SIGSPATIAL Special
The SIGSPATIAL Special is the newsletter of the ACM SIGSPATIAL. The newsletter serves the community by publishing short contributions such as SIGSPATIAL conferences’ highlights, calls, and announcements for conferences and journals that are of interest to the community, as well as short technical notes on current topics. The newsletter has three issues every year, i.e., March, July, and November. For more detailed information regarding the newsletter or suggestions please contact the editor via email at azufle@gmu.edu.
Issues
November 2020 (Volume 12, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020
July 2020 (Volume 12, Number 2): Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19 (Part 2)
March 2020 (Volume 12, Number 1): Modeling and Understanding the Spread of COVID-19 (Part 1)
November 2019 (Volume 11, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 Student Research Competition
July 2019 (Volume 11, Number 2): Visions and Challenges
March 2019 (Volume 11, Number 1): Spatial Query Processing and Traffic Simulation
November 2018 (Volume 10, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 Student Research Competition
July 2018 (Volume 10, Number 2): Urban Analytics and Mobility – Part 2
March 2018 (Volume 10, Number 1): Urban Analytics and Mobility – Part 1
November 2017 (Volume 9, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 Students Research Competition
July 2017 (Volume 9, Number 2): Indoor Spatial Awareness – Part 2
March 2017 (Volume 9, Number 1): Indoor Spatial Awareness – Part 1
November 2016 (Volume 8, Number 3): ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition
July 2016 (Volume 8, Number 2): Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty
March 2016 (Volume 8, Number 1): GIS in Public Health Research
November 2015 (Volume 7, Number 3): Mobile Data Analytics
July 2015 (Volume 7, Number 2): Geosensor Networks
Volume 7, Number 1, March 2015
Volume 6, Number 3, November 2014
Volume 6, Number 1, March 2014
Volume 5, Number 3, November 2013
Volume 5, Number 1, March 2013
Volume 4, Number 3, November 2012
Volume 4, Number 1, March 2012
Volume 3, Number 3, November 2011
Volume 3, Number 1, March 2011
Volume 2, Number 3, November 2010
Volume 2, Number 1, March 2010
Volume 1, Number 3, November 2009
Volume 1, Number 1, March 2009
Paper formatting and submission instructions
Please follow the formatting instructions below:
- Authors should use the special.11-inch latex document style provided by the SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter.
- Please download the latex template here which includes the special.sty latex document style file, a sample latex file (sample.tex), and a sample bib file (sigproc.bib).
- All papers should start with
\documentclass[11pt,letter]{article}and include at least the following packages
\usepackage{special,times,graphicx}Authors can include additional packages if necessary.
- All papers should have a title, author information, and abstract:
\title{...} \author{...} %Authors' names and affiliations \maketitle \begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract} - Authors should use “abbrv” as the bibliography and citation style:
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
Please follow the submission guidelines below:
- Please submit your report in PDF format
- Do not include page numbers
- Please check that all pages are in 8.5 x 11 inch US-Letter paper size, NOT in A4.
- Use Adobe Type 1 fonts. Avoid Type 3 fonts
- All fonts and images must be embedded within the submitted file.
- Do not down-sample images.
- PDF files must be Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3) compatible, have a 600 DPI resolution, optimized for fast web viewing
Should you have any question about paper format and submission, please do not hesitate to contact our Newsletter Editor Andreas Zufle through email at azufle@gmu.edu.