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Seventh International Conference on Informatics and Urban and Regional Planning

From 10 to 12 May 2012 the University of Cagliari will host the Seventh International Conference on Informatics and Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT 2012), organized by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Architettura) of the University of Cagliari and by the Department of Agriculture (Dipartimento di Agraria) of the University of Sassari.

The general theme of INPUT 2012 is “Planning support tools: policy analysis, implementation and evaluation.”

After two decades characterized by the blooming of methods, technologies, and applications, researchers are now facing the complex issue of selecting, adapting, and integrating appropriate tools for specific stages and tasks in planning. New technologies play a prominent role in the innovation of planning theory and practice, as they affect every phase of the process: knowledge building, preliminary studies, design, decision, implementation, and monitoring.

Scholars and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions on innovative experiences within the framework of the general theme and in the light of cross-cutting technology domains, such as GIS, models, geo-visualization, and web 2.0.

Several presentations are now available on Slideshare.

Click here to download the Conference program.

Find out how to get to the Conference Venue.

History of INPUT

INPUT is managed by an informal group of Italian academic researchers working in many fields related to the exploitation of informatics in planning. Since the first conference, held in 1999, INPUT has represented an opportunity to reflect on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as key planning support tools.

The first conference (Venice, 1999), titled “Models and management of processes of spatial transformations,” was organized by the IUAV University of Venice in conjunction with the Sixth Conference “Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management” (CUPUM) and focused on the relations between three main topics as follows: new technologies, tools for analysis and forecast, planning and management of processes of spatial change. The conference laid the foundations for the setting up of a network of models designers, users, and clients.

The second conference (Isole Tremiti, 2001), titled “Democracy and technologies,” was organized by the Polytechnic University of Bari and proposed a discussion on three topics as follows: democracy and technologies, worlds and models; knowledge and intelligent agents.

Paper submission

Editorial notes for authors

Authors are requested to submit manuscripts written in English and edited following the Notes for prospective authors. Please also refer to the paper template.

Full papers must be submitted no later than January 31, 2012, by uploading the paper on this conference website. In order to upload your paper, you will need to create an account from the Login link on the menu bar.

Selection and publication

The selection of papers will be based on a blind review process. Accepted papers will be published in an international e-book with ISBN, provided that the author (or at least one co-author) has sent his/her proof of payment for the conference fee by March 31, 2012 (please refer to the Key dates section at the bottom-left side of this page). A maximum of two papers per registered (co-) author will be accepted.
Please check the page Registration and fees.

Key Dates

Jan 31, 2012	Submission of full papers
Mar 7, 2012	Notification of acceptance
Mar 20, 2012	Submission of revised versions of accepted papers
Mar 31, 2012	Deadline for payment of the fee for inclusion of the paper in the e-book
Mar 31, 2012	Deadline for early bird registration
May 10-12, 2012	INPUT 2012