Dear GIS-IDEAS 2008 Participants, Thank you for your abstract submissions. Abstract accepted for oral/poster presentation at GIS-IDEAS 2008 are now available online at http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas08/papers.php?first_letter=all Final deadline for submission of full-paper in camera-ready format is 30 September 2008 (Tue). We would like to request all authors to submit their camera ready manuscripts using the conference web-site. The author guidelines are available at (http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas08/author_guide.html). If you have difficulty in uploading the PDF files from the conference website, please send electronic version by e-mail to the following addresses. 1) gidea-office@wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp and CC to 2) gisideas.secretary@gmail.com Authors are requested to *strictly* follow the instructions provided in the author guidelines. If you have not *strictly* followed the author guidlines, please re-format and resubmit your manuscripts before 30th September 2008. Author Guidlines are available below http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas08/author_guide.html Papers submitted to GIS-IDEAS 2008 will published as hardcopy conference proceedings in Black&White. Online PDF version can include color pages which will be converted to Black&White for harcopy printing. Authors are requested to submit high quality PDF files so as to ensure good quality of hardcopy reproduction. Look forward for your cooperation in bringing out the GIS-IDEAS 2008 Proceedings in a timely and well-formatted manner. Kind regards. Venkatesh -------------- Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan Organizing Secretary GIS-IDEAS 2008