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CALL FOR 
PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

Paper Submission 
Deadline: March 12, 2012

DMIN'12
The 8th International Conference on 
Data Mining
http://www.dmin-2012.com 

as part 
of
WORLDCOMP'12
The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer 
Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, 
USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the 
above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for 
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the DMIN conference 
proceedings. The
proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute 
for
Engineering
and Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and 
others.) All
accepted papers will be published in printed 
conference
books/proceedings
(the proceedings will also be available on 
the web). 

WORLDCOMP'12 is composed of a number of tracks 
(joint-conferences,
tutorials, workshops, and panel discussions); all will be 
held
simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012. For 
the
complete
list of joint conferences, please visit the 
website.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission of full 
papers (max 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- two 
days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 
16-19, 2012: WORLDCOMP 2012 and all its affiliated conferences 
(DMIN'12 and 
others)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC 
sponsors of the last offering of
WORLDCOMP (2011) included research labs and 
centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley; 
Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University 
of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota 
Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of 
Siegen;
UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, 
Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy 
of
Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University 
of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas 
A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE 
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel 
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; 
Pico
Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing 
for
Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent 
Biological Medicine;
World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and 
Technologies; Int'l Council on
Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department 
for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies 
Corporation; and HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and 
others.


SCOPE: 

Topics of interest include, but are not 
limited to, the following:

+ Data Mining Tasks
- 
Regression/Classification
- Time series forecasting
- 
Segmentation/Clustering/Association
- Deviation and outlier detection
- 
Explorative and visual data mining
- Web mining
- Mining text and 
semi-structured data
- Temporal and spatial data mining
- Multimedia 
mining (audio/video)
- Others

+ Data Mining Algorithms
- Artificial 
neural networks
- Fuzzy logic and rough sets
- Decision trees/rule 
learners
- Support vector machines
- Evolutionary computation/meta 
heuristics
- Statistical methods
- Collaborative filtering
- Case based 
reasoning
- Link and sequence analysis
- Ensembles/committee 
approaches
- Others

+ Data Mining Integration
- Mining large scale 
data
- Distributed and grid based data mining
- Data and knowledge 
representation
- Data warehousing and OLAP integration
- Integration of 
prior/domain knowledge
- Metadata and ontologies
- Agent technologies for 
data mining
- Legal and social aspects of data mining
- Others

+ 
Data Mining Process
- Data cleaning and preparation
- Feature selection 
and transformation
- Attribute discretisation and encoding
- Sampling and 
rebalancing
- Missing value imputation
- Model selection/assessment and 
comparison
- Induction principles
- Model interpretation
- 
Others

+ Data Mining Applications
- Bioinformatics/Medicine
- 
Business/Industrial
- Engineering
- Military/Security
- Social 
science
- Others

+ Data Mining Software
We particularly encourage 
submissions of industrial applications
and
case studies from 
practitioners. These will not be evaluated using
solely theoretical research 
criteria, but will take general
interest
and presentation stringer into 
consideration.

+ Alternative and additional examples of possible topics 
include:
Data Mining for Business Intelligence; Emerging technologies 
in
data
mining; Computational performance issues in data mining; 
Data
mining
in usability; Advanced prediction modelling using data mining; 
Data
mining and national security; Data mining tools; Data analysis;
Data 
preparation techniques (selection, transformation, and
preprocessing); 
Information extraction methodologies; Clustering
algorithms used in data 
mining; Genetic algorithms and
categorization
techniques used in data 
mining; Data and information integration;
Microarray design and analysis; 
Privacy-preserving data mining;
Active
data mining; Statistical methods 
used in data mining;
Multidimensional
data; Automatic data cleaning; Data 
visualization; Theory and
practice
(knowledge representation and 
discovery); Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (KDD); Uncertainty management; 
Data reduction methods;
Data
engineering; Content mining; Indexing 
schemes; Information
retrieval;
Metadata use and management; 
Multidimensional query languages and
query; Multimedia information systems; 
Search engine query
processing;
Pattern mining; Applications (examples: 
data mining in education,
marketing, finance and financial services, business 
applications,
medicine, bioinformatics, biological sciences, science 
and
technology,
industry and government, ...).


SPECIAL SESSIONS 
AND WORKSHOPS:

All special sessions and workshops are part of DMIN'12 and 
attendance is open to attendees of all conferences held at 
WORLDCOMP'12.


Currently, the following special sessions are accepted 
for DMIN'12 
(this list will be updated):

1) Real-World Data Mining 
Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives

see http://www.dmin-2012.com/special_sessions.htm for 
details



SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are 
invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the DMIN online paper 
management system according to the instructions
provided at 
http://www.dmin-2012/submission (please do not upload your
DMIN draft paper 
to the general WORLDCOMP system).

Submissions must be uploaded in pdf 
format by March 12, 2012. Papers
must 
not have been previously published 
or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the 
paper should include: title of the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, 
and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the 
name of the Contact
Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would 
best represent the
content
of the paper. A 100 to 400-word abstract should 
be included on the first

page as well. The length of the 
final/Camera-Ready papers
(if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE 
style) pages
including
all figures, tables etc.

Each paper will be 
peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, 
clarity, impact, and soundness (see 
http://www.dmin-2012.com/review.htm). In cases 
of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference 
program
committee will be charged to make the final decision 
(accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional 
referees by using
a
double-blinded review process. All proceedings of 
WORLDCOMP will be 
published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / 
The Institute 
for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, 
&
others.

All conferences will be held simultaneously; ie, same 
location and
dates. 
A link to each of the conferences can be found 
at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org.

MEMBERS OF 
WORLDCOMP PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being 
finalized:
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 congress 
included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. 
Hamid
Arabnia (ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor, University of 
Georgia;
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board 
member,
Journal of Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory Board, IEEE TC 
on
Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy 
of
Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University 
of
California,
Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of 
Ministry of
Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea 
Information
Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on 
Internet
Technology;
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. 
Winston Wai-Chi Fang
(IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, 
National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip 
Research Center);
Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of 
Creativity
Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy 
Marsh
(Director
of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK; 
Secretary-General WABT;
Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and 
Technology, University
of
Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE 
Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM
Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of 
Aerospace, Professor,
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State 
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Member, National Academy of 
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; 
Director, BISC; Professor, University
of California, Berkeley, USA).
2012 
Publicity Chair:  A. M. G. Solo (Fellow of British 
Computer
Society;
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and 
Mathematician, Maverick 
Technologies America Inc.; 
Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo 
Research Lab, Crocels, Swansea 
University; Principal/Intelligent Systems
and
New Math Instructor, 
Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program Committee for 
DMIN is currently being
compiled. Many who have already joined the committees 
are renowned
leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners 
of high ranks;
many are directors of research labs., members of National 
Academy of
Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of 
departments,
program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans 
and
provosts. 

Program Committee members are expected to have 
established a strong and
documented research track record. Those interested 
in joining the
Program
Committee and supporting the conference should 
send
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(cc to [log in to unmask]) the following 
information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, 
complete
mailing address, email address, and a one-page biography that 
includes
research expertise. It is expected that a Program Committee member 
is
willing to support the conference, e.g., by reviewing approximately 
2 
to 5 papers.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

DMIN 
is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a 
symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 
papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track
chairs will be responsible 
for all aspects of their tracks, including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, 
selecting, ... The names of track chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in 
the conference proceedings and on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed 
in science databases as
such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, 
workshops, or symposiums) should
include the following information: name and 
address (+ email) of
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100 to 
200-word description of the
topic of
the track, and a short description on 
how the track will be advertised 
(in most cases, track proposers solicit 
papers from colleagues and 
researchers whose work is known to the track 
proposer). Please 
send an e-mail of your track proposal to
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(cc to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]).

We would like to 
receive the track proposals as soon as possible but by 
no later than January 
31, 2012.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed 
of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, 
tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past, 
keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
have included: Prof. David A. Patterson 
(pioneer, architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler 
(known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father 
of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of 
Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, 
U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of 
MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X 
Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of 
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program 
Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of 
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and 
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard 
U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi 
(Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, 
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; 
Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas 
(Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. 
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford 
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. 
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, 
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a 
feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates 
photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of 
WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of 
constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and 
practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to 
participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, 
institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) 
from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants 
from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are 
affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The 
congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography 
diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a 
spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a 
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This 
model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields 
of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. 
The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and 
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased 
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across 
sub-disciplines.

CONTACT:

Any inquiries regarding WORLDCOMP 2012 
should be sent to:
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For DMIN, please have a look a the 
DMIN website http://www.dmin-2012.com
or 
contact [log in to unmask]


MEASURABLE 
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As of November 23, 2011, papers published 
in WORLDCOMP set of
proceedings
have received 15,860 citations. In recent 
months (March to November
2011),
there had been 1,475 citations to 
WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations
per
month). The above record is 
significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of high impact (based on 
citations) of WORLDCOMP papers,
"Microsoft
Academic Search" has listed 
each individual track of the congress among
its
compiled list of "Top 
Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set
of
proceedings is in 
fact higher than the citation data of many reputable
journals in computer 
science and computer engineering. (The above
citation
data does not 
include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in 2011;
thus,
it is 
highly probable that the actual number of citations is higher;
citation data 
was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
)


We 
look forward to receiving your submission of your draft paper.

The DMIN 
2012 Organizing Committee

---

Dr. Robert Stahlbock

General 
Conference Chair
The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining 
(DMIN'12)
http://www.dmin-2012.com
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]

Part of The 2012 World 
Congress in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied 
Computing
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
July 16-19, 
2012
Monte Carlo Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA