<div dir="ltr">** Call for Papers ** for
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<br>International Workshop on Epidemiology meets Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery (epiDAMIK) 2019
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<br>Anchorage, Alaska, August 5, 2019.
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<br>held in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD 2019 conference.
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<br>URL: <a class="gmail-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.cs.vt.edu/~badityap/epidamik/">http://people.cs.vt.edu/~badityap/epidamik/</a>
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<br>***Organizers***
<br>- B. Aditya Prakash, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
<br>- Anil Vullikanti, Computer Science and Biocomplexity Institute, Univ.
of Virginia
<br>- Shweta Bansal, Biology, Georgetown University
<br>- Adam Sadilek, Google
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<br>***Call for Papers***
<br>This workshop is a forum to discuss new insights into how data mining
can play
<br>a bigger role in epidemiology and public health research. While the
<br>integration of data science methods into epidemiology has significant
<br>potential, it remains under studied. We aim to raise the profile of this
<br>emerging research area of data-driven and computational epidemiology, and
<br>create a venue for presenting state-of-the-art and in-progress results—in
<br>particular, results that would otherwise be difficult to present at a major
<br>data mining conference, including lessons learnt in the ‘trenches’. The
epiDAMIK at KDD in London, 2018 was a great success.
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<br>Our target audience consists of data mining and machine learning
researchers from both academia and industry who are interested in
epidemiological and public-health applications of their work.
Additionally, we are aiming to attract researchers and practitioners
from the areas of mathematical epidemiology and public health, who are
increasingly dealing with more complex models and novel data
sources––these problems bring up novel challenges from a data mining and
machine learning perspective.
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<br>To reflect the broad scope of work, we encourage submissions that span
the spectrum from theoretical analysis to algorithms and implementation,
to applications and empirical studies, from both data mining and public
health viewpoints.
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<br>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
<br>- Epidemiologically-relevant data collection
<br>- Advances in modeling, simulation and calibration of disease spread models
<br>- Syndromic surveillance using social media, search and other data sources
<br>- Challenges in model validation against ground truth
<br>- Outbreak detection and inference
<br>- Visualization of epidemiological data
<br>- Planning for public health policy
<br>- Data-driven advances in control and optimization (like immunization)
<br>- Forecasting disease outcomes
<br>- Graph mining and network science approaches to epidemiology
<br>- Crowdsourced methods for detection and forecasting
<br>- Use of novel datasets for prediction and analysis (including EHR records)
<br>- Data mining data for hospital acquired infections like C.Diff, MRSA etc.
<br>- Identifying health behaviors
<br>- Handling missing and noisy data
<br>- Disease forecasting challenge (like the CDC Flu Challenge) experiences
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<br>We invite the submission of regular research papers (6-8 pages) as well
as work-in-progress, demo or vision papers (2-4 pages). We also welcome
shorter version of papers already published elsewhere (say in a public
health focused journal). We recommend papers to be formatted according
to the standard double-column ACM Proceedings Style. All papers will be
peer reviewed and single-blinded. Authors whose papers are accepted to
the workshop will have the opportunity to participate in a poster
session, and some set may also be chosen for oral presentation. The
accepted papers will be published online and will not be considered
archival.
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<br>For paper submission, please proceed to the submission website:
<a class="gmail-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epidamik2019">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epidamik2019</a>
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<br>Please send any enquiries to <a class="gmail-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:epidamik@gmail.com">epidamik@gmail.com</a>.
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<br>****Important Dates****
<br>All deadlines are set at 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time.
<br> - Submission site open: April 10, 2019
<br> - Workshop paper submissions: May 20, 2019
<br> - Workshop paper notifications: June 14, 2019
<br> - Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2019
<br> - Workshop date: August 5, 2019 <br></div>