Call for Nominations and Papers
UCGIS 2006 SUMMER ASSEMBLY
CALL FOR PAPERS
GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
($800 Travel Awards)
Overview:
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) is
a non-profit organization of over seventy universities and other research
institutions dedicated to expanding and strengthening geographic information
science. The organization will hold its Summer Assembly from June 28 – July
1, 2006 at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, Washington.
Graduate students from UCGIS member institutions are invited to submit an
extended abstract (1000-1500 words) or full paper (6000 words) to be considered
for presentation at the 2006 Summer Assembly. Our goal is to attract high
quality presentations from across the U.S. to foster interdisciplinary discussions
among computer science, engineering, geography, natural resources, physical
science, social science and other academic programs engaged in geographic
information science investigations and research.
Paper Submission:
The deadline for submission of an abstract (or full paper) submission to
be considered for travel support is 12:00 midnight PST, May 12, 2006. No
students will be considered for travel support if submission is received
after the deadline. Please send an email with extended abstract or full
paper submission as an attachment to Prof. Tim Nyerges (nyerges@u.washington.edu).
Each extended abstract or full paper must be reviewed and approved by a
faculty member at the student's home university before submission. An email
from the faculty member to nyerges@u.washington.edu verifying review of
the student's paper is required. Any number of extended abstracts or full
papers may be submitted by a UCGIS member institution and a review email
may come from any faculty member at the institution. Submissions will be
placed on a password protected web site and assessed by a panel of referees
drawn from across the UCGIS member institutions. Award notifications will
be made on or before June 2, 2006.
No more than two students will be selected from any UCGIS institution to
receive a travel stipend to attend the meeting. Three student papers will
be selected for presentation in each of six sessions (thus 18 papers total)
specially designated for UCGIS student papers. Students selected to present
papers are required to submit full papers for the electronic proceedings
(posted to the UCGIS website at
http://www.ucgis.org/) by 12:00 midnight
PST June 16, 2006. Submit to Tim Nyerges (nyerges@u.washington.edu). Additional
students from each UCGIS institution are invited to attend and participate
in this conference even if not receiving a travel award or presenting a
paper.
Funding Award:
The students selected for paper presentations will receive $800 to help
cover their costs of attending the 2006 Summer Assembly. Students will be
responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
Those students receiving travel awards will be presented with checks for
$800 at the conference.
If needed, students are encouraged to apply for additional funds from their
home universities. In order to receive the award, the student must provide
a written paper for the UCGIS electronic proceedings and present the paper
at the 2006 Summer Assembly.
Special Prizes:
The editors of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CAGIS) and
Transactions in GIS (TGIS) will select two manuscripts for publication in
upcoming issues of their journals. The awards will be made for the best
two single-authored papers presented at the conference. To be eligible for
consideration, authors must be either engaged in full or part-time postgraduate
research or within 1 year of completion of their research degree. The winning
manuscripts will be published in upcoming issues of either Cartography and
Geographic Information Science or Transactions in GIS. The CAGIS and TGIS
awards include a cash prize of $200 and a complimentary subscription to
the journal for one year. The editors of the two journals will select the
winning entries.
Full Paper Details:
The paper you submit must be the paper you present at the 2006 Summer Assembly.
Information on what you will need to do to prepare your full papers for
web publication is as follows.
1. Copyrights
Authors retain copyright to their individual publications.
2. File Transfers
The full paper should be saved in a PDF file named lastname.pdf where lastname
is your last name in lowercase letters. This file should be included as
an attachment with an e-mail message sent to
nyerges@u.washington.edu. Make
the subject line of this e-mail "UCGIS Web paper".
3. Organization of Full Paper
The full paper should follow this order of presentation:
- Title of Paper
- Author's Name, and affiliation to include: Name of department and university,
Mailing address,
Phone, fax, e-mail
- Abstract: should be 150 to 250 words and should describe an ongoing or
completed research investigation or project. The abstract should include
a statement of objectives, methods
employed, potential impact of the project on advancing knowledge, science,
education, or resource development, and should report any findings to date.
- Paper Body (any format from Transactions on GIS, Cartography and GIS,
or IJGIS)
- Endnotes (to be used very sparingly)
- Acknowledgments (if appropriate)
- References Cited
- Appendices (if appropriate)
4. Text Sizes and Formats
Full paper manuscripts should not exceed 6,000 words. Use a 12-point variable
spacing font such as Garamond or Times Roman. Format pages with one inch
margins all around and use left justification (ragged right) only, not full
justification.
5. Credit Lines and Sources
Credit lines are required for any illustration that you have not prepared
or photographed yourself. A credit should be included parenthetically at
the end of a figure's caption.
6. Maximum Image and File Sizes
The final PDF files must not exceed 500KB and the following limits apply
to images included in your papers: (a) 200 dpi color; (b) 300 dpi grayscale;
and (c) 300 dpi monochrome.
7. Helpful Hints
You should preview your final PDF document on a computer screen and the
accompanying output from a printer for comparison to your original document
prior to submission. If you are capturing images from a computer screen,
capture at the highest resolution and then use an image editing software
to resample before importing these images into your document. Do not rescale
the images in your document software (i.e. MS Word, Corel WordPerfect, or
FrameMaker) as the resampling will distort or degrade the image. The maximum
image sizes listed above are for the final image(s) placed in your papers
with your document software. Some additional resampling will be performed
by Adobe Acrobat when the PDF file is created.
If you are using a document software such as MS Word or Corel WordPerfect,
you should insert hard carriage returns on your pages to insure the PDF
document retains the same pagination. In addition, your images should be
anchored to text; do not use floating images or floating frames for text.
If using fonts other than:
- Courier
- Helvetica-Bold
- Time-BoldItalic
- Courier-Bold
- Helvetica-Oblique
- Times_Italic
- Courier-BoldOblique
- Symbol Times-Roman
- Helvetica
- Time-Bold
- ZapfDingbats
you should set the PDF document to use "subset embedded fonts". You should
be aware, however, that the file size increases with each embedded font.
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