The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Effects of Social-Economic Factors on Crime
Sebastian Baumbach, Nikita Sharma, Sheraz Ahmed, Andreas Dengel

ClusterWIS - A Decentralized Forest Information and Management System for the Cluster Forestry and Wood
Jürgen Roßmann, Michael Schluse, Martin Hoppen, Gregor Nägele, Tobias Marquardt, Christoph Averdung, Werner Poschenrieder, Fabian Schwaiger

Methodology of Knowledge Mapping for Arbitrary Objects and Entities: Knowledge Mining Knowledge Mining and Spatial Representations - Objects in Multi-dimensional Context
Claus-Peter Rückemann

Motion Planning in 3D Environments Using Visibility Velocity Obstacles
Oren Gal, Yerach Doytsher

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

GeoCubes Finland - A Unified Approach for Managing Multi-resolution Raster Geodata in a National Geospatial Research Infrastructure
Lassi Lehto, Jaakko Kähkönen, Juha Oksanen, Tapani Sarjakoski

Coupling an Unstructured NoSQL Database with a Geographic Information System
Amandine Holemans, Jean-Paul Kasprzyk, Jean-Paul Donnay

Using Smart A* Algorithm to Solve TSP Navigation Problem
Hatem Halaoui

Assessing and Evaluating Standard Compliance with a State and Local Government GIS Metadata Profile in Large Geospatial Databases
Timothy Mulrooney

An Approach for Assessing Array DBMSs for Geospatial Raster Data
Janne Kovanen, Ville Mäkinen, Tapani Sarjakoski

Towards Modelling Privacy Risks in Geo-Social Networks
Alia Abdelmoty

A Case Study for a Multitemporal Segmentation Approach in Optical Remote Sensing Images
Wanderson Costa, Leila Fonseca, Thales Korting, Margareth Simões, Patrick Kuchler