Workshop on GIScience Contributions to Smart City Research (GISmart 2018)

Please join us for a workshop co-located with the GIScience 2018: 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science to be held in Melbourne, Australia August 28-31, 2018. this workshop has been organised in the context of the European Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities GEO-C (www.geo-c.eu) by Dr. Auriol Degbelo, Dr. Carlos Granell (GEOTEC-UJI), Dr. Sergio Trilles (GEOTEC-UJI), Dr. Devanjan Bhattacharya, Prof. Dr. Christian Kray, Prof. Dr Marco Painho.

Topic:
The topic of smart city has attracted a growing interest of various stakeholders (research, local government and industry) in recent years. In essence, a smart city is about using advanced data processing to make city governance more efficient, citizens happier, businesses more prosperous and the environment more sustainable. GIScience, the science of geographic information, has a lot to offer to smart(er) cities. Geographic information is indeed a central component of urban planning, wayfinding and navigation, land management, weather forecasting, transportation planning, risk management, to name but a few. Geographic/spatial information also ties together scientific disciplines, and societal stakeholders in policy decisions. The time to get GIScience researchers discuss and ideate on the role of their field for smart city research is ripe. GIScience attendees will benefit from the contributions of a set of scholars who have been working on several dimensions of the citizen-centric smart city!

The workshop intends to collect contributions related to, and bring together scholars working on advancing six key areas where progress is still needed to realize a citizen-centric vision of smart city: deep citizen participation, data literacy and map literacy, pairing quantitative and qualitative data, adoption of open standards, the development of personal services, and the development of persuasive user interfaces.

Topics include:
Analysis of volunteered geographic information
Approaches to mitigate location privacy
Integration of quantitative and qualitative geographic data
Map literacy
Personalizing maps
Persuasive spatial interfaces
Spatial approaches to foster citizen participation
Spatio-temporal analysis of urban data
Use of open geospatial standards to make city services more efficient
User-centered design of interactive maps

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: May 22, 2018
Authors’ notification: June 22, 2018
Camera Ready: July 13, 2018
Workshop: August, 28, 2018

Submission & Reviewing:
Papers must be written in English, formatted according to the Springer LNCS format and submitted as PDF via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/cfp/GISmart2018). All submitted papers will be reviewed for the significance of their contributions (and their relevance to smart city research) by at least two members of the program committee. The review process is single-blind. The following types of contributions are welcome (figures and references count towards the page limits).

Full research papers (8-12 pages)
Position papers (6-8 pages)
Short research papers (4-6 pages)
Accepted papers will be published as a volume in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Presentation of accepted papers at the workshops is mandatory for the final inclusion in the workshop proceedings.

Program Committee (to be extended):
Andrea Ballatore, University of London
Thomas Bartoschek, University of Münster
Lars Bernard, Technische Universität Dresden
Piero Boccardo, Politecnico di Torino
Martha Patricia Bohorquez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Pedro Cabral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sven Casteleyn, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón
Ana Cristina Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sanjay Kumar Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Michael Gould, Universitat Jaume I of Castellón & ESRI
Roberto Henriques, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Gobe Hobona, Open Geospatial Consortium
Barbara Hofer, University of Salzburg
Shuanggen Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jitka Komarkova, Univerzita Pardubice
Tiago Oliveira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Frank Ostermann, University of Twente
Edzer Pebesma, University of Münster
Stéphane Roche, University of Laval
Bernd Resch, University of Salzburg
Simone Russo, European Commission Joint Research Center
Vitor Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sven Schade, Joint Research Centre
Raja Sengupta, McGill University

More info at: http://www.geo-c.eu/gismart2018