18th ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on
Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010)

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission
• June 24, 2010, 11:59 PM EST [Extended]
• Full Paper Submission
• July 3, 2010, 11:59 PM EST [New Extended]
• Notification of Acceptance
• Sept. 2, 2010
• Camera-Ready Copy
• Sept. 9, 2010
• Conference Date
• Nov. 2-5, 2010

Chairs

• General Chairs
• Divyakant Agrawal
• UC Santa Barbara
• Pusheng Zhang
• Microsoft, USA
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• Program Committee Chairs
• Amr El Abbadi
• UC Santa Barbara
• Mohamed Mokbel
• University of Minnesota
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• Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
• Shawn Newsam
• UC Merced
• John Krumm
• Microsoft, USA
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Workshops

Corporate Sponsors

• These instructions cover full research and industry papers, poster papers, PhD showcases, and demonstrations.
  
  
• The following page limits apply:
  
  Full research and industry papers: 10 pages
  Poster papers: 4 pages
  Demonstration papers: 2 pages
  
  
• To include your paper for publication, all of the following requirements must be met
  - Paper prepared in ACM format (see below)
  
  - Copyright form submitted electronically (see below)
  
  - Paper submitted in PDF format
  
  - Paper submitted in US-Letter size (8.5x11 inches)
  
  - No page numbers (they will be added automatically)
  
  - At least one author must register for the conference. This author must register before Sept 23, 2010
  
  
  
• To ensure adherence to ACM's format requirements, please use one of the templates available at:
  http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
  
  Note that the page must be lettersize (8.5 x 11 inches). The copyright block must be included on the first page of all publications. See instructions below for the correct copyright block format for ACM-GIS 2010. Also, please pay special attention to margins and the requirements for specifying categories and subject descriptors, general terms, and keywords. More information on categories, etc. can be found at http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998



• Copyright forms are now handled electronically. ACM will send an email to lead authors with instructions on how to submit your copyright release online. Papers cannot be published without a valid copyright release form.
  
  
The following is the standard ACM copyright paragraph and copyright strip that must appear on the first page of each paper, except for papers with authors who fall under the exceptions indicated below* (and have indicated so in the copyright form):

"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage, and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. ACM GIS '10 , November 2-5, 2010. San Jose, CA, USA (c) 2010 ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-0428-3/10/11...$10.00"

*Exceptions for Government papers - Authors who signed part B of the ACM Copyright Form Please check with the signing author to determine which of the following options applies.

Option #1: Government employee/authors (US and other)

"This paper is authored by an employee(s) of the [U.S.] Government and is in the public domain."

Note: The usual "government" bibliographic strip information applies here without copyright, e.g.,

"ACM GIS '10 , November 2-5, 2010. San Jose, CA, USA (c) 2010 ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-0428-3/10/11...$10.00"

Option #2: Government-affiliated authors (funded contractors or co-authors with goverment employees) Note: ACM copyright is evident in this case.

"(c) 2010 Association for Computing Machinery. ACM acknowledges that this contribution was authored or co-authored by a contractor or affiliate of the [U.S.] Government. As such, the Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to publish or reproduce this article, or to allow others to do so, for Government purposes only."

The usual ACM bib strip w/ copyright notice also applies here, e.g.,

"ACM GIS '10 , November 2-5, 2010. San Jose, CA, USA (c) 2010 ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-0428-3/10/11...$10.00"

Option #3: Foreign Government Holding Copyright

"This paper is co-authored by employees of [agency] and is copyright by the Government of [country]. Non- exclusive permission to copy and publish the paper is granted, provided that the authors and [agency] are clearly identified as its source."

(c) 2010 [Govt. agency or Crown of __________]