The Second International Workshop on

Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining (SIM³)

(in conjunction with DASFAA2012, April 15-18, 2012, Busan, South Korea)

Nowadays, spatial data exists pervasively in various information systems and applications. The unprecedented amount of spatial data that has been amassed and that is being produced in an increasing speed, via various facilities such as sensors, GPS receivers, smart phones and remote sensing, calls for extensive, deep and sustaining research on spatial information modeling, management and mining. In the past decade, we witnessed increasing research interests in these areas from database, data mining and geographic information systems (GIS) communities.

Following the success of SIM³-2011, SIM³-2012 workshop sticks to the tradition that brings together researchers, developers, users, and practitioner carrying out research and development in spatial information modeling, management and mining, and fosters discussions in all aspects of these research areas. The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical experiences of spatial information modeling, management and mining and will highlight future trends in these topics.

Therefore, we will invite submissions that address theoretical, technical and practical issues of spatial information modeling, management, and mining. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Spatial information modeling

- Spatial data modeling

- Conceptual and logical models for spatial data

- Spatial services modeling

- Spatial information grid

- Ontologies for GIS applications

- Schema mapping and evolution

- Spatial semantic issues

Spatial information management

- Spatial query languages and interfaces

- Spatial query processing and optimization

- Spatial search engines

- Spatial data management in cloud

- Spatial information integration

- Spatial information interoperability and standards

- Spatial metadata management

- Spatial information visualisation

- Location-based services

Spatial mining

- Spatial correlation analysis

- Spatial clustering

- Spatial regression and classification

- Spatial trend detection

- Spatial outlier detection

- Spatial data warehousing

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Xin Wang

Department of Geomatics Engineering

Schulich School of Engineering

2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4

Tel: 1-403 220-3355 Fax: 1-403-284-1980

Email: xcwang@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Jihong Guan

Department of Computer Science and Technology

Tongji University, 4800 Cao An Road, Shanghai 201804, China

Tel: 86-21-65109899 Fax: +86-21-55664298

Email: jhguan@tongji.edu.cn

Program Committee Members

• Michela Bertolotto (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Elena Camossi (JRC, ISPRA, Italy)
• Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy Research Institute, France)
• Georg Gartner(Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
• Liqiang Geng (National Research Council, Canada)
• Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
• Songnian Li (Ryerson University, Canada)
• Xiang Li (East China Normal University, China)
• Eleni Mangina (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Wolfgang Reinhardt (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)
• Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA)
• Xiaohua Tong (Tongji University, China)
• Bin Wang (University of Calgary, Canada)
• Shuliang Wang (Wuhan University, China)
• Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)

Publications

The accepted paper will be included in the combined proceedings of DASFAA 2012 workshops via a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer (pending for approval). Accepted papers will also be invited to extend and submit to a special issue of Geoinformatica (pending for approval) on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: December 15, 2011

Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2012

Camera Ready Papers Due: January 15, 2012

Workshop: April 15, 2012

Paper Submission

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