ISCIS 2009 (AI, ML, DM Track)

CALL FOR PAPERS -- AI, ML, DM Track at ISCIS 2009 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences

AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining -- Track

September 14-16, 2009 Guzelyurt, North Cyprus http://iscis.metu.edu.tr/

Authors are invited to submit original papers to the "AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining" track of the "24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences" (ISCIS-2009). ISCIS is a large annual gathering of researchers from a broad spectrum of Computer and Information Sciences. The wide range of applications of AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining have attracted large number of high quality submissions over the pasr years; participants mainly enjoy the multidisciplinary research results presented at ISCIS.

The event will be composed of research presentations, keynote speeches, invited talks, and poster presentations. This year, ISCIS will be held on Sep 14-16, 2009, in North Cyprus, which combines beautiful bays with a sunny climate all year around.

The submitted papers are expected to be in broad areas of AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining, including

- Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation - Handling imbalanced data - New algorithms for association rules, classification, clustering, pattern discovery, etc - Models and algorithms for emerging applications in chemistry, biology, environment, sociology, streams, semantic web, and other scientific domains - Mining distributed, heterogeneous, spatial and temporal datasets - Mining textual and unstructured datasets - Scalable data mining algorithms - Social networks mining and analysis - Privacy preserving data mining algorithms - Integration of mining and multiagents - Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks - Human-machine interaction and visual data mining - data warehousing, OLAP and data mining - Evolutionary computation - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Natural language processing - Robotics - Machine learning and knowledge discovery

The submitted papers must be original and currently not under review elsewhere. The accepted articles will be published in IEEE Proceedings and will be included in the IEEE digital library. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium. Papers should be prepared following IEEE format, double column, minimum 10pt fonts, and up to 6 pages. The submissions will be through electronic submission system available on http://iscis.metu.edu.tr/submission

IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission of papers: April 17, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: June 15. 2009 - Camera ready and registration due: July 1, 2009 - Symposium date: September 14-16, 2009

Track Chairs:

Reda Alhajj University of Calgary Canada Mehmet Kaya Firat University Turkey Tansel Özyer TOBB ETU University Turkey

Program Committee Members:

Osman Abul TOBB University Turkey Songül Albayrak Yildiz University Turkey Ethem Alpaydin Bogaziçi University Turkey José del Campo Ávila Universidad de Málaga Spain José L Balcázar UPC- Barcelona Tech Spain Fevzi Belli University of Paderborn Germany Ayse Basar Bener Bogaziçi University Turkey Ahmet Bulut Like.com USA Berkant Barla Cambazoglu Yahoo! Research Spain Fazli Can Bilkent University Turkey Selçuk Candan Arizona State University USA Tan Kay Chen National University of Singapore Singapore Zehra Çataltepe ITÜ Turkey Cengiz Çelik Bilkent University Turkey Hasan Davulcu Arizona State University USA Çigdem Gündüz Demir Bilkent University Turkey Banu Diri Yildiz University Turkey Esra Erdem Sabanci University Turkey Hakan Erdogan Sabanci University Turkey Junbin Gao Charles Sturt University Australia Peter Geczy AIST Japan Michael O'Grady University College Dublin Ireland Marifi Güler Eastern Mediterranean University Northern Cyprus Eyke Hüllermeier Philipps-Universität Marburg Germany Hisao Ishibuchi Osaka Prefecture University Japan Esra Kadioglu Ürtis TOBB University Turkey Murat Kantarcioglu University of Texas at Dallas USA Ali Karci Firat University Turkey Emin Erkan Korkmaz Yeditepe University Turkey Murat Koyuncu Atilim University Turkey Kemal Leblebicioglu METU Turkey Nasrullah Memon Aalborg University Denmark Rosa Meo Università degli Studi di Torino Italy Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University Australia Mourad Oussalah The University of Birmingham UK Murat Özbayoglu TOBB University Turkey Selma Ayse ÖZEL Çukurova University Turkey Onur Özyer Microsoft USA Mithun Prasad University of New South Wales Australia Jon Rokne University of Calgary Canada Cem Say BogaziçiUniversity Turkey Yücel Saygin Sabanci University Turkey Hayri Sever Hacettepe University Turkey Bülent Tavli TOBB University Turkey Mehmet Tolun Çankaya University Turkey