We invite researchers, practitioners, and thought leaders to submit abstracts for the 2025 Symposium. GeoAnalytical techniques have been essential for understanding and improving urban environments, particularly in fostering sustainable, healthy, resilient, and livable cities. Particularly, GeoAI leverages machine learning and AI techniques to analyze spatial data at unprecedented scales and accuracy, providing insights into urban phenomena and solutions for urban challenges. Researchers have been utilizing GeoAnalytical and GeoAI methods to develop actionable insights and predictive models across a wide range of urban topics such as human mobility, traffic congestion, air quality, climate resilience, health equity, and social well-being. This pre-conference symposium aims to bring together colleagues to explore innovative research using state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and GeoAI to address critical urban challenges. This pre-conference symposium is associated with ICC 2025 and is a follow-up of the successful previous pre-conference symposia since 2015.
Submissions are encouraged, but not limited, to address one or more of the following topics
- (Explainable) GeoAI for Sustainable and Livable Cities
- Geography/GIScience-guided AI for urban analytics
- Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Digital Twins
- Crowdsource data integration for GeoAI
- (Geo)privacy and ethical issues of GeoAI
- Geospatial Artificial intelligence (GeoAI) and LBS
- Disease analysis and mapping
- Health disparity
- Spatial epidemiology of urban infectious diseases
- Geographic access to healthy food, resources, and healthcare
- Spatial analysis of walkability and physical activity
- Spatial analysis of health risks
- Heat vulnerability mapping
- Geospatial analysis of air quality and respiratory health
- Urban noise exposure and sleep quality mapping
- LBS Context modeling and user context-awareness in health applications
Geo-analytical methods for strengthening city resilience to climate, environmental, social, health, and economic disruptions
- Climate adaptation, mitigation, and disaster resilience
- Infrastructure vulnerability, resilience, and risk analysis and modeling
- Social vulnerability, resilience, and risk analysis and mapping
- Measuring and enhancing resilience to health crises
- Reducing the disparities of resilience to economic disruptions
- Geospatial big data for assessing disaster impacts and recovery
- Real-time data for emergency response and management
- Smart city resilience through GeoAI, digital twins, CyberGIS, and IoT
- Resilience to compounding and cascading disasters
- Policy and governance for building resilience capacities
- Urban heat island mitigation through green infrastructure
- Dynamics flood risk mapping and climate adaptation planning
- Energy efficiency in smart cities with GeoAI
- Optimizing public transit for reduced emissions
- E-mobility
- Spatial equity in access to urban green spaces
- Precision zoning for sustainable land use
- Public transportation and mobility
- Human-centered design and planning
- Evaluation of spatial vitality based on living structure
- The impact of spatial vitality on human well-being
- Public green space accessibility and design
- Walkability and active transportation
- Pollution monitoring and control
- Urban safety and crime prevention
- Innovative LBS applications in the urban context
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You are invited to submit an extended abstract (1200-1500 words) at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iccgaslc2025 . All submissions should be prepared in English, single column, singled-spaced with figures and tables within the text. A submission should contain author affiliations and email addresses, a short abstract (up to 250 words), and keywords, in addition to the main text. The extended abstract should include succinct and sufficient information about research objectives, significance, method, and preliminary or expected findings.
Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers for consideration of post-event publication in a special issue of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science: GeoAnalytics for Sustainable and Livable Cities. Final decisions on full paper submissions will be made following the standard double-blind peer review process.
| Submission Deadline | May 5, 2025 |
| Notification of Acceptance | May 31, 2025 |
| Symposium Date | Aug. 17, 2025 |
Everyone is welcome to participate in the symposium. The registration website is now open at link. As the symposium is a hybrid event, the registration fee varies slightly depending on the form of participation.
| Early-registration | Regular registration | |
| ICC2025 registered attendees | FREE | FREE |
| In-person attendees | $20 | $25 |
| Online | $10 | $15 |
To pay your registration fee via PayPal, simply scan the QR code.
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