Following the successful events in SIGSPATIAL 2016 and 2017, the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 will continue to host SIGSPATIAL ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) this year. SRC allows undergraduate and graduate students to share their research results and exchange ideas with other students, judges, and conference attendees; understand the practical applications of their research; perfect their communication skills; and receive prizes and gain recognition from ACM and the greater computing community.
Guidelines
The Student Research Competition is open to graduate (only one author) and undergraduate (up to two authors per contribution) student members whose submissions are accepted by the SRC committee. SRC submissions should describe recent research conducted primarily by students or a recent development that involves a substantial amount of work achieved primarily by students. To be considered, complete a submission of an extended abstract of a topic of interest to the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference (please check the main conference CFP for relevant topics) and indicate the level of the participation (undergraduate or graduate). Valid ACM student membership and student status enrolment as of the submission deadline are required for the lead student.
Selection Process
Submission will be judged based on novelty, impact, approach, results, and contributions to the field of spatial systems and algorithms. Selected competitors must attend the SRC session during the conference and should prepare a poster for demonstrating their work during the conference. If selected for further competition at the next level, they should be prepared to give a short talk of 10 minutes about their research projects in front of the judging committee and conference attendees. Winners of the SIGSPATIAL 2018 SRC will be announced at the conference.
Awards
Selected competitors by the SRC committee will receive up to $500 USD for their conference travel, depending on need. Winners from each category will advance to the SRC Grand Finals, where winners from various ACM SIGs are evaluated to nominate the ACM-wide SRC winners. The winners of the Grand Finals will be recognized at the Annual ACM Awards Banquet, the same banquet that also recognizes the Turing Award winners.
Organizers
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Singapore Management University
Fusheng Wang, Stony Brook University, USA
Program Committee
Nikolaos Armenatzoglou, Amazon
Theodoros Chondrogiannis, University of Konstanz
Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside
Song Gao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephan Sigg, Aalto University
Simin You, Coatue Management
Jilian Zhang, Jinan University
Sponsors
The SRC competition is fully sponsored by a generous donation from Microsoft Research.
Submission Instructions
Each submission should include the author(s)' name(s), affiliations, email addresses, research advisors' names, ACM student member number, SRC category (undergraduate or graduate), and an extended abstract of no more than two pages in the conference template. The SRC submission should not have been published before or under concurrent submission to another venue/SIGSPATIAL track. Please submit your papers through the EasyChair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmsigspatial18src
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: August 20, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: September 28, 2018 September 17, 2018
Event: November 6-9, 2018
Contact
For more information please contact the SRC Chairs Kyriakos Mouratidis at kyriakos@smu.edu.sg and Fusheng Wang at fusheng.wang@stonybrook.edu.
Corporate Sponsors
