AIST-2024
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
October 17-19, 2024.
https://AISTconf.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to invite you to submit a paper to AIST’2024, a scientific conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts. The conference is intended for researchers and practitioners interested in data science focusing on innovative applications of data analysis and machine learning techniques to image processing, analysis of network data, text processing, and other domains, such as economics or geographic information systems.
The conference is designed for computer scientists and practitioners whose research interests are related to data science. The eleven previous editions of the AIST conference held in 2012-2023 attracted a significant number of students, researchers, academics, and engineers working on the analysis of images, texts, and social networks. The broad scope of AIST makes it an event where researchers from different domains, exploiting various data analysis techniques, can meet and exchange ideas. The conference allows specialists from different fields to meet each other, present their work, and discuss both theoretical and practical aspects of their data analysis problems. Another important aim of the conference is to stimulate scientists and people from the industry to benefit from the knowledge exchange and identify possible grounds for fruitful collaboration.


# Venue

The conference continues travelling to beautiful regions, and following Yerevan, Armenia in 2023 edition this year AIST will be held offline in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. More specifically the event is organized with support of Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University and The Cramer Project. Besides the scientific knowledge you will enjoy the nature of Kyrgyzstan and dive into local culture. The conference will feature representatives of the local data analysis community.

# Past Conferences

If you did not participate before in the AIST conference you can take a look at the proceedings of the last three years to get an idea about what kind of papers are accepted and what kind of topics are discussed at the conference. Proceeding of the previous years can be found below:
AIST-2023: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 14486 and Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) vol. 1905
AIST-2021: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 13217 and Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) vol. 1573
AIST-2020: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 12602 and Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) vol. 1357
AIST-2019: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 11832 and Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) vol. 1086
AIST-2018: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 11179
AIST-2017: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 10716
AIST-2016: Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) vol. 661
AIST-2015: Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) vol. 542
AIST-2014: Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) vol. 436

# Tracks

Submission can be made in one of the following tracks chaired by experts in the respective fields:
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Vision
- Data Analysis and Machine Learning
- Network Analysis
- Theoretical Machine Learning and Optimization

More generally we are encouraging submission on any application of deep learning and data analysis including, but not limited to the following topics:
- Analysis of images and video
- Analytics for geoinformation systems
- Computational linguistics
- Core data mining and machine learning techniques
- Discovering and analyzing processes using event data
- Deep learning applications
- Educational data mining
- Game analytics
- Machine learning and data mining for economics and social sciences
- Natural language processing and applications
- Optimization problems in complex networks
- Recommendation systems and collaborative technologies
- Semantic web and ontologies
- Social network analysis

# Important Dates

Abstract deadline
- July 15, 2024

Submission deadline
- August 01, 2024

Notification of acceptance
- September 01, 2023

Camera-ready papers due
- September 15, 2024

Conference dates
- October 17 – 19, 2024

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth").


# Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers describing completed research with 8-12 pages of content with references.

The papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. LaTeX template of the Springer LNCS is available at Overleaf platform. We encourage you to use the LaTeX template instead of the Word template.
Papers should be submitted through the OpenReview conference management system. Submitted papers should be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to assess the merits of the paper on the basis of technical quality, relevance to the conference topics, originality, significance, and clarity of presentation.
The program committee expects that authors are ready to submit high-quality research papers. We also require at least one of the authors to attend the conference to present their study. Papers should present original work previously not published or concurrently submitted to another conference or journal.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three PC members. To ensure a fair assessment of the submissions, the review will be double-blind, so you need to make your paper anonymous(remove links to your personal pages, acknowledgments, affiliations, etc.). Your work will be rejected in case you did not anonymize properly your paper. However, ArXiv pre-prints are allowed to be submitted.

# Program Committee

Please, refer https://aistconf.org/committees/program for the past year PC members.

# Organizing Committee

- Alpaslan Aşık, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Local Committee
- Saltanat Mambaeva, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Local Committee
- Aida Kasieva, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Local Committee
- Irina Nikishina, University of Hamburg
- Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics
- Evgenii Tsymbalov, Apptek
- Alexander Panchenko, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology & AIRI

# Contact Information

All questions about submissions should be emailed to org@aistconf.org. See more details about the conference at aistconf.org. Updates about the conference are published on the conference main page, as well as on our Facebook, Instagram and VK groups.