[AISWorld] Call for IEEE ICDM 2015 PhD Forum

[Wenjun Zhou]

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                      Call for PhD Forum
                           IEEE ICDM 2015

        November 14, 2015 in Atlantic City, NJ, USA

              http://icdm2015.stonybrook.edu/content/PhDForum
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The 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2015)
provides a PhD forum to be held for the fifth time in conjunction with the
international conference on data mining. The topics of the discussion at
the forum would be the dissertation proposals of the PhD students and their
work in progress towards their dissertation. The PhD Forum spans various
topics of data mining and work in related fields such as databases,
artificial intelligence, statistics, information retrieval, multimedia and
the Web. Data mining in specific domains such as bioinformatics and the
more general science informatics are also encouraged. Participants with
interdisciplinary work across the areas are particularly welcome.

The PhD Forum will include proceedings consisting of papers describing the
work of the doctoral students. Please see the deadlines for draft paper
submission and camera-ready papers. During the workshop, researchers with
experience in supervising and examining PhD students will be able to
participate and provide feedback and advice to the participants.


Important Dates

Submission date: Jul 20, 2015
Notification date: Sep  1, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: Sep 10, 2015
Phd Forum date: Nov 14, 2015

*All deadlines are at 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time.


Submission

The submissions should propose research ideas that are mature enough to be
presented into a paper and whose content can evolve to become the
substantial part of a PhD dissertation. The authors should be PhD students
or Masters students aspiring to get a PhD and having in mind a clear idea
of a proposal. Students could also submit work on one or more sub-problems
of their dissertation. Papers should address research issues in their PhD
proposal by focusing on challenges deriving from them and on their
originality. They could also include proposed techniques meant to solve the
given problems. Preliminary experimental evaluation should be included.
Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in person to
the Forum, together with their advisor.

The PhD forum is open for two types of submissions:

- Regular papers should present established research with enough scientific
contribution to the field (at most 8 pages in length).
- Extended abstracts are meant for ongoing research that is expected to
provide further advances in the future (2 pages in length).

All submissions must follow the IEEE Computing Society format used for ICDM
(see at http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/), and be submitted to the
CyberChair Conference Management System at the following link:

https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2015/icdm15/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S34&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2015/icdm15/scripts/ws_submit.php


Schedule (tentative)

The PhD Forum will consist of morning and afternoon schedules with the
following agenda:

Morning:
- Panel 1: How to Write a Research Paper (speakers from leading scholars of
ICDM 2015 attendees)
- Panel 2: Life after the PhD (speakers from key players of academia &
industry of ICDM 2015 attendees)

Afternoon:
- Invited talk on how to survive (and enjoy) PhD
- Lightening session for posters (each student will be given 2-3 minutes to
introduce their research/poster)
- Poster session


PhD Forum Co-Chairs

Leman Akoglu
leman at cs.stonybrook.edu
Stony Brook University, USA
Wei Ding
ding at cs.umb.edu
University of Massachussets Boston, USA



-- 
Wenjun Zhou, Assistant Professor
Business Analytics and Statistics
Haslam College of Business
University of Tennessee Knoxville

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