Programme

Monday June 29, 2009

8:30 Welcome Address

9.00 Plenary session

10:40 Spatial simulations for socio-economical analysis and policies

Chair Beniamino Murgante ( University of Basilicata )

Economic Evaluation and Statistical Methods for Detecting Hot Spots of Social and Housing Difficulties in Urban Policies

Carmelo Maria Torre - Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnic of Bari , Italy

Silvestro Montrone, Massimo Bilancia, and Paola Perchinunno - Department of Statistical Science, University of Bari Italy

An Urban Study of Crime and Health Using an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Approach

Su-Yin Tan - University of Waterloo

Robert Haining - University of Cambridge

GeoSOM suite: a tool for spatial clustering

Roberto Henriques, Fernando Bacao - Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ISEGIUNL)

Victor Lobo - Portuguese Naval Academy

Geospatial Crime Scene Investigation - From Hotspot Analysis to Interactive 3D Visualisation

Markus Wolff, Hartmut Asche - Department of Geography, University of Potsdam

A model-based scan statistics for detecting geographical clustering of disease

Massimo Bilancia, Silvestro Montrone, Paola Perchinunno - Department of Statistical Science, University of Bari Italy

14.00 Spatial decision support systems for risk prevention and disaster management

Chair: Didier Josselin ( University of Avignon )

Using Causality Relationships for a Progressive Management of Hazardous Phenomena with Sensor Networks

Nafaa Jabeur - Dhofar University , Salalah , Oman

Hedi Haddad - Laval University , Québec , Canada

Design and Development of an Intelligent Extension for Mapping Landslide Susceptibility using Artificial Neural Network

Mohammad Hasan Vahidnia, Ali A. Alesheikh, Abbas Alimohammadi, Farhad Hosseinali - K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Integrated Geological, Geomorphological and Geostatistical analysis to study macroseismic effects of 1980 Irpinian earthquake in urban areas (southern Italy )

Maria Danese, Maurizio Lazzari - Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council , Italy

Beniamino Murgante - Laboratory of Urban and Territorial Systems, University of Basilicata , Italy

Using GIS to Develop an Efficient Spatio-Temporal Task Allocation Algorithm to Human Groups in an Entirely Dynamic Environment, Case Study: Earthquake Rescue Teams

Ali Reza Vafaeinezhad, Ali Asghar Alesheikh, Majid Hamrah, Reza Nourjou, Rouzbeh Shad -

Faculty of Geomatics Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology

A GIS-Based SW Prototype for Emergency Preparedness Management Applied to a Real Case Study

Marco Scaioni, Mario Alba, Renato Rota, Simona Caragliano - Polytechnic of Milan

15.40 Environmental simulations for sustainable development

Chair: Carmelo Torre (Polytechnic of Bari )

Spatial Analysis of Humidity and Temperature of Iran

Amir Kavousi - Faculty of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), Shahid Beheshti University , Tehran , Iran

Mohammad Reza Meshkani - Department of Statistics, Shahid Beheshti University , Tehran , Iran

Integrating fuzzy logic and GIS analysis to assess sediment characterization within a confined harbour

Nicoletta Gazzea, Miliana Valentini, Maria Elena Piccione - High Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA

Andrea Taramelli - Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University , New York , USA

An evaluation of the performance of the CHIMERE model over Spain using meteorology from MM5 and WRF models

Marta G. Vivanco, Inmaculada Palomino, Fernando Martín, Magdalena Palacios - Atmospheric Pollution Unit, Environmental Department, CIEMAT, Madrid , Spain

Oriol Jorba, Pedro Jiménez, José María Baldasano - Earth Science Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Barcelona , Spain

Oier Azula - Departamento de Química Fisica, UPV, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Parameter-less GA based Crop ParameterAssimilation with Satellite Image

Shamim Akhter, Keigo Sakamoto - Tokyo Institute of Technology , Japan

Yann Chemin - International Center of Water for Food Security, Australia

Kento Aida - National Institute of Technology and Tokyo Institute of Technology , Japan

Compactness and Flow Minimization Requirements in Reforestation Initiatives: An Integer Programming (IP) Formulation

Pablo Vanegas, Dirk Cattrysse, Jos Van Orshoven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

 Tuesday June 30, 2009

9.00 Plenary session

10:40 Geographical analysis for urban planning

Chair: Ivan Blecic (Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari )

Application of the Urban Green Assessment Model for the Korean Newtowns

Sangkeun Eom - Environment and Regional Planning Division, Jeju Development Institute

Seungil Lee - Department of Urban Engineering, University of Seoul

Analysing the Role of Accessibility in Contemporary Urban Development

Henning Sten Hansen - Aalborg University

Measuring Effectiveness of Pedestrian Facilities Using a Pedestrian Simulation Model

Seungjae Lee, Seungjun Lee - University of Seoul

Shinhae Lee - Seoul Development Institute

Impact of the norm on optimal locations

Marc Ciligot-Travain, Didier Josselin - University of Avignon

Spatial distribution of social benefit given by urban attractions. A test of UrAD model

Luca D'Acci - Polytechnic of Turin

14.00 Analyzing built environment

Chair: Allan Brimicombe (Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of East London )

Incorporation of morphological properties of buildings descriptors computed from GIS and LIDAR data on an urban multi-agent vector based geo-simulator

Claudio Carneiro, Vítor Silva, François Golay - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - LASIG

A Spatial Structural and Statistical Approach to Building Classification of Residential Function for City-Scale Impact Assessment Studies

Dimitrios Triantakonstantis, Stuart Barr - University of Newcastle , School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences

An Indoor Crowd Simulation using a 2D-3D Hybrid Data model

Chulmin Jun, Hyeyoung Kim - Department of Geoinformatics, University of Seoul

Turning point clouds into 3d models: The aqueduct of Segovia

Juan Mancera-Taboada, Pablo Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Diego Gonzalez-Aguilera - University of Salamanca

Assessing the Impact of Individual Attitude towards Otherness on the Structure of Urban Residential Space: a Multi-Actor Model

Ourednik André - Laboratory Chôros, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

15.40 Geosimulation of urban phenomena

Chair: Markus Wolff (Department of Geography, University of Potsdam )

A Cellular Automata-ready GIS Infrastructure for Geosimulation and Territorial Analysis

Ivan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio - Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari , Italy

Andrea Borruso, Antonio D'Argenio, Fabio Montagnino - TICONZERO Consortium - Italy

Modeling Un-authorized Land Use Sprawl with Integrated Remote Sensing-GIS Technique and Cellular Automata

Norzailawati Mohd Noor, Mazlan Hashim - University Technology Malaysia

Study on Driving Forces of Urban Expansion Using Rough Set

Yong Ge, Feng Cao - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences

Neural Network Based Cellular Automata Model for Dynamic Spatial Modeling in GIS

Yogesh Mahajan, and Parvatham Venkatachalam - Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay , India

Agent-Based Distributed Component Services in Spatial Modeling

Allan Brimicombe, Yang Li, Abdullah Al-Zakwani - Centre for Geo-Information Studies, University of East London

Chao Li - Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London

Wednesday July 1, 2009

9.00 Plenary session

10:40 Geo-information for urban applications

Chair: Maurizio Lazzari (Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council, Italy )

An integrated methodology for Medieval Landscape Reconstruction: the case study of Monte Serico

Marilisa Biscione, Rossella Coluzzi, Rosa Lasaponara, Nicola Masini - Archaeological and monumental heritage institute, National Research Council , Italy

Maria Danese, Beniamino Murgante - Laboratory of Urban and Territorial Systems, University of Basilicata , Italy

New Prospects in Territorial Resource Management: The Semantic Web GIS

Ernesto Marcheggiani, Michele Nucci, Andrea Galli - Polytechnic of Marche

Designing Road Maintenance Data Model Using Dynamic Segmentation Technique

Mohammad Reza Jelokhani-Niaraki , Ali Asghar Alesheikh, Abbas Alimohammadi - Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics Eng, K.N. Toosi University of Technology

Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki - Department of Geoinformatics Engineering, Inha University

Design and Implementation of A GSM Based Automatic Vehicle Location System

Ali Mousavi, Mohammad Rajabi, and Mohammad Akbari - Department of Geomatics Eng. , University of Tehran , Tehran

Handling Spatial-correlated Attribute Values in a Rough Set

Hexiang Bai, Yong Ge - Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

14.00 Spatial decision support systems

Chair: Yong Ge (Institute of Geographical Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Rough Temporal Relationships between Intervals

Anahid Bassiri, Mohamad R. Malek, Ali A. Alesheikh, Pouria Amirian - K.N. Toosi University of Technology

Inverse Transformation For Several Pseudo-Cylindrical Map Projections Using Jacobian Matrix

Cengizhan Ipbuker - Istanbul technical university

An Integrative Approach to Geospatial Data Fusion

Silvija Stankute, Hartmut Asche - University of Potsdam

Rough Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

Anahid Bassiri, Mohamad R. Malek, Ali A. Alesheikh - K.N. Toosi University of Technology

Designing Data Warehouses for Geographic OLAP querying by using MDA

Octavio Glorio, Juan Trujillo - University of Alicante