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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifteenth International Symposium on
Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2016)

October 13 - October 15, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden

Paper submission deadline: 4 May 2016

www.ida2016.org

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--- FOCUS ---

The traditional focus of the IDA symposium series is on end-to-end
intelligent support for data analysis. In 2010, the series re-focused
to support papers that go beyond established technology and offer
genuinely novel and "game- changing" ideas.

The symposium aims to provide a forum for inspiring research
contributions that might be considered preliminary in other leading
conferences and journals, but that have a potentially dramatic
impact. To facilitate this, IDA 2016 will feature two tracks: a
regular "Proceedings" track, as well as a "Horizon" track for
early-stage research of potentially ground-breaking
nature. Submissions to this latter track will not be published in the
proceedings, to allow authors to present their most adventurous and
controversial research ideas without running the risk of compromising
any subsequent publications.

The IDA symposium, which is A-ranked according to ERA, is open to all
kinds of modeling and analysis methods, irrespective of discipline. It
is expected to be an interdisciplinary meeting that seeks abstractions
that cut across domains.

--- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---

Along with the contributed presentations, the symposium schedule will feature
three exciting keynote talks by renowned researchers, the details of which will
be announced in due course on our website:
http://www.ida2016.org/invited-speakers/

--- CALL FOR PAPERS ---

IDA solicits papers on all aspects of intelligent data analysis,
including papers on intelligent techniques to modeling and analyzing
data from complex, dynamical systems. IDA 2016 particularly encourages
innovative papers about:

- Applications of IDA techniques to complex systems.
- Concepts and principles for the analysis of complex, inter-linked, and heterogeneous data.
- Human-computer interaction and cooperation for data analysis.
- The interplay between data analysis and visualization.
- Robustness and scalability issues of intelligent data analysis techniques.

The conventional reviewing process has a tendency to favor low risk
incremental contributions over inspiring high risk contributions. This
can discourage the kind of papers that IDA hopes to publish. For this
reason, similar to IDA 2015, IDA 2016 will have two paper tracks, the
combination of which addresses this issue.

A] Proceedings Track

Papers submitted to this track will be reviewed and, if accepted,
published in the proceedings. Submitted papers should consist of at
most 11 pages in LNCS format. Papers may be accepted for either oral
or poster presentation.

To ensure that the papers sought by IDA get accepted, referees will
evaluate papers against the stated goals of the symposium, and if at
least one program chair advisor writes an informed, thoughtful,
positive review for a paper, this may outweigh non-substantial or
subjective criticisms of other reviewers.

We strongly encourage all authors to upload their Proceedings track
submission onto a preprint server such as arxiv, prior to
submission. After acceptance uploading your paper onto a preprint
server will no longer be optional but mandatory, and we will require
all authors to do this by the camera-ready deadline.

Following IDA's tradition, the proceedings of IDA 2016 will be
published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS).

B] Horizon Track

The Horizon track, which is a fine-tuned version of last year's First
Look track, aims to provide a forum for potentially ground-breaking
research that is however not yet mature enough for archival
dissemination. You may have a great idea that needs to be investigated
in more detail, or you may have a long-term vision that you would like
to share. In these cases, it may be impossible or undesirable to
publish a preliminary version of your paper in the proceedings, but
presenting and discussing it at IDA may be of interest to both you and
the community.

To be considered for a Horizon Track presentation, you are required to
submit a title and a short abstract ((250 words) and optionally any
other material (e.g. an extended abstract, a partial manuscript, a
presentation, a movie, a website…) that may help us to review the
submission against the stated criteria. Titles and abstracts of
contributions accepted for the Horizon track will be listed on the
website and included in the proceedings front matter, but any other
material submitted will be used for reviewing only, and will not be
publicly divulged in any form. Horizon Track contributions may be
accepted for either oral or poster presentation.


--- IMPORTANT DATES ---

Paper submission deadline: 4 May 2016
Author notification: 13 June 2016
Camera ready: 10 July 2016
Symposium: 13 October - 15 October 2016


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--- ORGANIZATION ---

-- General Chair
Panagiotis Papapetrou (Stockholm University, Sweden)

-- Program Chairs
Henrik Boström (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Arno Knobbe (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Carlos Soares (University of Porto, Portugal)

-- Local Chair
Lars Asker (Stockholm University)

-- Industrial Challenge Chair
Tony Lindgren (Stockholm University, Sweden)

-- Sponsorship & Publicity Chair
Vasilis Koulolias (Stockholm University, Sweden)

-- Advisory Chairs
Joost Kok (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Jaakko Hollmen (Aalto University, Finland)
Matthijs van Leeuween (Leiden University, Netherlands)

-- Webmaster
Isak Karlsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)