ST 2015 - Symposium on Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications

Many 21st century challenges, such as climate change, infrastructure, natural disaster and interdisciplinary discovery, exist within a 4-dimensional (3D space and 1D time) framework. Integrating our understanding and methods across all four dimensions would lead to new approaches to help us address the challenges by providing: 1) new methodologies to improve our knowledge; 2) new computational tools and software to advance relevant technologies; and 3) applications to directly address the challenges. For example, how could we save thousands more lives if an earthquake hits a densely populated area or a huge volcano erupted near a major city? A spatiotemporally aware and optimized approach could help advance GIScience, Cyberinfrastructure, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Social Media, Digital Earth and future generations of GIS and geographic solutions. A better understanding of the spatiotemporal linkage among different domains of geography would enable us to address problems that were previously unsolvable.
Following the great success on ST symposium last year, we are organizing a series of sessions (paper and panel, etc.) again at 2015 AAG annual meeting to continue moving the discussion forward and gradually build a research agenda and community. We welcome a wide range of studies that address or utilize spatiotemporal concepts.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
What are the important aspects in spatiotemporal study?
What are the most significant breakthroughs in the past 5 years in spatiotemporal research?
What is missing from current research scheme?
What can be achieved in the next 5 years?
What are the spatiotemporal principles in various geographic domains, such as regional science, climatology, public health, cyberinfrastructure, etc.?
What are the approaches to model and represent spatiotemporal principles?
How can spatiotemporal thinking be formulated and used as a methodology and conceptualization process in earth science discovery and applications?
How can spatiotemporal thinking be used in managing and developing cloud computing?
How can spatiotemporal computing be used for addressing Big Data issues?
What is the way to educate the next generation workforce with spatiotemporal knowledge?
How can we best enable the collaboration on spatiotemporal studies?
Panel sessions include:
Spatiotemporal Education: From Different Perspectives of Students and Faculty
Achievements, Gaps and Opportunities in Spatiotemporal Research
Industrial and Governmental Demands of Spatiotemporal Study
The panels will initialize a spatiotemporal study group and we will organize research topics/special issues for Frontiers in journals (the open access venue of Nature) if there are enough interest.
To participate any paper session, please submit abstracts to AAG annual meeting website, and then send the title, abstract and your PIN to aag2015-AT-stcenter.net by 31th October 2014.
Organizing Committee:
A-Xing Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Chaowei Yang, George Mason University
David Wong, University of Hong Kong
Diansheng Guo, University of South Carolina
Harvey Miller, Ohio State University
Keith Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara
Marc Armstrong, University of Iowa
May Yuan, University of Texas, Dallas
Mei-po Kwan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ming-Hsiang Tsou, San Diego State University
Min Sun, George Mason University
Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Wendy Guan, Harvard University