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From 25-30 August 2008 the research school ICG organizes a five-day course targeted at PhD students, academic staff and project teams working with spatio-temporal data. The course aims at providing a balanced combination of theoretical and hands-on-software training. The participants will receive many practical instructions on how to generate R scripts and use SAGA GIS / Google Earth to visualize outputs of analysis. Moderators: T. Hengl (uva.nl), D.G. Rossiter (itc.nl), G.B.M. Heuvelink (wur.nl) and V. Olaya Ferrero (unex.es) The course fees is 300 euros and includes the cost of coffee and lunch breaks, materials, a workshop dinner and local transportation. Deadline to register: 15th June 2008. The course is limited to 25 participants.

(posted May 2008)

The Computational GeoInformatics workshop will be held within the 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2008) in Perugia, Italy (from June 30th to July 3rd). The workshop focuses on computational aspects of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), including temporal aspects and uncertainty. We have received a total of 21 papers and finally decided to accept (with minor corrections) a selection of 8 papers covering various topics ranging from 3D GIS to image processing and use of automated mapping in risk assessment. The selected papers will appear in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. To register for the meeting and access all relevant documents, follow this URL.

(posted April 2008)

Most scientific journals provide guidelines for authors -- how to format references and prepare artwork, how many copies of the paper to submit and to which address. However, behind any formal editorial system are real people with their professional and personal interests, which often have a profound influence on the chances that your paper will get accepted (or rejected). The official guidelines say little about how you should prepare your paper and what are the chances that it will be accepted. You will not be able to find such information on journal websites. This gave us the idea to write an unofficial guide for authors, in which we could tell you frankly what you can expect from journals, editors, reviewers and, indeed, the whole system of science.

(posted March 2006)