2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and
Distributed Geographic Information Systems (HPDGIS) 2011

http://www.cigi.illinois.edu/hpdgis11/

November 1, 2011, Chicago, IL, USA

Held in conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International
Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Important Dates

Paper submission: Sep. 2, 2011 (11:59 PM CDT)

Notification of acceptance: Sep. 19, 2011

Camera-ready copies due:  Sep. 26, 2011

Workshop date: Nov. 1, 2011

Aim and Scope

High performance computing and distributed systems have become prominent elements in the landscape of computing and information technologies. High performance and distributed GIS (HPDGIS) have emerged as a growing area of theoretical and applied research. This growth is driven by geospatial problems in numerous fields that are increasingly computationally intensive. Efficient handling of massive spatial databases, shared and role-based access to distributed data, and high end computing services are fundamental to the near-real-time response required for many GIS and associated applications. The initial feasibility and tremendous potential of HPDGIS have recently been demonstrated by exploiting rapidly developing cyberinfrastructure capabilities. It is now important to bring together researchers and practitioners to map out fundamental research areas centered on HPDGIS and its tight connections to advances in high performance computing, cloud computing, distributed systems, and associated GIS and spatial analysis applications. The objective of this international workshop is to provide an overarching forum in which participants will discuss the state-of-the-art, share the newest research and development activities, and establish future directions for research in HPDGIS.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following HPDGIS
themes:

* Cloud computing for GIS and spatial analysis
* Computational intensity of GIS and spatial analysis
* Data-intensive GIS and spatial analysis
* Geospatial problem solving environments
* Geospatial standards and cyberinfrastructure
* High performance geocomputation
* Novel applications
* Parallel computing (e.g., GPU and multi-core) algorithms for GIS and
spatial analysis
* Performance evaluation
* Service-oriented GIS
* Spatial middleware
* Spatial cyberinfrastructure

Submission

The workshop organizers seek the following three types of submissions
related to HPDGIS:

* Full research papers – up to 8 pages
* Vision papers and short technical papers - up to 4 pages
* Demo papers – up to 2 pages

Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research
papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Manuscripts
should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM
camera-ready templates available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers must be
submitted electronically, via a submission website on or before the
submission deadline. All accepted papers will be included in the ACM
digital library.

General Chairs

Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(shaowen@illinois.edu<mailto:shaowen@illinois.edu>)
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, University of California at San Diego
(wilkinsn@sdsc.edu<mailto:wilkinsn@sdsc.edu>)

Program Chairs

Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xuan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Program Committee

Luc Anselin, Arizona State University, USA
Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA
Bill Appelbe, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia
Marc Armstrong, University of Iowa, USA
Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Jack Cothren, University of Arkansas, USA
Pete Giencke, Google, Inc.
Jianya Gong, Wuhan University, China
Qingfeng Guan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
Jerry Johnston, USA Environmental Protection Agency
Steve Kopp, ESRI, USA
Steve Liang, University of Calgary, Canada
Yong Liu, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
Carl Reed, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
Jörg-Rüdiger Sack, Carleton University, Canada
Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Inc.
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Wenwu Tang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, San Diego State University, USA
E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey, USA
Dali Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Kaichao Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Phil Yang, George Mason University, USA
Jianting Zhang, City College of the City University of New York, USA
Pusheng Zhang, Microsoft Inc.
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