2nd INNS Conference on Big Data 2016, October 23rd-25th, Thessaloniki, Greece
Big data is not just about storage of and access to data. Analytics play a big role in making sense of that data and exploiting its value. But learning from big data has become a significant challenge and requires development of new types of algorithms. Most machine learning algorithms can’t easily scale up to big data. Plus there are challenges of high-dimensionality, velocity and variety.
The neural network field has historically focused on algorithms that learn in an online, incremental mode without requiring in-memory access to huge amounts of data. This type of learning is not only ideal for streaming data (as in the Industrial Internet or the Internet of Things), but could also be used on stored big data. Neural network technologies thus can become significant components of big data analytics platforms and this inaugural INNS Conference on Big Data will begin that collaborative adventure with big data and other learning technologies.
Thus the aim of this conference is to promote new advances and research directions in efficient and innovative algorithmic approaches to analyzing big data (e.g. deep networks, nature-inspired and brain-inspired algorithms), implementations on different computing platforms (e.g. neuromorphic, GPUs, clouds, clusters) and applications of Big Data Analytics to solve real-world problems (e.g. weather prediction, transportation, energy management).
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Important dates
Paper submission: June 27th, 2016
Notification of paper acceptance: July 10th, 2016
Camera-ready submission (CCIS): July 17th, 2016
Early registration: July 19th, 2016
Registration deadline: Papers without confirmed registration by July 19th, 2016 risk their inclusion in the proceedings.
Conference Dates: 23-25 October, 2016
Venue
Grand Hotel Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece - 5 star
Invited speakers
Piotr Mirowski, Google Deep Mind, London, UK, Previous Position: Researcher on Big Data in Microsoft, Bell Laboratories, New York University Associate Editor Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, New York Francesco Bonchi, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy, Scientific Director for Data Mining at Eurecat (Technological Center of Catalunya), Barcelona Habil. Rudolf Kruse Faculty of Computer Science, OVG University of Magdeburg, Germany Steve Furber Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK Paper Submission and Publication
Original works submitted as a regular paper limited to a maximum of 14 pages in Springer format will be published in the proceedings to be available electronically as a Springer book in ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND COMPUTING Series, to download for delegates. It will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. At least one author of an accepted submission to the conference should register with a regular fee to present their work at the conference. Special Issue
A number of papers will be selected after the conference for possible inclusion in a special issue of BIG DATA RESEARCH journal (Elsevier)
Awards
Best papers will be selected and awarded
Best regular paper Best student paper Will be based on a combination of reviewers' comments, presentations and importance and quality judged by a panel. Best paper awards (500 Euros) are donated by the sponsor Springer Verlag, Germany and will be commemorated by a certificate.
Topics and Areas
Include, but not limited to:
Autonomous, online, incremental learning – theory, algorithms and applications in big data High dimensional data, feature selection, feature transformation – theory, algorithms and applications for big data Scalable algorithms for big data Learning algorithms for high-velocity streaming data Big data streams analytics Deep neural network learning Machine vision and big data Brain-machine interfaces and big data Cognitive modeling and big data Embodied robotics and big data Fuzzy systems and big data Evolutionary systems and big data Evolving systems for big data analytics Neuromorphic hardware for scalable machine learning Parallel and distributed computing for big data analytics (cloud, map-reduce, etc.) Big data and collective intelligence/collaborative learning Big data and hybrid systems Big data and self-aware systems Big Data and infrastructure Big data analytics and healthcare/medical applications Big data analytics and energy systems/smart grids Big data analytics and transportation systems Big data analytics in large sensor networks Big data and machine learning in computational biology, bioinformatics Recommendation systems/collaborative filtering for big data Big data visualization Online multimedia/ stream/ text analytics Link and graph mining Big data and cloud computing, large scale stream processing on the cloud
Organizing committees
General Chairs Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Program Chairs Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Asim Roy, Arizona State University, Tempe USA Marley Vellasco, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Advisory Chairs Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Ali Minai, University of Cincinnati, USA Danil Prokhorov, Toyota Tech Center, Michigan, USA Theodore Trafalis University of Oklahoma, USA G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Clemson University, USA Tutorials/Workshop Chairs Bernardete Ribeiro, Portugal Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Poster Session Chairs Yi Lu Murphey, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Special Sessions Chairs Luca Oneto, University of Genoa, Italy Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Panel Chairs - Leonid Perlovsky, Harvard University, Boston, USA Awards Chair - Araceli Sanchis de Miguel, Carlos III University, Spain Competitions Chairs - Adel Alimi, University of Sfax, Tunisia Publication Chairs Mariette Awad, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Danilo Mandic, Imperial College, London, UK Publicity Chairs Simone Scardapane, The Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Jose Antonio Iglesias, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Teng Teck Hou, Singapore Management University, Singapore International Liaison Chairs De-Shuang Huang, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Petia Georgieva, University of Aveiro, Portugal Local Organizing Committee - Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece WebMaster - Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece
Co-Sponsors
International Neural Network Society (INNS) Springer