Conference report: The 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019)

Abstract

This report describes the development and finalization of the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019), held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 5-8, 2019. The attendance for the 2019 conference was 397, the second highest in the history of ACM SIGSPATIAL. Historically, what is now the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference started as a series of workshops and symposia in 1993. Its aim was to promote the interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, developers, users, and practitioners and fostering research in all aspects of Geographic Information Systems --- hence the original workshop acronym ACM GIS. The focus was on novel systems based on geospatial data and knowledge. It continued its mission of providing a forum for original research results, addressing conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of geospatial data ranging from applications, user interfaces and visualization, to data storage, query processing, indexing and data mining. The conference is now the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL).