[Gfgi] CfP: Workshop Session on "Spatial Urban Analytics and Smart Cities"

[Rene Westerholt]

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to an interactive session (see below + 
attachment), which is organised by Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque 
(Univ. of Warwick) and me. The session is entitled "Spatial Urban 
Analytics and Crowdsourced Geographic Information for Smarter Cities" 
and will take place in early September 2017, in conjunction with the 
Annual International Conference at the Royal Geographical Society in 
London. Submissions are due at 5 February 2017. Details of our session 
are found below, and also in the attached document. Please feel free to 
forward this call to other relevant mailing lists and further interested 
colleagues if appropriate.

Nice greetings from Heidelberg, and thank you for spreading the word,
René Westerholt

*Spatial Urban Analytics and Crowdsourced Geographic Information for 
Smarter Cities*

Workshop in conjunction with the 2017 Annual International Conference 
at the Royal Geographical Society, sponsored by the _GIScience Research 
Group (GIScRG)_.__

*Session chairs:***

Dr João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick)

René Westerholt (Heidelberg University)

Large parts of the world population are living in urban areas and major 
cities tend to be constantly growing. Such urban areas are complex and 
heterogeneous systems and a deep understanding of related social, 
physical and interactional processes is a crucial prerequisite for 
reaching the goal of designing smarter cities, as well as to resolving 
some of the most delicate societal as well as scientific issues of our 
times. This requires strong urban-analytical approaches, in which 
geography takes a prominent role given its inherent holistic view of 
real-world systems such as conurbations. The recent emergence and 
availability of ever more data reflecting everyday human behaviour opens 
up opportunities for geographers and strengthens the geospatial 
viewpoint in the interdisciplinary field of urban science.

On behalf of the GIScience Research Group of the Royal Geographical 
Society, we are delighted inviting you to submit abstracts to our 
interactive session on spatial urban analytics. We welcome all sorts of 
methods and applications based on crowdsoucing, social media data, 
collaborative maps (e.g. OpenStreetMap) and mobile crowd sensing/citizen 
science approaches. We are interested in exploring the distinctive 
contribution of explicitly geospatial concepts and methods to the 
interdisciplinary field of urban analytics, and are thus interested in 
papers dealing with conceptual innovations, the extension of existing 
spatial data analysis techniques or the development of new methods that 
explicitly consider spatial issues (in contrast with more general, 
non-geographic computational methods). Aside of concepts and methods, 
potential applications that will be given consideration include all 
kinds of scenarios related to smart cities, human mobility, urban 
planning and others, as long as they make use of the emerging (near) 
real-time data sources to tackle urban challenges.


  Topics

·Spatial analysis and spatial statistics

·Computational methods to urban analytics with explicit spatial 
considerations

·Conceptual analysis and theoretical innovation related to the social 
implications of urban analytics approaches

·Uncertainty and ambiguities involved to user-generated urban data

·Studies involving user-generated geographic data from the urban context

·Innovative visualisation strategies with specific reference to urban issues

·Application of geoinformation in urban planning , smart city approaches 
and related fields

·(Further topics are welcome that fit the overall session theme.)


  Types of contributions

The session will be based on paper presentations and interactive 
discussions. We accept two different kinds of contributions:

*Discussion abstracts (300 – 500 words)*

	

This option allows for short contributions that you want to discuss with 
peers. We specifically encourage ongoing work at an early stage for this 
type of contribution. Early stage PhD candidates are specifically 
encouraged to present their research ideas to a specialist audience.

**

*Abstract (300 – 500 words) + full paper to journal special issue 
(~6.000 words)*

	

In addition to the short abstracts, we also offer you the opportunity to 
submit full papers (the latter of which are due at a later date, see 
dates below). These papers should present substantial results and will 
undergo a regular peer-review process for a special issue “Crowdsourcing 
for urban geoinformatics” of the T&F journal /Geo-spatial Information 
Science/ (to appear in early 2018).

Please indicate your preferred type of contribution in your submission.


  Important Dates

12 January 2017

	

Call for papers opens.

5 February 2017

	

All abstracts are due.

15 February 2017

	

Authors are notified of acceptance.

30 June 2017

	

Long papers are due.

29 August –

01 September 2017

	

Workshop takes place (exact date to be confirmed).


  Abstract submission and further information

Please submit your abstract as well as the name, contact details and 
affiliation of prospective contributions to /J.Porto at warwick.ac.uk/ 
and/or /westerholt at uni-heidelberg.de/.Please do not hesitate to ask us 
if you have further questions.

-- 
René Westerholt, M.Sc.
[PhD Student]

Heidelberg University
GIScience Research Group | Institute of Geography
Room 12b
Im Neuenheimer Feld 348
D-69120 Heidelberg

[Tel] +49-6221-54-5504
[Fax] +49-6221-54-4529
[I-Net]http://giscience.uni-hd.de

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