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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#242424">Dear CogVisers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#242424">Our May LBS conference in Helsinki has announced keynote speakers and provides still all this week to submit full papers!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#242424">Work in progress, abstracts, and showcases until February.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#242424">Please see below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#242424">Cheers, Pyry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#242424">:::<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#242424">LBS2025, Otaniemi, Espoo - Second call for papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">* Apologies for cross posting *</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">LBS2025 - Second call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">We are delighted to welcome you to the
<b>19th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS) </b>which will take place in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland on May 7-9, 2025. Please consider submitting a full paper, an abstract, or a showcase by following the guidelines given in our Call for Papers:</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://lbs2025.lbsconference.org/pages/call_papers.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:blue">https://lbs2025.lbsconference.org/pages/call_papers.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">The deadline for full papers
<s>1.11.2024</s></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:red">
<b>18.11.2024</b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">The deadline for work in progress/abstracts 1.2.2025</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">The deadline for showcases 15.2.2025</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Our confirmed keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Anahid Basiri</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">,
Professor in Geospatial Data Science, a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow, the Director of the Centre for Data Science and AI, and the Royal Academy of Engineering's EngineeringX Champion at the University of Glasgow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Ana leads a team working on developing solutions that consider unavailability and biases in data as useful
sources of data to make inferences about the underlying reasons that caused missingness or biases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Kuvaus luotu automaattisesti"></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Grant McKenzie</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">,
Associate Professor of Spatial Data Science, Department of Geography, McGill University in Montreal, Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Grant leads the Platial Analysis Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that works at the intersection
of information science and behavioural geography.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Kuvaus luotu automaattisesti"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Heidi Kuusniemi</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">,
Professor in Computer Science, Director of the Digital Economy research platform and the Kvarken Space Center at the University of Vaasa, Finland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Heidi’s technical expertise and interests include localization methods, GNSS reliability and resilience,
estimation and data fusion, mobile precision positioning and PNT in the new space economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Kuvaus luotu automaattisesti"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">M.Sc. Antti (Ana) Vuorela,
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Development Manager at Helsinki Region Transport (HSL).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Ana specializes in development, digitalization, customer experience and research. He believes that one should
listen to customers’ needs and work together with customers. Ana has over thirty years of varied experience in transportation.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Warm welcome to Finland!</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Juha Oksanen</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Henrikki Tenkanen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Pyry Kettunen</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">and the LBS2025 Local Organizing Committee</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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