Call for Papers: Special Session at IJCNN 2015 on Neuro-Adaptive Systems for Big Data and Social Media Analysis

The ever increasing aspect of social networking and deployment of advanced digital sensors, to gather data particularly with high social content has interesting dimensions to be explored. The content variation in the data/media streams poses a challenging task to the data scientists in terms of adaptability required to capture the sense and context of the problem being addressed. The adaptability thus required has to cater multi-faceted issues. These issues pertain to considerations related to the 4V’s of Big Data (Volume, Variety, Velocity and Veracity).

The neuro-adaptive systems have been used in the past to capture the variation and to incorporate adaptiveness within the systems. The aim of this special session is to solicit contributions that are based on statistical learning, lazy learning, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic based, evolutionary, genetic, knowledge system and adaptive algorithms designed to focus on Big Data, Social Media Analytics especially in the context of the topics listed for the special session.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Data Science and Social Analytics
• Emerging Technologies and their Complexities
• Modelling and Visualization
• Parallelization and Distributed Processing
• Personalized Digital Activities
• Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Author Profiling, Personality and Behavioral Predictions 
• Ontology Analysis
• Web Content Mining
• Community Structure Prediction
• Trust Recommendation Modeling

Important Dates:

Paper submission: February 5, 2015
Paper decision notification: March 25, 2015
Camera-ready submission: April 25, 2015
Conference days: July 12-17, 2015

Submission:

Authors are invited to submit their papers through the main IJCNN 2015 conference submission system at: http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2015/upload.php

Please make sure to select the Special Session (SS24) under "S. SPECIAL SESSION TOPICS" in the "Main Research topic" drop-down list. Templates and detailed instructions for authors can be found at http://www.ijcnn.org/paper-submission. All papers submitted to the special session will be subject to the same peer-review procedure as regular papers. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Programme Committee:

• Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
• Andrea Bolioli, CELI, Italy
• Arturo Montero, University of Jaen, Spain
• Asim Karim, Lahore University of Management Sciences, LUMS, Pakistan
• Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, LUMS, Pakistan
• Beatriz Aguilar Cortés, Socialancer, SL., Spain
• Benet María Marcos Casanovas, Socialancer, SL., Spain
• Francisco Casacuberta, PRHLT, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain
• Francisco Marco-Serrano, GSM London Ltd, United Kingdom
• Giancarlo Ruffo, Netatlas, Italy
• Hai Dong, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
• Jon Ander Gómez, PRHLT Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Juan Ramos Balaguer, Money Mate R&D Lab, Spain
• Liaqat Majeed, University of Central Punjab, Pakistan
• Luis Belloch Gómez, Money Mate R&D Lab, Spain
• Mário J. Gaspar da Silva, INESC-ID, Portugal
• Matthew Williams, Cardiff University
• Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
• Naveed Arshad, Lahore University of Management Sciences, LUMS, Pakistan
• Omar Khadeer Hussain, University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia
• Peter Burnap, Cardiff University
• Rafael Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Roberto Paredes, PRHLT, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain
• Roman Kern, Know Center, Austria
• Shady Mohammad, Deakin University, Australia
• Shafay Shamail, Lahore University of Management Sciences, LUMS, Pakistan
• Simon Caton, NCC, Dublin, Ireland

Organisers:

Mian M. Awais
Department of Computer Science, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Pakistan
Email: awais@lums.edu.pk
http://lums.edu.pk/faculty-details.php/awais

El-Sayed M. El-Alfy
Intelligent Systems Research Group, College of Computer Sciences and Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia.
Email: alfy@kfupm.edu.sa
http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/ics/alfy/ 

Paolo Rosso
Natural Language Engineering Lab, PRHLT Research Center, Universitat
Politècnica de València, Spain.
Email: prosso@dsic.upv.es
http://users.dsic.upv.es/~prosso/

Farookh K. Hussain
Associate Professor,Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Email: farookh.hussain@uts.edu.au
www.uts.edu.au

Omer F Rana
Professor, Computer Science & Informatics,
Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings,5 The Parade, Roath,
Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK
Email: O.F.Rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk

Francisco Rangel
CTO at Autoritas Consulting
Personal site: http://www.kicorangel.com
Company site: http://www.autoritas.net
Email: francisco.rangel@autoritas.es