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***** Deadline Extension for Paper Submission until May 30, 2018 *****

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Extended 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/
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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.

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

SPECIAL TRACKS
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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, 2018 May 30, 2018--> Paper Submission (Long, Short, Demo) 
• June 14, 2018 June 28, 2018--> Acceptance notifications 
• September 3 - 5, 2018 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru 

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:

• 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
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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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