[Announcements] CFP: Springer GeoInformatica Journal, Special Issue on Mobile Computing Support for Geospatial Systems, Submission Date: Jan. 31, 2016.

[Petteri Nurmi]

Springer GeoInformatica Journal

Call for Papers - Special Issue on Mobile Computing Support for 
Geospatial Systems
(http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1529677/application/pdf/cfp.pdf)

Guest Editors:
- Moustafa Youssef, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology 
(E-JUST), Egypt – moustafa.youssef at ejust.edu.eg
- Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute for 
Information Technology HIIT, Finland – petteri.nurmi at cs.helsinki.fi
- Chenren Xu, Peking University, China – chenren at pku.edu.cn

The integration of wireless communications into mobile devices has 
opened the door for a revolution of geospatial systems. Specifically, 
contemporary mobile devices come equipped with a large array of sensors, 
are connected anywhere, and are carried around by their users almost 
24/7. Taken together, these developments enable a number of new 
paradigms such as crowd-sensing, anywhere (or ubiquitous) 
context-awareness, and large scale machine-to-machine interaction. These 
paradigms in turn pose novel challenges and opportunities for geospatial 
systems.

The special issue encourages submissions of high‐quality unpublished 
papers reporting original work in both theoretical, experimental and 
visionary research in the area of mobile computing support for 
geospatial systems.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:
- Indoor positioning technologies
- Automatic/semi-automatic construction of indoor floorplans
- GPS replacement technologies
- Techniques for supporting deployments of localization techniques, 
including but not limited to, crowdsourcing, transfer learning, 
reduction of calibration measurements.
- Semantic inference about indoor/outdoor spaces
- Trajectory analysis
- Mobility analysis on mobile devices
- Geospatial information inference from online social networks
- Mobile Infrastructure/platform for big geospatial data processing
- IoT applications enabled by geospatial information
- Novel mobile computing systems supporting geospatial systems
- Location-based services
- Location privacy and anonymity
- Mobile computing support for transportation systems
- Location-based security (e.g., authentication, zone-based systems, and 
adversarial analysis)
- Location-based games

All papers will undergo the same rigorous GEIN review process. Please 
refer to the GEIN website for detailed instructions on paper submission. 
Please choose “Special Issue: Mobile Computing Support for Geospatial 
Systems” as the Article Type.

Submission instructions:
Each article should have a maximum of 14 pages. Authors should check the 
“Instructions for Authors” for formatting their papers at:
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/journal/10707# 


Latex templates can be found at:
http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/468198/application/zip/LaTeX.zip

Submission should be made online using the link:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/gein/default.aspx

Important dates:
- Submission deadline: January 31st.
- Decision/First round of reviews: April 29th.
- Minor revision deadline for accepted papers: May 31st
- Camera ready decision: June 15th