Connectionists: IEEE/ACM/ASA DSAA'2021: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS

[Carlos]

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IEEE/ACM/ASA DSAA'2021

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS



https://dsaa2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/calls/special-sessions

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Important Dates

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* Special Session Proposal Due:                                       21
February 2021

* Special Session Proposal Notification: 28 February 2021

* Paper Submission Deadline: as for the main
conference                        23 May 2021

* Special Session Paper Notification: as for the main
conference            25 July 2021



About DSAA Special Sessions
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DSAA Special Sessions are an important part of the main conference
program. They bring together researchers, industry experts,
practitioners, and potential users who are interested in cultivating
specialized and important aspects of data science and analytics.



DSAA Special Sessions are intended to promote EMERGING data science
research areas that are not well established and covered in the main
conference tracks, while featuring much higher quality, integrity and
impact of presentations than classic workshops typically hosted in all
major conferences. The same evaluation criteria and quality level apply
as for the main conference, but the papers must adhere to the area of
the special session they are submitted to, and the reviewers are experts
in that area.



Many real-world challenges call for interdisciplinary solutions and a
dialog of cultures. In DSAA 2021, we particularly encourage proposals
for special sessions that promote such a dialog, e.g. on statistics and
data mining, pattern recognition and statistics, data mining and simulation.



We welcome proposals that promote a more intensive interaction between
different communities and proposals that promote cooperation to solve
interdisciplinary problems. Proposals on special sessions on how
interdisciplinary data science can make the world stronger against
disease, outbreaks are strongly encouraged.



Thus, special sessions might focus on:



a) topics on the border of data science research area,

b) advanced topics within the data science research area, or

c) specific application areas for data science.





Special Session Proposal Submission and Review

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Proposals for hosting special sessions at DSAA 2021 are welcome. The
proposals must address:



(1) Title

(2) Aims and scope

(3) Topics of interest

(4) Relevance to the DSAA main conference tracks and topics

(5) Organizers

(6) Past special sessions or relevant experiences or track records

(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 in DSAA or other major
conferences; 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 would be invited.



For (8), please 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 interest.



Special session proposals will be reviewed based on the above criteria
and quality of the proposals as well as their relationship to the main
conference topics. Preference may be given to timely topics that are
critical for data science and analytics, inspire highly interactive
discussions, and showcase the impact of data science and analytics.



Proposers are encouraged to give an estimation of the number of
submissions they expect.



Submission of a special session:

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https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DSAA2021


Carlos Ferreira


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