33rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025
November 3 - 6, 2025, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Call for Demonstration Papers
Important Dates
- Demo 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 Submission: Thursday, August 21st, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
Overview
The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2025 (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025) invites submissions for the Demo Track. This track provides an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and developers to showcase working prototypes, novel systems, and real-world applications related to geospatial information systems and technologies. Demos allow attendees to experience interactive and innovative spatial computing solutions firsthand.
Demonstrations should highlight research contributions through practical implementation and should be engaging, interactive, and appealing to a broad audience. We especially encourage demonstrations that showcase novel applications of spatial AI, geospatial analytics, visualization, real-time data processing, and innovative geospatial solutions.
Why Submit a Demo?
- Gain valuable feedback from experts in geospatial AI, GIS, and spatial computing.
- Network with researchers, industry leaders, and potential collaborators.
- Increase visibility for your work through interactive exposure.
- Compete for Best Demo Awards, recognizing the most innovative and impactful contributions!
Categories of Demo Papers
We encourage submissions in a diverse range of categories, including but not limit to:
- Research Prototypes: Early-stage systems demonstrating novel geospatial computing techniques.
- Industry Applications: Practical solutions developed for commercial or governmental use.
- Educational Tools: Interactive platforms for geospatial education and training.
- Benchmarking and Performance Analysis: Systems that evaluate and compare spatial computing techniques.
- Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing: Applications leveraging public participation for geospatial data collection.
- Visualization and User Experience: Demonstrations focused on geospatial UI/UX innovations.
Topics of Interest
We welcome demo submissions from all areas of geospatial computing and applications, including but not limited to:
- Spatial AI, Machine Learning, and Data Mining
- Data mining and machine learning with geospatial, spatiotemporal, temporal, graph, time series data
- Deep representation, sequential, graph learning with geospatial data and applications
- Geospatial foundation models
- Large language models and agentic AI for geospatial data
- Generative AI for geospatial data and applications
- Reinforcement learning for geospatial applications
- Geospatial simulation and decision science
- Real-time spatial analysis and decision-making
- Self-supervised and few-shot learning for spatial data
- Spatiotemporal graph neural networks
- Explainable AI (XAI) for geospatial applications
- Federated learning for distributed spatial datasets
- Uncertainty quantification in geospatial machine learning
- Geospatial knowledge graph construction and reasoning
- Multi-modal geospatial AI
- Anomaly detection and predictive modeling for geospatial events
- Causal learning, root cause localization and mitigation for geospatial data
- Recommender systems in geospatial contexts
- Big Geospatial Data Management, Databases, Data Systems
- Large-scale geospatial data processing and visualization
- Spatial query processing and optimization
- Benchmarking and performance evaluation of spatial computing
- Distributed and parallel processing for geospatial data
- Indexing and storage techniques for big geospatial databases
- Cloud-based geospatial computing and services
- Data fusion and integration of heterogeneous geospatial sources
- Privacy-preserving geospatial data management
- Spatiotemporal data compression and retrieval
- Geospatial data preprocessing, transformation, and augmentation
- Geospatial Internet of Things (IoT)
- Real-time location-based services
- Spatial crowdsourcing applications
- Geospatial sensor networks and edge computing
- IoT-based geospatial analytics
- Cybersecurity and privacy in geospatial IoT systems
- Autonomous sensor deployment and management
- Wearable geospatial technologies and applications
- Energy-efficient geospatial IoT solutions
- Geospatial IoT applications
- Geospatial Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization
- Spatial augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)
- Interactive maps and geospatial storytelling
- User interfaces for geospatial applications
- Geospatial visualization techniques for large-scale data
- Multimodal interaction with geospatial systems
- Voice and gesture-based geospatial interfaces
- Adaptive and personalized geospatial visualization
- Geospatial modeling and immersive analytics
- Crowdsourced and participatory mapping platforms
- Usability studies and accessibility in geospatial applications
- Geospatial Applications in Science and Society
- Smart cities and urban computing
- Environmental monitoring, disaster response, and community resilience
- Spatial epidemiology and public health
- Human mobility, autonomous navigation, and transportation systems
- Intelligent critical infrastructures, such as, power grids, water networks, supply chains
- Climate change impact analysis and sustainability modeling
- Geospatial cybersecurity and risk assessment
- Precision agriculture and smart farming
- Biodiversity conservation and ecological monitoring
- Crisis management and humanitarian logistics
- Historical and archaeological geospatial analysis
- Remote sensing and satellite imagery
Submission Guidelines
Page limits: Up to 4 pages (including references).
Paper titles: Demo track papers should contain their type as a suffix in the title: [Demo]. 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.
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/conferences?conf=acmsigspatial2025dem.
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 paper 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. In particular, a demo presentation must be an interactive demonstration of an actually running system and cannot be replaced with a poster or slides.
Contact Information
For any questions regarding demo submissions, please contact the Demo Track Chairs:
- Yanjie Fu, Arizona State University, USA
- Chiara Renso, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
- Martin Werner, Technical University of Munich, Germany
We look forward to seeing your innovative geospatial demonstrations at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025!
