Call for Papers: ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoHealth 2025

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Computing for Public Health (GeoHealth'25) focuses on research that addresses spatial aspects of health behaviors, outcomes, exposures, systems, and interventions, using techniques from spatial databases, geoinformatics, spatial data mining, machine learning, and modeling. Combined with emerging sources of public health data—from wearable devices and social media to climate sensors and administrative records—this expertise positions the community to make significant contributions to the evolving field of geospatial health informatics.

The workshop seeks high-quality full (8-10 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) papers that will be peer-reviewed. Once accepted, at least one author is required to register for the workshop and the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted work which will then appear in the ACM Digital Library.

GeoHealth 2025 solicits novel and previously unpublished research on all topics related to geospatial health including, but not limited to:

• Geospatial Analytics for Infectious Disease Surveillance
• Environmental Exposure Mapping (e.g., air quality, water, toxins)
• Modeling Health Impacts of Climate Change
• GIS for Health Equity and Access
• Spatial Decision Support Systems for Health Resource Allocation
• Urban Health and Built Environment Analysis
• Chronic Disease Mapping and Risk Factor Modeling
• Human Mobility and Public Health Interventions
• Integration of Remote Sensing and Health Data
• Real-time Outbreak Detection and Monitoring
• Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) in Health
• Privacy-aware Health Data Integration
• Social Determinants of Health and Spatial Inequality
• Data Fusion from Wearables, EHRs, and Census Data
• Health Communication via Spatial Dashboards and Visualizations
• Spatial Epidemiology and Spatiotemporal Modeling

Important Date

Submission deadline

August 22, 2025

Notification

September 26, 2025

Workshop date

November 3, 2025

Submission site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geohealth25

Workshop website

https://onspatial.github.io/geo-health-2025/

Paper Format

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. For latex users, please make sure that you choose sigconf type (e.g., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}) in your latex file. Submissions to GeoHealth are single-blind – i.e., the names and affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version.

Contact

Please contact me or geohealth25@easychair.org if you have questions about GeoHealth 2025.

Call for Papers: ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoSim 2025

The 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim 2025) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily coming from the SIGSPATIAL community, are encouraged to participate. Also, this workshop is of interest to everyone who works with spatial data. The simulation methods that will be presented and discussed in the workshop should find a wide application across the community by producing benchmark datasets that can be parameterized and scaled. Simulated data sets will be made available to the community via the website.

The workshop seeks high-quality full (8-10 pages) and short (up to 4 pages) papers that will be peer-reviewed. Once accepted, at least one author is required to register for the workshop and the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference, as well as attend the workshop to present the accepted work which will then appear in the ACM Digital Library.

GeoSim 2025 solicits novel and previously unpublished research on all topics related to geospatial simulation including, but not limited to:

• Applications for Spatial Simulation
• Agent Based Models for Spatial Simulation
• Multi-Agent Based Spatial Simulation
• Big Spatial Data Simulation
• Disease Spread Simulation
• Spatial Data/Trajectory Generators
• Road Traffic Simulation
• Environmental Simulation
• GIS using Spatial Simulation
• Interactive Spatial Simulation
• Spatial Simulation Parallelization and Distribution
• Geo-Social Simulation and Data Generators
• Social Unrest and Riot Prediction using Simulation
• Spatial Analysis based on Simulation
• Behavioral Simulation
• Verifying and Validating Spatial Simulations
• Urban Simulation
• Digital Twin Simulation
• Synthetic Population Simulation

Important Date

Submission deadline

August 15, 2025

Notification

September 15, 2025

Workshop date

November 3, 2025

Submission site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geosim2025

Workshop website

https://geosim.org/

Paper Format

Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. For latex users, please make sure that you choose sigconf type (e.g., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}) in your latex file. Submissions to GeoSim are single-blind – i.e., the names and affiliations of the authors should be listed in the submitted version.

Contact

Please contact me or geosim2025@easychair.org if you have questions about GeoSim 2025.

Call For Papers: ACM TSAS Special Issue on Geosimulation (Deadline Extended)

Call For Papers

ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS)

Special Issue on Geosimulation

Guest Editors

• Joon-Seok Kim, Emory University
• Andreas Züfle, Emory University
• Yao-Yi Chiang, University of Minnesota

Simulating past, present, and future events and phenomena in geospatial worlds empowers us to understand the fundamental composition and evolution of complex systems, forecast the course of complex dynamics, and prepare for numerous scenarios. Across the globe, researchers seek to model and simulate complex systems and phenomena such as cities, economies, civilizations, the spread of epidemics, transportation, urbanization, and migration to address global challenges, including the climate crisis, pandemics, international conflicts, deforestation, and sustainability.

Spatial algorithms and systems play a pivotal role in geosimulation, leveraging the community’s expertise in managing, modeling, querying, and mining spatial and spatiotemporal data. To date, the spatial algorithms and systems community has made a wide range of contributions to geosimulation, including acquiring and making available datasets to understand human mobility; improving our understanding of the spread of epidemics through geosimulation; enhancing land cover change prediction through simulation; and improving our understanding of human behavior through geosimulation. However, a wide range of questions and challenges remain unanswered, including gaining a deeper understanding of the relationship between human mobility and the spread of infectious diseases, improving spread prediction, and testing and implementing mitigative measures.

This special issue intends to bring together transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners from multiple areas, including Spatial Data Scientists (e.g., geographic information systems, databases, storage, big data, data mining, machine learning, security/privacy), Mathematicians, Epidemiologists, Computational Social Scientists, Psychologists, and Emergency Response and Public Safety experts, among others.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Geosimulation Models and Applications
• Open Source General-Purpose Geosimulation Framework
• Simulated Geospatial Data Generation Framework
• Generative AI for Geosimulation
• Simulation for Geospatial Foundation Models
• AI and Geosimulation
• Spatial Data Science and Geosimulation
• Large-Scale Geosimulation
• Geosimulation and Intervention
• Geosimulation for Epidemiology
• Validation and Verification for Geosimulation
• Visual Analytics for Geosimulation
• Digital Twin Geosimulation

Manuscripts will be reviewed as they are received, but no later than the date shown below.

Important Dates

• Deadline for submissions of full-length papers: October 31, 2025
• First-round review decisions: December 15, 2025
• Deadline for revision submissions: February 1, 2026
• Notification of final decisions: March 15, 2026
• Tentative publication: May 2026

Submission Information

The journal welcomes articles on any of the above topics or closely related disciplines in the context of geosimulation. TSAS will encourage original submissions that have not been published or submitted in any form elsewhere, as well as submissions that may significantly contribute to opening up new and potentially important areas of research and development. TSAS will also publish outstanding papers that are "major value-added extensions" of papers previously published at conferences. Such extensions should contribute at least 30% new original work. In this case, authors will need to identify the list of extensions over their previously published paper in a separate document. For more information, please visit https://tsas.acm.org/authors.cfm or contact the special-issue guest-editors at tsas-geosimulation@acm.org.

Authors of papers accepted in this special issue by the end of September 2025 that are not an extension of a previous conference paper, will be offered to present their paper at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025. This will be an oral presentation (not a poster).