We invite original contributions in areas related to Location Based Services, including but not limited to the following topics:

• - Geography- and GIScience-guided AI
• - Explainable GeoAI
• - GeoAI-enabled LBS

• - Smart environments and ambient spatial intelligence
• - Context modelling and context-aware adaptation
• - Personalisation of Location Based Services
• - Indoor spatial data modelling and mapping
• - Place modelling and place understanding

• - Visualisation techniques for LBS
• - Mobile human-computer interaction
• - Augmented reality and mixed reality

• - Evaluation methodologies for LBS
• - User experiences of LBS
• - Mobile spatial cognition
• - Human wayfinding and navigation

• - Crowdsourcing and the Internet of Things
• - Spatial data science and big data analytics
• - Computational mobility and activity analytics
• - Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics

• - Indoor and outdoor positioning
• - Multi-sensor positioning and sensor fusion
• - Seamless positioning and navigation
• - Pedestrian and vehicle navigation
• - Emerging positioning and navigation technologies

• - Location privacy
• - Legal, ethical, and business aspects of LBS
• - Biases in location data analytics and GeoAI

• - Intelligent navigation systems
• - Location-aware robotic systems and applications
• - Smart cities and sustainable mobility
• - Autonomous and connected vehicles
• - Public health
• - Location-based social networks and games
• - Digital humanities

We also welcome proposals for special sessions and emerging research topics not explicitly covered by the above categories.

There will be 2 awards for the "Best Paper" and "Best Student Paper" presented at the conference.

Full papers should present significant scientific results. Full papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.

Manuscripts must describe original work that has neither been published before nor is currently under review elsewhere. Papers should be written in English according to the Word or LaTeX template, and should not exceed 30 pages (including title, figures, and references).

High-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and are intended for publication in the Journal of Location Based Services published by Taylor & Francis, or recommended to other SCI-indexed journals such as Satellite Navigation.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the symposium to present the work.

Work-in-progress submissions should include succinct and sufficient information about research objectives, significance, methodology, and preliminary or expected findings.

If accepted after review by the Programme Committee, authors will be invited to give either an oral or a poster presentation at the conference

Your work-in-progress paper will be published in the online proceedings of the conference (with a DOI). Work-in-progress papers (up to 5 pages, including title, figures, and references) must be written in English using the Word or LaTeX template.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.