ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025 – CALL FOR Applications Papers

Overview:

We are excited to introduce the inaugural Applications Track at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025 whose goal is to showcase cutting-edge applications of spatial computing to real-world problems, particularly in scientific domains. It is a forum to foster collaboration between the core SIGSPATIAL community and research practitioners in application domains. This track invites submissions highlighting how spatial computing and related fundamental research (see list in Research Track call for papers) is being deployed across Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences.

The emphasis is on submissions that either solve or advance the best practices related to deploying spatial computing technologies and algorithms in the real-world. Thus, in evaluating submissions for the Applications Track, our focus will be on the contributions, advancements, and importance in the context of the application, rather than on novel core SIGSPATIAL research. We anticipate this track will be a home for works that might not be favorably reviewed in the Research Track since they do not make fundamental SIGSPATIAL research contributions but are nonetheless of great interest to the SIGSPATIAL community since they highlight how spatial computing is advancing application domains. It is hoped that these papers will inform the SIGSPATIAL community of interesting applications, share best practices, report on performance metrics, and spur further interdisciplinary collaborations.

Authors will decide whether their paper is appropriate for the Applications Track or one of the other tracks at the conference. This will be based on whether the authors believe their paper’s primary contribution is to a core SIGSPATIAL research topic or to the Application Track set of topics.

Papers in the Applications Track will often have authors from the application domain. However this is not a requirement. It is also not a requirement that any of the authors are from computer science.

We invite submissions from a wide variety of application domains in Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences. These include but are not limited to: agriculture, astronomy, ecology, geography, environmental studies, urban planning, transportation, polar science, maritime studies, archeology, public health, etc.

Submission Guidelines:

General information - Applications track papers may vary in length from 5 to 10 pages, excluding references. We understand some topics may require more or less explanation, and are open to submissions of varying length.

Paper titles. Applications track papers should contain their type as a suffix in the title: [Applications]. If the paper is accepted, the suffix will not be part of the camera-ready copy.

Authors. SIGSPATIAL 2025 is a single-blind conference, therefore the names and affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version. The author list is considered to be final after the submission deadline and no changes, including the author order, to the author list are allowed for accepted papers.

Important Dates:

  • Abstract Submission: Friday, May 23rd, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
  • Paper Submission: Friday, May 30th, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
  • Notification of Accept/Reject: Thursday, July 31st, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
  • Camera-ready: Thursday, August 21st, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time

Formatting and Camera-Ready

Templates and submission. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. SIGSPATIAL uses the Conference Proceedings Primary Article template with two-column format. Alterations to the template, especially to gain more space, will be grounds for desk-rejection without further technical review.

All papers should be submitted through EasyChair using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmsigspatial2025ind

Camera-ready information. Papers accepted for SIGSPATIAL 2025 will be published in the Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. After the successful acceptance of a paper, we send an email to the contact author(s) with detailed instructions on how to prepare and submit the camera-ready copy of the accepted paper.

Registration and Presentation. Each accepted must have a separate paid author registration (i.e., an author cannot pay a single registration for more than one paper), and one author must attend the conference in person to present the accepted submission. Otherwise, the accepted submission will not appear in the conference proceedings or the ACM Digital Library version of the conference proceedings.

Conflict, authorship and content

ACM Policy on Authorship. Authors should review and follow the ACM Policy on Authorship which includes guidelines on the use of generative AI software tools for manuscript writing. In particular, the authors are responsible for all the submitted manuscripts and they should disclose the use of AI software tools in the paper.

ACM Policy on Conflict of Interest. As part of the submission, you will be asked to mark your conflict-of-interest with the Program Committee members. Authors should review the Conflict of Interest Policy for ACM Publications to decide if there is a conflict of interest. In summary, the following is a non-comprehensive list of examples of COI:

  • All PhD advisors/advisees regardless of the graduation date.
  • All current co-workers or a co-worker in the past 24 months. A co-worker is a person working at the same institution as one of the authors whether or not they actively collaborate.1
  • Any co-author of a research paper in the last 24 months regardless of whether the paper was peer-reviewed or not, e.g., white papers or arXiv papers also count.2
  • A research collaborator in the past 24 months whether or not this collaboration resulted in a publication.
  • Close friends or relatives.

When in doubt, please reach out to the Program Committee Chairs or mark the potential conflicts on the submission website and add a note on why you think they could be marked as such. The Program Committee Chairs will review them and decide how to use that information. PC Chairs reserve the right to desk-reject a paper without review if COIs are not marked appropriately.

1 Short-terms affiliations such as a summer internship does not result in an institutional COI with all co-workers. However, the mentor and other collaborators are still marked.

2 Community papers that have a large number of authors and do not stem from a specific research project do not constitute a COI, e.g. the reports titled "Towards Mobility Data Science" and "Diversity and Inclusion Activities in Database Conferences: A 2021 Report" do not by themselves result in a COI.

Note on EasyChair: EasyChair does not have a mechanism to mark that there are no COI on a paper. If you confirm that there are no conflicts, then you do not need to submit the COI form.

ACM Policy on inappropriate content. ACM Publications cannot be used to propagate political or religious views or denigrate individuals or groups of people. See https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/inappropriate-content-policy

Applications Co-Chairs Contact Information

Song Gao, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.
Dalton Lunga, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
Shawn Newam, University of California,Merced, USA.