[Qgis-community-team] Call for Participation - ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011 (Extended Early Registration Deadline - Oct. 18)

[Wei Ding]

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      19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference
      on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
                (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011)

                 Call for Participation
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                   November 1-4, 2011
                    Chicago, IL, USA
               http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/

We would like to bring to your attention the upcoming ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
that will be held in Chicago, on November 1-4, 2011.  It is the
nineteenth event in a series of symposia and workshops that began in
1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users,
and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geo-spatial
data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and
research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The
conference provides a forum for original research contributions
covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS
ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to data
storage and query processing and indexing. The conference is the premier
annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information
(ACM SIGSPATIAL http://www.sigspatial.org/).

The extended early registration deadline is 10/18/2011. Online
registration is open at http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/registration.html.
Conference hotel reservation is available at
http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/venue_accomodations.html. The special rate
is available for booking until October 10 or until the block of rooms
reserved at the conference rate has been exhausted. We hope that you will
be able to attend and we look forward to your participation.

The invited speakers include:

 - Harry Shum, Corporate Vice President for Search, Microsoft

 - Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland

General Chairs:
 Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois
 Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara

Program Committee Chairs:
 Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University
 Eyal Ofek, Microsoft Research
 Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne

It is a pleasure to announce that in total 84 papers have been accepted,
in which there are 36 full papers, 32 posters, and 16 demos. They are
listed at http://acmgis2011.cs.umn.edu/papers.html.

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Thanks and Best Regards,

Wei Ding
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125
(Ph) 617-287-6428 (Fax) 617-287-6433
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ding
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