ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, March 2016

Special issue on GIS in public health research

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  Chi-Yin Chow, Zhuojie Huang:
  Introduction to this special issue: GIS in public health research. 2
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  Kun Hu, Stefan Edlund, Matthew Davis, James H. Kaufman:
  From farm to fork: how spatial-temporal data can accelerate foodborne illness investigation in a global food supply chain. 3-11
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  Mehreteab Aregay, Andrew B. Lawson, Christel Faes, Russell S. Kirby, Rachel Carroll, Kevin Watjou:
  Multiscale modeling approach for hierarchical aligned aggregated small area health data. 12-19
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  Xinyue Ye, Jay Lee:
  Integrating geographic activity space and social network space to promote healthy lifestyles. 20-33
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  Hedi Haddad, Bernard Moulin, Marius Thériault:
  A fully GIS-integrated simulation approach for analyzing the spread of epidemics in urban areas. 34-41
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  Imad Afyouni, Faizan Ur Rehman, Ahmad M. Qamar, Akhlaq Ahmad, Mohamed Abdur Rahman, Sohaib Ghani, Saleh M. Basalamah:
  Gamifying hand physical therapy with intelligent 3D navigation. 42-49

Event reports

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  Michael Gertz, Matthias Renz, Jagan Sankaranarayanan:
  ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 conference report: the 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015) Seattle, Washington, USA - November 3-6, 2015. 50-52
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  Egemen Tanin, Goce Trajcevski:
  Report from industrial workshop: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 Industrial Workshop Seattle, Washington, USA - November 2, 2015. 53-54
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  Yan Huang, Xin Chen:
  IWCTS 2015 workshop report: the Eighth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science Seattle, Washington, USA - November 3, 2015. 55
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  Chi-Yin Chow, Maria Luisa Damiani, Shashi Shekhar:
  MobiGIS 2015 workshop report: the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems Seattle, Washington, USA - November 3, 2015. 56

Volume 8, Number 2, July 2016

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  Chi-Yin Chow:
  Message from the Editor. 1

Special issue on spatio-temporal uncertainty

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  Goce Trajcevski:
  Introduction to this Special Issue: Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty. 2
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  Yaron Kanza:
  Uncertainty in geosocial data: friend or foe? 3-10
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  Reynold Cheng:
  Managing uncertainty of large spatial databases. 11-17
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  Andreas Züfle:
  Bayesian network movement model. 18-25
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  Mihai Maruseac, Gabriel Ghinita:
  Processing uncertain spatial data resulting from differentially-private sanitization. 26-34
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  Jane MacFarlane, Matei Stroila:
  Addressing the uncertainties in autonomous driving. 35-40

Event reports

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  Peter Scheuermann, Mohamed Sarwat:
  The second ACM SIGSPATIAL PhD workshop report Seattle, Washington, USA: November 3, 2015. 41-42

Volume 8, Number 3, November 2016

Special Issue on ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 Students Research Competition

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  Moustafa Youssef:
  ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 students research competition report: San Francisco, USA - October 31, 2016. 2
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  Chenggang Lai, Miaoqing Huang, Xuan Shi:
  Accelerating the calculation of minimum set of viewpoints for maximum coverage over digital elevation model data by hybrid computer architecture and systems. 3-4
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  Aaron San Jose, Eduardo Hernandez:
  City-scale mapping of pets using georeferenced images. 5-6
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  Ashwin Shashidharan:
  Computational steering for geosimulations. 7-8
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  Wenlu Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku:
  Dynamic indoor navigation with bayesian filters. 9-10

Event reports

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  Shashi Shekhar, Maria Luisa Damiani, Chi-Yin Chow, Reza Nourjou:
  MobiGIS 2016 workshop report: The Fifth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems: San Francisco, California, USA - October 31, 2016. 11
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  Chengyang Zhang, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Abdeltawab M. Hendawi:
  IWGS 2016 workshop report: The 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming: San Francisco, CA, USA - October 31, 2016. 12-13