(Apologies for cross-postings)
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Call-for-Participation
The 19th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD 2025)
25-27 August 2025
Osaka, Japan
https://sstd2025.github.io/
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Short Summary
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A. Technical Program
a. 2 Keynotes
b. 1 Panel
c. 5 Tutorials
d. 16 Research papers, 5 demo papers, 1 industry paper,
and 9 Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track Papers
e. SSTD 2025 10-Year Impact Award and SSTD 2025 Service Award
B. Social Events
a. reception on 25 Aug 2025
b. banquet on 26 Aug 2025
c. excursion to "2025 Osaka Expo tour" (free ticket) on 27 Aug 2025
d. lunches and refreshments during coffee breaks on 25-27 Aug

Registration Still Open
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Please register for SSTD25 in this link.
https://sstd2025.github.io/registration.html

Technical Program Highlights
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1. Two Keynote Talks

Keynote 1 - Engineering the Digital Twin Society: Harnessing Spatiotemporal Data through AI
Speaker: Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University)

Keynote 2 – Mapping Cultural Values Across Regions for AI Alignment
Speaker: Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

2. One Panel

Title: My Classic Papers in Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data

Panel Moderator: Ki-Joune Li(Pusan National University)

Panel Members:
- Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota)
- Hua Lu (Aalborg University)
- Ken Man Lung Yiu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
- Amr Magdy (University of California, Riverside)

3. [New in SSTD2025] Five Tutorials

a. LLMs Meet Cross-Modal Time Series Analytics: Overview and Directions
b. Towards Foundation Model for Spatiotemporal Data Analysis
c. Learning from Spatio-Temporal Data in the LLM Era: Foundations, Models, and Emerging Trends
d. Spatial Regionalization: Algorithms and Challenges
e. Heterogeneity in Multivariate Time Series: Comprehensive Analysis and Adaptive Modeling

4. 17 Research Papers

5. Five Demo Papers and One Industry Paper

6. [New in SSTD2025] Nine Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Track Papers

7. [New in SSTD2025] SSTD 2025 10-Year Impact Award
Paper: Oriented Online Route Recommendation for Spatial Crowdsourcing Task Workers
Yu Li, Man Lung Yiu, Wenjian Xu
SSTD 2015

8. [New in SSTD2025] SSTD 2025 Service Award
Awardee: Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota)