DSCI-2021 is especially dedicated to the celebration of the 64th anniversary of Artificial Intelligence. Aiming at creating computers and computer software capacity of intelligent behaviour, many amusing achievements throughout the past 63 years' journey have been made, including the recent AlphaGo, a.k.a, the Deep Reinforcement Learning, an intelligent computer program that beat Lee Sedol, a 9-dan professional player in a five-game match of Go. Such a task was considered as an impossible mission in only a decade ago. As we enter the big data era, Web Intelligence has extended and made use of Artificial Intelligence for new products, services and frameworks that are empowered by the World Wide Web. DSCI-2021 aims to identify the challenging problems faced by the development of innovative knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, theoretical and applied research outcomes. DSCI-2021 is going to highlight the advances in frontiers and applications of general areas such as big data, artificial intelligence, social computing, data mining, information retrieval, and machine learning. DSCI is uniquely placed to deliver fresh perspectives on data science.

DSCI-2021 is planned to be hosted in London, United Kingdom. However, if the COVID-19 situation and associated travel restrictions remain, the conference will be held virtually. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.

SCOPE AND TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Data Science Theory, Algorithms and Architectures
Track 2: Data Science Applications
Track 3: Computational Intelligence for Big Data Processing
Track 4: Data Mining and Applications


Track 1: Data Science Theory, Algorithms and Architectures

Foundations of Data Science
Programming Techniques
Analytics and Metrics
Representation Formats
Cloud Computing Techniques
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
Data Management
Data Quality
Social Computing
Social Network Analysis
Protection, Integrity and Privacy
Distributed Data Mining
Visualization

Track 2: Data Science Applications

Web Intelligence
Humanities
Stock Market Analysis
Scalable Cloud Data Management
Privacy and Security
Geosciences
Manufacturing and Supply Chains
Earth Science
Biomedical Informatics
High dimensional data
Social Networks
B2B Marketing and Sales
Healthcare
Sustainable development
Advanced Manufacturing

Track 3: Computational Intelligence for Big Data Processing

Artificial Neural Networks and Learning methods
Deep Learning
Knowledge based systems
Uncertainty management
Global optimization methods
Intelligent Control Systems
Intelligent Internet Systems
Intelligent Software Systems
Parallel Computation
Pattern Recognition
Systems Modelling
Web Mining

Track 4: Data Mining and Applications

Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
Data streams mining
Time-series data mining
Graph mining
Spatial data mining
Text video, multimedia data mining
Web mining
Pre-processing techniques
Visualization
Security and information hiding in data mining
Data mining applications

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/dsci2021-submission/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts).

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 8 October 2021
Authors Notification: 8 November 2021
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 1 December 2021
Early Registration Due: 1 December 2021