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The International Symposium on Designing, Validating,
and Using Datasets

DATASETS 2016

May 22 - 26, 2016 - Valencia, Spain


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This symposium is part of IMMM 2016.

   
   

Call for Papers:

Datasets are proliferating in various industries and government sectors to provide support for improved decision making. It focuses on the process of inference based on available data and domain knowledge. There is also a push for open data accessibility for the advancement and dissemination of timely scientific content.

This symposium provides an opportunity for researchers from various disciplines and fields to share and discuss their achievements and challenges, providing novel insights in the interdisciplinary field of datasets. Subjects of interest range from data generation to data visualization to knowledge management and discovery.

Topics:

THEORY

  • The anatomy of designing Datasets
  • Designing context-based Datasets
  • Metadata for Datasets
  • Challenges in designing very large Datasets
  • Updatable and updating Datasets
  • Reference Datasets
  • Datasets families
  • Repositories of Datasets
  • Criteria for selecting appropriate Datasets

TYPES

  • Public and private Datasets
  • Open Datasets
  • Big Data and Datasets
  • Trusted Datasets
  • Mining massive Datasets

FEATURES

  • Testing and validating Datasets
  • Pitfalls with Datasets
  • Reputation of Datasets
  • Accuracy estimation of Datasets
  • Data links in Datasets

APPLICATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS

  • Context-aware Datasets in the Internet of Things
  • Datasets for data mining
  • Datasets used in statistics and machine learning
  • Online Datasets on collective behavior
  • Datasets for analytics and knowledge discovery
  • Regression Datasets
  • Climate Datasets
  • Gene Datasets
  • Health Datasets
  • Economic Datasets
  • Social Datasets
  • Transportation Datasets
  • Urban Datasets
  • Education/scholar Datasets

 

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper)

January 5 February 5, 2016

Notification

March 5, 2016

Registration

March 20, 2016

Camera ready

April 12, 2016

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Contribution types

  • regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
  • doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

Details on contributions and proposals.

FORMATS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.

Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).

Committees:

DATASETS General Chairs

Elsa Macias-López, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, Spain
Alvaro Suarez, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, Spain

DATASETS 2016 Advisory Committee

Sung-Bae Cho (Chair), Yonsei University, Korea
Kyung-Joong Kim, Sejong University, Korea

DATASETS 2016 Program Committee Members

Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA
Francisco Henrique Cerdeira Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Yun-Maw Kevin Cheng, Tatung University, Taiwan
Sung-Bae Cho (Chair), Yonsei University, Korea
Yun Jang, Sejong University, Korea
Katarzyna Kaczmarek, Polish Academy of Sciences-Warsaw, Poland
Verena Kantere, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Kyung-Joong Kim, Sejong University, Korea
Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Thomas Larsson, Mälardalen University-Västerås, Sweden
Henning Müller, HES-SO Valais, Switzerland
Ilia Petrov, Reutlingen University, Germany
Unil Yun, Sejong University, Korea
Matthias Zeppelzauer, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

(to be completed)

Publishing Information:

Published by IARIA XPS Press

Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

conference contact: [email protected]

ISBN: 978-1-61208-477-0


Submit a Paper:

First, fill out the submission form with information about your paper. Please, fill it out only once for each paper, and do not resubmit it. Contact the address below if you run into any difficulties.

As the designated correspondence author, you will then receive a first e-mail message containing the paper ID. The information in the email will allow you to submit your paper.

If you have some problems send your paper via this e-mail (please report your paper ID in the text of your mail AND the name of the conference).

The conference staff will contact you only if the paper does not print properly or has other problems.

You can change information about your paper, submit brief corrections, view an email trail, and even edit your personal information by following the link in the initial confirmation email.

Touristic Information:

Touristic information is available from the hosting conference, IMMM 2016.

Hotels and Travel:

Hotels and travel information is available from the hosting conference page, IMMM 2016.

Tutorials:

Tutorials are available from the hosting conference page, IMMM 2016.

Preliminary Program:

Preliminary program is available from the hosting conference page, IMMM 2016.

Camera Ready:

The link below contains the details on how to upload the final version of your paper to the publisher. The upload should be done after registering your article via the Registration Form.

Publication Site for IMMM 2016 and DATASETS 2016

Publication details are in the Call for Papers, namely "Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost". The costs of additional pages are on the Registration Form.

If you have any questions about the paper upload process, please contact the proceedings production editor, Sandra.

Registration Form:

Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. The student rate is the lowest registration rate listed in the registration form.

One registration form covers the registration of the paper and the participation of one presenter. If an author has two (or more) accepted papers, each paper must be registered paid for with a separate form.

Every participant must register separately: if two co-authors attend, each of them has to register

Support letters for entry visa will only be issued to attendees who have successfully paid their registration fees in full.

 

Registration form:

The DATASETS 2016 registration form can be found here.

Note: If you attend but do not have a paper to present, use paper number "guest" in the registration form.

Note: For any registration related questions, please contact [email protected] or by fax at 1-302-397-2096

Support letters

It is solely the responsibility of the participants and their corporations/universities to obtain the necessary travel visa.
The association can only issue a support letter stating that a registered participant has an accepted paper and that the participant is expected to have an oral presentation.
For questions or requests related to entry visa support letters, please contact [email protected] or by fax at 1-302-397-2096

Note: For a group registration rate at the conference hotel, you can use this form. The booking is done directly to the hotel by the attendee; hotel contact information is on the form. If this is not a suitable option, you can book any hotel you decide.

 

Attendance guidelines:

During IARIA events, photos and recordings may be made. By registering to and/or attending IARIA events, you consent to allow IARIA to make and distribute such material for informational, publicity, promotional and/or reporting purposes in print or electronic media.

Video recording of presentations by attendees are not allowed without written permission from IARIA and the on-site OK of the presenter.

Copyrighted presentation material may be photographed or copied for personal use only, not for reproduction or distribution. Material labeled confidential or proprietary may not be photographed or copied.

Presence:

If for unforeseen reasons physical presence at the conference location is not  possible, proceedings will not be mailed as the articles are freely available from ThinkMind digital library, www.thinkmind.org

Statistics:

Statistics are available from the hosting conference page, IMMM 2016.

Photos:

Photos are available from the hosting conference page, IMMM 2016.

Awards:

Awards are available from the hosting conference page, IMMM 2016.

 
 

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