DMIN'16 - Call for Papers
List of Topics

CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS

Submission Deadline May 17, 2016

DMIN'16

The 2016 International Conference on Data Mining

http://www.dmin-2016.com

Date and Location: July 25-28, 2016, Las Vegas, USA

INVITATION:

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (each with a unique international ISBN number) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in journals and edited research books; publishers include, Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others). See the web link below for a small subset of such publications: (some of these books and journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation index trackers.)

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/books_journals.html

The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016. The complete list of joint conferences can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/. DMIN is part of the Congress.
 

SCOPE: Submitted papers should be related to Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning and similar topics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Data Mining/Machine Learning Tasks

• Regression/Classification

• Time series forecasting

• Segmentation/Clustering/Association

• Deviation and outlier detection

• Explorative and visual data mining

• Web mining

• Mining text and semi-structured data

• Temporal and spatial data mining

• Multimedia mining (audio/video)

• Mining "big data"

• Others

Data Mining Algorithms

• Artificial neural networks
• Fuzzy logic and rough sets
• Decision trees/rule learners
• Support vector machines
• Evolutionary computation/meta heuristics
• Statistical methods
• Collaborative filtering
• Case based reasoning
• Link and sequence analysis
• Ensembles/committee approaches
• Others

Data Mining Integration

• Mining large scale data/big data
• Distributed and grid based data mining
• Data and knowledge representation
• Data warehousing and OLAP integration
• Integration of prior/domain knowledge
• Metadata and ontologies
• Agent technologies for data mining
• Legal and social aspects of data mining

Data Mining Process

• Data cleaning and preparation

• Feature selection and transformation

• Attribute discretisation and encoding 

• Sampling and rebalancing

• Missing value imputation

• Model selection/assessment and comparison

• Induction principles

• Model interpretation

• Others

Data Mining Applications

• Bioinformatics
• Medicine Data Mining
• Business/Corporate/Industrial Data Mining
• Credit Scoring
• Direct Marketing
• Database Marketing
• Engineering Mining
• Military Data Mining
• Security Data Mining
• Social Science Mining
• Data Mining in Logistics
• Others

We particularly encourage submissions of industrial applications and case studies from practitioners. These will not be evaluated using solely theoretical research criteria, but will take general interest and presentation into consideration.

Data Mining Software

• All aspects and modules

Alternative and additional examples of possible topics include:

• Data Mining for Business Intelligence
• Emerging technologies in data mining
• Big Data
• Computational performance issues in data mining
• Data mining in usability
• Advanced prediction modelling using data mining
• Data mining and national security
• Data mining tools
• Data analysis
• Data preparation techniques (selection, transformation, and preprocessing)
• Information extraction methodologies
• Clustering algorithms used in data mining
• Genetic algorithms and categorization techniques used in data mining
• Data and information integration
• Microarray design and analysis
• Privacy-preserving data mining
• Active data mining
• Statistical methods used in data mining
• Multidimensional data
• Case studies and prototypes
• Automatic data cleaning
• Data visualization
• Theory and practice - knowledge representation and discovery
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
• Uncertainty management
• Data reduction methods
• Data engineering
• Content mining
• Indexing schemes
• Information retrieval
• Metadata use and management
• Multidimensional query languages and query optimization
• Multimedia information systems
• Search engine query processing
• Pattern mining
• Applications (examples: data mining in education, marketing, finance and financial services, business applications, medicine, bioinformatics, biological sciences, science and technology, industry and government, ...)

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

May 17, 2016	Submission of Late Breaking Papers (7 pages), Position Papers (4 pages), Abstract/Poster Papers (2 pages) for evaluation [Instructions]
April 23, 2016 June 2, 2016	Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) ... for LBP, PP, APP
June 2, 2016 (extended)	Final papers + Copyright + Registration (for regular submissions within the first/original deadline)
June 16, 2016	Registration due for authors of accepted LBP, PP, APP
July 25-28, 2016	The 2016 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'16) (The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing)
Aug 20, 2016	Final (Camera-Ready) Late Breaking Papers, Position Papers,  Abstracts/Posters due for publication. Papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon after the conference; they will also be indexed in science citation index databases. The Final Edition of the proceedings will be identical to the Preliminary Edition except for the addition of the accepted LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/POSTERS at the end of the books. The conference would make the necessary arrangements to ship the printed proceedings/books to authors

PAPER CATEGORIES

In response to this announcement, authors are given the opportunity to submit their papers for evaluation in one of the following three paper categories:

DMIN'16 Conference Chair:

Dr. Robert Stahlbock

University of Hamburg, Germany

conference-chair@dmin-2016.com

(General Conference Chair)

Online Submission of the Draft Paper

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (see above for paper categories) by uploading them to the evaluation web site.

Submissions must be uploaded by May 17, 2016 and must be in pdf format (7 pages for Late Breaking Papers; 4 pages for Position Papers; 2 pages for Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages include all figures, tables, and references). For typesetting etc. please have a look at the instructions. Later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to upload their final paper on a different system organized by Worldcomp. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

If you want to submit your paper to a special session, please select an appropriate 'track' within the paper submission system.

Please do not send papers by email! Emailed submissions will be rejected without further notification.

Review Process

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least two researchers in the topical area. To reflect upon feedback from last year we will extend the constructive feedback given within the review. Please consult the pages for the Review Process for additional Information.

We particularly encourage submissions of industrial applications and case studies from practitioners. To reflect the requirements of an application or project centric case study presentation, these will be subject to different review criteria. In particular, they will not be evaluated using predominantly theoretical research criteria of originality etc., but will take general interest and presentation stronger into consideration.

Conference Proceedings

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. The proceedings/books of this congress have been evaluated and approved for inclusion into major science citation index databases. In addition, all proceedings are approved for inclusion into EBSCO, one of the largest subject index systems. ACM Digital Library is also including the titles into its database as well as ProQuest indexing database and others.

In addition to the above, Worldcomp has arranged two new book series (multiple books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18 months), a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 and 15 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). A recent and a very small subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have been published based on the extended versions of many of the congress papers, can be found here.

With respect to these book series, DMIN is planning to consider all submissions for publication in an edited book volume to be published by Springer. Details will be published later. 

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement, will have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the Final Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon after the conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of the conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book.

GENERAL INFORMATION

DMIN is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest research results. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences; namely, The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The Congress is among the top five largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 85 countries/territories.

The 2016 Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA); and many other distinguished speakers.

To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available here.

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives." One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.

TUTORIALS AND INVITED TALKS:

All tutorials and invited talks are free to registered conference attendees of all conferences held at WOLDCOMP'16. Those who are interested in attending one or more of the tutorials are to sign up on site at the conference registration desk in Las Vegas. A complete & current list of WORLDCOMP Tutorials can be found [here].

Please look [here] for details regarding tutorials and invited talks hosted by DMIN.

USEFUL LINKS:

Main web site of DMIN'16: http://www.dmin-2016.com.

Web site of WORLDCOMP'16: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/.

Partial list of tutorials: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp16/ws/tutorials

Partial list of keynotes: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp16/ws/keynotes

Location of the conference: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp16/ws/location

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference proceedings that have been held as part of this congress, have received 28,380 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not even include more than 17,000 other citations to papers in conferences whose first offerings were initiated by this congress (such as: FUSION, ICWS, ICMLA, and others).

MISCELLANEOUS:

The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of January 5, 2016.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

General Enquiries: Robert Stahlbock

General Conference Chair

conference-chair@dmin-2016.com

Conference Programme Co-Chairs: Robert Stahlbock, Gary M. Weiss

Programme Chair

programme-chair@dmin-2016.com

Tutorials, Special Sessions, Workshops: Gary M. Weiss

Tutorial Chair

tutorial-chair@dmin-2016.com

PURPOSE/HISTORY:

DMIN'16 Conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. DMIN has been held annually since 2003 (originally it was offered as part of IKE) and is an important track of the federated WORLDCOMP event. Other tracks of WORLDCOMP Congress have similar records.

DMIN'16 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, WORLDCOMP keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included (as part of the federated event:

Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers.

Tutorial speakers for data mining oriented tutorials have included Prof. Eamonn Keogh (Univ. of California, Riverside), Ashu M.G. Solo (Principal of Maverick Technologies America Inc.), Mikhail Golovnya (Senior Scientist, Salford Systems), Prof. Nitesh V. Chawla (Univ. of Notre Dame, USA), Dr. Peter Geczy (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan), Prof. Asim Roy (Arizona State Univ.), Dr. Dan Steinberg (CEO of Salford Systems), Prof. Vladimir Cherkassky (Univ. of Minnesota), Prof. Gary M. Weiss (Fordham Univ.), Prof. Michael Mahone (Stanford Univ., USA), Prof. Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel), Prof. D. Galar (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden).

MEMBERS OF PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The Programme Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;software eng.; embedded systems; internet & web technologies; communications; computer security; & bioinformatics.) Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts. You can view the list of programme committee here. Programme Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

DMIN will be held at the Monte Carlo Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). It is located directly on the Las Vegas Boulevard ("The Strip"). The negotiated special room rates for conference attendees are very competitive. Details can be found [here].