FOSS4GNA 2018 (Academic Track): Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2018 (Academic Track) St. Louise, MO, United States, May 14-16, 2018 |
Conference website | https://2018.foss4g-na.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foss4gna2018 |
Submission deadline | February 8, 2018 |
FOSS4G-North America (FOSS4G-NA) organizes an academic track that will run with the regular FOSS4G-NA tracks. FOSS4G-NA invites original research contributions on all aspects of open-source or open standard-based geospatial software and its application. Submissions focusing on emerging geospatial research topics, such as big data, linked data, UAVs, the Internet of Things, and solving real-world problems are particularly encouraged. All types of papers are welcome, such as on results achieved, case studies, work in progress, and demos.
Submission Guidelines
Authors can submit contributions by choosing one of the following options:
Submissions must be written in English and follow to the template available in ODT and DOC format. The papers must be submitted in the same ODT or DOC format (no PDF) to allow the proper formatting of the volume. |
Program Committee will select papers based on their merits in scientific novelty, relation to the state of the art, presentation of the paper and overall quality. Authors will receive feedback and suggestions for improvement to their paper before submission of the final camera ready version of the paper.
The important dates for all these events are indicated below. Please follow @foss4gna to get the latest news.
- February 8, 2018: Paper submission deadline
- February 22, 2018: Review result announced
- February 28, 2018: Program announced
Special Journal Issue of FOSS4G NA
FOSS4G NA plans to publish a speical issue journal (to be announced soon) after the conference. Selected papers will be invited to extend the paper and submit to the special issue. Feedbacks from the FOSS4G NA will be helpful for authors to improve and extend the research for the special issue of the journal.
Program Committee for the Academic Track
- Maria Antonia Brovelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Steve Liang, University of Calgary, Canada
- Marguerite Madden, University of Georgia, USA
- Mir-Abolfazl Mostafavi, Laval University, Canada
- Sara Saeedi, University of Calgary, Canada
- Kyoung-Sook Kim, AIST, Japan
Venue
- The conference will be held in St. Louis, MO.
Contact
- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the secretary of the FOSS4G NA Acamedic Track - kan dot luo at ucalgary dot ca.