Recent advances in developments of wireless Internet technologies have generated increasing interest in the diffusion and processing of large volumes of geo-spatial data. Spatially enabled mobile devices also offer new ways of accessing and analyzing this geo-referenced information. Consequently, new challenges and opportunities have appeared in the GIS research community. This symposium provides an up-to-date review of advances in both theoretical and technical development of Web and wireless geographical information systems (W²GIS). It is the 16th in a series of successful events beginning with Kyoto 2001, and alternating locations annually between East Asia and Europe with the most recent Symposium held in Shanghai, China. 

We invite submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical issues of W²GIS and location-based services. Reports of on-going implementations are particularly welcome. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Geospatial databases and spatio-temporal data management
• Mobile spatial interaction
• Spatial search, GeoWeb search engines and services
• Spatially embedded social networks and the Web
• On-line spatial data mining
• GeoSensor data acquisition, processing, management and analysis
• Smart environments, Internet of Things and ambient spatial intelligence
• Exploratory cartography and Web and wireless geo interfaces
• Advanced GIS visualization techniques for Web and mobile applications
• Cyber-geography & augmented reality
• Map personalization and adaptation
• 3D modelling of cityscapes for location-based services
• Location-based service applications in both real-world and virtual spaces
• Ubiquitous and wireless GIS
• Security, privacy, and usability issues of Web and wireless environments
• Semantic geospatial Web and interoperability
• Telematics and GIS applications
• User studies and evaluations of online geo services
• Indoor and outdoor wayfinding and navigation
• Volunteered Geographic Information and crowdsourcing on the Web

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers. Each paper must be written in English, it must be submitted in PDF. We invite three types of contributions: full papers to present scientific results (limited to 16 pages), work in progress papers to present on-going work (limited to 10 pages) and showcase papers for live presentations of research prototypes and products (limited to 4 pages). All contributions must be uploaded through the submission site at EasyChair. All submissions will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Program Committee.

Committees

Symposium Chairs

• M. R. Luaces, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
• F. Karimipour, University of Tehran, Iran

Local Chairs

• O. Pedreira, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
• G. de Bernardo, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
• A. Cortiñas, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Steering Committee

• M. Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
• J.D. Carswell, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland 
• C. Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
• M. Egenhofer, NCGIA, USA
• J. Gensel, University of Grenoble, France
• K.J. Li, Pusan National University, Korea
• S. Liang, University of Calgary, Canada
• K. Sumiya, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
• T. Tezuka, Tsukuba University, Japan
• C. Vangenot, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Program Committee

• M. Arikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
• A. Ballatore, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
• S. Bell, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• A. Bouju, University of La Rochelle, France
• D. Brosset, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
• E. Camossi, CMRE, Italy
• M. Damiani, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Z. Fang, Wuhan University, China
• F. Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy
• S. Funke, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• R. Güting, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany
• F. Hakimpour, University of Tehran, Iran
• B. Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
• H. Huang, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Y. Ishikawa, University of Nagoya, Japan
• S. Li, Ryerson University, Canada
• X. Li, East China Normal University, China
• Y. Liu, Peking University, China
• B. Martins, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• F. Mata, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
• S. Mustiere, IGN, France
• K. Patroumpas, Athena Research Centre, Greece
• D. Pfoser, George Mason University, USA
• C. Ray, Naval Academy Research Institute, France
• K. Richter, University of Umea, Sweden
• J. Ríos, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• M. Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
• M. Schneider, University of Florida, USA
• D. Seco, University of Concepción, Chile
• S. Storandt, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Y. Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
• M. Tomko, University of Melbourne, Australia
• M. Villanova-Oliver, University of Grenoble, France
• R. Weibel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• S. Winter, University of Melbourne, Australia
• J. Zarazaga, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• D. Ziebelin, Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A selection of best papers will be considered for a special issue of the Journal of Location Based Services.

Venue

The conference will take place in A Coruña (Spain), and it will be hosted by the Database Laboratory of the University of A Coruña. The sessions will take place at the Faculty of Computer Science (Facultad de Informática, Campus de Elviña s/n, A Coruña).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Prof. Dr. Miguel R. Luaces (luaces@udc.es) or Dr. Farid Karimipour (fkarimipour@ut.ac.ir).