======== BIDS-2011 Call for Papers ========

(Submission Deadline June 10, 2011)

The 2011 International Workshop on Business Intelligence and Distributed Systems (BIDS-2011) http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~kinli/BIDS/

Barcelona, Spain --- October 26-28, 2011

In conjunction with the 6th 3PGCIC 2011
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~net4all/3PGCIC-2011/

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Following the workshop's success at Fukuoka, Japan, BIDS-2011 aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to discuss, exchange ideas, and present their research findings on business intelligence and distributed systems. Topics of interest that BIDS-2011 covers include general business intelligence techniques and methodologies, as well as their application in distributed systems (but are not limited to):

· Business Text, Data, and Media Mining
· Distributed System Architecture and Infrastructure for Business Intelligence
· Marketing Information Retrieval and Client Knowledge Discovery
· Consumer Social Networks and On-Line Communities
· Market Information Categorisation and Fusion
· Web Search, Ranking and Optimisation of Business Sites and Products
· Collaborative Filtering, Personalisation and Recommender Systems for Business Products
· Semantic Web and Ontology for Business Intelligence Technology
· Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust in e-Commerce
· e-Technology, e-Government, and e-Learning for Business
· Business Wikis and Blogs Mining
· Web Intelligence
· Competitive Intelligence

Submission Deadline: June 10, 2011
Author Notification: June 12, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: July 10, 2011
Author Registration Deadline: July 10, 2011

Original full papers of at most 6 (six) pages including figures and references in PDF (IEEE Proceedings Style: two columns, single-spaced, 10 font) are solicited.

Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and archived in the Digital Library.