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<font face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000" style="font-weight: normal;">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">1st International Conference on the Frontiers and Advances in Data Science (FADS)</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">23-25 October 2017, Xian, China</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">Our lives and society have been transformed by advances in modern information and communication technologies. Devices such as mobile phones and tablets and applications such as social networks have changed how
we interact with the world around us and each other and the way we conduct business, government and science. With computational technologies permeating almost all aspects of human activity the amount of data being generated is constantly increasing and we
are surrounded by a wealth of new forms of data. We are at the cusp of a new data and information revolution.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">This proliferation of data calls for novel, multi and interdisciplinary approaches in data science and analytics to tackle the problems that data pose. New approaches for harnessing data and drawing insights will
bring huge benefits to fields as diverse as health, finance, running smarter cities, the environment, business and public policy.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">The First International Conference on Frontiers and Advances in Data Science (FADS) will bring together scientists, professionals, industry practitioners and users from range of disciplinary backgrounds and application
domains to share knowledge and the latest developments in data science and analytics. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">We invite the submission of original and previously unpublished theoretical and practical work in all fields of data science and analytics including methodologies and techniques for big data. All submissions will
be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee on the basis of novelty, technical quality, relevance to the conference theme, significance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and selected
papers will be invited to a special Journal issue.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">Further information is available from the FADS 2017 website <a href="http://www.fads.org.uk" style="color: fuchsia;">http://www.fads.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">FADS welcomes submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">Data Science Foundations<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Machine Learning <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Mathematical and statistical models<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Novel theoretical models<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Computational Models<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Preprocessing and dimensionality reduction<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Efficiency and complexity<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Optimization <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">Analytics<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Multi-stream reasoning and analytics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Text analysis and mining<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Causal inference<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Visualisation <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Modelling complex and big data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Personalisation analytics and recommender systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Social network analytics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Multimedia/image processing and analytics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Information retrieval and search<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Semantic information extraction and reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">Data Infrastructure and Management<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">New data standards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data cleansing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data integration<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data sharing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data linkage<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data curation and publishing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing architectures<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Distributed and parallel/high performance processing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data warehouses<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Open platforms for analytics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Big data architectures and platforms<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">Security, governance and privacy<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Governance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Intrusion, anomaly and threat detection<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data integrity<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Data security and risk<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Trust and trust management<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Privacy preserving techniques and anonymisation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Privacy protection standards and policies<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Legal aspects of analytics and big data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Ethical considerations in the era of analytics and big data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">New business models<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Sociological aspects of analytics and big data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Analytics and big data for sustainable development<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Analytics and big data for the social good<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3">Applications<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Scientific applications of analytics and big data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Internet of Things<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Internet of Persons<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Smart Cities and Transport<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Business and Finance Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Healthcare analytics and decision support<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Decision making and support systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Analytics and big data for policy making and the public sector<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Social networks and applications <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Industrial applications of analytics and big data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Analytics for telecommunications and networks applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></font></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; border: none;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">Paper Submission deadline: </span><span style="border: none; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="border: none;">10th
July 2017</span><span style="border: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; border: none;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance: </span><span style="border: none;">20th August 2017</span><span style="border: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; border: none;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">Camera-ready Manuscript: </span><span style="border: none;">1st September 2017</span><span style="border: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; border: none;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">Registration deadline: (for accepted papers): </span><span style="border: none; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="border: none;">10th
September 2017</span><span style="border: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Prof Maria Fasli, UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Prof Peng Jinye, Dean of School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">Prof Hangzai Luo, Northwest University, China<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">Prof Frank Wang, University of Kent, UK<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">Prof Mohammad Essaaidi, ENSYAS, Morocco<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: windowtext;">Prof Bruce Bassett, University of Cape Town; AIMS, South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="mailto:fads@essex.ac.uk" style="color: fuchsia;">fads@essex.ac.uk</a>; iads@essex.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(48, 186, 166);">Professor Maria Fasli</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(207, 35, 107);"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(24, 55, 106);">PhD, NTF, FHEA </span></font></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(24, 55, 106);"><font face="Arial" size="3">UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science</font></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(24, 55, 106);"><font face="Arial" size="3">Director, Institute for Analytics and Data Science</font></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(24, 55, 106);"><font face="Arial" size="3">University of Essex</font></span></p>
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