PLATIAL’18: VGIscience PLATIAL’18 Workshop Heidelberg University Heidelberg, Germany, September 20-21, 2018 |
Conference website | https://platial18.platialscience.net/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=platial18 |
Submission deadline | July 25, 2018 |
The recent availability of user-generated geographic datasets allows gaining novel insights into otherwise hardly observable societal phenomena. Geosocial media forms one important source of user-generated information, which partly describes the everyday lives of people. The analysis of these kinds of data, however, requires new approaches. Geosocial media data—like those extracted from Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, and others—differ from established sources in that they are largely inherently platial in nature. People provide their own subjective opinions or perceptions, and taken together these represent the digital social imagination of places. Crisp and objective geographic data primitives like points, lines or polygons are not necessarily the preferable units for analysing these kinds of information. Platial analysis approaches are thus needed to fully exploit the potential of geosocial media and related data. Yet, while human geographers and social scientists have been theorizing on the concept of place since a long time, and despite of invocations by leading GIScience researchers, we are still lacking a universal theory on the formalization of places and how to make them available to quantitative and other GIS-related analysis strategies. Partly, this lack has been due to the insufficient availability of platial data, but the appearance of geosocial media might change this condition. It is therefore time to rethink our geographical analysis strategies with a focus on "place" instead of "space".
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The papers will be subject to double-blind review by at least two of the members of our programme committee (see below). Therefore, please anonymize your initial submission and include authors names and acknowledgements just after you have done all requested revisions later. All accepted short papers will be published with CEUR-WS, a community-driven publication outlet for workshop and conference proceedings from computer science and information systems. We further intend to invite authors to extend their short paper contributions to long papers, which could then be submitted to an adjoint special issue in an esteemed GIScience journal.
We accept short papers of 3,000 words / 7 pages maximum length, including abstract, figures, and references. Please prepare your manuscripts in strict adherence to the template offered on the workshop website: platial18.platialscience.net.
List of Topics
- How could existing GIScience theories on space be integrated with the human-geographic and philosophical notion of place?
- How can we—analogous to points, lines and polygons—derive platial units as counterparts to the established GIS primitives?
- How is it possible to establish and quantify relationships between adjacent places?
- What might be a suitable strategy for aggregating subjective platial information?
- What is the role of uncertainty in a place-based GIScience theory based on fuzziness and subjectivity?
- In which ways can places be visualized, and how can we do that at multiple scales?
- How can platial analysis be integrated with applied research agendas from neighbouring disciplines like sociology/regional science, urban planning, or human geography?
- How to align Tobler’s first law of geography with a platial notion of geospatial analysis?
- Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall theme of this workshop.
Committees
Programme Committee
- Gennady Andrienko (City University London, United Kingdom)
- Thomas Blaschke (University of Salzburg, Austria)
- Dirk Burghardt (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
- Andrew U. Frank (TU Wien, Austria)
- Hans Gebhardt (Heidelberg University, Germany)
- Michael F. Goodchild (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
- Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
- Alan MacEachren (The Pennsylvania State University, United States)
- Grant McKenzie (McGill University, Canada)
- Franz-Benjamin Mocnik (Heidelberg University, Germany)
- João Porto de Albuquerque (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
- Ross Purves (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Simon Scheider (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- René Westerholt (Heidelberg University, Germany)
- Stephan Winter (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Diedrich Wolter (University of Bamberg, Germany)
- Alexander Zipf (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Organizing committee
Invited Speaker
Publication
PLATIAL’18 proceedings will be published in a dedicated short paper volume by CEUR-WS. Authors will have the opportunity to extend their short papers to long contributions for submission to a journal special issue afterwards (most likely to be published in Transactions in GIS, currently under negotiation).
Venue
The conference will be held from 20 to 21 September at Heidelberg University, Germany.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to platial18@platialscience.net.