GeoVA(T): GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time

GeoVA(t)2010

Workshop at AGILE, 11 May 2010, and special issue of
IJGIS – Int J GIScience tentative publication date: September 2010

The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on

• Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at the GIScience’2006 conference
• Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE’2008
• GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience’2008

Selected papers from the previous workshops, including research agenda papers, were published as special issues of

• IJGIS, 2007, v.21(8), 2007
• Information Visualization, 2008, v.7 (3/4)
• CaGIS, 2009, v.36 (3)

The theme for the workshop and this special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large data sets with both spatial and temporal components. Original papers are solicited in this area. In particular, we encourage innovative papers detailing tight integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and other computational processing methods.

The workshop will provide participants with the possibility to present ongoing and developing work without committing to a full journal paper. The journal special issue will provide participants with the opportunity of reporting their work in a refereed journal. Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization and interactive analysis of large data sets representing:

• individual and group movement behaviours, either in physical or virtual spaces
• dynamics of geo-localised sensor data
• spatio-temporal events
• remotely sensed data, multi-scale and multi-temporal
• large high-dimensional data sets in space and time
• streams of spatio-temporal data as well as
• models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics
• knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes
• application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems

Organizers and Guest Editors:

Gennady and Natalia Andrienko, Jason Dykes, Menno-Jan Kraak, and Heidrun Schumann

ICA Commission on GeoVisualization

Supported by:

• VisMaster – Visual Analytics – Mastering the Information Age
  (FET-Open Coordination Action)
  http://www.vismaster.eu
• SPP VA – Scalable Visual Analytics: Interactive Visual Analysis
  Systems of Complex Information Spaces
  (DFG Priority Research Program)
  http://www.visualanalytics.de/
• MODAP – Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy
  (FET-Open Coordination Action)
  http://www.modap.org
• MOVE – Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects
  (COST-Action IC0903)
  http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=177&action_number=IC0903

Paper submission and selection procedure:

• October 6, 2009 – CFP for the special issue published
• January 22, 2010 – submission of extended abstracts.
  Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and
  supplementary online materials are welcome.
  Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing the
  abstract into a full paper for the special issue.
• February 15, 2010 – Guest editors will select abstracts for the
  presentation at the workshop and notify authors
• April 16, 2010 – Full papers for the special issue are submitted
• May 11, 2010, Guimaraes, Portugal – authors of accepted abstracts
  present their work at the workshop for feedback and discussion
• May 25, 2010 – Authors will be notified about acceptance for the
  special issue
• June 25, 2010 – Deadline for submitting revised papers and
  responding to reviewer’s comments
• July 12, 2010 – final notifications
• September 2010 (tentative) – special issue published
  Please send all inquiries to Dr. Gennady Andrienko.

Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA(t)2010