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Call for Papers - SIMBig 2018
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SIMBig 2018 - 5th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data
September 3-5, 2018 - Universidad del Pacífico - Lima, PERU
http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/
==================================================================================OVERVIEW
----------------------------------SIMBig is one of the first conferences in Latin America grouping related areas, such as Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Software Engineering, Privacy, etc.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Andrei Broder, Google, USA
Dina Demmer-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, USA
Lise Getoor, University of California, USA
Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, UK
PUBLICATION
----------------------------------All papers of SIMBig 2018 will be published with Springer CCSI series (Communications in Computer and Information Science).
The best papers of SIMBig 2018 will be invited to submit an extended and revised version in one of the following two journals:
- Knowledge Based Systems Journal, from Elsevier (Impact Factor: 4.529, Q1 in SCImago).
- Information Systems Journal, from Elsevier (Impact Factor: 2.777, Q1 in SCImago).
STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
----------------------------------The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) is offering two sponsored travel grants for students to attend the conference. Each grant will cover the travel expenses with an amount up to $ 500.
SPECIAL TRACKS
----------------------------------SIMBig2018 proposes four special track in addition to the main conference:
- DISE- Data-drIven Software Engineering
- SNMAM- Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining
- ANLP- Applied Natural Language Processing
- PSCBig- Privacy and Security Challenges on Big Data
IMPORTANT DATES
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May 14, 2018June 7, 2018--> Full papers, short papers and demonstration dueJune 14, 2018June 30, 2018--> Acceptance notifications- September 3 - 5, 2018 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru
TOPICS OF INTEREST
----------------------------------SIMBig2018 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas:
- Data Science
- Big Data
- Data Mining
- Natural Language Processing
- Semantic Web
- Software Engineering
- Data Privacy and Security
- BioNLP and Healthcare Informatics
- Information Retrieval
- Machine Learning
- Ontologies and Knowledge Representation
- Social Networks and Social Web
- Information Visualization
- OLAP and Business intelligence
- Spatiotemporal Databases
- Data-driven Software Engineering
CONTACT
----------------------------------SIMBig2018 General Chairs
- Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, University of Florida, USA (jlossioventura@ufl.edu)
- Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru (h.alatristas@up.edu.pe)
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