Call for Abstracts - Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Geography, AAG2008 -
　

Call for Abstracts

Special organized session(s) on Fuzzy Sets and Systems in Geography

2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 15-19, Boston, MA


Organizers: Ola Ahlqvist, Dept. of Geography, The Ohio State University
E-mail: ahlqvist.1@osu.edu

Liem Tran, Dept. of Geography, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
E-mail: ltran1@utk.edu

Sponsored by the Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group

Since the introduction of fuzzy logic in 1970's, fuzzy sets and systems have been applied widely and successfully in many fields. This session is an avenue for geographers and other professionals to present a paper on fuzzy sets and systems in geography. Topics under this heading include, but are not limited to:
* vague geographies
* fuzzy sets, ontology, and epistemology
* integration of fuzzy sets with other representations of geographic uncertainty
* cognitive and/or usability issues of fuzzy sets in geography
* applications of fuzzy set approaches to:
- geographic inquiry
- the Geospatial/Semantic Web
- spatial decision support systems
- participatory GIS
- graphic/cartographic representation

Fell free to distribute this notice to any lists and individuals that you think may be interested in participating in these sessions.

Detailed instructions for participation:
Submit your abstract to the AAG via their website http://www.aag.org . Upon submission, you will receive a Program Identification Number (PIN). At that point, please forward your name, affiliation, title, abstract, and PIN to either of the organizers above.

Deadline for submission is MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007. Note that this is two days before the AAG official conference submission deadline (Wednesday, October 31).

Thank you for your consideration.