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CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2019
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SIMBig 2019 - 6th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data
August 21-23, 2019 - Universidad del Pacífico - Lima, PERU

http://simbig.org/SIMBig2019/
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OVERVIEW
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SIMBig is one of the first conferences in Latin America grouping related areas, such as Data Science,
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Software Engineering, Privacy, etc.


KETYNOTE SPEAKERS
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* Sophia Ananiadou Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
* Michael Franklin Michael Franklin, University of Chicago, USA
* Vipin Kumar Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
* Andrew Tomkins Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA
* And many others...

PUBLICATION
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All accepted papers of SIMBig 2019 will be published with Springer CCIS Series


IMPORTANT DATES
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May 15, 2019 --) Full papers, short papers and demonstration due
June 14, 2019 --) Notification of acceptance
July 01, 2019 --) Camera-ready versions
August 21 - 23, 2019 --) Conference held in Lima, Peru

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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SIMBig 2019 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited
to the following technical areas:

* Data Science
* Data Mining
* Natural Language Processing
* Semantic Web
* Software Engineering
* Data Privacy and Security
* BioNLP and Healthcare Informatics
* Information Retrieval
* Machine Learning
* Ontologies and Knowledge Representation
* Social Networks and Social Web
* Information Visualization
* OLAP and Business intelligence
* Spatiotemporal Databases
* Data-driven Software Engineering

SPECIAL TRACKS
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SIMBig 2019 proposes seven special tracks in addition to the main conference:

* SNMAM - Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining
* ANLP - Applied Natural Language Processing
* PSCBig - Privacy and Security Challenges on Big Data
* DISE - Data-drIven Software Engineering
* DLTA - Distributed Ledger Technology Applications
* BIOMEDS - Biomedical Data Science
* DSRS - Data Science for Remote Sensing

CONTACT
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SIMBig 2019 General Chairs

* Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, University of Florida, USA (jlossioventura@ufl.edu)
* Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru (h.alatristas@up.edu.pe)

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