AGILE2020: Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) 2020 Center of Mediterranean Architecture Chania, Crete, Greece, June 16-19, 2020

The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) has held annual conferences focused on Geographical Information Science for more than two decades.

The theme of the conference is Geospatial Technologies: seeding the future.

AGILE 2020 will offer keynote sessions, parallel paper presentation sessions, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share ideas, explore on-going research, discuss future developments including state-of-the-art applications, and network with professionals from the academia, industry, and government, interested in promoting GI research and education activities among GI laboratories at the European level.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers Full-paper submissions (4000 to 6000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research.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 a SpringerOpen open access book of the Springer Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography. PhD students are especially encouraged to submit full papers.
• Short papers Short paper submissions (2000 to 3000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished research work.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. Publishing is currently agreed on with Copernicus Publishers as open access proceedings.
• Posters Poster submissions (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.

Note: Papers must be written in English according to the Springer (full papers) or Copernicus (short paper) or poster formatting guidelines, and should not contain any information able to reveal (co)author identity as AGILE 2020 is running a blind review process. Submissions are not required but encouraged to follow to the AGILE Reproducible Paper Guidelines: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/CB7Z8. If you have questions about making your work reproducible, please join the new AGILE Discourse Forum at https://discourse.agile-online.org/c/reproducible.

List of Topics

he general conference topics for AGILE 2020 include (but are not limited to):

• Spatiotemporal Data Acquisition, Modelling, and Analysis
• Earth Observation Systems: Platforms, Algorithms and Applications
• Location Based Services and Mobile GI Applications
• Way Finding, Routing and Indoor Navigation
• Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for GIS
• Model Web, Geospatial Workflows and Service Composition
• Geosensors Networks and Sensor Web
• Volunteered Geographic Information and Community Observatories
• Crowdsourcing, Co-creation and Participatory GIS
• Smart Cities
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Spatial Statistics and Geostatistics
• Big Spatial Data: Analysis and Visualization
• Uncertainty and Error Propagation
• 3D Modelling, Analysis and Visualization
• Digital Earth, Virtual Globes and Spatial-oriented Augmented Reality
• Spatial Data Infrastructures: Data and Service Sharing
• Future Internet, Ubiquitous Web and Geographic Information Systems
• Geodesign
• Environmental/Ecological and Urban/Regional Modelling
• Demographic and Socioeconomic Modelling
• Natural Resources Management and Monitoring
• Cultural Heritage Applications
• Disaster and Risk Management
• Health GIS and Spatial Epidemiology
• Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of GI
• Unmanned Platforms
• GIScience and Technology Education and Training
• Reproducible Research.

Contributions are invited, however, on all topics within the field of Geographic Information Science and Technology. As the conference theme is "Geospatial Technologies: seeding the future", relevant contributions are particularly welcome. In addition, contributors are encouraged to propose new themes, both for presentations and workshops, as AGILE seeks to ensure that new perspectives on research and education in geographic information science are fully represented at the conference to help shaping the future European research agenda in this field.

Committees

Scientific Programme Committee Chairs

• Associate Professor Panagiotis Partsinevelos (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
• Professor Marinos Kavoyras (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
• Professor Phaedon Kyriakidis (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
• Professor Stelios Mertikas (Technical University of Crete, Greece)

Reproducibility Committee

• Daniel Nüst, (University of Münster, Germany)
• Barbara Hofer (University of Salzburg, Austria)
• Frank Ostermann (University of Twente, the Netherlands
• Rusne Sileryte (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
• Carlos Granell (Universitat of Jaume I, Spain)

Scientific Programme Committee

• Ana Paula Afonso, (Portugal)
• Athos Agapiou, (Cyprus)
• Andreas Andreou, (Cyprus)
• Fernando Bacao, (Portugal)
• Marek Baranowski, (Poland)
• Melih Basaraner, (Turkey)
• Giedre Beconyte, (Lithuania)
• Itzhak Benenson, (Israel)
• Lars Bernard, (Germany)
• Michela Bertolotto, (Ireland)
• Ralf Bill, (Germany)
• Sandro Bimonte, (France)
• Thomas Blaschke, (Austria)
• Lars Bodum, (Denmark)
• Arnold Bregt, (Netherlands)
• Thomas Brinkhoff, (Germany)
• Dirk Burghardt, (Germany)
• Pedro Cabral, (Portugal)
• Sven Casteleyn, (Spain)
• Christophe Claramunt, (France)
• Serena Coetzee, (South Africa)
• Lex Comber, (United Kingdom)
• Joep Crompvoets, (Belgium)
• Çetin Cömert, (Turkey)
• Chris Danezis, (Cyprus)
• Sytze de Bruin, (Netherlands)
• Demetris Demetriou, (Cyprus)
• Cécile Duchêne, (France)
• Sara Irina Fabrikant, (Switzerland)
• Cidalia Fonte, (Portugal)
• Jerome Gensel, (France)
• Michael Gould, (Spain)
• Diofantos Hadjimitsis, (Cyprus)
• Henning Sten Hansen, (Denmark)
• Lars Harrie, (Sweden)
• Jan-Henrik Haunert, (Germany)
• Roberto Henriques, (Portugal)
• Stephen Hirtle, (United States)
• Hartwig Hochmair, (United States)
• Joaquín Huerta, (Spain)
• Bashkim Idrizi, (Republic of North Macedonia)
• Mike Jackson, (United Kingdom)
• Bin Jiang, (Sweden)
• Derek Karssenberg, (Netherlands)
• Tomi Kauppinen, (Finland)
• Marinos Kavouras, (Greece)
• Dimitris Kotzinos, (France)
• Petr Kuba Kubicek, (Czech Republic)
• Phaedon Kyriakidis, (Cyprus)
• Patrick Laube, (Switzerland)
• Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer, (Spain)
• Małgorzata Luc, (Poland)
• Ali Mansourian, (Sweden)
• Bruno Martins, (Portugal)
• Martijn Meijers, (Netherlands)
• Filipe Meneses, (Portugal)
• Peter Mooney, (Ireland)
• João Moura Pires, (Portugal)
• Beniamino Murgante, (Italy)
• Javier Nogueras-Iso, (Spain)
• Daniel Nüst, (Germany)
• Juha Oksanen, (Finland)
• Toshihiro Osaragi, (Japan)
• Ebba Ossiannilsson, (Sweden)
• Volker Paelke, (Germany)
• Marco Painho, (Portugal)
• Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, (Cyprus)
• Apostolos Papakonstantinou, (Cyprus)
• Petter Pilesjö, (Sweden)
• Poulicos Prastacos, (Greece)
• Hardy Pundt, (Germany)
• Ross Purves, (Switzerland)
• Martin Raubal, (Switzerland)
• Wolfgang Reinhardt, (Germany)
• Claus Rinner, (Canada)
• Jorge Rocha, (Portugal)
• Armanda Rodrigues, (Portugal)
• Maribel Yasmina Santos, (Portugal)
• Tapani Sarjakoski, (Finland)
• Sven Schade, (Belgium)
• Christoph Schlieder, (Germany)
• Monika Sester, (Germany)
• Takeshi Shirabe, (Sweden)
• Dimitrios Skarlatos, (Cyprus)
• Jantien Stoter, (Netherlands)
• Maguelonne Teisseire, (France)
• Kyriacos Themistocleous, (Cyprus)
• Fred Toppen, (Netherlands)
• Nico Van de Weghe, (Belgium)
• Ron van Lammeren, (Netherlands)
• jos van orshoven, (Belgium)
• Danny Vandenbroucke, (Belgium)
• Lluis Vicens, (Spain)
• Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez, (Spain)
• Vít Voženílek, (Czech Republic)
• Monica Wachowicz, (Canada)
• Gudrun Wallentin, (Austria)
• Robert Weibel, (Switzerland)
• Stephan Winter, (Australia)
• Bisheng Yang, (China)
• F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, (Spain)

The Local Organizing Committee will be chaired by Panagiotis Partsinevelos (Associate Professor-Director of SenseLab Research, TUC).

Other members of the Committee are:

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Partsinevelos (TUC), Workshop chair
• Mr. Achilles Tripolitsiotis (Sense P.C.)
• Mr. Xenofon Frantzis (TUC),
• Mr. George Petrakis (TUC),
• Dr. Eleni Hatziyanni (Dir. of Environmental & Spatial Planning, Region of Crete)

Publication

High-quality scientific submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in a SpringerOpen open access book of the Springer Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography

Venue

The 23rd AGILE conference will be held in Chania, Crete, Greece on 16-19 June, 2020.

Contact

For further information please send an e-mail to the Agile 2020 Local Organizing Committee: agile2020chania@gmail.com.

Sponsors

• ESRI
• KEPPEDIH-CAM: Cultural and Environmental Public Benefit Organization of the Municipality of Chania – Mediterranean Architecture Centre