The 2nd GIS-focused algorithm competition, GISCUP 2013

Following the success of the previous event, ACM SIGSPATIAL is organizing an algorithm contest (ACM SIGSPATIAL Cup 2013) with winners to be announced at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference
in November 2013. As an expert in the field, the organization committee members encourage you to engage your students in the contest. We are announcing the contest before the spring semester
starts in order to give the opportunity for students to participate in the contest as a semester long course project. Kindly find below the call for contest. Please consider joining the
contest mailing list to directly receive updates related to the competition.

CALL FOR CONTEST PARTICIPATION
 
ACM SIGSPATIAL is organizing an algorithm contest with winners to be announced at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference in November 2013 (http://dmlab.cs.umn.edu/GISCUP2013). The contest will
be about geo-fencing, which represents a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area. Geo-fencing is used widely in location-based services, e.g., location-based advertisements
(which send the targeted ads to the users when they are close to the shopping mall) and child location services (which notify parents when a child leaves a designated area).
 
For the contest, each team will be given access to a large amount of point locations and spatial polygons along with some spatial predicates. We want to find every (point, polygon) pair in
the dataset that satisfies the spatial predicate. The submitted programs will be evaluated by the contest organizers on multiple datasets and will be ranked quantitatively based on their
correctness and speed.
 
The first place team will receive US$ 500. Second place will receive US$ 400. Third place will receive US$ 300. In addition to the prizes, the top three teams will be invited to submit a
four page paper for a contest paper session to be held at the 2013 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference. These papers will be subject to review and acceptance by the contest organizers, but it is
expected that each of the top three teams will have their paper in the conference proceedings, a ten-minute presentation in the contest session, and a poster presentation in the conference's
regular poster session. At least one team member of each winning team must register for the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference.
 
Submissions are due August 1st, 2013 at 17:00 PST.
 
See http://dmlab.cs.umn.edu/GISCUP2013 for more details, including detailed problem definition and sample data set for testing.