Special Session: Advances in Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition with Applications Call for Papers

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Special Session: Advances in Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition with Applications
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This session is honouring the memory of the conference founder the
late Professor Mohamed Kamel, who passed away on December 4, 2015. The
current session is organized by former students and associates of
Professor Kamel. The aim of this special session is to bring together
researchers and practitioners working in the area of data analytics
and pattern recognition with emphasis on addressing practical
challenges.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

. Multimodal-based pattern recognition
. Data fusion and integration methods
. Automating data cleaning and pre-processing
. Preserving privacy in data mining
. Adaptive data mining algorithms for non-stationary data
. Big data mining
. Applications: healthcare, social media, bioinformatics, genomics, speech
  recognition, image analysis, text mining, natural language processing, financial
  data analytics, industrial data analytics, predictive analytics, prescriptive
  analytics, etc.

Submission Procedure
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Authors are invited to submit full papers showing original research
contributions.  The conference proceedings will be published in the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer
LNCS). Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the ICIAR 2016 submission system by March
14, 2016, selecting the special session topic in their submission. All
submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent
reviewers.


Important Dates
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. Paper submission deadline: March 14, 2016
. Notification: April 11, 2016
. Camera-ready version: April 25, 2016
. Conference: July 13-15, 2016


Special Session Chairs
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Chair Dr. Alaa Khamis
Centre for Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence (CPAMI), University of Waterloo
akhamis@pami.uwaterloo.ca

co Chair Dr. Yun-Qian Miao
NCR Canada Ltd.
yqmiao@uwaterloo.ca

co Chair Dr. Khaled Hammouda
D2L Corp.
khaledh@aimiconf.org

co Chair Dr. Ahmed K. Farahat
Research Scientist, R&D Division, Hitachi America. Ltd.
ahmed.farahat@hal.hitachi.com