From westerholt at uni-heidelberg.de Mon Jun 4 19:06:33 2018 From: westerholt at uni-heidelberg.de (Rene Westerholt) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 19:06:33 +0200 Subject: [GeoIT.org] Call for papers: PLATIAL'18 Message-ID: <76590134-85cf-9fa5-ae66-f29e4f83e259@uni-heidelberg.de> Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the first PLATIAL'18 Workshop, which will take place on 20?21 September 2018 in Heidelberg, Germany! The event aims to put forward the notion of quantitative place-based analysis, which will be motivated by a keynote delivered by Dr Alexis Comber (University of Leeds, UK). We accept short paper submissions, which will be published online. Further, we are currently planning a follow-up special issue in Transactions in GIS to offer the opportunity to extend the papers to long contributions. We are looking forward to your submissions, and to discuss with you in September! Best wishes, René Westerholt, Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, Alexander Zipf PS: Please spread the word to your personal networks and forward this call to anyone for whom it might be interesting and relevant. ==================================== **VGIscience PLATIAL'18 Workshop** Venue: Mathematikon, Heidelberg University, Germany Date: 21 September 2018 Keynote talk: Quantitative Platial Analysis, Prof. Alexis Comber, University of Leeds Website: http://platial18.platialscience.net On the way to platial analysis: Can geosocial media provide the necessary impetus? 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: * How could existing GIScience theories on space be integrated with the human-geographic and philosophical notion of place? * How can we?analogous to points, lines and polygons?derive platial units as counterparts to the established GIS primitives? * How is it possible to establish and quantify relationships between adjacent places? * What might be a suitable strategy for aggregating subjective platial information? * What are the roles of uncertainty, fuzziness, and subjectivity in a place-based theory of geographical information? * In which ways can places be visualized, and how can we do that at multiple scales? * How can platial analysis be integrated with applied research agendas from neighbouring disciplines like sociology/regional science, urban planning, or human geography? * How to align Tobler?s first law of geography with a platial notion of geospatial analysis? * Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall theme of this workshop. 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. WORKSHOP CONVENORS René Westerholt, GIScience, Heidelberg University (westerholt at uni-heidelberg.de) Franz-Benjamin Mocnik, GIScience, Heidelberg University (mocnik at uni-heidelberg.de) Alexander Zipf, GIScience, Heidelberg University (zipf at uni-heidelberg.de) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Gennady Andrienko (City University London, United Kingdom) Thomas Blaschke (University of Salzburg, Austria) Dirk Burghardt (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) Alexis Comber (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Andrew U. Frank (TU Wien, Austria) Hans Gebhardt (Heidelberg University, Germany) Michael F. Goodchild (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States) Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States) Alan MacEachren (The Pennsylvania State University, United States) Grant McKenzie (McGill University, Canada) Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (Heidelberg University, Germany) João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Ross Purves (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Simon Scheider (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) René Westerholt (Heidelberg University, Germany) Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia) Diedrich Wolter (University of Bamberg, Germany) Alexander Zipf (Heidelberg University, Germany) IMPORTANT DATES 1 June 2018:                  Call for short papers opens. 1 June 2018:                  Registration opens. 8 July 2018:                  Submission deadline for short papers. 19 August 2018:               Camera-ready papers are due. 16 September 2018:            Papers are available online. 21 September 2018:            VGIscience PLATIAL'18 workshop. HOW TO CONTRIBUTE 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 (http://platial18.platialscience.net). You find the template on Overleaf: https://goo.gl/A7J7FF. 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=platial18. The submissions will be handled as follows: * Please submit your prepared paper (PDF and LaTeX source) through EasyChair. Visit platial18.platialscience.net to access the offered LaTeX template. * 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. * The revised and accepted papers will be made available online before the workshop date. 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. HOW TO REGISTER The admission fee (including lunch, coffee breaks and dinner) depends on your status: Regular participants:        130 EUR PhD students:                 80 EUR Bachelor/Master students:     40 EUR 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: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/platial18-tickets-46023460409. 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). Do not hesitate to post your questions to platial18 at platialscience.net. -- René Westerholt FRGS [Research Fellow] 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 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... 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