From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Aug 19 10:49:41 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:49:41 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] First ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition - Call for Submissions Message-ID: For the first time, the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 will host the SIGSPATIAL ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). SRC allows undergraduate and graduate students to share their research results and exchange ideas with other students, judges, and conference attendees; understand the practical applications of their research; perfect their communication skills; and receive prizes and gain recognition from ACM and the greater computing community. *Guidelines* The Student Research Competition is open to graduate (*only one author*) and undergraduate (*up to two authors per contribution*) student members whose submissions are accepted by the SRC committee. SRC submissions should describe recent research conducted primarily by students or a recent development that involves a substantial amount of work achieved primarily by students. To be considered, complete a submission of an extended abstract of a topic of interest to the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference (please check the main conference CFP for relevant topics ) and indicate the level of the participation (undergraduate or graduate). Valid ACM student membership and student status enrolment as of the submission deadline are required for the lead student. *Selection Process* Submission will be judged based on novelty, impact, approach, results, and contributions to the field of spatial systems and algorithms. Selected competitors must attend the SRC session during the conference and should prepare a poster for demonstrating their work during the conference. If selected for further competition at the next level, they should be prepared to give a short talk of 10 minutes about their research projects in front of the judging committee and conference attendees. Winners of the SIGSPTIAL 2016 SRC will be announced at the conference. *Awards* Selected competitors by the SRC committee will receive up to $500 USD for their conference travel, depending on need. Winners from each category will advance to the SRC Grand Finals, where winners from various ACM SIGs are evaluated to nominate the ACM-wide SRC winners. The winners of the Grand Finals will be recognized at the Annual ACM Awards Banquet, the same banquet that also recognizes the Turing Award winners. *Sponsors* The SRC competition is fully sponsored by a generous donation from Microsoft Research. Submission Instructions Each submission should include the author(s)' name(s), affiliations, email addresses, research advisors' names, ACM student member number, SRC category (undergraduate or graduate), and an extended abstract of no more than two pages in the conference template. The SRC submission should not have been published before or under concurrent submission to another venue/SIGSPATIAL track. Please submit your papers through the EasyChair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmsigspatial16src *Important Dates* *Submission Deadline:* August 25, 2016. September 2nd, 2016. *Notification of Acceptance:* September 20, 2016 September 27th, 2016. Contact For more information about the SRC competition, please contact the SRC Chair Moustafa Youssef at moustafa.youssef at ejust.edu.eg -- Ahmed M. Aly -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Fri Aug 19 10:53:24 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:53:24 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS) Message-ID: ---------------------------- Call for Papers ---------------------------- 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS) October 31st, 2016, San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA (Workshop Website: https://udi.ornl.gov/iwcts2016) ========================================== Important Dates and Deadlines ========================================== Paper submission due: September 2th, 2016 (CDT) Notification to the authors: September 23rd, 2016 Camera ready papers due: October 3rd, 2016 IWCTS Workshop: October 31st, 2016 (collocated with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016) ===================== About the Workshop ===================== The 9th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS 2016) is particularly timely given the prominence of connected automated vehicles technologies in the global auto industry?s near-term growth strategies, of big data analytics and unprecedented access to sensing data of mobility, and of integration of this analytics into the optimization of mobility and transport. These developments are deeply computational. We will build upon the success of previous workshops to continue to focus on computation, knowledge discovery, and technology aspects of transportation systems while welcoming research papers in computer science, transportation science, urban and regional planning, the automotive arena, civil engineering, robotics, geography, geo-informatics, and other related disciplines. ============ Background ============ In the near future, vehicles, travelers, and the infrastructure will collectively have billions of sensors that can communicate with each other. Transportation systems, due to their distributed/mobile nature, can become the ultimate test-bed for a ubiquitous (i.e., embedded, highly-distributed, and sensor-laden) computing environment of unprecedented scale. This environment will enable numerous novel applications and order of magnitude improvement of the performance of existing applications. Information technology is the foundation for implementing new strategies, particularly if they are to be made available in real-time to wireless devices in vehicles or in the hands of people. Contributing are increasingly more sophisticated geospatial and spatio-temporal information management capabilities. Human factors, technology adoption and use, user feedback and incentives for collaborative behavior are areas of technology policy central to the success of this ubiquitous computing environment. ====================== Scope of Submissions ====================== The International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science invites submissions of original, previously unpublished papers contributing to Computational Transportation Science. Position papers that report novel research directions or identify challenging problems are also invited. Papers incorporating one or more of the following themes are especially encouraged: ? Collaborative transport, including collaborative multi-modal transport ? Computational and artificial intelligence aspects of assisted driving, collaborative transport or multi-modal transport ? Crowd sourcing and participatory sensing in transport ? Cameras as sensors for trajectory acquisition and event recognition ? Computer Vision-based information extraction from image sequences ? Context aware analysis of movement data ? New processing frameworks for handling masses of transport data (e.g. Hadoop) ? Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted travelling ? Mechanism design for collaborative behavior ? Data mining and statistical learning for travel information ? Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications ? Privacy, security, and trust in transportation information ? Novel applications targeted to health, mobility, livability and sustainability =============================== Submission Format and Guidelines =============================== Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must be in English and not exceed 6-pages double column in ACM SIG format (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. Position papers are limited 4 pages in this format, and should be marked ?(Position paper)? in the subtitle. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library under the condition that at least one author has registered for both the main SIGSPATIAL conference and the workshop, attends the workshop, and presents the accepted paper in the workshop. Otherwise, the accepted paper will not appear in the workshop proceedings or in the ACM Digital Library version of the workshop proceedings. =================== General Chairs =================== Gautam S. Thakur, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA (thakurg at ornl.gov) Nicole Ronald, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ( nronald at swin.edu.au) Stephan Winter, The University of Melbourne, Australia ( winter at unimelb.edu.au) -- Ahmed M. Aly -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsanz at osgeo.org Sat Aug 27 11:22:00 2016 From: jsanz at osgeo.org (Jorge Sanz) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:22:00 +0200 Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Mr. Jeff McKenna Receives Sol Katz Award Message-ID: Mr. Jeff McKenna was honored today with the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the FOSS4G-2016 conference in Bonn, Germany. The award was announced by Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan, President, OSGeo Foundation. The award is presented in recognition of Jeff's deep passion for FOSS4G and relentless effort to promote OSGeo Foundation around the world. He has been involved in OSGeo since the foundation was formed in 2006. The OSGeo Foundation wishes to thank Mr. Jeff McKenna for his dedication and invaluable contributions towards furthering the goals and objectives of the OSGeo Foundation. Background The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software is awarded annually by OSGeo to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals in the geospatial realm. The hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come. Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities. In the early 80's, Sol assisted in the development of a public domain GIS package called MOSS (Map Overlay and Statistical System). This software was arguably the first open source GIS software in the world. Sol would later go on to release and maintain PC MOSS. He was also one of the first involved in public data translator utilities. Utilities that he developed for converting DEMs and reading SDTS files were contributed back to the geospatial community, and are still available today. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large. Sol Katz's collection of GIS utilities at the BLM is still available at ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis/. Sadly, after fighting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma for almost a decade, Sol died April 23, 1999 in bed. His legacy will always live on in the GFOSS world.