The 32nd International Geographical Congress  2012 in Cologne, August 26-30,  2012

SESSIONS  TO BE ORGANIZED BY THE IGU-CMGS

At  the IGC2012, Cologne, August 26-30,  2012

Spatial statistics and Applications

This session will focus on the recent advances in the  theory and applications of spatial statistics. It will be a session of four  presentations, followed by questions and answers. The purpose is to stimulate  discussions on the development and use of spatial statistics in solving  geographical problems.

Session Chair: Manfred Fischer

Geocomputations and  Applications

This session will place emphasis on recent developments  in geocomputation methods other than statistics. It will contain four  presentations with the view to encourage discussion on the formulation of novel  geocomputation methods for solving geographical problems  in general and GIS/remote sensing problems in  particular.

Session Chair: Thérèse Steenberghen/Stewart  Fotheringham

Modeling Human and Physical  Processes

The four papers in this session will deal with the  modeling of human activities and physical processes in space and time. The  purpose is to show how models can be built to analyze spatial and temporal  processes in human and physical systems, with the purpose to solve practical  problems in a systematical manner.

Session Chair: Pavlos Kanaroglou/Jinfeng  Wang

Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge  Discovery

This session intends to have four presentations centering  on the theme of discovering patterns and processes from spatial and temporal  data. Algorithmic developments and practical applications will be discussed. It  is hoped that fundamental issues in this area of research can be explored in the  exchange of ideas.

Session Chair: Yee Leung/Ali Bennasr

Microsimulations  of Geographical Systems

Session Chair: Graham Clarke

Simulating human and physical  systems at the micro-level will be the focus of discussion in this session. We  intend to have four papers that deal with the employment of modelling systems  that focus on individual or household behaviour. These techniques may include  microsimulation, cellular automata, and agent-based models to simulate  geographical phenomena and processes.

Registration:

Please  go to the IGC website:    www.igc2012.org

to  submit your abstract according to the stipulated procedure. Please indicate that  you would like to present your paper at your selected session under C08.28  Modeling Geographical Systems. Non-members are also encouraged to make the  submission to our sessions.