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The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems
(HPDGIS 2010)
http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/hpdgis10/
November 2, 2010
San Jose, CA, USA


to be held in conjunction with

The 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference
on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010)
http://acmgis2010.cs.ucsb.edu/

Call for Papers
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Aim and Scope

High performance computing and distributed systems have become prominent elements in the landscape of computing and information technologies. High performance and distributed GIS (HPDGIS) have emerged as a growing area of theoretical and applied research. This growth is driven by geospatial problems in numerous fields that are increasingly computationally intensive. Efficient handling of massive spatial databases, shared and role-based access to distributed data, and high end computing services are fundamental to the near-real-time response times required for many GIS and associated decision support applications. The initial feasibility and tremendous potential of HPDGIS have recently been demonstrated by exploiting rapidly developing cyberinfrastructure capabilities. It is now important to bring together researchers and practitioners to map out fundamental research areas centered on HPDGIS and its tight connections to advances in high performance computing, distributed systems, and associated GIS and spatial analysis applications. The objective of this international workshop is to provide an overarching forum in which participants will discuss the state-of-the-art, share the newest research and development activities, and establish future directions for research in HPDGIS.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following HPDGIS themes:
* Cloud computing for GIS and spatial analysis
* Computational intensity of GIS and spatial analysis
* Data-intensive GIS and spatial analysis
* Geospatial problem solving environments
* High performance geocomputation
* Novel applications
* Parallel computing (e.g., GPU and multi-core) algorithms for GIS and spatial analysis
* Performance evaluation
* Service-oriented GIS
* Spatial middleware
* Spatial cyberinfrastructure
* System architecture and design

Submission
The workshop organizers seek the following three types of submissions related to HPDGIS:

* Full research papers - up to 8 pages
* Vision papers and short technical papers - up to 4 pages
* Demo papers - up to 2 pages

Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers must be submitted electronically, via a submission website on or before the submission deadline. All accepted papers will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates
Paper submission: Aug. 6, 2010 (11:59 PM CDT)
Notification of acceptance: Aug. 27, 2010
Camera-ready copies due: Sep. 3, 2010
Workshop date: Nov. 2, 2010

General Chairs
Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, University of California at San Diego

Program Chairs
Xuan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jianting Zhang, City College of the City University of New York

Communication Chair
Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Program Committee
Marc Armstrong, University of Iowa
Luc Anselin, Arizona State University
Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Steve Kopp, ESRI
Richard Marciano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland at College Park
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota
Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wenwu Tang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, San Diego State University
E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey
Kaichao Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Phil Yang, George Mason University

Contact Information
For enquiries and further information, please contact:
Shaowen Wang (shaowen at illinois dot edu)
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (wilkinsn at sdsc dot edu)
Xuan Shi (Xuan.Shi at coa dot gatech dot edu)
Ranga Raju Vatsavai (vatsavairr at ornl dot gov)
Jianting Zhang (jzhang at cs dot ccny dot cuny dot edu)
Anand Padmanabhan (apadmana at illinois dot edu)