February 2004

GIScience 2004 Submission Deadlines

Reminder - GIScience 2004 Submission Deadlines
Full papers are due by April 12th, notification by May 31st. Abstracts are due by June 28th, notification by July 31st. Camera-ready versions of accepted full papers due by July 5th

GIScience 2004 is the follow-up meeting to the highly successful GIScience 2000 and 2002 conferences with over 300 researchers attending each time. GIScience 2004 will again bring together scientists from academia, industry, and government to analyze progress and to explore new research directions. It will focus on emerging topics and basic research findings across all sectors of geographic information science. The conference program aims to attract leading GIScience researchers from all fields to reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of GIScience, including cognitive science, computer science, engineering, geography, information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social science, and statistics.

The conference will be held October 20-23 2004 at the Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland, close to Washington, DC. Full details of the conference are at http://www.giscience.org

To accommodate the variety of papers and presentations that result from an interdisciplinary melting pot, GIScience 2004 will give authors choices about the type of submission they want to make. Full papers, consisting of 5,000-word manuscripts, will be thoroughly reviewed. Manuscripts must describe original work that has not been published before nor is currently under review elsewhere. Papers must be written in English, in 12-point type, and double-spaced. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the international program committee, and high-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference. Accepted papers will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Extended abstracts of 500-1000 words, describing work in progress, will be screened by program committee members, and those selected will be presented at the conference, with extended abstracts published as a volume prior to the conference. Extended abs
tracts must be written in English, in 12-point type, and double-spaced.

All submissions (full papers and extended abstracts) must be sent electronically to papers@giscience.org. Material can be submitted as PDF files or Microsoft Word files.

Program Committee:

Co-Chairs
Max Egenhofer, University of Maine
Christian Freksa, University of Bremen; and
Harvey Miller, University of Utah

Program Committee
David Abel, CSIRO, Australia
Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Peter Burrough, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Barbara Buttenfield, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Gilberto Câmara, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias, Brazil
Nicholas Chrisman, University of Washington, USA
Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK
Noel Cressie, The Ohio State University, USA
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Sara Fabrikant, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Peter Fisher, University of Leicester, UK
Leila de Floriani, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Stewart Fotheringham, University of Newcastle, UK
Andrew Frank, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Mark Gahegan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Arthur Getis, San Diego State University, USA
Ralf Güting, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Francis Harvey, University of Minnesota, USA
John Herring, Oracle Corporation, USA
Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine, USA
Gary Hunter, University of Melbourne, Australia
Christian Jensen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
Chris Jones, University of Cardiff, UK
Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Marc van Kreveld, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Werner Kuhn, Universität Münster, Germany
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Paul Longley, University College London, UK
Nina Lam, Louisiana State University, USA
Alan MacEachren , The Pennsylvania State University, USA
David Mark, University at Buffalo, USA
Daniel Montello, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Atsuyuki Okabe, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Harlan Onsrud, University of Maine, USA
Peter van Oosterom, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
Dimitris Papadias, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Donna Peuquet , The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Enrico Puppo, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Martin Raubal, Universität Münster, Germany
John Roddick , Flinders University, Australia
Peter Rogerson, University at Buffalo, USA
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Renee Siebert, McGill University, Canada
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Eric Sheppard University of Minnesota, USA
Barry Smith, Universität Leipzig, Germany, and University at Buffalo, USA
Emmanuel Stefanakis, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Barbara Tversky, Stanford University, USA
Agnès Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST, Berlin, Germany
Rob Weibel, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mike Worboys, University of Maine, USA
May Yuan, Univeristy of Oklahoma, USA
A-Xing Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Sponsoring organizations:
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, USA
Association of Geographic Information Laboratories Europe
Association of American Geographers
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, USA

Nature - "Mapping Opportunities"

Updates to GISC Website

The GISC web server was down yesterday from 10 am to 4 pm. Since then, the server has been restored and is also upgraded to SSH2. However, please note that when connecting to the webserver using SSH, it would alert you of the host moving from SSH 1 to SSH 2. This is normal, and to simply click "yes" to continue the connection. If you have any further problems, please send a email to root@gisc.berkeley.edu.

Devotional Landscapes: Mapping Shrines and Saints of New Spain

A Symposium and Workshop on GIS for History

February 27-28, 2004
University of California, Berkeley

Symposium: February 27
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall

Workshop: February 28
GIS Lab, 212 Wurster Hall

For registration information, contact: cari@uclink.berkeley.edu.

Religion as a nexus of political, economic, social and cultural life in the area once known as New Spain (now Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest) has been the subject of extensive scholarship. The landscape, already rich with the religious associations of the indigenous population, became freshly inscribed in ways ever more complex with the arrival of Catholicism. The interactions of the sacred and the spatial are being explored through the computerized mapping of Devotional Landscapes, a collaborative project between the Colegio de Mexico and UC Berkeley, that seeks to integrate historical geography and religious history in a region now severed by the US-Mexico border. The project seeks to enrich the historical interpretation of the cartography and the uses of digital mapping in Mexican and American colonial history.


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