Call for Papers
Conference on Business Analytics in Finance and Industry
January 6-8, 2014
Santiago, Chile
http://www.bafi.cl

Presentation

During the last decade, the disciplines of Data Mining and Operations  
Research have increasingly come closer to each other. As a consequence  
the terms "Business Analytics" and "Intelligent Optimization" are used  
to refer to the applications of quantitative and analytical  
techniques, seeking to improve existing methods or to solve complex  
problems in areas such as finance and marketing, as well as in a wide  
range of other industry challenges.

The conference on Business Analytics in Finance and Industry, BAFI  
2014 is aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners to  
present their recent developments and to identify future challenges in  
this novel combination of research areas. For this purpose, we are  
looking for original contributions on topics related to Business  
Analytics and Intelligent Optimization in finance and industry (see  
below for a non-exhaustive list of conference topics). The official  
conference language is English.

The conference BAFI 2014 is divided into two activities:

On January 6, 2014, a special workshop dedicated to recent  
methodological developments in Business Analytics and Intelligent  
Optimization (BAIO 2014) will be held.  On January 7 and 8, 2014 the  
conference will focus on Business Analytics in Finance and Industry.  
All talks will refer to methods and applications of business analytics  
in different real settings.

Topics at this conference include, but are not limited to:

Business Analytics - Methods:
Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Extraction, and Feature Selection
Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Methods
Statistical Learning Theory and Neural Network Research
Online Learning, Data Stream Mining, and Dynamic Data Mining
Graph Mining and Semi-Structured Data
Spatial and Temporal Data Mining
Deep Learning
Large scale data mining
Uncertainty Modeling in Data Mining


Business Analytics - Applications:
Credit Scoring, Financial Modeling, and Forecasting
Crime Modeling, Security, and Privacy
Web Intelligence and Information Retrieval
Marketing, business intelligence, and e-Commerce
Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems
Revenue Management
Algorithmic Game Theory and Experimental Economics

Timeline and Submission Guidelines

Submission deadline: September 30th, 2013 (EXTENDED)
Submission format: 600 words extended abstract.
Submission website: Via EasyChair  
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bafi2014)
Early-bird Registration Deadline: November 15th, 2013
Conference date: January 6-8, 2014

Confirmed Key Note Speakers

Bart Baesens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sven Crone, Lancaster University
Matt Davison, Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Finance, Western  
University, Canada
Fazel Famili, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada


Program Committee

* Richard Weber, Universidad de Chile, Chile (Chairman)

* Bart Baesens, KU Leuven, Belgium

* Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy

* Alejandro Bernales, Banque de France, France

* José Miguel Benavente, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

* Cristian Bravo, Universidad de Chile, Chile

* Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

* Sven Crone, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

* Jonathan Crook, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

* José Miguel Cruz, Universidad de Chile, Chile

* Matt Davison, Western University, Canada

* Rodrigo Herrera, Universidad de Talca, Chile

* Rudolf Kruse, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany

* Sebastián Maldonado, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile

Special Issues

We have secured two different special issues for the conference.  
Authors of outstanding papers are encouraged to submit their  
contribution to one of these journals:

* Intelligent Data Analysis (indexed in Science Citation Index, ISI)
* Journal of the Chilean Institute of Operations Research (in Spanish)

The Call for Papers for both Special Issues can be found on the home  
of the conference website. Each submission will undergo the standard  
review process of the respective journal.