[SDI-Europe] CFP & CFW - 11th AGILE 2008 Conference on GI Science

Thu Oct 4 11:32:51 EDT 2007

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11th AGILE 2008 Conference on GI Science - 5th- 8th May 2008 in Girona
(Spain)
Call for Papers and Call for Workshops 
We invite you to participate at the 11th AGILE International Conference on
GI Science, scheduled to take place in Girona, a beautiful historical city
located northeast of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. See
http://www.agile2008.es/ for further details. 
The program will offer paper presentation sessions, key notes and plenary
round table debates, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share
your ideas, explore on-going research, future developments, including
state-of-the-art applications, and to network with the professionals from
academia, industry, and government who are interested in promoting GI
teaching and research activities among GI laboratories at the European
level. 

Submission Guidelines 
Contributions are invited on all topics within the fields of
geo-information, geomatics, and geocomputation. 
Potential contributors are invited to submit:
• Full-paper submission (maximum 6000-word manuscript) of original and
unpublished fundamental scientific research. High-quality scientific
submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and
published in the new Springer Lecture Notes Series on Geo-Information. We
especially encourage PhD students to submit full-papers. Papers must be
written in English according to the Springer formatting guidelines. 
• Short paper submission (3000-4000-word manuscript) of original and
unpublished research work. High-quality scientific and strategic (industrial
and governmental) submissions will be accepted for presentation at the
conference and published in the AGILE proceedings volume (with ISBN). Papers
must be written in English according to the submission template and
formatting guidelines. 
• Poster submission (500 to 1000-word manuscript) of original scientific and
strategic research work. High-quality submissions will be accepted for
poster presentations at the conference and provide the exceptional
opportunity to stimulate scientific discussions and exchange novel ideas.
Papers must be written in English according to the submission template and
formatting guidelines. 
Detailed Authors’ instructions, a link to the online-submission platform and
information about the Scientific Committee are available under
http://www.agile2008.es/ .

Pre-Conference Workshops
Prior the paper sessions of the AGILE conference the AGILE Workshops are
held. We invite for proposals of scientific workshops within the fields of
geo-information. 
The conference facilities allow for workshops of about 20 participants if a
PC-Lab is required and for around 50 participants for presentation and
discussion based workshops. Only a limited number of workshops can be
accommodated. 
If you want to organise an AGILE pre-conference workshop please provide a
non-formal workshop submission to Lars Bernard (lars.bernard at tu-dresden.de);
indicate the workshop topic, setup, expected audience, expected number of
participants. Deadline for workshop proposals is November 1st 2007.

AGILE Grant Programme 
The AGILE Grant Programme will allocate 10 grants (scholarships) to AGILE
2008 attendees, with priority given to student candidates from lesser
developed regions. Each grant consists of the following: 
• Full conference registration (including all events that are covered be the
conference fees and proceedings);  
• A maximum of four nights at a hotel to be chosen by the conference
organisers.  
The estimated value of each grant is approximately 500 Euro. The AGILE
Council will manage all transactions, including hotel payments and payment
of the conference registration fee. Grantees must however make their own
hotel reservation and take care of the conference registration themselves.
More details will be provided to successful applicants. 
Those interested in the programme, please send an e-mail to Fred Toppen
(f.toppen at geog.uu.nl), having as subject "AGILE 2008 grant" and include the
following information: 
• Full name (surname in UPPER CASE); 
• Institution full address; 
• Full personal contact details including e-mail address, telephone and fax
number; 
• Gender (male/female); 
• Professional status (professor, PhD-student, student, government
researcher, full-time or part-time student, etc.); 
• If you are an AGILE 2008 conference paper/poster (co-)author; 
• A ONE-PAGE letter of interest highlighting the impossibility of getting
(sufficient) other sources of funding, the strategic value of applicants
institution within the country of origin, and the importance for applicant
to attend the AGILE 2008 conference, also with respect to the scientific
expectations of the applicant. 
Deadline for receiving applications is 30th January 2008

Important Deadlines 
Receipt of pre-conference workshop proposals.........November 1st 2007
Receipt of full paper submission.....................November 15th 2007
Receipt of short paper and poster submissions........December 14th 2007
Notification of full-paper acceptance................December 23rd 2007
Camera-ready full-paper copies due...................January 25th 2008
Deadline for AGILE Grant applications................January 30th 2008
Notification of abstracts acceptance.................February 15th 2008
Camera-ready abstract copies due.....................March 7th 2008 
Conference...........................................May 6-8 2008

Please keep an eye on the AGILE 2008 conference site
http://www.agile2008.es/

____________________________________________
Lars Bernard
(AGILE 2008 Programme Chair, 
Please contact lars.bernard at tu-dresden.de for general information on AGILE
2008)

Irene Compte
(AGILE 2008 Local Committee Chair, 
Please contact irene at sigte.udg.es for information on sponsoring AGILE 2008) 

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