The Call for Papers is available in PDF format.

The 10th International Symposium of ACM GIS will take place in McLean, VA (near Washington, DC) November 8-9 2002. It is the 10th of a series of symposia/workshops that started in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems, in all their diversity. The symposium will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of GIS. ACM GIS 2002 will be held in conjunction with The 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2002).

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

- Spatial and spatio-temporal data modeling
- Location-based services
- Interoperability and standards (including metadata, ontologies)
- Spatial, spatio-temporal and multidimensional access methods
- Spatial query processing and optimization
- Spatial reasoning
- Management of raster and vector Data
- Multiple representation in spatial databases
- Computational geometry
- Constraint databases
- Geospatial data versioning
- Large-scale GIS servers and parallel GIS
- Graphical aspects of GIS and Spatial DBMS
- Visual query languages
- Mobile and distributed geographic information services
- Performance evaluation and benchmarking
- Real-time spatio-temporal GIS
- Spatial data Warehousing and decision support
- Spatial and spatio-temporal data mining and knowledge discovery
- Spatial data quality
- Image retrieval by content
- Virtual reality and 3D GIS
- Similarity search
- GIS and the Internet
- Novel applications

Instructions for authors:

Authors are invited to submit full papers or one-page descriptions of panel proposal. Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on above and related topics are solicited. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The accept/reject of the papers will be based on the review results. All questions should be addressed to PC co-chairs.

An abstract should be submitted by May 13th (Firm). An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by May 21, 2002 (Firm deadline) to the website of the symposium. Papers must be prepared in such a way that ensures they will print anywhere. Thus, you should avoid using special fonts. Please do not include color figures.

Manuscripts must be in English and should not exceed 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address on the first page. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings.

Panel proposals should be sent by email to the appropriate program co-chairs:

Dr Shu-Ching Chen (chens@cs.fiu.edu), or to

Dr Agnes Voisard (voisard@inf.fu-berlin.de)

If electronic submission is not possible, please send six copies of the paper to the following postal address:

Dr. Shu-Ching Chen
Florida International University
School of Computer Science
11200 SW 8th Street, ECS 354
Miami, FL 33199, USA
tel: 305-348-3480
fax: 305-348-3549
email: chens@cs.fiu.edu

Journal Special Issue:

In addition to the symposium proceedings, selected submissions will be chosen by the Program Committee to be submitted as full papers for a special issue of GEOINFORMATICA Journal, Kluwer Publishers.

Important Dates:

Abstraction Submission Deadline: May 13, 2002 (Email in ascii to chens@cs.fiu.edu) (Firm deadline)
Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 21, 2002 (PDF format and only black and white) (Firm deadline)
Notification of Results: July 10, 2002
Camera Ready Copies: September 4th, 2002 (Please send all the materials to the publisher. Please see details at the publisher web site.
Registration Deadline: September 9th, 2002 (Firm Deadline for authors)

General Chairs:

Kia Makki, Florida International University, USA
Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, USA

Program Chairs:

Agnes Voisard, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

Program Committee:

Dave Abel, CSIRO, Australia
Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of campinas, Brazil
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore
Thomas Brinkhoff, Fachhochschule Oldenburg, Germany
Tiziana Catarci, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Clay Collier, Kivera Inc., USA
Rolf de By, ITC, The Netherlands
Leila de Floriani, University of Genova, Italy
Andrew Frank, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Ralf Hartmut Gueting, Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany
Klaus Hinrichs, University of Munster, Germany
Erik Hoel, ESRI, USA
Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
Robert Jeansoulin, University of Marseille, France
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Peter Ladstaetter, SICAD Geomatics, Munich, Germany
Robert Laurini, INSA and University of Lyon, France
Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, South Korea
Xuan Liu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Silvia Nittel, NCGIA, USA
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Srinivas Peeta, Purdue University, USA
Ivan Radev, William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
Philippe Rigaux, University of Paris at Orsay, France
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Michel Scholl, CNAM and INRIA, France
Jayant Sharma, Oracle Corporation, USA
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
Nectaria Tryfona, Computer Technology Institute, Athens, Greece
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece
Mike Worboys, NCGIA, Maine, USA