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<span style="color:black">Dear Colleague,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black">As co-chairs for the<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span><b>Data, Text and Web Mining for Business Analytics </b>minitrack at the<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span>48<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-48) which will be held at the Grand Hyatt, Kauai on January 5-8, 2015,<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span><b>we would like to personally invite you to submit a paper and/or serve as a reviewer.</b> A representative list of general topic areas covered in this minitrack (which is not meant to be complete or comprehensive) includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">New methods and algorithms of data/text mining and advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">The process and new methodologies of conducting data/text mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Novel applications in sentiment analysis, social analytics, media analytics and data stream miming<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Ethical and privacy issues in data/text mining<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Novel applications of data mining for better decision making
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Data pre-processing related aspect of data/text mining, such as data characterization, data cleaning, data integration, data sampling, data reduction, data visualization, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Design issues, challenges and opportunities in agile analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Emerging technologies and techniques, investment and governance mechanisms, coproduction methodologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Evolutions to scoring and data mining algorithms for advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">In-database vs. in-memory advanced analytics capabilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Visualization for supporting advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">People and culture issues in managing advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Critical success factors for advanced analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for review please note the following important dates (taken from the HICSS Website -
</span><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu</a><span style="color:black">):
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<span class="xstyle151"><b><span style="color:#CC0033">June 15 </span>
</b></span><b><span style="color:black">Submit full manuscripts for review.</span></b><span style="color:black"> The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="xstyle221"><b><span style="color:#CC0033">August 15 </span>
</b></span><span style="color:black">Acceptance notices are emailed to authors by the Review System (make sure your server accepts the address:
</span><a href="https://email.okstate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=uYnkcuFdZ0WmFa4xAWJglArDksLPEs9IPHGrXboNxSU1JFloT50E78RvcooCyCtfgaUF9IOnjS4.&URL=https%3a%2f%2fprecisionconference.com%2f%7ehicss" target="_blank">https://precisionconference.com/~hicss</a><span style="color:black">).
At least one author of each accepted paper must immediately make plans to attend the conference, including initiating fiscal, visa, or other travel guarantees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="xstyle221"><b><span style="color:#CC0033">September 15 </span></b></span><span style="color:black">S<b>ubmit Final Paper for Publication</b>. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the
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<span style="color:black">If you are willing to be a reviewer please notify us as soon as you can, and indicate the number of manuscripts (1, 2, 3, or more) that you would be willing to review. Also, if you have any questions please feel free to contact either
of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="IT" style="color:black">Dursun Delen</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="IT" style="color:black">
</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://email.okstate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=uYnkcuFdZ0WmFa4xAWJglArDksLPEs9IPHGrXboNxSU1JFloT50E78RvcooCyCtfgaUF9IOnjS4.&URL=mailto%3adursun.delen%40okstate.edu"><span lang="IT">dursun.delen@okstate.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Oklahoma State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Asil Oztekin</span></b><span style="color:black"> <o:p>
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<a href="mailto:asil_oztekin@uml.edu">asil_oztekin@uml.edu</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">University of Massachusetts – Lowell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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