Data Mining meetings & conferences

ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO)

October 29, 2012

In conjunction with ACM 20th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) Maui, Hawaii, USA

October 29-November 2, 2012

DTMBIO 12 organizers are pleased to announce that the sixth DTMBIO will be held in conjunction with CIKM, one of the largest data and text mining conferences. While CIKM presents the state-of-the-art research in informatics with the primary focus on data and text mining, the main focus of DTMBIO is on biomedical and healthcare informatics. DTMBIO delegates will bring forth interesting applications of up-to-date informatics in the context of biomedical research.

Biological researchers face the current challenge of making effective use of the enormous amount of electronic biomedical data in order to better understand and explain complex biological systems. The biomedical data repositories include data in a wide variety of forms, including bibliographic information from electronic medical journals, gene expression data from Microarray experiments, protein identification and quantification data from proteomics experiments, genomic sequences gathered by the Human Genome Project, and patient healthcare records. The ability to automatically and effectively extract, integrate, understand and make use of information embedded in such heterogeneous - structured and unstructured - data remains a challenging task.

Topic of Interest
The relevant topics include the following (but not limited to):

- Proposal and assessment of novel Text Mining (TM) evaluation
- Evaluation methods of biomedical applications, shared tasks
- Biomedical and Clinical text mining applications
- Information extraction from biomedical and clinical corpora (full texts, abstracts, EHRs, clinical trials, etc)
- Information retrieval from large biomedical data collections
- Gene sequence annotation
- Protein/RNA structure prediction
- Medical Ontologies and Text Mining
- Sequence and structural motifs
- Modeling of biochemical pathways and biological networks
- Image Mining in Medical and healthcare informatics
- Data and Text Mining solutions in biomedical informatics, for applications such as drug development, system biology, biomedical working processes
- Information integration for Data and Text Mining
- Mining multi-relational data

NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013

5 to 7 March 2013 Brussels, Belgium

NTTS (New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics) 2013 is an international scientific conference on the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems.

The purpose of the conference is to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects, to encourage cooperation and possible building of consortia by researchers with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics and to prepare activities related to research in statistics within the next European Framework Programme for Research and Development (Horizon 2020).

Previous NTTS conferences were organised in 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2009 and 2011.

The NTTS 2013 conference will take place from 5 to 7 March 2013 in Brussels.

Aim and scope

Present and share the outcomes of recent research activities in statistics in general and in official statistics including Eurostat ESSnet projects and VIP (Vision Infrastructure Projects).

Promote new research methodological and technological development for use by Official Statistics.

Present the new research framework from 2014 onwards (Horizon 2020) in terms of orientations and deadlines and prepare further content and partnership for possible proposals submission.

Discuss future needs and developments of research in statistics, new paradigms for data use, access and retrieval (open data, big data, organic data) and ICT developments and infrastructures for use by Official Statistics.

Conference topics

NTTS 2013 addresses research and development aspects related to innovative methods and techniques for official statistics with a particular emphasis on automatic and ICT-based methods. Papers are accepted in the following areas:

New ways of collecting, accessing and using big amount of data. The Cyber-infrastructure has changed the way data are collected, accessed and managed. New sampling techniques and new survey approaches and methodologies for Official Statistics are also an important aspect of this area.

Integration, consolidation, combination of multiple data sources. ICT-based surveys and cross-linking of statistical data and their combination with textual, spatial, transactional and/or image information coming from different sources are an example of this phenomenon. The combination and use of multiple types of ancillary information (administrative data, organic data) is another example.

Analysing data. The high dimensionality, large amount and diversity of data types and structures, require new paradigms, mathematical background, computational methods and modeling approaches for data mining and analysis. The need to monitor and measure policies at different geographical levels (Small Area Estimation) requires new modeling techniques. New paradigms like moving from data to statistical information and from statistical information to knowledge should be considered. Issues like estimation methods and management of non-response are also be part of this area.

Distributing, presenting and accessing data and microdata. ICT has deeply changed the way information is presented, distributed and accessed. This has an impact on statistical data dissemination, visualization and retrieval. Topics like narratives, remote access, graphical and data visualization tools, data confidentiality, synthetic files are included in this area.

Support for evidence-based policymaking. Robust and scalable indicators building models have been produced for decades. How can new indicators be generated using multiple data types and how can we ensure their quality? Topics on GDP and Beyond and Well-Being indicators are also part of this area.

Use of standards for Official statistics. The ESS is confronted with new requirements for designing the future architecture of integrated statistical production systems. This requires further research and development in the use and integration of meta/paradata and their format, reengineering of the statistical production chain using enterprise architecture modeling, new collaborative tools and innovative distributed environments.

Genome Informatics Workshop 2012

December 12-14, 2012 Tainan, Taiwan

Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW) is the longest running international bioinformatics conference in the world. The scope includes all works that are ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on the molecular basis and the aims are to present recent results of both theoretical and practical research, to demonstrate biological systems, and to show new applications and directions of future research. The first GIW was held at Tokyo in 1990. Since then, GIW has been held annually around the countries in Asia-Pacific region. This year's GIW is the 23rd anniversary and will be held at Tainan in Taiwan. The purpose of GIW2012 is to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to exchange ideas and approaches.

National Cheng Kung University and Taiwan Society for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (TSBSB) are honored to host the GIW2012. We are delighted to give you a warm welcome to Tainan in Taiwan.

Managing Interoperability & compleXity in Health Systems

held in conjunction with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM’12

October 29 to November 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

-- Bio-medical Data-Mining, Information retrieval and extraction and NLP on biomedical text

-- Inference and statistical Models of diseases & Multimorbidity

-- Clinical Information Retrieval, Management and Normalization

-- Medical Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Expert and Clinical Decision Support Systems -- Interoperability in Distributed healthcare Systems

-- Clinical Information and Interoperability Standards (e.g. HL7) Clinical Terminologies, Classifications (e.g. ICD 10) and
biomedical ontologies (e.g. SNOMED - CT)

-- Hospital Enterprise Information Management Systems, Electronic Health Record, (EHR), Clinical Document Architecture

International Federation for Information Processing/International Medical Informatics Association International Working Conference on Interfacing Bio- and Medical Informatics

27 September 2012 Amsterdam, the Netherlands

From 24 to 26 September 2012 the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is having its World Computer Congress WCC2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (www.wcc-2012.org). During the WCC2010 conference in Brisbane, Australia, IFIP and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) organized a joint conference for the first time in their history. Also this time a joint one-day associated meeting will be held on Thursday 27 September. The topic of this meeting will be the link between bioinformatics and medical informatics. IFIP’s Working Groups 5.13 Bioinformatics and its applications and IMIA’s Working Group on Informatics in Genomic Medicine (IGM) are working in this area and supporting this event.

Contact
Prof.dr. Arie Hasman e-mail: a.hasman@amc.uva.nl

Conference topics

Applications:

Personalized medicine

Cancer informatics

Population genetics

Bioinformatics approaches for diseases study

Genomics and proteomics in medicine

Analysis of gene expression, mutation, variations and next generation sequencing

Linking genotype with phenotype

Tools:

Databases, data management and integration

Query languages, information retrieval, interoperability, biomedical ontologies and semantics

Knowledge discovery, machine learning, pattern recognition and text mining

Data visualization

High-performance, grid and cloud computing

1st International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications

Held in conjuction with JCDL 2012 (ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).

June 14, 2012 - Washington, DC

Digital libraries that store scientific publications are becoming increasingly central to the research process. They are not only used for traditional tasks, such as finding and storing research outputs, but also as a source for discovering new research trends or evaluating research excellence. With the current growth of scientific publications deposited in digital libraries, it is no longer sufficient to provide only access to content. To aid research it is especially important to improve the process of how research is being done.

The recent development in natural language processing, information retrieval and the semantic web make it possible to transform the way we work with scientific publications. However, in order to be able to improve these technologies and carry out experiments, researchers need to be able to easily access and use large databases of scientific publications.

This workshop aims to bring together people from different backgrounds who:

(a) are interested in analysing and mining databases of scientific publications,
(b) develop systems that enable such analysis and mining of scientific databases or
(c) who develop novel technologies that improve the way research is being done.

TOPICS

The topics of the workshop will be organised around the following three themes:

Infrastructures, systems, datasets or APIs that enable analysis of large volumes of scientific publications.
Semantic enrichment of scientific publications by means of text-mining, crowdsourcing or other methods.
Analysis of large databases of scientific publications to identify research trends, high impact, cross-fertilisation between disciplines, research excellence etc.

Topics of interest relevant to theme 1 include, but are not limited to:

Systems, services, datasets or APIs for accessing scientific publications and/or research data. The existence of datasets, services, systems and APIs (in particular those that are open) providing access to large volumes of scientific publications and their metadata is an essential prerequisite for being able to research and develop new technologies that can transform the way people do research. We invite papers presenting new systems, services, APIs or datasets that enable people to access databases of scientific publications and carry out their analysis. Papers addressing Open Access are of a special interest. We also invite papers that discuss issues and current challenges in design of these systems or address the issues of accessing and managing scientific publications and/or research datasets.

Topics of interest relevant to theme 2 include, but are not limited to:

Novel information extraction and text-mining approaches to semantic enrichment of publications. This might range from mining publication structure, such as title, abstract, authors, citation information etc. to more challenging tasks, such as extracting names of applied methods, research questions (or scientific gaps), identifying parts of the scholarly discourse structure etc.

Automatic categorization and clustering of scientific publications. Methods that can automatically categorize publications according to an established subject-based classification/taxonomy (such as Library of Congress classification, UNESCO thesaurus, DOAJ subject classification, Library of Congress Subject Headings) are of particular interest. Other approaches might involve automatic clustering or classification of research publications according to various criteria.

New methods and models for connecting and interlinking scientific publications. Scientific publications in digital libraries are not isolated islands. Connecting publications using explicitly defined citations is very restrictive and has many disadvantages. We are interested in innovative technologies that can automatically connect and interlink publications or parts of publications, according to various criteria, such as semantic similarity, contradiction, argument support or other relationship types.

Models for semantically representing and annotating publications. This topic is related to aspects of semantically modeling publications and scholarly discourse. Models that are practical with respect to the state-of-the-art in Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies are of special interest.
Semantically enriching/annotating publications by crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing can be used in innovative ways to annotate publications with richer metadata or to approve/disapprove annotations created using text-mining or other approaches. We welcome papers that address the following questions: (a) what incentives should be provided to motivate users in contributing metadata, (b) how to apply crowdsourcing in the specialized domains of scientific publications, (c) what tasks in the domain of organising scientific publications is crowdsourcing suitable for and where it might fail, (d) other relevant crowdsourcing topics relevant to the domain of scientific publications.

Topics of interest relevant to theme 3 include, but are not limited to:

New methods, models and innovative approaches for measuring impact of publications. The most widely used metrics for measuring impact are based on citations. However, counting citations does not take into account the publication content and the qualitative nature of the citation. In addition, there is a delay between the publication and the measurable impact in citations. We in particular encourage papers addressing new ways of evaluating publications’ impact beyond standard citation measures.

New methods for measuring performance of researchers. Methods for assessing impact of a publication can often be extended to methods that can assess the impact of individual researchers. However, there are also other criteria for measuring impact in addition to publications, such as the development and publication of research data, economical and market impact, that should also be taken into account. We welcome papers addressing these aspects.

New methods for measuring impact of research groups. The same as for impact of individual researchers holds for research communities.
Methods for identifying research trends and cross-fertilization between research disciplines. Identifying research trends should allow discovering newly emerging disciplines or it should help to explain why certain fields are attracting the attention of a wider research community. Such monitoring is important for research funders and governments in order to be able to quickly respond to new developments. We invite papers discussing new methods for identifying trends and cross-fertilization between research disciplines using methods ranging from social network analysis and text- and data-mining to innovative visualization approaches.

Application of mining from scientific databases. New methods and models developed for mining from scientific publications can be applied in many different scenarios, such as improving access to scientific publications, providing exploratory search in digital collections, identifying experts. We encourage papers describing innovative approaches that use scientific publications and data to solve real-world problems.

EXPECTED AUDIENCE

The workshop on Mining Scientific Publications aims to bring together researchers, digital library developers and practitioners from government and industry to address the current challenges in the domain of mining scientific publications.

Fifth International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM 2012)

September 3rd and 4th, 2012 Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

The 5th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM) 3rd-4th September, 2012 will be held at the Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Support is provided by the projects SASEBio/OntoGene (SNF105315_130558/1) and MANTRA (EU FP7).

SMBM 2012 aims to bring together researchers from text and data mining in biomedicine, medical, bio- and chemoinformatics, and researchers from biomedical ontology design and engineering.

SMBM 2012 is the follow-up event of SMBM 2010 (EBI, U.K.), SMBM 2008 (University of Turku, Finland), SMBM 2006 (University of Jena, Germany), and SMBM 2005 (EBI, U.K.).

Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS).

[contact the organization committee via smbmzurich @ gmail.com]

3rd AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine: the Intersection of the Lab, the Clinic and the Community

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Society are pleased to announce the 3rd AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine: the intersection of the lab, the clinic and the community in Houston, TX, on 7th-9th November 2012 at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute in the Texas Medical Center.

This conference is devoted to the exploration of the intersection of engineering, medicine, and health. Emphasis will be placed on novel innovations that have a foreseeable impact on human health and disease. Specific areas of interest include Imaging; Nano Medicine; Data Mining and the Use of Large Datasets; Remote Sensing; Networks & Communication; Applied Metabolomics; Aerospace and Harsh Environments; and Global Health.

We invite participation by physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industrial leaders, government agencies and policy makers. The conference will be inaugurated by a keynote lecture and evening reception on Wednesday, 7th November. The following two days will feature plenary, break-out sessions and poster presentations focusing on Translational Engineering in Health & Medicine.

International Conference on Informatics and Applications (ICIA2012)

June 3-5, 2012 Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

You are invited to participate in The International Conference on Informatics & Applications that will be held in Malaysia, on June 3-5, 2012. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.

Topics are but not limited to below:

- Information Ethics

- Information Content Security
- Data Compression
- E-Technology
- E-Government
- E-Learning
- Cloud Computing
- Grid Computing
- Green Computing
- Access Controls
- Data Mining
- Social Search
- Computer Forensics
- Computer Security
- Peer-to-Peer Social Networks

- Information and Data Management
- Network Security
- Social Networks
- Real-Time Systems
- Internet Modeling
- Assurance of Service
- Image Processing
- Web Services Security
- Multimedia Computing
- Software Engineering
- Biometrics Technologies
- Wireless Communications
- Semantic Web, Ontologies
- Mobile Social Networks
- Distributed and Parallel Applications

- Embedded Systems and Software

- Critical Computing and Storage

- Critical Infrastructure Management

- Soft Computing Techniques

- Confidentiality Protection

- Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity

- Anti-cyberterrorism

- Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications

- Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications

- Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems

- Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
- User Interfaces,Visualization and Modeling
- Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
- Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
- Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
- Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems

- Computational Intelligence
- Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
- Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
- Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects
- User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications
- Sensor Networks and Social Sensing

- XML-Based Languages

- Cryptography and Data Protection
- Information Propagation on Social Networks
- Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks
- Computer Crime Prevention and Detection

Contact Us

For inquires, please send an email to icia [at] sdiwc.net

1st International Workshop on Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces Applied in Skills Transfer, Healthcare and Rehabilitation (IMIASH 2012)

In conjunction with The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE 12

Guanajuato, Mexico. June 26-29, 2012

The first International Workshop on Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces applied in skills transfer and healthcare and rehabilitation, co-located with the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 12) aims to bring together researches, developers and practitioners involved in the research area of machine learning, bio-signals processing, electronics, robotics, mechatronics, virtual & augmented reality, medicine and rehabilitation.

Nowadays, multimodal interfaces have changed and revolutionized the way that people communicate, interact and learn. Undoubtedly, we are living in an age where these technological improvements have increased the human potential at levels that have not been seen before. Day by day, thanks to the science and technology, we are able to see how the fiction is converted into reality and how the multimodal interfaces are naturally integrated in the current life. This strong integration between humans and technology represents an incredible opportunity to investigate the human behavior through this interaction and analyze all the potentialities and advantages when the multimodal interfaces are used in the field of skills transfer, healthcare and rehabilitation.

IMIASH 2012 has two main tracks:

Track I: Multimodal Interfaces applied in Skills Transfer

The use of new technologies has dramatically transformed the conventional methodologies in which humans learn. This track is focused in the human behavior of learning process in which motor skills activities are transmitted from intelligent multimodal interfaces to human beings. The research is focused to investigate how these learning processes could be applied using intelligent multimodal systems and virtual environments to transfer knowledge associated to human motor skills. Skills transfer is a trend in the scientific and technological development fields, which focuses on developing systems that can help the users (human beings) to learn different kinds of tasks. These systems are designed to deal with the acquisition, interpretation, storing and transfer of human skills by means of multimodal interfaces, Robotics, Haptics and Virtual Environments (VE) technologies. It also adopts cognitive sciences and interaction design methodologies in order to obtain a digital representation of the skills and to develop techniques for its capturing and rendering.

Track II: Multimodal Interfaces applied in healthcare and rehabilitation

Nowadays the multimodal interfaces in healthcare have been changing and improving the quality of life of the people, principally of handicapped people. Therefore, this track is focused in the design of multimodal systems that improves and accelerates the rehabilitation process of the patients through the use of robotic and electronic devices capable to help the users to carry out different routines in an accurate way.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Brain Computer Interfaces
Haptics
Robotics
Rehabilitation
Skills Transfer
Multimodal Platforms
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Computer Vision
Data Mining
Machine Learning Applications

If you have any inquiry, please, contact with Oscar Osvaldo Sandoval-Gonzalez at oscar [at] sandoval-gonzalez [dot] com