[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Springer CyberGIS Book - call for book chapters.

[Daniel P. Ames]

In case you haven't seen this announcement.

It would be nice to have some open source GIS represented in this book on
CyberGIS...

- Dan

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Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
dan.ames at isu.edu
geology.isu.edu
www.mapwindow.org



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From: Wang, Shaowen <shaowen at illinois.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:54 PM
Subject: Springer CyberGIS Book - call for book chapters.
To: "Daniel P. Ames" <amesdani at isu.edu>


  Dear colleagues,

 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 at illinois.edu
Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: good at geog.ucsb.edu

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