The ICA Commission on Location Based Services and the University of Glasgow are pleased to invite you to the 16th International Conference on Location Based Services, which will take place fully online on 24—25 November 2021.

Built on the success of previous conferences in this series, LBS 2021 aims to offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how LBS can and could be improved and on how it will influence both science and society.

The Call for Papers is currently open. We call for full papers and work in progress. High-quality full paper submissions are intended to be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Journal of Location Based Services or Journal of Navigation.

We are also pleased to announce two awards at LBS 2021: one Best paper award, and one work in progress award. More details will be published on the conference website.

Important Dates:

• Full paper submission: 8 August 2021
• Work in progress submission: 29 August 2021
• Notification of full paper acceptance: 24 September 2021
• Notification of work in progress acceptance: 24 September 2021
• Camera-ready full papers and work in progress: 30 October 2021
• Registration Deadline: 20th Nov 2021
• Conference: 24-25 November 2021, online

More information regarding LBS 2021 can be found at lbsconference.org. We are looking forwards to your contributions and to meeting you!

We are happy to invite you to the pre-ICC2021 International Symposium on “Geospatial Approaches to Combating Covid-19” (https://gam.icaci.org/symposium2021/), which will take place in Florence, Italy on 13-14 December 2021. This symposium is co-organized by the ICA Commission on LBS, and Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modelling.

A large body of studies and practices have evidenced the importance of spatial thinking and the effectiveness of geospatial technologies in understanding Covid-19. It is critical to share research findings quickly so as to maximize the use of them in the world’s collective efforts. This symposium calls for submissions of Covid-19 research from the geospatial perspective.

You are invited to submit an extended abstract (1200-1500 words) by 1 May. A Best Student Paper Award and a Best Paper Award will be selected based on the submission and conference presentation. We intend to have a special issue at an international journal after the symposium. More information can be found at https://gam.icaci.org/symposium2021/

Please also note that the 30th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2021, https://www.icc2021.net/) will take place immediately after the above symposium. Location Based Services and Mobile Cartography are important topics there. Therefore, please also feel invited to submit your relevant work there. The full paper deadline is 09 April 2021 (extended), while the abstract submission deadline is 28 May.

Look forward to your contribution, and to seeing you soon.

COVID-19 has changed our normal lives significantly and made the future quite uncertain. As a result of this, the organizing committee of LBS 2020 has reconsidered the plans for the 16th International Conference on Location Based Services with the safety of the participants at its heart. The main changes are:

• LBS 2020 will be postponed to November 2021, still in UK. In other words, LBS 2020 will turn LBS 2021. The exact venue and dates will be announced in the coming months.
• Full paper submissions related to the conference topics are still welcome for this year (2020), and will be directly considered for the Journal of Location Based Services. A quick review and turnaround time is planned. Authors of accepted full papers will have an option to present their work during regular conference sessions in 2021.
• A half-day online mini-event dedicating to the topic on“LBS and COVID-19” will be organized around 12 November 2020, consisting of invited short presentations and a panel discussion with internationally recognized scientists and researchers. Authors of accepted full papers in the Special Issue on “Contact-Tracing, Apps and location-based data for the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the Journal of LBS will be also invited to give short presentations and join the panel discussion. Please feel invited to submit for this special issue by 31 August 2020.

More details of these changes can be found at https://lbsconference.org/

The ICA Commission on Location Based Services and University College London (UCL) are pleased to invite you to the 16th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2020), which will take place in London, UK on 11-13 November 2020.

Built on the success of previous conferences in this series, LBS 2020 aims to offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how LBS can and could be improved and on how it will influence both science and society.

The Call for Papers is currently open. We call for full papers, work in progress, and showcases. High-quality full paper submissions are intended to be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. The best full and work in progress papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Journal of Location Based Services and Journal of Navigation.

Important Dates:

• Pre-conference workshop and exhibition proposal: 15 March 2020
• Full paper submission: 15 May 2020
• Work in progress submission: 14 June 2020
• Notification of full paper acceptance: 10 July 2020
• Notification of work in progress acceptance: 01 September 2020
• Camera-ready full paper (for the Springer book): 01 September 2020
• Showcase submission: 13 September 2020
• Early registration ends, author registration deadline: 13 September 2020
• Camera-ready work in progress: 01 October 2020

More information regarding LBS 2020 can be found at lbsconference.org. We are looking forwards to your contributions and to meeting you in London!

The preliminary program of LBS 2019 is just published online. It features a keynote by Prof. Ioannis Giannopoulos (TU Wien), a panel discussion on “the future of mobile cartography: open research challenges”, 9 oral sessions covering different aspects of LBS, and an interactive poster/showcase session. All these promise a very interesting conference.

You can still register for LBS 2019 at: https://lbsconference.org/registration/. Look forward to seeing you at the conference.

The ICA Commission on Location Based Services and TU Wien are pleased to invite you to the 15th International Conference on Location-Based Services (LBS 2019), which will take place in Vienna, Austria on 11-13 November 2019.

Built on the success of previous conferences in this series, LBS 2019 aims to offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how LBS can and could be improved and on how it will influence both science and society.

The Call for Papers is currently open (also available as a PDF). We call for full papers, work in progress, and showcases. High-quality full paper submissions are intended to be published in the open-access Advances in Cartography and GIScience of the ICA Series. The best full and work in progress papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Journal of Location Based Services.

Important Dates:
• 1 June 2019, Submission of full papers
• 15 July 2019, Submission of work in progress
• 1 August 2019, Notification of acceptance for full papers
• 15 September 2019, Notification of acceptance for work in progress papers
• 15 September 2019, Submission of showcases
• 18 September 2019, Early bird registration

More information regarding LBS 2019 can be found at lbsconference.org. We are looking forwards to your contributions and to meeting you in Vienna!

The 29th International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2019) will be held in Tokyo, Japan, July 15-20, 2019. Location-based services will be one of the key topics in this conference. The deadline for submitting full papers and abstracts  is due on 5 December 2018 and 19 December 2018, respectively.

Immediately before ICC 2019, the LBS Commission is organising two pre-conference events:

• Workshop on “User Experience Design for Mobile Cartography: Setting the Agenda” (Mobile Map UX), 11-12 July 2019, Beijing, China: organised jointly by the ICA Commissions on Cognition, LBS, VA, and Use. We solicit 2-page position papers proposing emerging issues and pressing needs regarding Mobile Map UX. The submission deadline is 1 February 2019.
• International Symposium on Location-Based Big Data (LocBigData 2019), 15 July 2019, Tokyo, Japan: organised jointly by the ICA Commissions on LBS and Geospatial Analysis and Modelling. You are invited to submit work-in-progress or position papers with a length of 600-1200 words to the symposium. The submission deadline is February 15, 2019. All submissions will be peer reviewed. We intend to have a special issue at an international journal. Selected authors will be invited to submit full papers for consideration in the special issue. More details will follow.

Please consider submitting your research work to the events. Look forward to your submissions, and to meeting you at the workshop/symposium.

The ICA Commission on Location Based Services is happy to announce that the LBS Research Agenda has been published online as an open access paper in the Journal of Location Based Services. For more details, please refer to https://lbs.icaci.org/research-agenda/. 

• LBS Research Agenda
  Haosheng Huang, Georg Gartner, Jukka M. Krisp, Martin Raubal & Nico Van de Weghe (2018): Location based services: ongoing evolution and research agenda, Journal of Location Based Services, DOI: 10.1080/17489725.2018.1508763

A multi-phase collaborative process was adopted during the development of this research agenda: Based on the 31 one-paragraph proposals of ‘“big challenges in LBS”, and the feedback and results of the workshop at LBS 2016 and conference session at ICC 2017, we identified a list of “key research challenges” that should be addressed to bring LBS to a higher level to better benefit our society and environment. Thank you to all the participants during this process!

The current research agenda highlights a series of research challenges in six broad areas: “Ubiquitous positioning”, “Context modelling and context-awareness”, “Mobile user Interfaces and interaction”, “Analysis of LBS-generated data”, “User studies and evaluation”, and “Social and behavioural implication of LBS”. As the research agenda is not set in stone, you are encouraged to provide your comments here.

We hope this research agenda helps to motivate further LBS research and stimulate collective efforts. Particularly, through the work of the ICA Commission on LBS and the Journal of LBS, a series of activities (conferences, workshops, and special issues) on LBS will be organized in the coming years to bring together the broader community to answer these open research questions, as well as to “positively” shape the future of our mobile information society.

One of these activities is the annual international conference series on LBS. Next year the conference will be hosted by TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, in November 2019. More details regarding the conference will be available in the coming months at http://lbsconferences.org.

The ETH Zurich and ICA Commission on Location-Based Services are pleased to invite you to the 14th International Conference on Location-Based Services (LBS 2018), which will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17 January 2018.

The Call for Papers is currently open. We call for full papers, work in progress, and showcases. High-quality full paper submissions are intended to be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography Series. The best full and work in progress papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Journal of Location Based Services.

Updates of the conference

• Keynote Speaker: Johannes Schöning, University of Bremen
• Sponsor: Esri Switzerland, and Esri
• Student travel grants available

Important Dates:

• 12 July 2017, Submission of full & work-in-progress papers
• 29 September 2017, Notification of acceptance for full & work-in-progress papers
• 13 October 2017, Camera-ready full & work-in-progress papers
• 15 November 2017, Submission of showcases

More information regarding LBS 2018 can be found at lbsconference.org. We are looking forwards to your contributions and to meeting you in Zurich!