SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter November 2016 (Volume 8, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition

For the first time, the ACM SIGSPATIAL 201 hosted the SIGSPATIAL ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) this year.

Volume 8, Number 3, November 2016

Foreword

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Message from the Editor
Chi-Yin Chow

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Section 1: Special Issue on ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition Report
Moustafa Youssef

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SRC: Accelerating the Calculation of Minimum Set of Viewpoints for Maximum 
Coverage over Digital Elevation Model Data by Hybrid Computer Architecture and Systems

Chenggang Lai, Miaoqing Huang, and Xuan Shi

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SRC: City-Scale Mapping of Pets Using Georeferenced Images
Aaron San Jose, Eduardo Hernandez, and Shawn Newsam

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SRC: Computational Steering for Geosimulations
Ashwin Shashidharan 

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SRC: Dynamic Indoor Navigation with Bayesian Filters 
Wenlu Wang and Wei-Shinn Ku

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Section 2: Event Reports
The 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL MobiGIS Workshop Report
Shashi Shekhar, Maria Luisa Damiani, Chi-Yin Chow, and Reza Nourjou 

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The 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL IWGS Workshop Report 
Chengyang Zhang, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, and Abdeltawab Hendawi 

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