1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2017): Redondo Beach, California, USA - November 7, 2017.

The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2017) was held in conjunction with the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017). The workshop is intended to bring together experts from the research community and industry to exchange ideas on opportunities, challenges and cutting-edge techniques for local events and news analytics. The workshop has attracted 12 submissions, including 11 regular research papers and one vision paper, accepted 6 submissions for publications; 5 regular papers and one vision paper, with 50% acceptance rate. The papers are reviewed by 13 program committee members, where each paper is assigned to three reviewers. Total 11 attendants registered for the workshop. The actual number of attendants along the day fluctuated from 11 to 15, with an average of 11 attendants maintained almost all the time. The workshop has achieved its goal with bringing up together experts from both academia and industry with a set of productive discussions and talks.