Conference Topics & themes

Applications

• The need for business services process modeling to optimize government services
• Engineering Collaboration and Coordination: Multi Discipline and Multi participation
• The Emerging Service Oriented Architecture as an infrastructure to e-government and the integration of transparent government services for spatial and infrastructure planning
• Data and Metadata Standards in Engineering and Spatial disciplines
• Integration of Spatial Business Domains: Infrastructure Planning and Development, Urban & Regional Planning and Development, Environmental Planning & Development, Homeland Security, Others
• Applications in Utilities including Telecommunications

Technology

• Trends in Technology standards, ISO, OGC, others
• The role of IT based Spatial Database management Systems
• Data-Metadata Standards and Interoperability
• Approaches to Spatial Data, Topology, and Features Interoperability
• Multi-level Security Considerations
• SDI directions
• CAD-Spatial Technology Interoperability
• Multi Participant Engineering-Spatial Collaboration and Technology
• Project Management
• CAD-Spatial Integration
• Identity Management and Multilevel Security
• Service Oriented Architecture Technology basis “SOA”
• Instant Service Oriented Architecture “I- SOA”
• GeoWeb directions and infrastructure
• GML
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Other Topics

• Automation
• Positioning and Measurement
• Legal and Policy Issues
• Engineering Surveys
• Education and Training
• GIS and The Internet
• E-Commerce & E-Governance
• Public Health, Safety & Emergency
• Risk Assessment
• Spatial Information Management
• Spatial Planning & Development
• Urban Planning & Design
• Land Management
• Transportation Planning
• Data Purchasing, Sharing, Privacy and Security,
• Open Source Software
• Open Source in Geospatial Science
• Standards CAD and GIS Interoperability
• Geospatial Languages
• Geospatial Data Models
• Geospatial Data Integration
• Spatial Data Mining
• Map Use and Design