SIMBig 2018 - 5th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data

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

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

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

PUBLICATION

All papers of SIMBig 2018 will be published with Springer CCSI series
(https://www.springer.com/series/7899) (Communications in Computer and
Information Science).

The best papers of SIMBig 2018 will be invited to submit an extended and
revised version in one of the following two journals :

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).

STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD

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.

SPECIAL TRACKS

SIMBig2018 proposes four special track in addition to the main conference :

DISE <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/dis...> - Data-drIven Software Engineering
SNMAM <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/snm...> - Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining
ANLP <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/anl...> - Applied Natural Language Processing
PSCBig <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2018/en/PSC...> - Privacy and Security Challenges on Big Data

IMPORTANT DATES

May 14, 2018 June 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

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

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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