<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1878184702445772890m_-4845052292599999570WordSection1">Apologies for multiple posting.</div><div class="gmail-m_1878184702445772890m_-4845052292599999570WordSection1"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_1878184702445772890m_-4845052292599999570WordSection1">========================================<br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><table class="gmail-m_1878184702445772890m_-4845052292599999570MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="670" style="width:502.5pt"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:1.5pt"><table class="gmail-m_1878184702445772890m_-4845052292599999570MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" width="670" style="width:502.5pt"><tbody><tr><td width="650" valign="top" style="width:487.5pt;padding:7.5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.5pt"><font size="4" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS<u></u><u></u></span></font></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><img width="280" height="72" src="http://www.acm.org/binaries/content/gallery/acm/plone-images/acm_logo1.gif" align="right"><u></u><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">ACM Transactions on Spatial <br>Algorithms and Systems<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><em><i><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Special issue on Deep Learning for Spatial Algorithms and Systems</span></font></i></em><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Special Issue Guest Editors:<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Moustafa Youssef: Alexandria University, Egypt<br>John Krumm: Microsoft Research, USA<br>Muhammad Aamir Cheema: Monash University, Australia<u></u><u></u></span></font></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></font><u></u><img width="146" src="http://www.acm.org/binaries/content/gallery/acm/newsletters/tsas_cover.jpg" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10"><u></u><font size="2" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><b><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Aim and Scope </span></font></b><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br><br>The availability of both large-scale datasets as well as the advances in graphical processing units (GPUs) has paved the way to the recent breakthroughs in the deep learning field. This in turn has led to unprecedented accuracy in various applications of machine learning such as image recognition, natural language processing, and machine translation, among others. Spatio-temporal data sets are naturally large due to the wide extent in both space and time. Hence, approaches based on deep learning are well suited to systems designed to process spatio-temporal data.<br><br>This special issue on <em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Deep Learning for Spatial Algorithms and Systems</span></font></i></em> will be published in <a href="https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-1d253x3180dfx0443&" target="_blank"><em><i><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems</span></font></i></em> (TSAS)</a>. The guest editors target covering various deep-learning algorithms and systems applied to spatial data processing.<br><br><b>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) applications of deep learning to:</b><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Big Spatial Data<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Location Privacy, Data Sharing and Security<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Mobile Systems and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Spatial Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Spatio-Temporal Sensor Networks<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Spatio-Temporal Stream Processing<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Spatio-Textual Searching<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Location-Based Services<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Location Tracking Algorithms<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Traffic Telematics<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Urban and Environmental Planning<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Crowdsourcing Spatial Data<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Geographic Information Retrieval<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Connected Cars, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Spaces<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Mobile Data Analytics<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Behavioral/Activity Sensing and Analytics<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Location-Based Social Networks<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Location and Trajectory Analytics<u></u><u></u></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Innovative Applications Driven by Spatial Data<u></u><u></u></span></font></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The journal welcomes original articles on any of the above topics or closely related disciplines in the context of deep learning for spatial algorithms and systems. TSAS will encourage original submissions that have not been published or submitted in any form elsewhere, and submissions which may significantly contribute to opening up new and potentially important areas of research and development. TSAS will publish outstanding papers that are "major value-added extensions" of papers previously published in conferences. These extensions should contribute at least 30% new original work. In this case, authors will need to identify in a separate document the list of extensions over their previously published paper. For more information, please visit <a href="https://tsas.acm.org/authors.cfm" target="_blank">https://tsas.acm.org/authors.cfm</a>. <br><br><b>Important Dates</b><br><br>May 1, 2019: Deadline for submissions of full-length papers<br>Aug 1, 2019: Notification of initial reviews<br>Sep 1, 2019: Deadline for revisions<br>Dec 1, 2019: Notification of final reviews<br>Jan 1, 2020: Submission of final camera-ready manuscripts<br>Mar 1, 2020:  Expected publication<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For further information, please contact the guest editors at </span></font><a href="mailto:deep-learning-editors@acm.org" target="_blank">deep-learning-editors@acm.org</a>.<font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:top"><font size="1" color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"></span></font></div></div></div></div></td><td valign="top" style="padding:0in"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1878184702445772890gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial">Prof. Moustafa Youssef</span><br style="font-family:arial"><span style="font-family:arial">ACM Distinguished </span><span style="font-family:arial">Scientist</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial">Founder and Director, The Wireless Research Center</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial">Alexandria University</div><div style="font-family:arial">Alexandria</div><div style="font-family:arial">Egypt<br><br><div><b>email</b>: <a href="mailto:moustafa@alexu.edu.eg" target="_blank">moustafa@alexu.edu.eg</a><br><b>Tel</b>: (+20106) 417-0777</div><div><b>Web</b>: <a href="http://wrc-ejust.org/" target="_blank">http://wrc-ejust.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>