SIMBig 2016 - 3rd Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data
1 - 3 September 2016 - Cusco, PERU

http://simbig.org/SIMBig2016/

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OVERVIEW
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SIMBig 2016 aims to bring together academia, industry, research scholars, business entrepreneurs, practitioners, managers, and policy makers responsible for information management and analysis of the huge quantity of data. This symposium will be held from 1st to 3rd September 2016 in Cusco, Peru.

This third edition of SIMBig will be heightened by welcoming as keynote speakers to:

- Sophia Ananiadou, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Albert Bifet, Télécom ParisTech France - Waikato University, New Zeland
- Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Maguelonne Teisseire, IRSTEA, TETIS Laboratory, France


IMPORTANT DATES
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08 July 2016 --) Full papers short papers and demonstration due (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
29 July 2016 --) Full papers, short papers and demonstration acceptance notifications
1 - 3 September 2016 --) Conference held in Cusco, Peru

PUBLICATION
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SIMBig 2016 will be published by Springer CCIS Series - "Communications in Computer and Information Science”.

SIMBig 2016 proceedings will be indexed and distributed by DBLP and CEUR-WS.
Authors are invited to submit their work in the form of a Regular/Short Paper or Demonstrations, representing completed and validated research, portraying a report of work in progress or results of scientific breakthroughs focused on one of the conference topic areas.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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SIMBig2016 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas.

- Big Data
- Text Analytics
- Information Retrieval
- Data mining
- Natural Language Processing
- BioNLP
- Bio Text Mining
- OLAP and MDA Models
- Text mining
- Semantic Web
- Linked Data
- Data warehousing
- Information management
- Business intelligence
- Data management
- Social Media/Collaboration
- Spatiotemporal data
- Information Services and Resources
- Biomedical Informatics

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors should submit a paper in ENGLISH carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Papers should be submitted through the SIMBig2016 online submission system, which is also the online review system for the conference:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simbig2016

The Organizing Committee of SIMBig 2016
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Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, University of Florida, USA.
Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.