LBS 2020 turns LBS 2021

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

  • We have decided to postpone the year’s LBS conference 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. We aim for a quick review and turnaround time. 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.

Call for Papers

The ICA Commission on Location Based Services and University College London (UCL) are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 16th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2020).

Built on the success of previous conferences in this series, LBS 2020 is addressed to scholars and researchers, digital industry / market operators, and students of different backgrounds (scientific, engineering and humanistic) whose work is either focused on or relevant to location based services (LBS). The conference will 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.