International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Call for Papers
A special issue on data-intensive geospatial computing with International
Journal of Geographical Information Science
http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/ijgis/

Data-intensive computing has been emerging as a fourth scientific paradigm
from the mainstream computer science. In terms of the techniques and
technologies involved, this fourth paradigm is fundamentally distinct from
the third one called computational science focusing on simulating complex
phenomena or processes since the invention of computers. The massive data
volume and ever increasing computing power in the twenty-first century will
dramatically change the ways of doing science and scholarly communications.
We believe therefore that this emerging new paradigm has profound
implications to geographic information science and various applications to
environment and urban systems. CyberGIS is an emerging phenomenon where
geographic information systems or science (GIS) meets cyberinfrastructure
for data-intensive geospatial computing. Many unsolvable problems with
environmental and urban systems can be well studied using the continuously
increasing geospatial data, collected through massively deployed positioning
technologies, sensor networks and voluntary contributions by individuals,
and ever increasing computing power of personal computers, higher
performance computers, and emerging grid/cloud computing facilities. This
special issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science
is seeking original unpublished papers that describe recent advances and
efforts in data-intensive geospatial computing, with particular applications
to environment and urban systems.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
• Intensively computing volunteered geographic information for geographic
knowledge discovery
• Grid/cloud computing geographic data for unsolvable or hard-to-solve GIS
problems
• Massive agent-based simulation of nonlinear geographic phenomena and
processes
• Analyzing large-scale geosensor networks data for monitoring environment
and urban systems
• Deployment and development of web mapping processing services for various
applications

Submission:
All manuscripts including any support material should be submitted using the
journal's online Manuscript Central facility
(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijgis). We encourage authors to consider
this option of support materials archiving of data and video clips, which is
a distinguished feature of this special issue. Authors must select “Special
Issue” while they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process,
and identify the “data-intensive geospatial computing” special issue in
their cover letter. First-time users must register themselves as Author.

Important dates:
Paper submission due: 30 September 2010
Acceptance notification: 31 January 2011
Publication of the issue: 30 April 2011

Guest editor:
Bin Jiang, Department of Technology and Built Environment, University of
Gävle, Sweden
Email: bin.jiang@hig.se, Web: http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/