ST 2016 - Symposium on Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications (ST symposium)

Symposium on Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications (ST symposium)
AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 29-April 2, 2016
Sponsoring specialty groups:
Cyber Infrastructure; Geographic Information Science and Systems; Transportation; Cartography; Spatial Analysis & Modeling; Health and Medical Geography
Introduction
Many 21st century challenges exist within a 4-dimensional (3D space and 1D time) framework. Societal issues such as adequate health care, effective higher education, and physical adaptation to climate change require: 1) new methodologies to detect and characterize spatiotemporal patterns; 2) new computing techniques to support efficient computational demands; 3) new applications to address multi-disciplinary complexity and support decision making processes; and 4) reflexive approaches fostering intra-disciplinarity. By integrating our modes of geographic conceptualization, ways of understanding, and the methodologies we employ to comprehend complex questions and data across space and time, we may reveal enlivened social realities and possibilities. Spatiotemporal awareness and optimization fundamentally broadens the interpretative relevancy of geospatial solutions for GIScience, Cyberinfrastructure, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Social Media, Digital Earth and future generations of GIS and geographic solutions. Moreover, evolving descriptions and explanations of the spatiotemporal linkages among different domains of geography, humanities, economics, and other sciences may enable us to address problems and conditions that were previously unsolvable.
Scope
Following the great success on ST symposium in Chicago last year, we would like to broaden the fields of our endeavor and organize a series of sessions (paper and panel, etc.) again at 2016 AAG annual meeting. We seek to extend the use of the ST framework among geohumanies and human geography researchers and practitioners, expand the utility of ST approaches through increased collaborations, and enhance the ST discussion as we iteratively make progress facilitating a heterogeneous research agenda and community. We welcome a wide range of studies addressing ST for intra-disciplinarity contributions, non-traditional geographies, and emerging ST knowledge domains.
Currently we have the following sessions:
Time Geography: New Challenges and Opportunities (Organizers: Hongbo Yu, hongbo.yu-AT-okstate.edu; Kajsa Ellegård; Shih-Lung Shaw; Martin Dijst)
Space-time context in Public Health Study (Organizer: Min Sun, msun-AT-gmu.edu)
Spatiotemporal Analytics in Climate/Atmospheric Science (Organizer: Manzhu Yu, myu7-AT-gmu.edu)
Spatiotemporal Analytics in Social Media (Organizer: Robert Stewart, stewartrn-AT-ornl.gov)
New Data Sources, Technologies and Tools for Disaster Management (Organizer: Qunying Huang, qhuang46-AT-wisc.edu)
Spatiality of Strategy in Institutions (Organizer: Stephen Costello Lowe, slowe5-AT-gmu.edu)
High Performance Computing in Spatiotemporal Analytics (Organizers: Zhenlong Li, zhenlong-AT-mailbox.sc.edu; Fei Hu, fhu-AT-gmu.edu)
Web-Based Spatiotemporal Data Mining and Visualization (Organizer: Yongyao Jiang, yjiang8-AT-gmu.edu)
Geovisual Analytics (Organizers: Wei Luo, wluo23-AT-asu.edu; Ross Maciejewski, rmacieje-AT-asu.edu)
Panel: Spatiotemporal Study: Achievements, Gaps, and Future (Organizers: Chaowei Yang, cyang3-AT-gmu.edu; Keith Clarke; Wendy Guan)
Panel(s): Evolving concepts for cross disciplinary space-time based domain research and applications
Please feel free to email the organizers of the sessions listed above with your topic title, abstract, and PIN if interested in presenting your work in a particular session.
We also welcome additional sessions that are related to spatiotemporal studies, especially the integration of space-time disciple in domain area, such as geohumanity, human dynamics, public health, urban planning, environment-human interaction, and atmospheric dynamics, etc. to join us. If you would like to contribute, please email the name and abstract of your session to Manzhu Yu (myu7-AT-gmu.edu) by October 26, 2015.
For any other questions about this symposium, please also email Manzhu Yu at myu7-AT-gmu.edu.
Organizing Committee:
Chaowei Yang, George Mason University
Hongbo Yu, Oklahoma State University
Keith Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara
Manzhu Yu, George Mason University
Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
Min Sun, George Mason University
Qunying Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robert N. Stewart, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stephen Lowe, U.S. Department of Agriculture/George Mason University
Wendy Guan, Harvard University
Zhenlong Li, University of South Carolina