> Apologies for cross-posting
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> ***** Due to multiple requests: Firm submission deadline fixed to June 14, 2018 *****
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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
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> http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/ <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/>
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> OVERVIEW
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> 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.
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> 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
> Jian Pei, JD.com - China, SFU - Canada
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> PUBLICATION
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> All papers of SIMBig 2018 will be published with Springer CCSI series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899> (Communications in Computer and Information Science).
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> The best papers of SIMBig 2018 will be invited to submit an extended and revised version in one of the following two journals:
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> Knowledge Based Systems Journal <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/knowledge-based-systems/>, from Elsevier (Impact Factor: 4.529, Q1 in SCImago).
> Information Systems Journal <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/>, from Elsevier (Impact Factor: 2.777, Q1 in SCImago).
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> STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
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> The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL <http://naacl.org/>) 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.
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> SPECIAL TRACKS
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> SIMBig2018 proposes four special track in addition to the main conference:
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> DISE <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/dise.html>- Data-drIven Software Engineering
> SNMAM <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/snmam.html>- Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining
> ANLP <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/anlp.html>- Applied Natural Language Processing
> PSCBig <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/PSCBig.html>- Privacy and Security Challenges on Big Data
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> IMPORTANT DATES
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> May 14, 2018June 14, 2018--> Full papers, short papers and demonstration due
> June 14, 2018June 30, 2018--> Acceptance notifications
> September 3 - 5, 2018 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru
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> TOPICS OF INTEREST
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> SIMBig2018 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
> 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
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> CONTACT
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> SIMBig2018 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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> SIMBig2018
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