGISTRATION
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Prospective participants can now register at http://www.cosit.info. Don稚 miss the early bird rates valid through 22 June 2007.

KEYNOTES
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    * Deborah McGuinness (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University) is a leading expert in knowledge representation and reasoning languages and systems and has worked in ontology creation and evolution environments for over 20 years. Most recently, Deborah is best known for her leadership role in semantic web research, and for her work on explanation, trust, and applications of semantic web technology, particularly for scientific applications.
    * Kim Marriott (Information Technology, Monash University) is interested in the formalization of understanding and reasoning with diagrammatic notations such as finite state diagrams or house plans, in particular, grammatical and logical approaches to the specification and recognition of such visual languages. 
    * Mandyam Srinivasan (Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland) is Australian Federation Fellow, elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1995 and to the Royal Society of London in 2001. 鉄rini cracked the code of vision in the world of bees, demonstrating that the motion of the passing landscape provides the bee with a third dimension to vision. This is how bees regulate their flight and ensure a safe landing・(from a laudation on the occasion of the 2006 Prime Minister痴 Prize for Sciene).

WORKSHOPS
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The following international workshops will be held in conjunction with COSIT'07:

Workshop on Semantic Similarity Measurement and Geospatial Applications
Chairs: Krzysztof Janowicz (M・ster, D), Angela Schwering (Osnabr・k, D), Martin Raubal (UCSB, USA), Werner Kuhn (M・ster, D)
http://musil.uni-muenster.de/similarity

Spatial Cognition in Architectural Design
Chairs: Thomas Barkowsky (Bremen), Zafer Bilda (Sydney), Christoph Hvlscher (Freiburg), Georg Vrachliotis (Z・ich)
http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/SCAD/

Joint Workshop on Distributed Geoinformatics and Sensing, Ubiquity, and Mobility (DG/SUM'07)
DG'07 Chairs: Matt Duckham (Melbourne, AU), Arie Croitoru (Alberta, Canada), Peggy Agouris (GMU, USA)
SUM'07 Chairs: Lars Kulik and Egemen Tanin (Melbourne, AU)
http://www.geosensor.net/dgsum/

International Workshop on Social Space and Geographic Space (SGS 2007)
Chairs: Stephan Winter and Garry Robins (both Melbourne, AU)
http://www.geosensor.net/cosit/content/view/60/82/


CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Pragya Agarwal, UK 
Thomas Barkowsky, Germany 
John Bateman, Germany 
Brandon Bennett, UK 
Michela Bertolotto, Ireland 
Thomas Bittner, Germany 
Mark Blades, UK 
Gilberto Camara, Brazil 
Roberto Casati, France 
Christophe Claramunt, France 
Eliseo Clementini, Italy 
Anthony G. Cohn, UK 
Helen Couclelis, USA 
Matteo Cristani, Italy 
Leila de Floriani, Italy 
Michel Denis, France 
Maureen Donnelly, USA 
Geoffrey Edwards, Canada 
Max Egenhofer, USA 
Carola Eschenbach, Germany 
Sara Fabrikant, USA 
Andrew Frank, Austria 
Christian Freksa, Germany 
Mark Gahegan, USA 
Antony Galton, UK 
Christopher Gold, UK
Reg Golledge, USA 
Mary Hegarty, USA 
Stephen Hirtle, USA 
Hartwig H. Hochmair, USA 
Kathleen Hornsby, USA 
Christopher B. Jones, UK 
Marinos Kavouras, Greece 
Alexander Klippel, USA 
Barry J. Kronenfeld, USA 
Markus Knauff, Germany 
Werner Kuhn, Germany 
Michael Lutz, Germany 
David M. Mark, USA 
Harvey Miller, USA 
Daniel Montello, USA 
Bernard Moulin, Canada 
Reinhard Moratz, Germany 
Bernhard Nebel, Germany 
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong, China 
Juval Portugali, Israel
Jonathan Raper, UK 
Martin Raubal, USA 
Jochen Renz, Australia 
Thomas Roefer, Germany 
Andrea Rodriguez, Chile 
Christoph Schlieder, Germany 
Michel Scholl, France 
Barry Smith, USA 
John Stell, UK 
Holly Taylor, USA 
Sabine Timpf, Switzerland 
Andrew Turk, Australia 
Barbara Tversky, USA 
David Uttal, USA 
Laure Vieu, France 
Robert Weibel, Switzerland 
Michael Worboys, USA 
Wai-Kiang Yeap, New Zealand 
May Yuan, USA

CONFERENCE LOCATION
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The conference will be held at the Melbourne Business School in Mt Eliza, Melbourne, Australia. The conference venue is located above the cliffs of Port Phillip Bay, with wonderful views, an English park landscape, and a private beach. Mount Eliza is about one and a half hour's drive from Melbourne's international airport Tullamarine (MEL). A shuttle service will operate from the airport to the conference site at Mt Eliza. Melbourne is well-connected, with direct flights from major cities around the world. September is low season for traveling to Australia and several airlines offer budget tickets. The latest travel and conference information will appear on the COSIT'07 web site http://www.cosit.info as it becomes available.

RELATED
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The SSI offers its members 12 CPD points for participation at COSIT'07.

FURTHER INFORMATION
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Please address all correspondence about the conference to:

Stephan Winter
Department of Geomatics
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia

phone +61 3 8344 7875
fax   +61 3 9347 2916
email winter [at] unimelb.edu.au
url   http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au
url   http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/winter

COSIT SPONSORS
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    * ESRI, USA (primary sponsor)
    * Google, USA (doctoral colloquium sponsor)
    * Ordnance Survey, UK (key sponsor)
    * Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Victoria (key sponsor)
    * Shell, NL (poster session sponsor)
    * PSMA, Australia (scholarship sponsor)
    * Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (travel support)
    * Spatial Science Institute (CPD)
    * Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne
    * Dept. of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne


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京都大学大学院 情報学研究科
社会情報学専攻 社会情報モデル講座 情報図書館学分野
手塚太郎
tezuka [at] i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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