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> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2017
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> SIMBig 2017 - 4th Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data
> 4-6 September 2017 - Universidad del Pacífico - Lima, PERU
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> http://simbig.org/SIMBig2017/ <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2017/>
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> OVERVIEW
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> Several domains have been affected by Big Data. Therefore there is a need to understand and exploit all kind of data. This process can be carried out thanks to "Data Science", which is based on methodologies of Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Statistics, etc. SIMBig seeks to present new methods of Data Science and related fields.
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> KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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> Regina Barzilay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
> Jiawei Han, University of Illinois, USA
> Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA
> Ravi Kumar, Google, USA
> Clement Jonquet, University of Montpellier (France) - Stanford University (USA)
> PUBLICATION
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> SIMBig 2017 proceedings will be indexed by Springer.
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> IMPORTANT DATES
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> 31 May 2017 -> Full papers, short papers and demonstration due
> 30 June 2017 -> Acceptance notifications
> 4 - 6 September 2017 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru
> TOPICS OF INTEREST
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> SIMBig2017 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas:
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> Data Science
> Big Data
> Data Mining
> Natural Language Processing
> Semantic Web
> Bio NLP, Healthcare Informatics
> Text Mining
> Information Retrieval
> Machine Learning
> Ontologies, Knowledge Representation, Linked Open Data
> Social Networks, Social Web, and Web Science
> Information visualization
> OLAP, Data warehousing, Business intelligence
> Spatiotemporal Data
> Agent-based Systems
> Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search
> CONTACT
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> SIMBig2017 General Chairs
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> 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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> SIMBig2017
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