GeoInfo 2006 Call for Papers

[Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr <paulojus@est.ufpr.br>]

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VIII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON GEOINFORMATICS - GEOINFO 2006
November 19-22, 2006
Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil
http://www.geoinfo.info

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The VIII Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics (GeoInfo 2006) will take place 
at Campos do Jordão (São Paulo, Brazil), from November 19 to November 22, 2006. 
GeoInfo 2006 is supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and is 
organized by the SBC's Special Commission on GeoInformatics.

GeoInfo is a forum for the discussion of current research on the science and 
technology of geographic information and related areas. In particular, Masters 
and Doctoral students are encouraged to participate, in order to present 
ongoing efforts and early results, for receiving useful comments and insights 
from participating members of our community.

We request either long (6000 words) or short (3000 words) papers, in English, 
using SBC's traditional format
(available through the following links:
Word: 
http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads&id=168; 
LaTeX: 
http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads&id=222).

Papers must be submitted in PDF format only, with no restrictions on printing, 
following the instructions available at http://www.geoinfo.info/myreview/.

Long papers should describe scientific results from research that has been 
recently concluded or is in an advanced state. Short papers should describe 
preliminary research results and perspective developments. Both long and short 
papers will be presented orally. All papers will be published in the event's 
proceedings and in GeoInfo's Web site (www.geoinfo.info), along with papers 
from all previous editions.

Contributions will be refereed by an international program committee, based on 
criteria such as originality, quality, relevance, and presentation. All 
questions should be addressed to the program committee chair.

TOPICS

GeoInfo 2006 invites research submissions on topics related to geoinformatics, 
including but not limited to those listed below:

- Spatial and spatio-temporal databases
- Spatial and spatio-temporal data models and modeling techniques
- Interoperability and standards in GIS
- Ontologies for spatial information
- Spatial metadata
- Spatial, spatio-temporal and multidimensional access methods
- Spatio-temporal query processing and optimization
- Multiple representations of spatial databases
- Computational geometry
- Virtual reality and 3D GIS
- Large volume GIS servers and parallel GIS
- GIS and the Internet
- Mobile and distributed geographic information services
- Spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and knowledge discovery
- Spatial data quality
- Content-based image retrieval
- Geostatistics
- Spatial analysis and spatial statistics
- Dynamical modeling and GIS applications of cellular automata
- Innovative applications of geotechnologies

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Clodoveu Davis, PUC-MG, Brazil (Chair)
Ana Carolina Salgado, UFPE, Brazil
Andréa Iabrudi, UFMG, Brazil   Andréa Rodriguez, Universidad de Concepción, 
Chile
Andrew Frank, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro, INPE, Brazil
Bernhard Mitschang, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Christelle Vangenot, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Cirano Iochpe, UFRGS, Brazil
Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros, Unicamp, Brazil
Cláudio Baptista, UFCG, Brazil
Cláudio Esperança, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
Frederico Fonseca, Penn State, USA
Gilberto Câmara, INPE, Brazil
Guoray Cai, Penn State, USA
João Argemiro Paiva, Oracle Corporation, USA
Jorge Campos, UNIFACS, Brazil
José Alberto Quintanilha, USP, Brazil
José Luiz de Souza Pio, FUA, Brazil
Jugurta Lisboa Filho, UFV, Brazil
Karla Albuquerque de Vasconcelos Borges, Prodabel, Brazil
Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine, USA
Lubia Vinhas, INPE, Brazil
Marcelo Tílio Monteiro de Carvalho, PUC-RJ, Brazil
Marco Antônio Casanova, PUC-RJ, Brazil
Marcus Vinicius Alvim Andrade, UFV, Brazil
Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas, Unicamp, Brazil
Mario J. Silva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Max Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA
Miguel Torres, Centro de Investigacion em Computacion, Mexico
Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr., UFPR, Brazil
Renato Assunção, UFMG, Brazil
Ricardo Ciferri, UFSCar, Brazil
Ricardo da Silva Torres, Unicamp, Brazil
Sergei Levashkin, Centro de Investigacion em Computacion, Mexico
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia
Valéria Soares, UFRN, Brazil
Valeria Times, UFPE, Brazil
Werner Kuhn, University of Münster, Germany
Yola Georgiadou, ITC, Netherlands

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline - August 01, 2006
Notification of acceptance - September 11, 2006
Camera-ready copies - October 01, 2006
GeoInfo 2006 Campos do Jordão - November 19-22, 2006.

For further information, check http://www.geoinfo.info .

Clodoveu Davis
clodoveu@pucminas.br
Program Committee Chair
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais - PUC Minas

Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro
miguel@dpi.inpe.br
General Chair
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE