To: Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies <
Description
‘Share’ term has turned into a key issue of many successful
initiatives in recent times. Following the advent of Web 2.0, such
positive experiences based on mass collaboration generated “Wikinomics”
have become “Socialnomics”, where “Citizens are voluntary
sensors”.
During the past decades, the main issue in GIS implementation has been
the availability of sound spatial information. Nowadays, the wide
diffusion of electronic devices providing geo-referenced information have
resulted in the production of extensive spatial information datasets.
This trend has led to “GIS wikification”, where mass collaboration plays
a key role in main components of spatial information frameworks
(hardware, software, data, and people). Some authors (Goodchild, 2007)
talk about “Volunteered Geographic Information” (VGI), as the harnessing
of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic information
provided by individuals voluntarily creating their own contents by
marking the locations of occurred events or by labeling certain existing
features. not already been shown on map.
The term “neogeography” is often adopted to describe people activities
when using and creating their own maps, geo-tagging pictures, movies,
websites, etc. It could be defined as a new bottom – up approach to
geography prompted by users, therefore introducing changes in the roles
of ‘traditional’ geographers and ‘consumers’ of geographical contents
themselves. The volunteered approach has been also adopted by important
organizations.
Whilst technologies (e.g. GPS, remote sensing, etc.) can be useful in
producing new spatial data, volunteered activities are the only way to
update and describe such data. If, on one hand, spatial data have been
produced in various ways, on the other hand remote sensing, sensor
networks and other electronic devices generate a great flow of relevant
spatial information concerning several aspects of human activities or of
environmental phenomena monitoring. Further, during natural calamitous
events (e.g. earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.), a crucial contribution to
the response planning and emergency management derive really from data
created by amateur citizens, who report the status of disaster-hit areas
by using mobile devices or ad hoc Web-GIS services.
This “Information-Explosion Era” is characterised by a large amount of
information produced both by human activities and by automated systems;
the capturing and the manipulation of this information leads to” urban
computing” and represents a sort of bridge between computers and the real
world, accounting for the social dimension of human environments. This
technological evolution produced a new Paradigm of Urban Development,
called “u-City”, mainly rooted in Korea. Its transposition outside Asian
contexts has led to the smart cities concept.
Such phenomena offer new challenges to scholars (geographers, engineers,
planners, economists, sociologists, etc.) as well as to spatial planners
in addressing spatial issues and a wealth of brand-new, updated data,
generally created by people who are interested in geographically related
phenomena. As attention is to-date dedicated to visualization and content
creation, little has still been done from the spatial analytical point of
view and in involving users – as citizens – in participatory geographical
activities.
The programme committee especially requests high quality submissions
on the following Conference Themes:
Resilient cities;
Smart Cities;
Smart cities and Sustainable Urban Development;
GIS-based mobile applications for Smart Cities;
Planning 2.0; Participation 2.0;
Urban social networks, Urban sensing;
E-democracy, E-participation, Participatory Gis;
Open Government;
Open Data;
Technologies for eParticipation, policy modelling, simulation and
visualisation;
Second Life and participatory games;
Social networks and collaborative/participatory approaches;
Ubiquitous Computing Environment - Urban computing -
Ubiquitous-City;
Neogeography;
Collaborative mapping;
Geotagging;
SDI and Planning;
VGI VS SDI;
Volunteered Geographic Information;
Crowdsourcing;
Ontologies for Urban planning;
City Gml;
Geo-applications for mobile phones;
Web 2.0; Web 3.0;
Wikinomics, Socialnomics;
WikiCities;
WikiPlanning;
Maps mash up;
Tangible Maps and planning;
Risk assessment & Emergency management;
Resilient cities;
Renewable Energy for Cities and Smart grids;
Augmented Reality;
Complexity assessment and mapping.
Each paper will be independently reviewed by 3 programme committee
members. Their individual scores will be evaluated by a small
sub-committee and result in one of the following final decisions:
accepted; accepted on the condition that suggestions for improvement will
be incorporated; or rejected. Notification of this decision will take
place on February 2013.
Individuals and groups should submit complete papers (10 to 16
pages).
Proceedings
Papers accepted to "Cities, Technologies and Planning" will
be published in the ICCSA Conference proceedings, in Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, with doi, indexed by
Scopus and DBLP.
Participants to “Cities, Technologies and Planning" CTP 13 will be
invited to submit an extended version of their paper for two special
issues on
“International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)”or
Future Internet
Open Access Journal. The selected manuscripts will undergo the
standard peer review process of IJEPR or Future Internet.
Extended version of previous "Cities, Technologies and
Planning" papers have been included in the special issue:
"NeoGeography and WikiPlanning".
Authors Guideline
Please adhere strictly to the formatting provided in the template to
prepare your paper and refrain from modifying it.
The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the
rules of LNCS. For formatting information, see the publisher's web
site
(
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper.
Submission
papers should be submitted at:
http://ess.iccsa.org/
please don't forget to select "Cities, Technologies and
Planning" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.
Important dates
31 January 2013: Deadline for full paper submission
10 March 2013: Notification of acceptance
6 April 2013: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
June 24-27, 2013: ICCSA 2013 Conference
Beniamino Murgante
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Beniamino Murgante, PhD
School of Engineering, University of Basilicata
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