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GISCIENCE 2018: FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science
http://www.giscience.org
Melbourne, Australia, 28-31 August 2018

The Tenth International Conference on Geographic Information Science will be held in Melbourne, Australia, 28-31 August 2018. Hosted at RMIT University in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, GIScience 2018, the flagship conference in the field of geographic information science continues the highly successful conference series which started in 2000.

The conference regularly brings together more than 200 international participants from academia, industry, and government to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art in geographic information science. August 28, 2018 is dedicated to Workshops and Tutorials. The main conference takes place from August 29 to 31, 2018, and consists of two refereed paper tracks: Full Papers and Extended Abstracts.

The GIScience conference series has always had a focus on fundamental research themes and questions. GIScience 2018 welcomes papers and proposals covering emerging topics and fundamental research findings across all sectors of geographic information science, including (but not limited to) the role of geographic information in geography, computer science, engineering, information science, linguistics, mathematics, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, social science, and geostatistics.

ORGANIZATION

General Chair:

  • Prof Matt Duckham, RMIT University

Program Co-Chairs:

  • Prof Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne
  • Dr Amy Griffin, UNSW
  • Prof Monika Sester, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Publicity Chair:

  • Dr Martin Tomko, University of Melbourne

KEY DATES

28 August 2018: GIScience 2018 Workshops

29-31 August 2018: GIScience 2018 Conference