CALL FOR PAPERS -- AI, ML, DM Track at ISCIS 2009
24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences

AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining -- Track

September 14-16, 2009
Guzelyurt, North Cyprus
http://iscis.metu.edu.tr/

Authors are invited to submit original papers to the "AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining" track of
the "24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences" (ISCIS-2009).
ISCIS is a large annual gathering of researchers from a broad spectrum of Computer and Information Sciences.
The wide range of applications of AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining have attracted large number of high quality
submissions over the pasr years; participants mainly enjoy the multidisciplinary research results presented at ISCIS.

The event will be composed of research presentations, keynote speeches, invited talks, and poster presentations.
This year, ISCIS will be held on Sep 14-16, 2009, in North Cyprus, which combines beautiful bays with a sunny
climate all year around.


The submitted papers are expected to be in broad areas of AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining, including

- Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation
- Handling imbalanced data
- New algorithms for association rules, classification, clustering, pattern discovery, etc
- Models and algorithms for emerging applications in chemistry, biology, environment, sociology, streams, semantic web, and other scientific domains
- Mining distributed, heterogeneous, spatial and temporal datasets
- Mining textual and unstructured datasets
- Scalable data mining algorithms
- Social networks mining and analysis
- Privacy preserving data mining algorithms
- Integration of mining and multiagents
- Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks
- Human-machine interaction and visual data mining
- data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
- Evolutionary computation
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Natural language processing
- Robotics
- Machine learning and knowledge discovery



The submitted papers must be original and currently not under review elsewhere.
The accepted articles will be published in IEEE Proceedings and will be included in the IEEE digital library.
Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium. Papers should be prepared following IEEE format, double column,
minimum 10pt fonts, and up to 6 pages. The submissions will be through electronic submission system available on http://iscis.metu.edu.tr/submission


IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission of papers: April 17, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: June 15. 2009
- Camera ready and registration due: July 1, 2009
- Symposium date: September 14-16, 2009


Track Chairs:

Reda Alhajj University of Calgary Canada
Mehmet Kaya Firat University Turkey
Tansel Özyer TOBB ETU University Turkey


Program Committee Members:

Osman Abul TOBB University Turkey
Songül Albayrak Yildiz University Turkey
Ethem Alpaydin Bogaziçi University Turkey
José del Campo Ávila Universidad de Málaga Spain
José L Balcázar UPC- Barcelona Tech Spain
Fevzi Belli University of Paderborn Germany
Ayse Basar Bener Bogaziçi University Turkey
Ahmet Bulut Like.com USA
Berkant Barla Cambazoglu Yahoo! Research Spain
Fazli Can Bilkent University Turkey
Selçuk Candan Arizona State University USA
Tan Kay Chen National University of Singapore Singapore
Zehra Çataltepe ITÜ Turkey
Cengiz Çelik Bilkent University Turkey
Hasan Davulcu Arizona State University USA
Çigdem Gündüz Demir Bilkent University Turkey
Banu Diri Yildiz University Turkey
Esra Erdem Sabanci University Turkey
Hakan Erdogan Sabanci University Turkey
Junbin Gao Charles Sturt University Australia
Peter Geczy AIST Japan
Michael O'Grady University College Dublin Ireland
Marifi Güler Eastern Mediterranean University Northern Cyprus
Eyke Hüllermeier Philipps-Universität Marburg Germany
Hisao Ishibuchi Osaka Prefecture University Japan
Esra Kadioglu Ürtis TOBB University Turkey
Murat Kantarcioglu University of Texas at Dallas USA
Ali Karci Firat University Turkey
Emin Erkan Korkmaz Yeditepe University Turkey
Murat Koyuncu Atilim University Turkey
Kemal Leblebicioglu METU Turkey
Nasrullah Memon Aalborg University Denmark
Rosa Meo Università degli Studi di Torino Italy
Mehmet Orgun Macquarie University Australia
Mourad Oussalah The University of Birmingham UK
Murat Özbayoglu TOBB University Turkey
Selma Ayse ÖZEL Çukurova University Turkey
Onur Özyer Microsoft USA
Mithun Prasad University of New South Wales Australia
Jon Rokne University of Calgary Canada
Cem Say BogaziçiUniversity Turkey
Yücel Saygin Sabanci University Turkey
Hayri Sever Hacettepe University Turkey
Bülent Tavli TOBB University Turkey
Mehmet Tolun Çankaya University Turkey