Call for papers for the 28th AGILE conference, Geographic Information Science responding to Global Challenges, Dresden, Germany on 10-13 June 2025.

The Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) has held annual conferences focused on Geographic Information Science since 1998. The next AGILE 2025 conference will be held in Dresden, Germany, on 10-13 June 2025.

The conference theme “Geographic Information Science responding to Global Challenges” recognizes the pivotal role of geospatial data and analysis in informing decision-making for current global issues affecting humanity, the environment, and global resilience. We aim to explore the critical role of geographic information science in addressing these issues and to advance the crossing of cultural, disciplinary, institutional and technical boundaries towards an integrated and coherent information base as the foundation for evidence-based decisions.

We cordially invite researchers, scholars, practitioners, and professionals in all facets of Geographic Information Science and Technology and their applications to present ongoing research, showcase products, network with colleagues from Europe and the rest of the world, and find out about the latest developments in the field. We encourage submissions that encompass innovative research, practical applications, and theoretical contributions in line with the conference theme. We particularly welcome innovations in interdisciplinary geospatial research data management, integration and analysis.

Topics of interest for paper submissions include, but are not limited to:

• 3D Modelling, Analysis and Visualization
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Geo-AI
• Big Spatial Data: Analysis and Visualization
• Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for GIS
• Crowdsourcing, Co-creation and Participatory GIS, Volunteered Geographic Information, Community Observatories, Citizen Science
• Demographic and Socioeconomic Modelling
• Digital Twins, Smart Cities, Digital Earth/Virtual Globes
• Disaster and Risk Management
• Earth Observation Systems: Platforms, Algorithms and Applications
• Environmental/Ecological Monitoring and Conservation
• Future Internet, Ubiquitous Web and GIS
• Geodesign
• Geo-ethics, Data protection/Geo-privacy
• Geographic Information Retrieval
• Geosensors Networks and Sensor Web
• Geospatial Data Integration and Interoperability
• Geovisualization/Geovisual Analytics for Spatial Decision Support
• GI Education and Training
• Health GIS and Spatial Epidemiology
• Land use administration, planning and optimization
• Location-based Services, Locational Analysis and Mobile GI Applications 
• Map Generalization and Multi-Scale Mapping
• Model Web, Geospatial Workflows and Service Composition
• Open Spatial Data, Open Science, Open-source Geospatial Tools and Applications
• Point Cloud Data Processing
• Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Graphs and Geo-Information
• Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of GI/SDI
• Spatial Data Infrastructures/Spatial Data Ecosystems
• Spatial Databases and Data Management
• Spatial Statistics and Geostatistics
• Spatiotemporal Trajectories Acquisition, Processing, Modelling, and Analysis
• Uncertainty and Error Propagation
• Way Finding, Routing and Indoor Navigation
• Web-based GI Systems and Services
• XR: Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Reality (VR, AR, MR) 
• Geospatial applications in mobility
• GIScience for Earth System Sciences

The 28th AGILE Conference will have oral presentation sessions, three keynote sessions, a poster session, a best paper, a best reproducibility report and a best poster session, as well as pre-conference workshops. Similar to 2024, we will run a Journal Article Session, showcasing presentations of articles already published in journals.

Graduate and PhD students pay lower fees and gain high visibility within the GI community. In addition, AGILE offers a limited number of travel grants to support students who lack funding. 

Submissions

Full-paper track

4000 to 6000-word manuscripts of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research. High-quality scientific submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published open-access in the AGILE: GIScience Series of Copernicus Publishers, indexed in ADS, Gale, GeoRef, Google Scholar, J-Gate, OAinONE, ProQuest, World Public Library.

Short-paper track

2000 to 3000-word manuscripts of original and unpublished research work. High-quality scientific and strategic (industrial and governmental) submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published open-access in the AGILE: GIScience Series of Copernicus Publishers, indexed in ADS, Gale, GeoRef, Google Scholar, J-Gate, OAinONE, ProQuest, World Public Library.

Published-article track

300 to 500-word summary of journal research articles published during the years 2023-2025. Submissions should include a citation with a link to the published article and <1 page summary of its relevance to the AGILE conference.

Poster track

500 to 1000-word manuscripts of original scientific and strategic research work. High-quality submissions will be accepted for poster presentations at the conference and provide a good opportunity to stimulate scientific discussions and exchange novel ideas. Interactive posters (showing code, simulations or experiments) are also welcome.

Formatting instructions

Full and short papers must be prepared using either the Word Document template or the LaTeX Document template. Papers must be written in English according to the formatting guidelines. Authors must remove their names and institutional details from the title, header, and acknowledgements as AGILE 2025 is running a double-blind review process.  Self-citations must be cited in the third person, such as replacing “As described in our previous work [10]...” with “As described by (Author Name) [10]...”. Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper is left to the authors’ discretion.

All paper submissions must follow the  AGILE Reproducible Paper Guidelines. The accepted paper must have a section describing the data and software availability. Papers that lack a data and software availability section will be rejected immediately and without review. More information on this section may be found in the templates as well on the corresponding website.

Published article and poster submissions should use the same template as above.

Submission instructions and publication details

The submission of papers is via EasyChair. 

The reproducibility chair invites all members of the AGILE community, but especially early career researchers, to self-nominate for the reproducibility committee. Please contact Daniel Nüst (daniel [dot] nuest [at] tu-dresden [dot] de) if you are interested in contributing to increasing transparency, reproducibility and reusability of GIScience research. See the Reproducible AGILE website for more information.

Join us at the AGILE Annual Conference as we gather to foster collaboration, exchange knowledge, and drive forward the field of geographic information science for a better future. We look forward to welcoming you to Dresden and experiencing an enriching conference.

For any inquiries, please contact: agile2025 [at] tu-dresden [dot] de

Website: https://agile-gi.eu/conference-2025/ 

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