CFP: 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKG 2022)

[Gengchen Mai]

Call for Papers: 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKG 2022)

Seattle, WA, United States

Date: November 1st, 2022

Workshop website:geokg-sigspatial.github.io/geokg2022

Knowledge graphs are not merely a set of technologies, but a novel paradigm for representing, retrieving, integrating, and reasoning data from highly heterogeneous and multimodal sources. Knowledge graphs (KGs) have become a core component of modern search engines, intelligent personal assistants, and business intelligence within just a few years. However, despite large-scale data availability, KGs have not yet been as successful in the realm of environmental and geospatial studies. Geospatial knowledge graphs (GeoKGs), as symbolic representations of spatial entities, their attributes, and the relations among them, bring together Geographic Information Science (GIScience), Cognitive Science, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help facilitate many geospatial applications such as geographic question answering, geospatial interoperability, and geospatial knowledge discovery. Nevertheless, most existing data warehouses and associated techniques in KGs do not take into account the speciality of geospatial information so GeoKGs hardly achieves its full potential in geo-science and its downstream applications.

This workshop aims to emphasize the importance of geospatial information and principles in designing, developing, and utilizing geospatial knowledge graphs and other geospatial AI techniques. It will include keynote speakers, individual presentations, as well as a panel discussion at the end.

We invite researchers from disparate disciplines (e.g., environmental studies, GIScience, AI, cognition, supply chain, humanities, etc.) to submit papers in the following three formats. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions will be single-blind. Papers should be submitted at: easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geokg2022

Paper formats:

• Full research paper: 8-10 pages
• Short research paper or industry demo paper: 4 pages
• Vision or statement paper: 2 pages

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: August 22nd, 2022
• Notification of paper acceptance: September 21st, 2022
• Camera-ready version: October 12th, 2022
• Workshop date: November 1st, 2022

Workshop Organizers

Krzysztof Janowicz (UC Santa Barbara, USA and University of Vienna, Austria)

Rui Zhu (University of Bristol, UK)

Gautam Thakur (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

Xiaogang Ma (University of Idaho, USA)

Ellie Young (Common Action, USA)

Gengchen Mai (University of Georgia, USA and Stanford University, USA)