The Geographical Information Analytics (GIA) track is a technical track at the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing 2025, which is running in its 40th iteration in 2025. The symposium is held March 31 - April 4, 2025 in Sicily, Italy.
The proliferation of geo-referenced digital resources continues to accelerate, presenting new opportunities and challenges for researchers and professionals alike. To harness the potential of these resources, it is essential to annotate, index, and analyze them according to data models tailored to specific domains. Geographic data, characterized by spatial (location), temporal (date/time), and thematic (theme) dimensions, are increasingly crucial in various fields.
In recent years, significant advances have been made in the extraction, analysis, and retrieval of geographic information from diverse sources such as textual documents, images, satellite data and maps. Numerous engines and services have been developed to search for geographical information, often incorporating spatial, spatio-temporal, and thematic data.
The GIA track aims to unite a diverse community of professionals and researchers focused on geographic information extraction, retrieval, and analysis, alongside relevant applications. This track intersects several disciplines, including geomatics, knowledge engineering (KE), natural language processing (NLP), data mining (DM), information extraction (IE), and data visualization (Dataviz).
The submission deadline for the ACM SIGAPP GIA track is in line with the main conference track. All submissions are expected by October 13, 2024 September 20, 2024.