GIScience 2018 Workshop:
2nd Workshop On Computing Techniques For Spatio-Temporal Data
in Archaeology And Cultural Heritage (COARCH)
Second Call for Participation
Please be careful to extended deadlines!
Call
Archaeological data, and more in general cultural heritage information, are characterized by both spatial and
temporal dimensions that are often related to each other and are of particular interest for supporting the
interpretation process that allows achieving new knowledge about ancient times.
For this reason, several research works proposed attempts to develop new information management techniques,
some of them inherit directly from geographical information science. However, cultural heritage and archaeology
still require a tailored support to:
• the collection of spatio-temporal and their effective representation for enhancing interoperability, especially
with the rise of 3D acquisition techniques that involves big data characteristics.
• the processing of raw data in order to identify artifacts and define their allocation in space and time, in
relation with ontological developments.
• the reconstruction of ancient structures (buildings, walls, castle, etc.) or their temporal evolution, based on
deep learning process allowing automatic reconstruction, segmentation, complex objects identification.
• the integrated access and querying of the collected data in different formats, structures, data models.
Topics
Knowledge representation
• Modeling of spatio-temporal data in archaeology and cultural heritage
• Techniques for supporting interoperability of spatio-temporal data
• 3D digital artifact capture, representation and manipulation
• Workflow design for supporting the archaeological interpretation process
Knowledge discovery
• Analytic tools to assist scholars’ research on archaeological data
• Tools for reconstruction and processing of spatio-temporal evolution
• Spatial temporal data mining on spatio-temporal data in archaeology
• Machine learning techniques applied to archaeological data
Important Dates
• Papers due: June 1st, 2018
• Notification of acceptance: une 28th, 2018
• Deadline for author registration: July 15th, 2018
• Deadline for camera-ready papers: July 15th, 2018
• Workshop: August 28, 2018
Depending on the number of accepted articles, the workshop can be either a half- or full-day event. By default, the
workshop will be a half-day event (~3h30m overall), but can be extended to a full-day event (~7h overall) in case of
high number of accepted papers.
Submissions
Submissions of high quality papers describing research results or on-going work are solicited. Submitted papers
should contain original, previously unpublished content, should be written in English, and must not be
simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers
for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included
in the proceedings, which will be published together with the GIScience proceedings in LIPIcs, the Leibniz
International Proceedings in Informatics series (https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics). Acceptance of a
paper is contingent on one author presenting the paper at the workshop.
Contribution length should range between 15 pages (including tables, figures, and references). All papers should
follow the sample article provided by LIPIcs (http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics-v2016/lipics-v2016-authors.tgz).
LIPIcs also provides a LaTeX class and template for papers. Papers should be submitted electronically via the
EasyChair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coarch18.
Organization Committee
• Pierre Hallot, Cultural Heritage Documentation, ULiège, Belgium p.hallot@uliege.be ;
• Sara Migliorini, Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy sara.migliorini@univr.it ;
• Alberto Belussi, Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy alberto.belussi@univr.it ;
• Roland Billen, Geomatics Unit, ULiège rbillen@uliege.be
Program Committee
• Eliseo Clementini, University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Kathleen Stewart, University of Maryland, USA
• Pierre Grussenmeyer, INSA Strasbourg, France
• Livio de Luca, UMR CNRS / MCC Map, France
• Xavier Rodier, Université de Tours, France
• Marco Callieri, Visual Computing Lab of ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Matteo Dellepiane, Visual Computing Lab of ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Piergiovanna Grossi, University of Verona, Italy
• Mauro Negri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Shawn Ross, Macquaire University, Australia, to be confirmed
• Christina Garduno Freeman, University of Melbourne, to be confirmed
• Gerald Hiebel, University of Innsbruck, Austria, to be confirmed
• Roland Billen, ULiège, Belgium
• Pierre Hallot, ULiège, Belgium
• Alberto Belussi, University of Verona, Italy
• Sara Migliorini, University of Verona, Italy