<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:107%"><b style=""><span lang="FR-CA" style="line-height:107%"><font face="monospace" style="">Neural Networks and Data Mining</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:107%"><b style="text-indent:0.5in"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Special Track at the </font></span></b><a href="https://www.flairs-37.info/home" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace;text-indent:0.5in;color:blue"><b>37th International FLAIRS Conference</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;line-height:107%"><b style="text-indent:0.5in"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace"> <font color="#000000">Miramar Beach, Florida,</font></font></span></b><b style="text-indent:0.5in"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace"> May 18-21, 2024</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:107%"><b><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Abstract Due Date: January
22 , 2024</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:107%"><b><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Submission Due Date: January 29 , 2024</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:107%"><span><b><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:black"><font face="monospace">Paper acceptance notification: March
11, 2024 </font></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:107%"><b style="font-family:monospace;text-indent:0.5in"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:black">Camera ready version : April 8, 2024<i> </i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:center;line-height:107%"><b><span lang="FR-CA" style="line-height:107%"><font face="monospace">Call for
Papers</font></span></b></p><font face="monospace">
The Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS) is a medium-sized interdisciplinary AI conference which is noted for its double-blind reviewing, free tutorials, and beautiful venues.<br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">This <span class="gmail-il">special</span> <span class="gmail-il">track</span> will be devoted to neural networks and data mining with the aim of presenting new and important contributions in these areas. Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work related to neural networks, data mining, or the intersection thereof. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way limited to):</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Applications such
as Pattern Recognition, Control and Process Monitoring, Biomedical
Applications, Robotics, Text Mining, Diagnostic Problems, Power Systems, Signal
Processing; Intelligence analysis, medical and health applications, text,
video, and multi-media mining, E-commerce and web data, financial data analysis,
cybersecurity, remote sensing, earth sciences, bioinformatics, and astronomy; </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Neural networks
such as new developments in Back Propagation, RBF, SVM, Deep Learning, Ensemble
Methods, Kernel Approaches; hybrid approaches such as Neural Networks/Genetic
Algorithms, Causal Nets trained with Backpropagation, and Neural Network/Fuzzy
Logic ; Acceleration of neural network modeling via software or hardware.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Other modeling
algorithms such as hidden Markov models, decision trees, statistical methods,
or probabilistic methods; case studies in areas of application, or over
different algorithms and approaches; graph modeling, pattern discovery, and
anomaly detection; feature extraction and selection; post-processing techniques
such as visualization, summarization, or trending; preprocessing and data
reduction; and knowledge engineering or warehousing.<a name="m_6445765739980001615__fr9va6omlsel"></a></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="monospace"><span><b><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Submission Guidelines</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="monospace"><span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Submitted papers <b>must be original</b>, and not submitted
concurrently to a journal or another conference. Double-blind reviewing will be
provided, so submitted papers must use fake author names and affiliations.
Papers must follow the FLAIRS template guidelines (</span></span><a href="https://www.flairs-37.info/call-for-papers" style="color:blue" target="_blank">https://www.flairs-37.info/call-for-papers</a><span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">) and be submitted as a PDF through the</span></span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs37" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(0,101,128)">EasyChair</span></span></a><span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"> conference system. (Do NOT use a fake name for your
EasyChair login; your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers.)</span></span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="monospace"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">FLAIRS will not accept any paper which, at the time of
submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not
to submit their papers elsewhere during FLAIRS's review period. These
restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and
similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and without archival
proceedings. Authors will be required to confirm that their submissions conform
to these requirements at the time of submission.</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="monospace"><span><b><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Conference Proceedings</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt"><span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="monospace">Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in
the conference proceedings.</font></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:9pt 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="monospace"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in 8pt;line-height:115%"><b><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Cochairs:</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">David Bisant, Central Security Svcs, <a href="mailto:bisant@umbc.edu" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">bisant@umbc.edu</span></a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Steven Gutstein, Booz Allen Hamilton, <a href="mailto:s.m.gutstein@gmail.com" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">s.m.gutstein@gmail.com</span></a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Lenin Mookiah, eBay, <a href="mailto:lenin.world@gmail.com" style="color:blue" target="_blank">lenin.world@gmail.com</a></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="monospace"><b><span lang="FR-CA">Program
committee</span></b><span lang="FR-CA">:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Martin
Atzmueller (University of Kassel, Germany)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Juan Banda (Montana State University, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Lori Bogren (SomaLogic, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="monospace"><span lang="FR-CA" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Chandrashekar Muniyappa (Upgrade Inc, USA)</span><span lang="FR-CA"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Yoni Fridman (Verizon Business Solutions, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Sergei Dolenko (M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Russian Federation)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Olac Fuentes (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Lawrence Holder (Washington State University, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Sheikh Rabiul Islam (University of Hartford, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Mike James (iProgrammer, United Kingdom)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Jacek Kukluk (Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Katrina Kutchko (Verizon Business Solutions, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Roberto Santana (University of Basque Country, Spain)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Hujun Yin (University of Manchester, UK)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Ramesh Paudel (Sysco Corp, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="FR-CA"><font face="monospace">Prabin Lamichhane (Tennessee Tech University, USA)</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><span lang="FR-CA" style=""><font face="monospace" style="">Hyoil Han (Illinois State University, USA)</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><span lang="FR-CA" style=""><font face="monospace" style=""><br></font></span></p></div>