Connectionists: CFP - DSAA-2018 Special Session Proposals - submission deadline: 5 Mar 2018

[Sofus Macskássy]

 Dear List,

Please see the call for proposals for DSAA-2018 Special Sessions below.
Please contact the organizing committee if you have any questions.

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IEEE DSAA 2018 Call for Special Session Proposals

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Important Dates

* Proposal submission: March 5, 2018
* Acceptance notification: March 12, 2018
* Special session dates: Oct 2 – 4, 2018

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IEEE DSAA Introduction

The IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics
(DSAA) aims to be the flagship annual meeting spanning the
interdisciplinary field of Data Science. DSAA focuses on the science of
data science, as well as the implications of the science for applications
to industry, government, and society.  From the science side, DSAA spans
all of the component fields of data science, including statistics,
probabilistic and mathematical modeling, machine learning, data mining and
knowledge discovery, complexity science, network science, business
analytics, data management, infrastructure and storage, retrieval and
search, security, privacy and ethics.  From the applications side, DSAA
aims both to show researchers important problems and issues that are
revealed by real applications, and to show practitioners and users how the
science can be applied to realize value.  DSAA is intended to reflect the
interdisciplinary nature of data science and analytics, as an alternative
to the highly specialized disciplinary conferences.

DSAA-2018 in Turin, Italy, is the 5th annual installment of the
conference.  This year brings the full collaboration of the American
Statistical Association, to complement the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society and the ACM SIGKDD.  This year DSAA also adds the support of the
ISI Foundation, which has worked for 35 years to break down traditional
silos in the sciences of complexity and data.

DSAA-2018 aims to provide a premier forum that brings together researchers,
industry and government practitioners, as well as developers and users of
big data business for exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical
developments in Data Science as well as on the best practice for a wide
range of applications.


=== DSAA Special Sessions ===

Special sessions play a big role in promoting relevant focused areas that
are not well covered in the main conference tracks, bringing together
researchers, industry experts, practitioners and potential users who are
interested in different aspects of data science and analytics.

DSAA 2018 will feature a number of special sessions that are intended to
cover some of the relevant but more specialized topics. For the record,
DSAA 2017 featured 8 special sessions, the list of which is available
online at the 2017 conference Web page.

Special session proposals will be reviewed based on the quality of the
proposals and their relationship to the main conference topics; preference
will be given to timely topics that will favor highly interactive
discussions and exchange of ideas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  * Fairness and Ethics
  * Civic Rights
  * Discrimination
  * Financial and Banking Data: Opportunities and Risks
  * Social Good
  * Emergence of Inequalities
  * Education
  * Safety
  * Fraud Detection vs Privacy Concerns
  * Fake News vs. Censorship
  * Health
  * Uses and Limitations of Deep Learning
  * Causality
  * Other emerging topics


=== Logistics ===

Both the paper submission date and the notification date for all special
sessions are the same as those of the main conference tracks. Special
session organizers will form a program committee, will assign reviewers to
papers and will make recommendations of acceptance/rejection for papers in
their sessions.


=== DSAA Special Session Paper Selection and Publishing ===

To guarantee a uniform quality control for special sessions and to be
consistent with the main conference, final decisions of
acceptance/rejection are done by the DSAA program chair and/or general
chair.

Special sessions proposals should be submitted to the special session
chairs at the following email address: dsaa2018_ss at isi.it

The special session proposals must include:
  1. Title,
  2. Aims and scope,
  3. Topics of interest,
  4. Relevance to the main conference tracks and topics,
  5. Organizers,
  6. Past special sessions or relevant events, and
  7. Potential committee members
  8. Potential invited speakers

For each organizer in (5), provide name, affiliation, country, email and a
short biographical sketch, describing relevant qualifications and
experience; identify at least one organizer as the contact person.

For (6), list any special session or relevant events (e.g. workshops) the
organizers have organized in recent years; for each, list the year, the
conference, number of submissions, number of papers accepted, number of
participants, etc.

For (7), give a list of qualified committee members who could be invited.

For (8), please consider to provide the names of one or two authoritative
speakers that could open the special session, and that can deliver a
comprehensive overview of the topic of interests.

Accepted special session papers will be included in IEEE Xplore.


=== Special Session Chairs ===

Sofus Macskassy
HackerRank

Giancarlo Ruffo
University of Turin


=== Important Dates ===

  * Proposal submission: March 5, 2018
  * Acceptance notification: March 12, 2018
  * Special session dates: Oct 2 – 4, 2018


=== Website and Contact Information ===

For further information about the sessions and DSAA-2019, please visit:
https://dsaa2018.isi.it/calls/call-for-special-sessions

We look forward to your participation,

The DCAA-2018 Special Sessions Committee
Email: dsaa2018_ss at isi.it

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