International conference of Geo-Process Modeling in VGE: Managing and Sharing Geographic Knowledge
International conference of Geo-Process Modeling in VGE:
Managing and Sharing Geographic Knowledge
Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
November 6-8, 2014
Geographical reasoning is an important way of thinking about the
world and its inhabitants, but our abilities in spatial thinking and
reasoning are still quite primitive and require extensive exploration.
Geographic knowledge is the product of geographic thinking and
reasoning about the world’s natural and human phenomena, but it has
now evolved from the phenomenological to the intellectual, from
understanding “why” and “how” to “what” and “where”. This is initiating
a change from an emphasis on geographic form to an emphasis on
geographic process.
To date, geographic modelling and simulation is now regarded as a
fundamental approach to geographic process mining and complex
geographic problem solving and has led to many cutting-edge
geographical analysis tools, such as those involving in working with
Virtual Geographic Environments (VGEs). VGEs offer a new generation
of geographic analysis tool based on new types of web- and computer-
based geographic environments which are built for understanding
geographic processes and problem solving. Besides new kinds of
databases and new forms of ‘big’ data, other core geo-process models
have demonstrated the increasing importance of building of VGEs, with
model sharing and model integration as its key issues.
To bridge the gap between model building and the design of
geographic analysis tools, this conference aims at providing facilitation
and communication between experts from multidisciplinary domains so
that they are able to discuss several issues about how to make full use of
geo-process models for geographic knowledge discovery.
The main conference topics will include but are not limited to:
1、Physical modelling
2、Social and behavioral modeling
3、The Modeling of Global change
4、Model sharing and related theories
5、Model integration and its application
6、Modelling and knowledge sharing in VGEs
Organizers:
ISEIS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
CASA, University College of London
Co-organizers:
State Key Lab for Resource and Environment Information Systems
(LREIS), Chinese Academy of Sciences
State Key Lab of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and
Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University
Key Lab of Virtual Geographic Environment (VGEKL), Ministry of
Education of PRC, Nanjing Normal University
Key Lab of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Ministry of
Education of PRC, Jiangxi Normal University
Spatial Information Research Center (SIRC), Fuzhou University