Saturday, February 14, 2015

Call for Papers and Sessions: International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'15), July 27-30, 2015, U.S.A.

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                              DMIN'15
             11th International Conference on Data Mining
         July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                      http://www.dmin-2015.com

                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                               and
                    CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015
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You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers
will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) 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 35%) of the
conference will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers
include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others; a list that includes a
small subset of such books and journal special issues appear in this
document); some of these books and journal special issues have already
received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields.

The conference is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 27-30, 2015.

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:

o  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

o  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

o  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
   - Others

o  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

o  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.

o  Data Mining Software
   - All aspects and modules

o  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, 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:

March 31, 2015:         Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 24, 2015:         Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 15, 2015:           Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 27-30, 2015:       International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'15)


SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the DMIN evaluation web site according to the instructions at:
http://www.dmin-2015.com/submission.htm . Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author as well
as a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
of the paper. The first page should also identify the name of the
Contact/Corresponding author together with his/her professional email
address. A 100 to 150-word abstract should appear on the first page.
Authors are to conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The
document for the Code of Ethics is available on the DMIN web site and

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers
whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will
be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical
papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

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. The proceedings/books of the federated congress that
this conference is part of have been evaluated for inclusion into major
science citation index databases. We are happy to report that so far,
the evaluation board of science citation index databases have approved
the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the following conference
tracks into relevant indexing databases (indexing databases include,
among others: Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others):
BIOCOMP, DMIN, GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM. All
proceedings are also approved for inclusion into EBSCO (www.ebsco.com),
one of the largest subject index systems. The titles of proceedings of the
federated congress have been indexed into the ACM Digital Library
( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic citations from major
publishers in computing.

In addition to the above, we have 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 20 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). For a recent and
a very small subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have
been published based on the extended versions of our congress papers,
see the link below:


Some of these books and journal special issues have already received
the top 25% downloads in their respective fields - we already have a
number of Elsevier and Springer books in the pipeline.


SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same
instructions that appear in section SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR
EVALUATION - except that the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the
first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted
as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published as such, if
and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to do so.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

The conference is composed of a number of tracks. A track is a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their tracks, including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on
the cover of the printed books (and would be indexed in science databases
as such). Track chairs who attract a sufficient number of solid papers
can propose to edit books with a major publisher based on the extended
versions of the papers accepted in their tracks (the conference will
facilitate and help such track chairs to get the publisher's approval).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of
the track (also mention the name of this conference), and a short
description on how the track will be advertised (in most cases, track
proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is
known to the track proposer). E-mail your track proposal to
We would like to receive the track proposals as soon as possible
(preferably by February 15, 2015.)


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the
federated congress that this conference is part of included:
Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation,
USA) Vice President, Global Information Security, Visa Inc., USA;
Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Department Chair, and Vice Chair of
IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan,
USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected Fellow
of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner,
Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Southern California,
USA (and Adjunct Professor, University of California Los Angeles, UCLA,
USA); Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information Management, Central
Police University, Taiwan and Program Chair, Security & Forensics, Taiwan
and Director, Information Crypto and Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG;
Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos, Professor of Computer Systems and
Director of Laboratory of Digital Systems and Head of Parallel Algorithms
and architectures Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece;
Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science and Director of Computer
Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of Detroit Mercy,
Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM,
WASE and Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished
Guest Professor, University Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. George Jandieri,
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at
The Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia;
Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE
Institute, India; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director,
School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board
of IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense
Competition, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G. N. Pandey,
Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University of Studies, India (and Adjunct
Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India);
Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS, President of FTRA,
Editor-in-Chief of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Prof. Fernando G.
Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, Co-editor, Journal
of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft, Washington,
USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of
Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila,
Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM,
Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales
Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC
member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE);
Prof. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP,
Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, and Secretary-General of WABT and
Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK;
Ashu M. G. Solo, Fellow of British Computer Society, Principal/
Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America;
Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer Science, Vice President,
Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director of Intelligent Cyberspace
Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne
T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National
Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University,
Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q. Yang, Director, Mid-South Bioinformatics
Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas,
USA; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia Processing Communications Lab.(MPCL),
SunMoon University, South Korea; Prof. Young-Sik Jeong, Editor-in-Chief
of Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Dongguk University,
Seoul, South Korea; and others.

The 2015 Program Committee for individual conferences are currently being
compiled. Many who have already joined the committees 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, as
well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program
Committee should email conference-chair@dmin-2015.com the following
information for consideration: Name, affiliation and position, complete
mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes
research expertise and the name of this conference.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The federated Congress that DMIN is part of is 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);
Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent Scholar;
Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled
Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State
University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and
The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA
and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John
McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic research);
and many other distinguished speakers. 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. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on
"Start SlideShow" tab at the url above.)

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;
i.e., facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 8, 2014, proceedings of the federated congress that this
conference (DMIN) is part of, have received over 27,878 citations
(includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is obtained from Microsoft
Academic Search. The citation data does not even include more than 15,000
other citations to papers published by conferences whose first offerings
were initiated by the congress. Individual proceedings/books (2013 & 2014)
of the federated congress can be purchased from major science book
distributors: (such as: EBSCO and others):


MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
December 8, 2014.

CONTACT:
Inquiries regarding DMIN should be sent to: conference-chair@dmin-2015.com.
Please visit our DMIN website at http://www.dmin-2015.com, too.