[socop-forum] Terra Cognita Workshop 2012 in conjunction with ISWC - pap

[Konstantina Bereta <Konstantina.Bereta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Due to requests from interested authors, we have extended the deadline for paper submission to August 7.

The call for papers follows below. Apologies for multiple postings.

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5th International Terra Cognita Workshop

Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web

http://www.strabon.di.uoa.gr/terracognita/

In conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference 

November 11-15, 2012 

Boston, USA

http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/

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 classes or topological relations. 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 Easychair 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.

Workshop Proceedings

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

Important Dates

Paper Submission:               August 7, 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

Alia Abdelmoty, Cardiff University, UK 

Thomas Barkowsky, University of Bremen, Germany 

Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain 

Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois, Chicago 

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 

Ozguer L. Ozcep, 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.

-- 
Konstantina Bereta
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Department of Informatics & Telecommunications
Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia
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