ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025: Call for Research Track Papers

The 33rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025) will be held in Minneapolis, MN, USA, in November 2025.

Overview

The conference aims to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners in relation to novel systems based on geospatial data and knowledge, fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geospatial information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of geospatial data.

Research Track Contributions

There are two types of papers in the research track:

1. Regular Research Papers
   • Papers about theory, models, and algorithms.
   • Papers about systems.
2. Experiment, Benchmark & Experience Papers
   • Papers about experiments.
   • Papers about benchmarks.
   • Papers about experiences.

Paper Titles

Experiment, Benchmark & Experience papers should contain their type as a suffix in the title. The suffix is [Experiment]. For example: 'Evaluating spatial navigation systems on Mars [Experiment]'. This suffix will not be part of the camera-ready copy if the paper is accepted.

Topics of Interest

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Spatial AI
  • Generative AI for spatial reasoning and simulation
  • Spatial foundation models
  • Causal reasoning in space and time
  • Spatial machine learning and explainability
  • Privacy and ethics
  • Spatial reasoning in robotics
• Big spatial data
  • Spatial and spatio-temporal analysis
  • Query processing and optimization
  • Spatial data mining, pattern analysis and knowledge discovery
  • Spatio-temporal data management
  • Spatial decision support
  • Spatial data quality and uncertainty
  • Geo-entity linkage, geo-enrichment
  • Distributed and parallel algorithms
  • Geospatial architectures and middleware
  • GPU and novel hardware solutions
• Pervasive computing and internet of spatial things
  • Localization and tracking indoors/outdoors
  • Contact tracing
  • Location-based services
  • Spatio-temporal sensor networks
  • Traffic telematics
  • Mobile systems and vehicular ad hoc networks
• Spatial data acquisition, integration, processing
  • Standardization and interoperability
  • Earth observation and satellite data processing
  • Computational geometry and computer graphics
  • Image and video understanding
  • Spatial, geo-social and trajectory Simulation
  • Spatio-temporal stream processing
• Spatial search
  • Geographic information retrieval
  • Human computer interaction and visualization
  • Similarity searching
  • Spatial data structures and algorithms
  • Spatial modeling and reasoning
  • Spatio-textual searching
• Spatial intelligence at work
  • Intelligent transportation and sustainable mobility
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Spatial knowledge graphs
  • Epidemiology and health
  • Cyber and physical security
  • Smart cities and spaces
  • Geospatial computer vision applications
  • Location business intelligence
  • Personalized geospatial recommendation systems

Submission

• Regular Research Papers: up to 10 pages excluding references
• Experiment, Benchmark & Experience Papers: up to 10 pages excluding references

As for Regular Research Papers and Experiment, Benchmark & Experience papers: papers are limited to 10 pages (excluding references), with up to 2 additional pages after the references to be used for appendices. Submissions that do not follow the page limit requirements will be desk-rejected without technical reviews.

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.

Conflict of Interest

Authors should review the Conflict of Interest Policy for ACM Publications to decide if there is a conflict of interest.

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.

ACM Policy on inappropriate content

See ACM Policy on inappropriate content

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission: May 30th, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
• Paper Submission: June 06th, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
• Notification of Accept/Reject: July 31st, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time
• Camera-ready: August 21st, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time

Formatting 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.

Submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigspatial2025

Registration and Presentation

Each accepted must have a separate paid author registration, 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.

PC-Chairs Contact Information

• Yao-Yi Chiang, University of Minnesota, USA.
• Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy.
• Moustafa Youssef, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.