Call for Papers & Sessions: The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining, USA, July 16-19, 2012

[A. M. G. Solo]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

Paper Submission Deadline: March 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:

March 12, 2012: Submission of full papers (max 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: WORLDCOMP 2012 and all its affiliated conferences
(DMIN'12 and others)

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.

Currently, the following special sessions are accepted for DMIN'12
(this list will be updated):

1) Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives

see http://www.dmin-2012.com/special_sessions.htm for details



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 March 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 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: A. M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer
Society;
Principal/Interdisciplinary 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 are expected to have established a strong
and
documented research track record. Those interested in joining the
Program
Committee and supporting the conference should send program-
ch...@dmin-2012.com
(cc to conferen...@dmin-2012.com) the following information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete
mailing address, email address, and a one-page biography that includes
research expertise. It is expected that a Program Committee member is
willing to support the conference, e.g., by reviewing approximately
2 to 5 papers.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

DMIN is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be 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 indexed in science databases as
such).

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 to 200-word description of
the topic of
the track, 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). Please
send an e-mail of your track proposal to special-session-
ch...@dmin-2012.com
(cc to tutoria...@dmin-2012.com and conference-
ch...@dmin-2012.com).
We would like to receive the track proposals as soon as possible but
by
no later than January 31, 2012.


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

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.

CONTACT:

Any inquiries regarding WORLDCOMP 2012 should be sent to: editor@world-
comp.org
For DMIN, please have a look a the DMIN website http://www.dmin-2012.com
or
contact conferen...@dmin-2012.com.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As of November 23, 2011, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of
proceedings
have received 15,860 citations. In recent months (March to November
2011),
there had been 1,475 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 164
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. (The above
citation
data does not include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in 2011;
thus,
it is highly probable that the actual number of citations is higher;
citation data was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
)


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: conferen...@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