Dear delegates,
we are pleased to inform you that finally all the CAA 2015 videos are available from http://2015.caaconference.org/videos/

• 15 October 2015: notification of acceptance/rejection
• 15 November 2015: submission of revised papers
• 15 December 2015: proof copies sent to authors
• 15 January 2016: authors submission of camera ready papers
• 25 March 2016: Proceedings published

Dear author,
we inform you that paper submission deadline for CAA 2015 conference proceedings has been postponed until 10 July 2015,
Kind regards,
CAA Editorial Board

CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW OPEN (1 May 2015 – submission deadline 1 July 2015)

The CAA 2015 Organising Committee invites manuscripts of papers and posters presented during the 43rd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference CAA 2015 Siena KEEP THE REVOLUTION GOING, held in Siena, Tuscany-Italy 30th March-3rd April 2015.

We please you to read carefully the CAA2015 proceedings Authors Instructions and theCAA2015 Guidelines for bibliographic reference.

The CAA Proceedings consist of a printed version that will contain at least 50 papers that were ranked highest by the CAA Review College when first submitted.

All accepted papers will however be available online, and as downloadable .pdf-files through the Open Access facilities provided by the publisher.

TIMELINE FOR PUBLICATION CAA2015

http://caaconference.org/proceedings/

Digital version of the BOOK of ABSTRACTS is now available:

Time/Date: 2nd April 2015, 19.15

Location/meeting point: Piazza del Campo

Palazzo Chigi Saracini is the home of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Those who enter can learn the history of some of the most prestigious aristocratic families of Siena through the artifacts held there. They will be able to admire one of the most important private collections, compiled by Galgano Saracini, who – with great taste and insight – put together between the end of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th centuries paintings, marble and terracotta statues, bas-reliefs, porcelain, chinoiserie, valuable creations in ivory, wood and semiprecious gems, as well as a ceramics collection from one of the most noted Italian schools of the 16th and 17th centuries, creating a unique art gallery.

14.30-14.50 1 April – Room A
Lunch time talk: Herbert Maschner
Archaeology and the Democratization of Science: A New $10,000,000 Project is Seeking Collaborators and Research Ideas.

Herbert Maschner, Director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University.
Executive Director of the Centre for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies, University of South Florida.

Inside the walls walking in-between the city and the countryside. This itinerary will give you a general idea of Siena, showing how the countryside and urban areas live together – a trip among the little picturesque streets, the Justice Gate, and the Follonica valley.
Location/meeting point: Conference venue (in fort of the main gate).
Time/Date: 2nd April 2015, 20:00
Booking is mandatory
Cost: Free (included in the registration fee)

http://caaconference.org/information/social-events-amenities/

CAA 2015 “Keep the Revolution Going” Conference includes different kind of formats for the delivery of content. These are designed to be a specific balance between formal presentations and freeform open discussions.

The main themes of the conference include according to the session and paper proposals reviewing process: 48 sessions (350 papers), 13 workshops and 6 roundtables ad poster session (160 posters).

CAA 2015 Siena ORGANIZING COMMITTEE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM.

Room numbers and speaker details will be soon announced.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM (Detailed Program_CAA 2015)

Monday 30^th March – Workshops

8.00 – 18.30 Registration

9.00 – 10.30/11.00 – 12.30

1. Hands-On Archaeological Conceptual Modelling 2
2. Predictive Techniques for 3D Data Augmentation in Cultural Heritage
3. Storytelling from the earth
4. 3DHOP – Presenting online high-res 3D models: a crash course
5. Introduction to exploratory network analysis for archaeologists using Visone
6. UAV Photogrammetry for archaeology and Survey: a state of the art

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 16.30

1. The Use of 3D GIS Platforms for Intra-Site Investigation in Archaeology
2. First steps in agent-based modelling with Netlogo
3. Data modelling, processing and integration for the knowledge and valorisation of Cultural Heritage in urban area
4. Improving Presentation Skills
5. Ha(r)ckeology: an hacking approach to open archaeology
6. Reconstructing Ancient Landscape in the Cloud

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break

17.30 – 18.00 – Conference opening: Rector, Usiena Humanities Dean, CNR, MIBACT.

18.00 – 18.45 Key-note talk prof. Martin Millett + 15 min question time

19.30-22.00 – Icebreaker Party – Siena downtown (further info on CAA web site)

Tuesday 31 March – CAA 2015 CONFERENCE DAY 1

8.00 – 10.00 Conference registration desk open

9.00-11.00

1. 2D Linked Data: From interoperable to interoperating
2. 4E From 3D Scanning of Objects and Monuments to Augmented Reality
3. 5C Archaeological Theory and Statistical Modelling
4. 5E Homologation and standardization of archaeological cartographic data
5. 5K Where Do We Go From Here? Least Cost Paths Revisited
6. 6D Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage: Interdisciplinary connections
7. 7C Replication: from the past to the digital age

ROUNDTABLE 6 – Thinking between the lines: conceptualising the future of archaeological databases

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.30

Keynote speakers

11.30 – 12.15 Holly Rushmeier + 15 min question time

12.30 – 13.15 Maurizio Forte + 15 min question time

13.30-14.30 Lunch time

14.30-15.00 Poster session

15.00-16.40

1. 3C Computer and rock art studies: data collection, interpretation and communication
2. 4C Formal approaches to visibility analysis in ancient architectural spaces and cultural landscapes
3. 4F Geomatics approaches in Latin American Archaeology
4. 5G How to reveal geographic relations in Databases on cultural heritage
5. 5M Improving Resolutions: Use and Potentials of Quantitative Methods in Near Eastern Archaeology
6. 7A Teaching digital archaeology – digitally teaching archaeology
7. 7C Replication: from the past to the digital age
8. 8C Digital methods in exploring and explaining the development of protourban centres

ROUNDTABLE 2 – Arches Heritage Inventory and Management System

16.40-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-18.40

1. 3C Computer and rock art studies: data collection, interpretation and communication
2. 4F Geomatics approaches in Latin American Archaeology
3. 5G How to reveal geographic relations in Databases on cultural heritage
4. 7A Teaching digital archaeology – digitally teaching archaeology
5. 6B New advancements in computational imaging
6. 8C Digital methods in exploring and explaining the development of protourban centres

ROUNDTABLE 4 – Simulating the Past: Complex Systems Simulation in Archaeology

19.30 – 20.30 Duomo tour (further info on CAA web site)

Wednesday 1^st April – CAA 2015 CONFERENCE DAY 2

8.00 – 10.00 Conference registration desk open

9.00-11.00

1. 1A Digital frontiers in maritime archaeology
2. 2A Interdisciplinary methods of data recording, management and preservation
3. 4A Managing archaeological 3d models
4. 5H Geographical and temporal network science in archaeology
5. 5I Interpreting the unstructured: new methods and tools for intrasite spatial analysis of palaeosurfaces
6. 5L Modelling large-scale human dispersals: data, pattern and process
7. 9A Towards a Theory of Practice in Applied Digital Field Methods

ROUNDTABLE 3 – The whole is other than the sum of its parts: where is the spatial data infrastructure for cultural heritage?

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.30

1. 1A Digital frontiers in maritime archaeology
2. 2A Interdisciplinary methods of data recording, management and preservation
3. 4D 3D Reconstruction, Analysis and Immersive Telepresence at Rock-Art Sites
4. 5A Modelling approaches to analyse the socio-economic context in archaeology
5. 5H Geographical and temporal network science in archaeology
6. 5L Modelling large-scale human dispersals: data, pattern and process
7. 6C The Past, Present and Future of Non-Intrusive Geophysical Survey in the Field and the Laboratory
8. 9A Towards a Theory of Practice in Applied Digital Field Methods

13.30-14.30 Lunch time

14.30-15.00 Poster session

15.00-16.40

1. 1B The challenge of the preventive archaeology
2. 2A Interdisciplinary methods of data recording, management and preservation
3. 4D 3D Reconstruction, Analysis and Immersive Telepresence at Rock-Art Sites
4. 5A Modelling approaches to analyse the socio-economic context in archaeology
5. 5L Modelling large-scale human dispersals: data, pattern and process
6. 6A Approaches for Sensor Data Integration for the Investigation of Archaeological Landscapes
7. 6C The Past, Present and Future of Non-Intrusive Geophysical Survey in the Field and the Laboratory
8. 9A Towards a Theory of Practice in Applied Digital Field Methods

ROUNDTABLE 5 – Linked Open Data Applied to Pottery Databases

16.40-17.00 Coffee break

17.00 – 17.45 Keynote Nicolò dell’Unto + 15 min question time

18.00 – 19.30 CAA AGM

20.30 Social dinner at Rocca Salimbeni (further info on CAA web site)

Thursdays 2^nd April – CAA 2015 CONFERENCE DAY 3

8.00 – 10.00 Conference registration desk open

9.00-11.00

1. 2B Integrating 3D Data from Field Archaeology
2. 2C Supporting researchers in the use and reuse of archaeological data
3. 3A A dialogue between archaeological science and computer visualization
4. 4B New trends in 3D Archaeology
5. 5D Predictivity and postdictivity in archaeology
6. 9E Moving the focus from “know how” to “know why” 3D modeling cultural heritage
7. 10A ArcheoFOSS: free/open source software and archaeological research, ten years later
8. 10B Electronic resources for archaeology: from databases to digital open data

ROUNDTABLE 1 – Challenging Digital Archaeology – the discussion continues

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.30

1. 2C Supporting researchers in the use and reuse of archaeological data
2. 3A A dialogue between archaeological science and computer visualization
3. 4B New trends in 3D Archaeology
4. 5B Continuing the Revolution with Spatial Methods & Archaeological Interpretation
5. 5D Predictivity and postdictivity in archaeology
6. 6E Low Altitude Aerial Photography for archaeology – where is the revolution leading us?
7. 8B Urban Digital-Scapes: Computer application to the study of past urban developments
8. 10A ArcheoFOSS: free/open source software and archaeological research, ten years later

ROUNDTABLE 7 – Digital Technologies and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Prehistoric Art

13.30-14.30 Lunch time talk: Special Guest Professor Dominic Powlesland

14.30-15.00 Poster session

15.00-16.40

1. 9F Machine learning and Pattern Recognition for Archaeological Research
2. 4B New trends in 3D Archaeology
3. 5B Continuing the Revolution with Spatial Methods & Archaeological Interpretation
4. 6E Low Altitude Aerial Photography for archaeology – where is the revolution leading us?
5. 8A Digital cities: documenting and transmitting the archaeological-architectonical record
6. 8B Urban Digital-Scapes: Computer application to the study of past urban developments
7. 9C Modelling the archaeological process
8. 10B Electronic resources for archaeology: from databases to digital open data

16.40-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-18.40

1. 3B Occupation floors of Hunter-gatherers in the Digital Era
2. 5J Spatial analysis in ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology
3. 6E Low Altitude Aerial Photography for archaeology – where is the revolution leading us?
4. 7B New Cultural Heritage economies in the digital era
5. 7D About reasoning and the illusiveness of interfaces in the practice of digital and virtual archaeology
6. 9C Modelling the archaeological process
7. 9F Machine learning and Pattern Recognition for Archaeological Research
8. 10B Electronic resources for archaeology: from databases to digital open data

20.00 City hiking (further info on CAA web site)