By Jean-Jacques GIRARDOT (Université de Franche-Comté) | February 2009 | caENTI deliverable 16

The sixth international conference of Territorial Intelligence took place in Besançon (France) on October, 16th and 17th 2008. Its general theme was “Tools and methods of Territorial Intelligence”. The call for papers, published on January, 31st 2008, suggested three themes:

• A. [Tools] – The tools of territorial intelligence for and by actors of sustainable development
• B. [Methods] – The scientific methods and the generic tools of spatial observation and of territorial information analysis
• C. [Concept] – The evolution of the territorial intelligence concept

This scientific event organised by the Institute of Humanities, Social and Environmental sciences of the Université de Franche-Comté was very successful, what underlines the caENTI success and implies we plan a continuation to this project. We received 107 proposals of papers and we had to organize 24 workshops.

The scientific event mobilised 248 participants of 22 nationalities, and among the 218 European participants there were 124 French people. 29 researchers were from North and South America, Asia and Africa. Organised within the caENTI (Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence) framework, supported from March 2006 to February 2009 by the Sixth Framework Programme of Research and Technological Development of the European Union, it gathered 123 researchers and actors members of the caENTI, but also 115 other researchers and actors.

We publish here 77 papers in English. We had to choose the ones that would be included in this deliverable; we decided to consider the external papers as the priority. Indeed, some papers of the caENTI workshops linked to the project progress were more technical and other ones are updated in the caENTI deliverables we publish in parallel to these proceedings. Besides, they are available on the territorial intelligence portal. We do not publish the demonstrations neither because they can be consulted on the Catalyse Community.

The selected papers we publish here are classified according to the order of the authors’ name. The programme, ordered by workshops, provides a link towards each of the caENTI contributions, published or not in these proceedings. The links lead to the papers and also to PowerPoint presentations in French or in Spanish when they are available.

Cite this caENTI deliverable

GIRARDOT J.-J. (Ed)., 2009. Acts of the Annual International Conference BESANÇON 2008, deliverable 16 of caENTI, project funded under FP6 research program of the European Union, 653 pages <URL: http://www.territorial-intelligence.eu/index.php/caenti/deliverable16>