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**VGIscience PLATIAL'18 Workshop**<br>
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Venue: Mathematikon, Heidelberg University, Germany<br>
Date: 21 September 2018<br>
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Keynote talk: Quantitative Platial Analysis, Prof. Alexis
Comber, University of Leeds<br>
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Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://platial18.platialscience.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://platial18.platialscience.net</a><br>
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On the way to platial analysis: Can geosocial media provide the
necessary impetus?<br>
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The recent availability of user-generated geographic datasets
allows gaining novel insights into otherwise hardly observable
societal phenomena. Geosocial media forms one important source
of user-generated information, which partly describes the
everyday lives of people. The analysis of these kinds of data,
however, requires new approaches. Geosocial media data—like
those extracted from Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, and
others—differ from established sources in that they are largely
inherently platial in nature. People provide their own
subjective opinions or perceptions, and taken together these
represent the digital social imagination of places. Crisp and
objective geographic data primitives like points, lines or
polygons are not necessarily the preferable units for analysing
these kinds of information. Platial analysis approaches are thus
needed to fully exploit the potential of geosocial media and
related data. Yet, while human geographers and social scientists
have been theorizing on the concept of place since a long time,
and despite of invocations by leading GIScience researchers, we
are still lacking a universal theory on the formalization of
places and how to make them available to quantitative and other
GIS-related analysis strategies. Partly, this lack has been due
to the insufficient availability of platial data, but the
appearance of geosocial media might change this condition. It is
therefore time to rethink our geographical analysis strategies
with a focus on “place” instead of “space”. We therefore
encourage you to participate in our one-day workshop by
discussing the following topics:<br>
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* How could existing GIScience theories on space be integrated
with the human-geographic and philosophical notion of place?<br>
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* How can we—analogous to points, lines and polygons—derive
platial units as counterparts to the established GIS primitives?<br>
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* How is it possible to establish and quantify relationships
between adjacent places?<br>
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* What might be a suitable strategy for aggregating subjective
platial information?<br>
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* What are the roles of uncertainty, fuzziness, and subjectivity
in a place-based theory of geographical information?<br>
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* In which ways can places be visualized, and how can we do that
at multiple scales?<br>
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* How can platial analysis be integrated with applied research
agendas from neighbouring disciplines like sociology/regional
science, urban planning, or human geography?<br>
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* How to align Tobler’s first law of geography with a platial
notion of geospatial analysis?<br>
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* Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall theme of
this workshop.<br>
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Apart from discussing the above topics, it is our particular
goal to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue involving
geographers, computer scientists, social scientists, and other
related scholars.<br>
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WORKSHOP CONVENORS<br>
René Westerholt, GIScience, Heidelberg University (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:westerholt@uni-heidelberg.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">westerholt@uni-heidelberg.de</a>)<br>
Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, GIScience, Heidelberg University (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:mocnik@uni-heidelberg.de" moz-do-not-send="true">mocnik@uni-heidelberg.de</a>)<br>
Alexander Zipf, GIScience, Heidelberg University (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:zipf@uni-heidelberg.de" moz-do-not-send="true">zipf@uni-heidelberg.de</a>)<br>
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<p> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<br>
Gennady Andrienko (City University London, United Kingdom)<br>
Thomas Blaschke (University of Salzburg, Austria)<br>
Dirk Burghardt (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)<br>
Alexis Comber (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)<br>
Sara Irina Fabrikant (University of Zurich, Switzerland)<br>
Andrew U. Frank (TU Wien, Austria)<br>
Hans Gebhardt (Heidelberg University, Germany)<br>
Michael F. Goodchild (University of California, Santa Barbara,
United States)<br>
Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara,
United States)<br>
Alan MacEachren (The Pennsylvania State University, United
States)<br>
Grant McKenzie (McGill University, Canada)<br>
Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (Heidelberg University, Germany)<br>
Alenka Poplin (Iowa State University, United States)<br>
João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick, United
Kingdom)<br>
Ross Purves (University of Zurich, Switzerland)<br>
Simon Scheider (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)<br>
Sabine Timpf (University of Augsburg, Germany)<br>
René Westerholt (Heidelberg University, Germany)<br>
Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia)<br>
Diedrich Wolter (University of Bamberg, Germany)<br>
Alexander Zipf (Heidelberg University, Germany)<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
1 June 2018: Call for short papers opens.<br>
1 June 2018: Registration opens.<br>
<b>25 July 2018: Exte</b><b>nded Submission
deadline for short papers.</b><br>
19 August 2018: Camera-ready papers are due.<br>
16 September 2018: Papers are available online.<br>
21 September 2018: VGIscience PLATIAL'18 workshop.<br>
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HOW TO CONTRIBUTE<br>
We are seeking high-quality contributions on the topics
proposed. Therefore, we want your work to be visible and
sustainably citable also after the workshop. All short paper
contributions will be published online as CEUR Workshop
Proceedings, an outlet for high-quality computer science and
information systems proceedings. Your papers shall be prepared
in adherence to the guidelines published on the workshop website
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://platial18.platialscience.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://platial18.platialscience.net</a>).
You find the template on Overleaf: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://goo.gl/A7J7FF"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://goo.gl/A7J7FF</a>. The
manuscripts should not exceed 3,000 words, including figures and
references (7 pages if you include many figures). The final
submission of both PDF and LaTeX source files is done via
EasyChair: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=platial18"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=platial18</a>.<br>
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The submissions will be handled as follows:<br>
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* Please submit your prepared paper (PDF and LaTeX source)
through EasyChair. Visit platial18.platialscience.net to access
the offered LaTeX template.<br>
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* All submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of
the programme committee in a double-blind review process.
Therefore, please prepare your documents in an anonymized form.<br>
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* The revised and accepted papers will be made available online
before the workshop date.<br>
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We further invite you to extend your short papers to long papers
after the workshop, and to submit them to a planned **special
issue** in **Transactions in GIS** (accepted, currently in the
planning). Further information on this latter opportunity will
be made available soon.<br>
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HOW TO REGISTER<br>
The admission fee (including lunch, coffee breaks and dinner)
depends on your status:</p>
<p> Regular participants: 130 EUR<br>
PhD students: 80 EUR<br>
Bachelor/Master students: 40 EUR<br>
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You will receive a receipt for your reimbursement. Please note
that the number of attendees is limited, and your participation
depends on the availability of places. You can register for the
workshop on Eventbrite: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/platial18-tickets-46023460409"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/platial18-tickets-46023460409</a>.
Please note: For administrative reasons, the payment will be
done after you have registered at Eventbrite (the tickets
offered on Eventbrite are free, the payment is done separately).<br>
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Do not hesitate to post your questions to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:platial18@platialscience.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">platial18@platialscience.net</a>.</p>
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Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT)
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