Introduction
Distributed ledger and blockchain technologies, the public, immutable and distributed database systems underlying cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, along with the recent innovation to put decentralised programmable scripts (smart contracts) on blockchains, have generated a tremendous amount of interest lately. Many of the The newly proposed applications of blockchain technology are geospatial in nature, including distributed land records, the internet of things, sensor networks, cloud computing, geo-privacy, and improved ownership models for crowdsourced geographic information. The representation of spatial information on the blockchain and the Creation of smart contracts that are location-aware has the potential to impact geographic information systems to a similar degree as the introduction of Web 2.0 did over a decade ago.
Committee
- Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Benjamin Adams, University of Canterbury, NZ
- Blake Regalia, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Call for paper
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Representing spatial information on the blockchain, including 3D and complex geometries
- Indexing spatial information on the blockchain
- Handling geographic information uncertainty in smart contracts triggered by geospatial events
- Big geo-data on the blockchain including integration with other distributed decentralised database systems (e.g., IPFS)
- Distributed, peer-to-peer spatial data infrastructure
- Location-aware smart contracts
- Location verification for smart contracts
- Semantic sensor networks and event detection for smart contracts
- Producer ownership of volunteered geographic information
- Peer-to-peer geospatial data and public participation GIS
- Legal and social implications of spatial smart contracts and immutable spatial data on public blockchains
- Trust, reputation, and distributed consensus for geospatial information
- Geospatial metadata and geo-privacy issues for data on distributed ledgers
- Spatial applications of distributed ledger technology: for augmented reality, the internet of things, cloud
- computing, autonomous mobile systems, land ownership registry, environmental resource management, etc.
- Spatial analysis of public blockchain networks and users
Guidlines
For the symposium, we ask each participant to submit a short (1-2 page) statement of interest exploring ideas at the intersection of blockchains, distributed ledgers, smart contracts and spatial information research. Please upload your papers to easychair by 1 July, 2018 .
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Important Date
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Conference Date
Aug 28
2018
toAug 31
2018
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Apr 30 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline
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May 25 2018
Abstract Notification of Acceptance
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Jun 03 2018
Final Paper Deadline
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Aug 31 2018
Registration deadline
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