<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for papers: special session on "Large Datasets and Big Data Analytics: Theory, Methods, and Applications" at IJCNN 2017 </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017). </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">14-19 May 2017, Anchorage, Alaska, USA - </span><a href="http://www.ijcnn.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.ijcnn.org/</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DESCRIPTION: </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The information age brings along an exponentially growing quantity of heterogeneous data from multiple sources in every aspect of our lives: data coming from social networks, internet of things, experiments in biology research and data from transportation systems are only a few examples. Recent trends in the area suggest that in the coming years the exponential data growth will continue, and that there is a strong need to find efficient solutions to deal with aspects such as data wrangling, real-time processing, information extraction and abstract model generation. </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Large datasets and big data analytics is the area of research focused on collecting, examining and processing large multi-structure, multi-modal, and multi-source datasets in order to discover patterns, correlations and extract information from data. In order to be able to perform such an analysis, conventional technologies and machine learning theory and algorithms are not directly applicable because they are not able to deal efficiently and effectively with such amount of data. Thus, specific techniques have to be developed. </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The purpose of this special session is to highlight recent advances in the field of large datasets and big data analytics. In particular, this session welcomes contributions toward both the development of new machine learning methods and the improvement of already available tools suited for big data analysis. We also encourage the submission of new theoretical results in the Statistical Learning Theory framework and innovative solutions to real world problems. </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In particular, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Statistical Learning Theory for Large Datasets; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Big Data Technologies; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Learning on data Streams; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Deep Learning for Large Datasets; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Scalable Machine Learning for Structured Data; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Scalable Kernel Methods for Large Datasets; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Recommender Systems for Large Datasets; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Big Data for Smart Cities and Transportation; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Big Social Data Analysis; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Big Data for Cybersecurity; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Big Data in Bioinformatics and Healthcare; </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Big Data in the Internet of Things. </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SUBMISSION: </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Prospective authors must submit their paper through the IJCNN portal following the instructions provided inhttp://</span><a href="http://www.ijcnn.org/paper-submission" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">www.ijcnn.org/paper-<wbr>submission</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. Each paper will undergo a peer reviewing process for its acceptance. </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IMPORTANT DATES: </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paper submission deadline : 1 December 2016 </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Notification of acceptance : 20 January 2017 </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Camera-ready submission: 20 February 2017 </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The IJCNN 2017 conference : 14-19 May 2017 </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Luca Oneto University of Genoa (Italy) </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nicolò Navarin University of Padua (Italy) </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Michele Donini Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy) </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fabio Aiolli University of Padua (Italy) </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Davide Anguita University of Genoa (Italy) </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><wbr style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><wbr style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">----------------------- </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Luca Oneto, PhD                            University of Genoa </span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">web: </span><a href="http://www.lucaoneto.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">www.lucaoneto.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,helveti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