ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Conference: Student Activities and U.S.-Based Students Support

该基金部分支持2015年11月3日至6日在美国华盛顿州西雅图举行的第23届ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015会议的学生活动（http://sigspatial2015.sigspatial.org）。ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS会议始于1993年，已成为世界上促进空间数据和分析以及地理信息系统（GIS）领域研究的首要会议。会议提供了一个论坛，原创性的研究贡献涵盖了地理信息系统的各个方面。过去，ACM sigspace的参与者总数超过300人，其中大多数来自美国，其次是欧洲和亚洲。这项支持将使25 - 30名在美国的研究生和本科生参加第23届ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015会议，并促进年轻人的智力刺激，在具有重大技术和社会影响的领域从事先进的研究和开发活动。具体的学生活动包括空间数据竞赛“2015 ACM SIGSPATAL杯”，博士研讨会以及每个博士生的审查和指导委员会，学生工作和指导的演讲和讨论。ACM SIGSPATIAL杯的获奖者被邀请在主要会议论文集中发表他们的作品。博士研讨会的学生论文将在单独的博士研讨会论文集中发表。此外，学生们还可以参加以地理空间系统和应用领域最新成果为特色的会议，并有可能为研究合作和研究指导建立联系。在ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS中，美国学生的强大代表有助于保持美国在重要研究领域的竞争力，这些领域对美国的基础设施和应用至关重要，这些基础设施和应用严重依赖地理参考信息。空间和地理信息的应用有助于广泛的社会背景：通过先进的交通应用改善普通公民的生活，通过使用地理空间知识更好地收集情报来增加国家的安全，以及开发对全球环境产生积极影响的应用。教育和培训下一代空间和地理信息系统领域的科学家、工程师和从业人员将产生重大影响，并将增强美国在这一重要领域的竞争优势。ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015会议汇集了对空间信息处理和空间知识提取问题解决方案的研究、开发和部署感兴趣的研究人员、学生和专业人士，包括从应用程序、用户界面、可视化到存储管理和索引问题的概念、设计和实现问题。空间数据和应用在广泛的子领域提出了新的研究挑战，其中包括（但不限于），空间信息获取，建模，数据结构和算法，分析，查询和集成，人机交互和可视化，以及系统和架构。从这些分领域产生了深入的研究问题，这些问题受到广泛应用（例如，紧急情况和危机管理、环境监测、全球定位和位置探测、地球科学、基于位置和移动服务、导航和路线规划）的推动。会议促进了地理信息系统各个方面的跨学科讨论和研究。会议旨在不断推进空间数据管理和空间数据分析方面的最新技术，并扩大其影响。

This grant partially supports student activities at the 23th ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Conference, held in Seattle, WA, USA, November 3-6, 2015 (http://sigspatial2015.sigspatial.org). The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference was originated in 1993 and has established itself as the world's premier conference to foster research in the areas of Spatial Data and Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all aspects of GIS. The total number of ACM SIGSPATIAL participants in the past has been in excess of 300 participants, with a majority of the participants from the U.S., followed by Europe and Asia. The support will enable participation of 25 - 30 U.S.-based graduate and undergraduate students in the 23th ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Conference and foster intellectual stimulation of young minds to pursue advanced research and development activities in an area with significant technical and societal impact. Specific student activities include spatial data competition "2015 ACM SIGSPATAL Cup", Ph.D. Symposium along with a review and mentoring committee for each Ph.D. student, presentation and discussion of students' work and mentoring. The ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup winners are invited to publish their work in the main conference proceedings. The Ph.D. Symposium student papers will be published in separate Ph.D. Symposium proceedings. In addition, the students greatly benefit from attending conference sessions featuring current state-of-the-art results in the area of geospatial systems and applications, and potentially making connections for research collaborations and research mentoring. A strong representation of U.S.-based students at ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS is useful in maintaining U.S. competitiveness in the important research areas crucial for U.S. infrastructures and applications that critically depend on geo-referenced information. Applications of spatial and geographical information contribute to a wide-array of societal contexts: improving the lives of ordinary citizens through advanced transportation applications, increasing the security of the nation through better intelligence gathering using geospatial knowledge, and developing applications that will have a positive impact on the global environment. Educating and training the next generation of scientists, engineers, and practitioners in the area of spatial and geographical information systems will have a significant impact and will enhance the continuation of the competitive edge of the United States in this important area. ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015 Conference brings together researchers, students, and professionals interested in research, development, and deployment of solutions to spatial information handling and spatial knowledge extraction problems, including conceptual, design, and implementation issues ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to storage management and indexing issues. Spatial data and applications pose novel research challenges in a wide variety of sub-areas, which include (but are not limited to), spatial information acquisition, modeling, data structures and algorithms, analysis, querying and integration, human-computer interaction and visualization, and systems and architectures. From these sub-areas deep research questions emerge that are motivated by a broad range of applications (e.g., emergency and crisis management, environmental monitoring, global positioning and location detection, geosciences, location-based and mobile services, navigation and route planning). The meeting is fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of GIS. The conference seeks to continuously advance the state of-the-art in spatial data management and spatial data analysis and broaden its impact.