Call for Special Session
In conjunction with
International Conference on Soft Computing and Data Mining 2020
January 22nd – 23rd, 2020, Melaka, Malaysia
The SCDM 2020 Workshop Organizing Committee is inviting proposals for special sessions to be held during the conference (http://scdm.uthm.edu.my), taking place on January 22nd - 23rd, 2020, Holiday Inn Melaka, Malaysia.
Each special session proposal should be well motivated and should consist at least 8 to 12 papers. Each proposal must have the title, potential authors with e-mails/web sites (if any), and as detailed an abstract as possible. The special session organizer(s) contact information should also be included. All special session organizers must obtain firm commitments from their special session presenters and authors to submit papers in a timely fashion (if the special session is accepted) and, particularly, present them at the SCDM 2020. Each special session organizer will be session chair for their own special sessions at SCDM 2020 accordingly. All planned papers for special sessions will undergo the same review process as the ones in regular sessions. All accepted papers for special sessions will also be published by Springer's Book Series.
All the authors for each special session must follow the guidelines in CALL FOR PAPERS to prepare your submitted papers.
Proposals for special sessions should be submitted in ELECTRONIC FORMAT to Workshop/Special Session Chair:
Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
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Special Session 1 (SS1): Computational Intelligence and Its Applied Applications
Synopsis
Computational Intelligence (CI) is one of the powerful tools for intelligent and complex applications. Therefore, this special issue would intend to deliberate computational intelligence approaches, ingenuities and applications in innumerable fields. The inventiveness invites research scholars from miscellaneous fields to contribute with their findings on intelligence approaches in their particular research communities, while elevating the entirety of research and application of computational intelligence. The purpose of the special issue is to endow with an opening for academicians, scholars, scientists, industrial professionals, policy makers, government and non–government organizations to share novel and innovative advances in theory, analytical approaches, numerical simulation and modelling, demonstration, advanced deployment, case studies, laboratory results, field operational tests and ongoing expansions with significance to progresses in the field of computational intelligence.
Special Session Chair (s)
Ahmed A. Elngar
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computers and Information, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Salah Salem Str., 62511, Egypt
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Rajdeep Chowdhury
“Prafulla,” Amratala Lane, Post Office–Chinsurah, District–Hooghly, Pin Code–712101, State–West Bengal, Country, India,
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 2 (SS2): Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI)
Synopsis
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in recent years has yielded promising results. AI is at the heart of many high-performance applications that are shaping our daily lives and others that are very promising are about to come. The objective of this session is to give an overview of the concrete applications of AI that are crowned by the operationalization of AI and future researches.
What are the applications that rely on AI or that require AI? From the military surveillance system to the medical diagnostic aid system, from the air conditioner to the personal assistant, from the driving assistance system to the analysis of massive data, etc., the applications are numerous. Whether industrial, societal, economic, political, environmental, artistic or other, This special session on Applied Artificial Intelligence is an opportunity to present concrete applications and works whose object of study is not only experimental cases. We expect contributions in various fields: automotive, robotics, military, logistics, telecommunications, home automation, agronomy, social networks, risk, big data, medical, personal assistance, video games, virtual and mixed reality, museums, serious games, interactive story, and many more
Special Session Chair (s)
El Habib Benlahmar,
Professor at University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco,
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Oumaima Hourrane,
Data Scientist, University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco,
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 3 (SS3): Internet of Things and Data Science
Synopsis
In recent years, scientific research with special focus on internet of things (IOT) and data science have made substantial progress in providing an increased insight in the various aspects of internet of things, data science and their integration through the development of a number of models.
IOT represents a system of computer devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people interconnected that can communicate data via a network in an autonomous manner, in real time and without any human interaction. Since its appearance, several IOT applications have emerged to answer a set of challenges of various domains such as Health, Education, and Agriculture, which shows that the scope of the IOT is almost unlimited. Data Science is described at the first International Workshop on Data Science for the Internet of Things, organized as part of the IEEE International Conference on Adaptive Systems and Mobile Sensors (MASS) in October 2016, is "An interdisciplinary field that includes techniques for acquiring, storing, analysing, managing and publishing data. Data can be analysed using machine learning, data analysis and statistics - process optimization and power optimization in larger scenarios. " The amount of data generated by the Internet of Things is huge, which will lead to a growing demand for data analysis. Which indicates that the IOT is a great case of application of data science techniques, but this implementation still faces many challenges for example security.
The aim of this session is to provide an overview of recent advances and challenges in the Internet of Things, data science and their integration, and in particular to solicit contributions on real-world applications. Furthermore, this special session offers an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to identify new promising research directions as well as to publish recent advances in this area
Special Session Chair (s)
Fatima Zahra Fagroud,
Hassan II University Casablanca Morocco
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Sanaa El Filali
Professor Hassan II University Casablanca Morocco,
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 4 (SS4): Data Management and Analytics in Education
Synopsis
Data management and analytics are getting increasingly pertinent in the modern era whereby humans, and machines are producing data that can be processed and analyzed to make useful information for fruitful decision making. With the growing deployment of Learning Management Systems, and popularity of e-learning a lot of data is being generated in the field of education which can be used to improve curriculum, pedagogy, assessments, and their modalities.
Similarly, special education sector is also benefitting from the use of technology in general, with a significant focus on the development of applications and tools that employ data management, classification, and data analytics. This special session invites articles that aim to develop theories, tools, and technologies that involve data management and analytics in the field of Education and Special Education.
Special Session Chair (s)
Adnan Abid
University of Management and Technology, Pakistan
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 5 (SS5): BIG DATA IN BUSINESS INTELLEGENCE: Innovative approaches for decision making
Synopsis
Today, decision-makers, especially economic agents, are increasingly rationalizing their decisions by using new scientific trends based on data and manipulation. Several inter-disciplinary approaches have emerged and have been able to solve problems known by their complexity in the recent past.
In order to improve relationship between data and business intelligence for decision making, and to open authors perspectives for applied mathematics in business and economy, the special session “”proposes a topic that aims about Big Data and Business intelligence. The aim as well as the objective is to present the latest research and results of scientists working in the fields related to Big Data and Business Intelligence.
The purpose is to gather all sciences related to data management, and to provide opportunities for the scientists and different stakeholders to exchange new ideas, experiences and applications through face-to-face discussions. We hope that the outcome will yield significant contribution to the knowledge in the emerging areas of Big Data & Business Intelligence.
Special Session Chair (s)
SAOUD Sahar
National Business School, Ibn Zohr University - Agadir,
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 6 (SS6): Intelligent Systems: Modelling and Reasoning
Synopsis
Intelligent systems and artificial intelligence applications have made significant progress over the last two decades. From simple knowledge based systems and expert systems, today we are able to develop systems that are able to learn and very often challenge humans and domain experts. Many organizations are investing heavily on the development of artificial intelligence and intelligent systems.
The aim of this session is to bring researchers who have completed research or work in progress research in knowledge modelling and reasoning for intelligent systems to share their experiences and contributions. Original researches related to this theme are solicited, including theories, methodologies, and applications.
Special Session Chair (s)
Fairouz Zendaoui
Laboratoire de la Communication dans les Systèmes Informatiques,
Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique,
BP 68M, 16309, Oued-Smar, Alger, Algérie.http://www.esi.dz
Institut National de la Poste et des TIC, Eucalyptus, Alger, Algérie.
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 7 (SS7): Nature-Inspired Computing for Engineering Optimization
Synopsis
Nature-Inspired Algorithms have been gaining much popularity in nowadays due to the fact that many real-world optimization problems have become increasingly large, complex and dynamic. These nature-inspired optimization algorithms can be based on natural inspiration as well as biological inspiration such as swarm intelligence, biological systems, physical reaction and chemical reaction systems.
This special session aims to provide a platform for people from both academia and industry to share and exchange knowledge on nature-inspired optimization algorithms and its applications. This special session welcomes original and unpublished contributions on all aspects of nature-inspired optimization algorithms.
Special Session Chair (s)
Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab,
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
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Radzi Ambar,
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
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Hanaa Hachimi,
Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 8 (SS8): Soft Computing and Data Mining in Economics and Engineering
Synopsis
Huge data arrays, accumulated with the use of software and automated systems, require modern tools and approaches for their analysis. This allows to identify implicit patterns of economic and engineering processes. This is all the more relevant as the economy and industry are becoming more digitized industries.
The identification of hidden, implicit, non-trivial patterns and knowledge allows us to open new opportunities for theoretical research and practical use.
The aim of this session is to present an opportunity for scholars and practitioners working in this area, to discuss new approaches and tools during discussions and personal meetings.
This special session, as we hope, will become a platform for presenting original researches, mathematical models, software for data mining.
Special Session Chair (s)
Vitalii Nitsenko
Department of Accounting and Taxation, Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine.
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 9 (SS9): Intelligent Tools, Environments, and algorithms for Distributed Computing
Synopsis
Intelligent approaches to:
- Evolutionary Computing, Swarm intelligence, Meta-heuristics, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks and applications related to High Performance Computing, Distributed Computing, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, and Internet of Things, Fog Computing, Scheduling, Parallel Algorithm.
- Intelligent Tools and Environments for Parallel/Distributed Computing
- Ubiquitous Computing and Human Computer Intractions
Special Session Chair (s)
Shamsollah Ghanbari
1University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
2Islamic Azad University, Ashtian Branch, Iran
Mohamad Othmen
University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
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Paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 10 (SS10): Computational Models for Arabic-Text Analysis
Synopsis
The last ten years have experienced a growing interest in Arabic-text analysis. The expansion and increase of Arabic content on the Internet has encouraged researchers to analyze this content to understand it or to understand the people who have written it. Researchers show interest in studying Arabic text to particularly explore societal-scale effects, to extract people opinions, and to measure society conciseness.
This session is intended to gather recent research and contributions in the area of Arabic text analysis. This includes analysis for formal documents and/ or social media contents. The purpose of the analysis can be, but not limited to, studying stance-detection, measuring conciseness, and exploring societal-scale effects. The analysis could be conducted using natural processing systems, neural networks, machine learning models, data mining models, statistical models, or any valid computational models.
Special Session Chair (s)
Chair
Dr. Abeer S. Al-Humaimeedy
Software Engineering Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Co-Chair
Prof. Ghada Alhudhud
Information Technology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Paper submission:https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 11 (SS11): Data mining and data analysis in banking and finance
Synopsis
Data mining is an interdisciplinary field whose main purpose is to turn raw data into valuable information using techniques of computer science and statistics. Banks and financial institution use Data mining to make predictions about future trends, thus will help them in the decision making process. Data mining offers many applications in finance, like risk management, portfolio management, trading, customer profiling and customer care.
The aim of this session is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss and exchange their research and experience in data mining applications in banking and finance. Original researches related to this theme are solicited, including theories, methodologies, and applications.
Special Session Chair (s)
Chair
Chourouk MOUDINE
Professor - Researcher
National School of Business and Management
University Hassan II - Casablanca
Morocco
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Paper submission:https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020
Special Session 12 (SS12): Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Data Science
Synopsis
In recent years, Information Technology has been emerged as the leading area in the field of research innovation, and development. With the growth of computational, telecommunication technologies and social networking, data becomes the most addressable issue in contemporary world. The volume of the data and its processing is the major area of interest for data scientists. Data is rapidly going to change the life of the people in contemporary world. Both Big Data Analytics and pervasive computing hinge on the principle axis of data analytics. The theoretical principles of computer science and data engineering is applied for analysing, designing and developing computer system and adapt it in practice.
The purpose of the special session is to provide an overview of the modern technologies of information technology and latest tools that has significant contribution in the era of Data Science. The key technologies in information technology includes information security, networks, image processing, internet of things, data science and business analytics: data mining, machine learning, visualization techniques, predictive modelling, and statistics.
Special Session Chair (s)
1. Dr. Muhammad Faheem Mushtaq
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and IT, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan.
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2. Dr. Saleem Ullah
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and IT, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan.
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3. Engr. Dr. Attaullah Buriro
Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and IT, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan.
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Paper submission:https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=scdm2020