[okfn-discuss] CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2009)

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CALL FOR PAPERS: OneSpace2009
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2nd International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on  
the Internet (OneSpace2009)
http://onespace.ace.ed.ac.uk/2009/

In conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium 2009 (FIS2009)
http://www.fis2009.org/

September 1, 2009, Berlin (Germany)

++ Deadline for submission: Aug 07, 2009 ++
++ Full papers and position papers invited ++

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The Second International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital  
Spaces on the Internet (OneSpace2009) will be held in conjunction with  
the Future Internet Symposium 2009 (FIS2009) in Berlin on 1 September  
2009.

We welcome technical papers and shorter position papers addressing the  
identification and study of the complex relationship of the Internet  
with space, place, geography and distance, whether physical or  
virtual. Technologies as well as novel ideas, experiments, and  
insights originating from multi-disciplinary viewpoints, including  
internet, computer and GI sciences, humanities, digital media, and  
social sciences are welcome.

from diverse research fields:

Important dates
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* Submission deadline:      	Aug 07, 2009
* Acceptance Notification:   	Aug 17, 2009
* Camera-ready paper:        	Aug 24, 2009
* Workshop date:       		Sep 01, 2009

Description
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OneSpace proposes to contribute to the cross-domain exploration of how  
Internet technologies and spatial notions co-exist and evolve.

One of the most important effects of the Internet and of the Web has  
been to relax spatial and temporal constraints on human activities ---  
the so called "space-time collapse" --- allowing fast global access to  
information as well as to physical resources and services. Recently  
this movement accelerated, due to the success of mobile devices such  
as the iPhone allowing almost ubiquitous mobile access to the  
Internet, to the generalisation of digital social interaction through  
platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to the virtual environments  
provided on gaming platforms enabled by the Internet, instant  
communication supported by popular VOIP providers such as Skype, and  
an emerging web of things. Many now spend as much time involved in  
digital spaces over the Internet than in "real" ones, and continuously  
update the digital with elements of their physical life in  
"lifestreaming" process. Moreover reality itself is augmented by  
information collected from the Internet, through the increasing  
availability of GPS devices that ease location based search, or  
through "magic-lense" based applications that add information to  
recognized physical elements, or reconstruct them in digital space  
from various media collected on the Web.

While allowing users to experience a profound modification of their  
interaction space, the Internet has familiarised us with new  
topologies --- alongside the prominent hyperlinked topology exhibited  
by the Web, Deleuze and Guattaris's "rhizome", which has become the  
model of many new forms of organization --- leading to the creation of  
new virtual spaces and communities. Indeed, P2P networks of devices  
create semi-private sharing environments; (micro-) blogging and  
lifestreaming induces new notions of spatiotemporal as well as social  
proximity, while sensor and controller networks enable ubiquitous  
access, sensing and interaction with the real world. Furthermore,  
Virtual globes and GIS technologies continue to improve and to blur  
the boundaries between spatial representation and perception by  
providing mashup opportunities, photorealistic visual navigation, and  
three-dimensional representations.

Many agree with what came to be known as Waldo Toblerís first law of  
Geography: "Everything is related to everything else, but near things  
are more related than distant things." The Internet, by establishing  
new connections between geographically distant entities cannot but  
provide us with a radically new image of Space and Time that this  
workshop is aiming to explore in an interdisciplinary way. OneSpace  
proposes to take the measure of the aforementioned developments and  
their repercussion as well as to identify trends and directions for a  
new future blended Internet.

Topics of interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Representation of physical/virtual spaces and topologies
* Spatiotemporal knowledge representation (ontologies and reasoning)
* The 3D and 4D Web
* Location-based services
* The Web of sensors
* New-generation Web mapping frameworks and applications
* Mobility and ubiquity
* Application of Linked Data for physical and digital spaces
* Digital Sense of Place and Presence
* Visibility and privacy in the Internet of people and things

Submissions
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The following types of contributions are welcomed:

* Position papers, 4 pages max.
* Technical papers, 4-10 pages.

Workshop Organizers
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* Vlad Tanasescu - The University of Edinburgh, UK (contact)
* Pierre Grenon - The Open University, UK
* Arno Scharl - MODUL University Vienna, Austria
* Erik Wilde - UC Berkeley, California, USA

Program Committee
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(provisional, please check the website for updates)

* Susanne Boll -  University of Oldenburg, Germany
* Catherine Dolbear - Sharp Laboratories of Europe, UK
* Stefan Dietze - The Open University, UK
* Hans W. Guesgen - Massey University, New Zealand
* Puneet Kishor - University of Wisconsin, USA
* Simon McCallum -  Hedmark University College, Norway
* Femke Reitsma - University of Canterbury, NZ
* Vinny Reynolds -  National University of Ireland
* Dumitru Roman - STI Innsbruck, Austria
* Mike Worboys - University of Maine, USA

Further information
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Updated information about the workshop can be found on
the workshop website: http://onespace.ace.ed.ac.uk/2009/

For further information, please send an email to
onespace2009 at easychair.org

-- 
Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org
Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org
Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org
Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor
Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu
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