[socop-forum] CfP: 5th International Terra Cognita Workshop 2012

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5th International Terra Cognita Workshop
2012 
In Conjunction with the 11th International
Semantic Web Conference 
November 11-15, 2012 
Boston, USA 
Foundations, Technologies and Applications
of the Geospatial Web

OBJECTIVES

The wide availability of technologies
such as GPS, map services and social networks, has resulted in the proliferation
of geospatial data on the Web. In addition to material produced by professionals
(e.g., maps), the public has also been encouraged to make geospatial content,
including their geographical location and a record of their outdoor activities,
available online. The volume of such user-generated geospatial content
is constantly growing. Similarly, the amount of data extracted from the
Web and published as Linked Open Data is increasing. Linked Open Data include
many data sets with geospatial properties such as coordinates, feature
class or topological relation. Examples of such data sets are GeoNames.org,
LinkedGeoData.org and DBpedia.org.

The geo-referencing of Web resources
and users has given rise to various services and applications that exploit
it. With the location of users being made available widely, new issues
such as those pertaining to security and privacy arise. Likewise, emergency
response, context sensitive user applications, and complex GIS tasks all
lend themselves toward solutions that combine both the Geospatial Web and
the Semantic Web.

Researchers have been quick to realize
the importance of these developments and have started working on the relevant
research problems, giving rise to new topical research areas such as Geographic
Information Retrieval, Linked Geospatial Data, GeoWeb 2.0. Similarly, standardization
bodies such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have been developing
relevant standards such as the Geography Markup Language (GML) and GeoSPARQL.

The workshop will bring together researchers
and practitioners from various disciplines, as well as interested parties
from industry and government, to advance the frontiers of this exciting
research area. Bringing together Semantic Web and geospatial researchers
helps encourage the use of semantics in geospatial applications and the
use of spatial elements in semantic research and applications. The field
continues to gain popularity, resulting in a need for a forum to discuss
relevant issues.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Data models and languages for the Geospatial
Web
Systems and architectures for the Geospatial
Web
Geographic Information Retrieval
Linked Geospatial Data
Ontologies and rules in the Geospatial
Web
Uncertainty in the Geospatial Web
User interface technologies for the
Geospatial Web
Geospatial Web and mobile data management
Security and privacy issues in the
Geospatial Web
Geospatial Web applications
User-generated geospatial content
OGC and W3C technologies and standards
in the Geospatial Web

SUBMISSIONS

We invite two kinds of submissions:
        
Research papers. These should not exceed
12 pages in length.
Demos. Deployed technologies are important
if the Geospatial Web is to be realized. We therefore strongly encourage
the submission of demos, and the presentation of demos related to research
papers (a separate demo paper does not need to be submitted in this case,
but the research paper should clearly discuss the demo to be presented).

Demo papers should not exceed 5 pages
in length. 
Submissions should be formatted according
to the Lecture Notes in Compute Science guidelines for proceedings available
at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format
using the Easy chair system: 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=terra12


At least one author of each accepted
paper or demo must register for the workshop. Information about registration
will appear soon on the ISWC 2012 Web page. PLEASE NOTE: ISWC does not
allow workshop-only registrations.  To attend, you will need to register
and pay for the workshop plus the conference.

Last year, the workshop proceedings
were published electronically in the CEUR series. We plan to do the same
this year.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission:      
    July 31, 2012
Notification of acceptance: August
21, 2012
Camera-ready versions:    
 September 10, 2012

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Dave Kolas , BBN Technologies, U.S.A.
Matthew Perry, Oracle Corp., Nashua,
NH, U.S.A.
Rolf Gruetter , Swiss Federal Research
Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Thomas Barkowsky, University Bremen,
Germany 
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid, Spain 
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA 
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey, UK 
Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey, UK 
Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California,
Santa Barbara, USA 
Marinos Kavouras, National Technical
University of Athens, Greece 
Stefan Manegold, CWI, The Netherlands

Alexandros Ntoulas, Microsoft Research

Dieter Pfoser, Institute for the Management
of Information Systems (IMIS), Athena, Greece, Athena 
Florian Probst, SAP Research, Germany

Ross Purves, University of Zurich,
Switzerland 
Oezguer L. Oezcep, Hamburg University
of Technology, Germany 
Thorsten Reitz, Fraunhofer Institute
for Computer Graphics, Germany 
Timos Sellis, Research Center “Athena”
and NTUA, Greece 
Spiros Skiadopoulos, University of
the Peloponnese, Greece 
Stavros Vassos, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Greece 
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin,
USA 
James Wilson, James Madison University,
USA 
Stefan Woelfl, University of Freiburg,
Germany 

WORKSHOP SERIES

This is the 5th Terra Cognita workshop.
The previous ones were: 
2011: Bonn, Germany
2009: Washington, D.C., USA
2008: Karlsruhe, Germany
2006: Athens, Georgia, USA

ORGANIZATION/SPONSORSHIP

This workshop is organized by members
of the Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) and European project
TELEIOS.

TELEIOS is an FP7/ICT project with
the goal of building an Earth Observatory. TELEIOS concentrates heavily
on geospatial data (satellite images, traditional GIS data, geospatial
Web data).

SOCoP is a geospatial semantics interest
group currently mainly with members from U.S. federal agencies, academia,
and business. SOCoP’s goal is to foster collaboration among users, technologists,
and researchers of spatial knowledge representations and reasoning towards
the development of a set of core, common geospatial ontologies for use
by all in the Semantic Web.
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