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CALL FOR PAPERS
Extended Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012
DMIN'12
The 8th International Conference on Data Mining
http://www.dmin-2012.com
as part of
WORLDCOMP'12
The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the above web site for venue/city
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the DMIN conference proceedings. The
proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering
and Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others.) All
accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(the proceedings will also be available on the web).
WORLDCOMP'12 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences,
tutorials, workshops, and panel discussions); all will be held
simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012. For the complete
list of joint conferences, please visit the website.
IMPORTANT DATES (extended deadlines):
April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)
May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: All tracks of the federated World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
Those who have already submitted papers should not change/update their
submitted papers because they are already forwarded to reviewers.
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
WORLDCOMP (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.
SCOPE:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
+ Data Mining 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)
- 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
- 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
+ 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
- Business/Industrial
- Engineering
- Military/Security
- Social science
- Others
+ Data Mining Software
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 stringer into consideration.
+ Alternative and additional examples of possible topics include:
Data Mining for Business Intelligence; Emerging technologies in data
mining; 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; 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; 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, ...).
SPECIAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
All special sessions and workshops are part of DMIN'12 and
attendance is open to attendees of all conferences held at WORLDCOMP'12.
DMIN'12 will host the following special session:
- Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives
see http://www.dmin-2012.com/special_sessions.htm for details
TUTORIALS AND INVITED TALKS
The following invited talks will be hosted by DMIN'12:
1)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Mining Social Media: The Importance of Combining Network and Content
2)
Peter Geczy, AIST, Japan
Data Mining in Organizations, Quo Vadis?
3)
Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University, USA
Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, and Collective Intelligence
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the DMIN online paper management system according to the instructions
provided at http://www.dmin-2012/submission (please do not upload your
DMIN draft paper to the general WORLDCOMP system).
Submissions must be uploaded in pdf format by April 12, 2012. 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. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
of the paper. A 100 to 400-word abstract should be included on the first
page as well. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers
(if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages including
all figures, tables etc.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness (see
http://www.dmin-2012.com/review.htm). In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review process. All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be
published and indexed in: Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, & others.
All conferences will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates.
A link to each of the conferences can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org.
MEMBERS OF WORLDCOMP PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid
Arabnia (ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board member,
Journal of Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on
Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of
Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California,
Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of
Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information
Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology;
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang
(IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center);
Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity
Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director
of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT;
Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and Technology, University of
Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM
Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University
of California, Berkeley, USA).
2012 Publicity Chair: Ashu M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society;
Principal/R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab,
Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor,
Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)
The 2012 Program Committee for DMIN is currently being
compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of high ranks;
many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of
Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments,
program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and
provosts. Program Committee members have established a strong and
documented research track record.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
WORLDCOMP 2012 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.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789.
Photos of the 2011 WORLDCOMP congress are available via
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606.
An important mission of WORLDCOMP 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.
REMARK
regarding the ongoing defamatory campaign against WORLDCOMP conferences:
As you might have noticed, there is a campaign running against WORLDCOMP
conferences. DMIN is not mentioned explicitly, but since it is part of
the congress, DMIN can be regarded as object of the statements '
('fake conference', 'no reviews', 'plagiarism', etc.), too. However,
the background of the campaign is not clear yet. The person who has
been sending out harrassing emails for slandering WORLDCOMP conferences
is using fake names. We can assure that there is a well
documented review process. We can proof all reviews of past DMIN
conferences and all decisions on the submitted papers. Reviewers have
to document their qualifications (publications, reviewing for
journals/conferences etc.). Furthermore, we provide a guideline for
reviews and an evaluation scheme. We never heard of complaints regarding
the DMIN reviews. All papers are assigned to 2-4 (sometimes even more)
reviewers, and most of the papers were actually reviewed by 3 reviewers.
This is well documented. If you have any questions on that subject,
please contact the DMIN conference chair via conference-chair@dmin-2012.com.
In response to allegations made against Professor Hamid Arabnia
and WORLDCOMP, news are posted at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news2
CONTACT:
For DMIN, please have a look a the DMIN website http://www.dmin-2012.com or
contact conference-chair@dmin-2012.com.
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:
As of February 5, 2012, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have received 20,405 citations. In recent months (November 23, 2011 to
February 5, 2012; ie, in about 75 days), there had been 4,545 citations
to WORLDCOMP papers (about 1,800 citations per month). The above record
is significant (thanks to the authors). As the result of high impact
(based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft Academic Search"
has listed each individual track of the congress among its compiled list
of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
is in fact higher than the citation data of many reputable journals in
computer science and computer engineering. Citation data was obtained
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/).
The web link to live citation data for DMIN is
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data-mining/.
Detailed information about citations to WORLDCOMP proceedings can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news.
We look forward to receiving your submission of your draft paper.
The DMIN 2012 Organizing Committee
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Dr. Robert Stahlbock
General Conference Chair
The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'12)
http://www.dmin-2012.com
E-Mail: conference-chair@dmin-2012.com
Part of The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
July 16-19, 2012
Monte Carlo Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA