ACM GIS 08

With a rather strong East Coast bias, I suspect that many of our readers are not in a position to pick up and head to Irvine on short notice. But reviewing the ACM conference program might be pretty interesting, especially with things like PhD showcases and Vinton Cerf speaking. The sessions looking at algorithms and modeling look most compelling to me.

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We would like to bring the upcoming 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information
Systems (ACM GIS 2008). It will be held in Irvine, CA, in
November 5-7, 2008. This year's Conference builds on the great
success of last year's Symposium where more than 180 people
attended, and on being the premier annual conference of the newly
established ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information
(ACM SIGSPATIAL http://www.sigspatial.org/). The invited
speakers include Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI,
and Vinton Cerf, VP of Google and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner.
This year we will also have for the first time a Ph.D. showcase track
and a demo track. The information can be found at
http://acmgis08.cs.umn.edu/ and the program is there as well. The
program is also repeated below. There is also a pre conference
workshop on November 4, 2008 called SPRINGL2008 on Security
and Privacy in GIS and LBS. We hope that you are able to come
and look forward to seeing you there.
(Registration site: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~huangyan/acmgis08/)

Hanan Samet Cyrus Shahabi Ouri Wolfson
Co-general Chair Co-general Chair Co-general Chair

Walid Aref Mohamed Mokbel Markus Schneider
Program Chair Co-program Chair Co-program Chair


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16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM GIS 2008)

Call for Participation

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November 5-7, 2008
Irvine, California, USA
http://acmgis08.cs.umn.edu

Corporate Sponsorship by
ESRI
Google
Microsoft
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic
Information Systems 2008 (ACM GIS 2008) is the sixteenth event of a
series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of
bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners
carrying out research and development in novel systems based on
geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary
discussions and research in all aspects of geographicinformation
systems. The conference provides a forum for original research
contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation
aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interface considerations,
and visualization down to storage management and indexing issues.
This year's conference builds on last year's conference great success
and on being the premier annual conference of the newly formed ACM
Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). ACM
GIS will have two invited speakers, 38 full papers, 37 poster papers,
8 Ph.D. showcases, and 12 demos. (see below)

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Invited Lectures
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* Vinton Cerf, VP of Google, USA and 2004 ACM Turing Award Winner
* Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI, USA