************ DEADLINE APPROACHING: JULY 31, 2012 **********************


Call for Papers


EGC-M 2012: The 3rd International Conference on the Extraction and Management of Knowledge - Maghreb

EGC-M 2012
November 12, 2012 – November 15, 2012
Hammamet, Tunisia
http://egcm.uae.ma/index.php/en/


Objectives:

EGC-M is an annual leading International Conference on Extraction and Management of Knowledge. The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers and actors from academia, industry, and government to advance the science, engineering, and technology in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). EGC-M was started in 2010. The previous conferences will held in Alger, Algeria (2010) and Tangier, Morocco (2011).
The 3rd EGC-M Conference on the Extraction and Management of Knowledge Discovery (EGC-M 2012) will be held in Tunis, Tunisia. This conference will be organized by the High Institute of Computer Science of Tunis (http://www.isi.rnu.tn/isi/). The conference will include two workshops, four invited talks, regular papers and PhD sessions.
Paper submission details:
We invite submission of high-quality papers reporting original research on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining. We especially encourage submissions that promote the advancement of KDD as a scientific and engineering discipline and submissions that bridge between different disciplines. All submitted papers will be judged based on their technical soundness, potential impact, rigor, significance, originality, repeatability, relevance, and clarity. Papers submitted to EGC-M 2012 should be original work, not previously published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal. Substantially similar versions of the paper submitted to EGC-M 2012 should not be under review in another peer-reviewed conference or journal during the EGC-M 2012 reviewing period.
Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Authors are expected to agree to the following terms: "I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission." Duplicate submissions will be rejected immediately without review.
Author information’s:
Authors are welcome to submit original contributions on the topics of the conference. As a rule, all the contributions will be peer-reviewed by three members of the Program Committee and thereafter by the members of the Steering Committee, who will finally decide on acceptance of the papers. All the accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings book of the conference.
Authors are invited to electronically submit original research contributions or experience reports in English or French. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings.
EGC-M Award:
The EGC-M Prize is awarded each year to recognize high-quality papers that are presented at the EGC-M annual conference. The Best Paper Award is given for the paper judged to make the most significant contribution to the conference. The judges may make their assessment based on the papers contained in the proceedings, and on their oral presentations. However, for a paper to gain this award one of the authors must have attended the conference and presented the paper. In making their decision the judges will take the following criteria into account:
- Originality of the work.
- Quality of the research and results presented.
- Relevance of the work.
- Quality of the oral presentation.
Authors are encouraged to communicate with the conference chairs about any aspect of this call for papers.
Formatting instructions:
Contributions, written in English or French, must be formatted according to the guidelines of the ACM style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The length of the contribution must be no more than 6 pages double column in the ACM format, including figures, title pages, references and appendices. Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review. Only papers using the LaTeX typesetting system will be accepted.
All submitted papers will be judged through triple-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a good-faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. Please take the following steps when preparing your submission:
- Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
- Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.
- Use care in naming your files. Source file names (e.g., "Alice-n-Bob.dvi") are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments.
- Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author.
Electronic submission:
The papers, in PDF format, must be submitted only electronically before the submission deadline (See Important dates). The submission site will be open from June 2012. All abstracts, submissions and reviews are handled by the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/).

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Data mining algorithms (supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised)
* Data mining foundations and theory
* Dimensionality reduction and feature selection
* Mining dynamic and evolving data
* Graph mining
* Mining semi-structured data
* Mining spatial and temporal data
* Mining stream data
* Mixed-initiative data mining and active learning
* Outlier analysis and anomaly detection
* Parallel and distributed data mining
* Pattern mining and association analysis
* Robust and highly scalable data mining algorithms
* Similarity search in data mining
* Biological and medical data mining
* Software mining
* Data mining in social sciences and social networks
* Mining sensor data
* Web and text mining
* Multimedia and image mining
* Data mining for other novel applications
* Data integration and indexing for data mining
* Data visualization for data mining
* KDD methodology and process
* Platforms and systems for KDD
* Security and privacy issues in data mining

Important dates:
* Abstract registration due : July 10, 2012
* Submission due : July 31, 2012
* Author notification : September 20, 2012
* Camera-ready papers due : October 5, 2012
* Conference date : November 12-15, 2012




Conference chairs:
Yahya SLIMANI, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El-Manar (Tunisie)
Ezzeddine ZAGROUBA, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)

Steering Committee:
Yahya Slimani (Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisie), Chair
Mouloud Koudil (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Oued-Smar, Algérie)
Karima Benatchba (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Oued-Smar, Algérie)
Abdessamed Reda Ghomari (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Oued-Smar, Algérie)
Hatem Haddad (Ecole Supérieure de Sciences et Technologie, Hammam Sousse, Tunisie)
Khedija Arour (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunis, Tunisie)
Chiraz Laatiri (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Manouba, Tunisie)
Abderrahmane Sbihi (Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Tanger, Maroc)
Ahmed Moussa (Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Tanger, Maroc)
Hassan Badir (Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Tanger, Maroc)
Ould Abdellahi Ahmedou, (Faculté des Sciences de Nouakchott, Mauritanie)
Ould Haouba Ahmedou, (Faculté des Sciences de Nouakchott, Mauritanie)
El-Mouadib Faraj (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Garyounis-Benghazi, Lybia)

Local Organization Committee:

Ezzeddine Zagrouba, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie), Chair
Adel Khalfallah, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Naoufel Kraïem, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Olfa Mourali, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Najiba Mrabet-Bellaaj, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Jamil Dimassi, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Rym Kaabi, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Sohbi Bahroun, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Walid Barhoumi, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, (Tunisie)
Chiraz Laatiri, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Manouba, (Tunisie)
Khedija Arour, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunis, (Tunisie)
Taoufik Yeferni, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, (Tunisie)
Moez Ben Haj Hmida, ISSAT Sousse (Tunisie)

Program Committee:


Abdelmalek Amine, Université Saïda, Algérie
Abouchabaka Jaafar, FS, Kenitra, Maroc
Admane Lotfi, ESI, Algérie
Ahmed Nacer Mohamed, USTHB, Algérie
Ahmed Ouamer Rachid, Université de Tizi Ouzou, Algérie
Alata Olivier, Université de Poitiers, France
Alimazighi Zaia, USTHB, Algérie
Almarimi Abdelsalam Abdelhamid, Higher Institute of Electronics Baniwalid, Lybia
Arour Khedija, INSAT, Tunisie
Aufaure Marie-Aude, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
Aussenac Gilles Nathalie, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Badir Hassan, ENSA Université Abdelmalek Essaadi Tanger, Maroc
Balla Amar, ESI, Algérie
Belbachir Hafida, USTO, Algérie
Belkhir Abdelkader, USTHB, Algérie
Belkhiter Nadir, Université Laval, Canada
Ben Abdallah Hanen, FSEG Sfax, Tunisie
Benabdeslem Khalid, Université Lyon 1, France
Benatchba Karima, ESI, Algérie
Benhamadou Abdelmajid, ISIM Sfax, Tunisie
Benslimane Djamel, Université Lyon 1, France
Ben Sta Hathem, ISI Tunis, Tunisie
Ben Yahia Sadok, FST Tunis, Tunisie
Berti Equille Laure, IRISA Rennes 1, France
Borgi Amel, INSAT, Tunisie
Boufaden Narjess, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, Canada
Boufaida Mahmoud, UMC Constantine, Algérie
Boufaida Zizette, UMC Constantine, Algérie
Bouhadada Tahar, UBBM Annaba, Algérie
Boukala Malika, USTHB, Algérie
Boulmakoul Azedine, FST Université Hassan 2 Mohammedia, Maroc
Bouzeghoub Mokrane, Université de Versailles, France
Bouzidi Sonia, INSAT, Tunisie
Chalal Rachid, ESI, Algérie
Chiadmi Dalila, EMI Université Mohammed V Rabat, Maroc
Daoudi Mostafa, ENSA Université Med 1er Oujda, Maroc
De Marchi Fabien, Université Lyon 1, France
Descombes Xavier, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Despres Sylvie, Université Paris 13, France
Doggaz Narjess, FST Tunis, Tunisie
El Baqqali Omar, FS Université Mohammed Ben Abdellah Fès, Maroc
El-Mouadib Faraj, Faculty of Information Tech. University of Garyounis, Lybia
Elloumi Samir, FST Tunis, Tunisie
Faci Noura, LIRIS, Université Lyon 1, France
Faron Zucker Catherine, Polytech'Nice, France
Feki Jamel, FSEG Sfax, Tunisie
Fernandez-Maloigne Christine, Univ. Poitiers, France
Flouvat Frédéric, Université la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouvelle-Calédonie
Hajji Hicham, IAV Hassan II, Rabat, Maroc
Gammoudi Mohamed Mohsen, ESSAI, Tunisie
Gargouri Faïez, ISAMM Sfax, Tunisie
Ghdira Chirine, Université Lyon 1, France
Ghomari Abdessamed Réda, ESI, Algérie
Ghoualmi Nacera, UBBM Annaba, Algérie
Govaert Gérard, Université de Compiègne, France
Haddad Hatem, ESST Hammam Sousse, Tunisie
Hamrouni Tarek, ISAMM Manouba, Tunisie
Hassan Abdelwahab, Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech, Maroc
Jayousi Rashid, Université Al Qods, Palestine
Karmouch Ahmed, EECS, University of Ottawa, Canada
Kechadi Tahar, University College Dublin Belfield, Ireland
Koudil Mouloud, ESI, Algérie
Kuntz Pascale, Université Nantes, France
Laatiri Chiraz, ESC Manouba, Tunisie
Laurent Anne, Ecole Polytechnique de Montpellier, France
Lbath Ahmed, Université Joseph Fourrier Grenoble, France
Lehireche Ahmed, Université Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algérie
Lotfi Lakhal, Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille, France
Lumineau Nicolas, Université Lyon 1, France
Maach Abdelilah, EMI Université Mohammed V Rabat, Maroc
Malki Mimoun, Université Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algérie
Mephu Nguifo Engelbert, Université Clermont-Ferrand, France
Mokhtari Aicha, USTHB, Algérie
Mourali Olfa, ISI, Tunis, Tunisie
Moussa Ahmed, ENSA Université Abdelmalek Essaadi Tanger, Maroc
Moussaoui Abdellouahab, Université de Sétif, Algérie
Mrabet-Bellaaj Najiba, ISI, Tunis, Tunisie
Nader Fahima, ESI, Algérie
Nourine Lahouari, Université Clermont-Ferrand, France
Oukid-Khouas Saliha, Université de Blida, Algérie
Ould Abdellahi Ahmedou, FS Université de Nouakchott, Mauritanie
Ould Haouba Ahmedou, FS Université de Nouakchott, Mauritanie
Pasquier Nicolas, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Poncelet Pascal, Université Montpellier 2, France
Rattrout Amjad, Université Lyon 1, France
Rioult François, Université Caen, France
Saïs Fatiha, IUT Orsay, France
Saitta Lorenza, Université del Piemonte Orientale, Italie
Salleb-Aouissi Ansaf, University of Columbia, USA
Sbihi Abderrahmane, ENSA Université Abdelmalek Essaadi Tanger, Maroc
Slimani Yahya, FST Tunis, Tunisie
Smaïli Kamel, Université Nancy 2, France
Soumaré Assane, FS Université de Nouakchott, Mauritanie
Talia Domenico, Università della Calabria, Italy
Tanasescu Adrian, Rithme, Lyon France
Tari Abdelkamel, Université de Bejaia, Algérie
Trousse Brigitte, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Yetongnon Kokou, Université Bourgogne Dijon, France
Zagrouba Ezzeddine, ISI Tunis, Tunisie
Zighed Djamel, Université Lyon 2, France
Zubi Zakaria, FS Al-Tahadi University, Lybia


For any further informations, please contat the conference chair: yahya.slimani@fst.rnu.tn