Background and scope

The International Cartographic Association (ICA) workshop series aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present leading edge research findings, exchange ideas, and stimulate new research efforts around geospatial analysis and modeling. Following the first workshop held in Vienna, Austria in July 2006, the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia and the ICA Working Group on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling are delighted to announce the second in the workshop series. The upcoming workshop focuses particularly on the spatial dimensions of urban systems. Urban environments are central to human lives and activities, and they are changing dramatically due to the continuous trend of urbanization. Modern cites are facing a series of problems such as increasing traffic congestion and urban sprawl, which need coordinated research to address. The increasing availability of movement information collected through mobile devices also stimulates more research on urban environments at various levels of spatial granularity. We solicit papers about formal models, methods, theories, and their applications to spatial problems that involve spatial structures and dynamics of urban environments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Agent-based modeling and simulation
Cellular automata modeling
Small world modeling and topological analysis
Urban land use change and transportation modeling
Real time city and location-based services
Time geography and temporal modeling
Urban morphology and structural analysis
Virtual city and artificial life
Spatio-temporal data mining

 

Call for Papers and Contacts

We call for full paper submission. Selected submissions will be published following a peer-review process. For submission details, please check out the "Submissions" section, or download the workshop announcement in pdf format here.

Please address all correspondence about the workshop to xyao@uga.edu or bin.jiang@polyu.edu.hk.

Cost

There is NO COST for participation. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation.