We are seeking original work for an upcoming Springer book on CyberGIS that is described as follows (with a PDF version attached), and look forward to receiving your submissions of extended abstracts. Inquiries and submissions of extended abstracts can be forwarded to us by email (see contact info at the end of this message).

CyberGIS: Fostering a New Wave of Geospatial Discovery and Innovation
 
Editors: Shaowen Wang and Michael F. Goodchild
 
Geographic information systems (GIS) have undergone rapid growth since their initial development during the mid 1960s. This growing trend seems likely to persist into the foreseeable future driven by numerous diverse applications and enabled by steady progress of related technologies. As a spatial data deluge permeates broad scientific and societal realms, to sustain the trend, however, requires desirable GIS capabilities to be innovated based on synergistic integration of computational and spatial approaches enabled by cyberinfrastructure - an emerging infrastructure of communication, computing, and information technologies. Consequently, CyberGIS has been developed as a fundamentally new cyberinfrastructure and GIS modality comprising a seamless blending of cyberinfrastructure, GIS, and spatial analysis and modeling capabilities and, thus, has begun to empower scientific breakthroughs and show broad societal impacts while contributing to the advancement of cyberinfrastructure. For example, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently funded a major multi-institution initiative on CyberGIS (http://cybergis.cigi.uiuc.edu/) - arguably the largest investment by NSF on related subjects during the past several years. Therefore, this book represents a timely effort to inform pertinent communities about opportunities and challenges, roadmaps for research and development, and major progress, trends, and impacts of CyberGIS. The book will serve as an authoritative source of information to fill the void of introducing this new and exciting growing field, and is structured as follows.
 
Introduction
Part 1: Applications and Science Drivers
Part 2: Theories and Principles
Part 3: Architectures and Frameworks
Part 4: Algorithms and Software
Part 5: Social Dimensions
Reflections and Future Directions

Important Dates
Extended abstract (up to 1000 words) due: May 7, 2012
Acceptance notification: June 1, 2012
Final draft due: August 31, 2012
Publication of the book: January 2013 (estimated)
 
Contact Information
Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: shaowen@illinois.edu
Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: good@geog.ucsb.edu