33rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025: Industrial Track

November 3 - 6, 2025, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Overview:

The inaugural Industrial Track at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025 provides a platform to showcase cutting-edge industrial advancements and foster collaboration between industry and the SIGSPATIAL community. This track invites submissions highlighting innovative real-world solutions, case studies, open challenges, applications, and systems in spatial and spatiotemporal data, geoinformatics, and related domains, developed or deployed in an industrial setting. Emphasizing applied research, novel system architectures, operational experiences, and emerging trends, the Industrial Track aims to bridge academia and industry by addressing practical challenges and sharing insights that shape the geospatial field.

In evaluating submissions for the Industrial Track, our focus will be on the practical relevance and applicability of the work within real-world industrial contexts, rather than solely on novel research contributions. We seek papers that demonstrate innovative solutions to address tangible industry challenges, offering insights into the practical considerations, and lessons learned during implementation. We also encourage papers that focus on discussing open challenges to inspire further innovation and collaboration within the community. Our review process will prioritize the significance of the industrial problem addressed, the effectiveness of the solution, and the clarity in communicating experiences that can benefit the wider community.

We encourage participation from professionals across various industries, including technology, urban planning, transportation, environmental monitoring, logistics, and beyond. By bridging the gap between research and application, the Industrial Track serves as a cornerstone for fostering innovation and collaboration within the SIGSPATIAL community.

Topics of Interest:

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

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 Guidelines:

General information - Industry 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. Industry track papers should contain their type as a suffix in the title: [Industry]. 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. Each submission in this Industrial track must include at least one author with a non-academic affiliation.

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.

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

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

Industrial Co-Chairs Contact Information:

• Heba Aly, Amazon, USA
• Mike Evans, Microsoft, USA
• Dev Oliver, ESRI, USA