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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Oct 16-17, 2014, Chattanooga TN</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">The 3<sup>rd</sup> Symposium on Healthcare & Analytics in Research & Practice (SHARP) will be held in the scenic city of Chattanooga, TN and hosted by the College of Business, University of Tennessee Chattanooga.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">SHARP 2014 is themed around leveraging analytics and big data approaches for next generation innovation in healthcare, smart grid, consumer sector and beyond.</font><font face="Tahoma" size="2">The conference
sponsors include IBM, Teradata, CoLab, Market Street Solutions, PYA Analytics, University of Tennessee Chattanooga and others.</font><font face="Tahoma">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Analytics driven developments in various spheres such as healthcare, smart grid, public health, entertainment, consumer, etc. can strongly influence the technological evolution, guide policy making, while reshaping
the future and catalyze the innovation culture at the global, regional and metropolitan levels.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Various private and public open-data initiatives are going to be the key drivers for this change. Such an approach requires a new thinking blended with state-of-art new business, technology and analytics skills and strong scientific research. The conference
will seek to identify the opportunities and understand various mechanisms that could make contributions in the field of applied analytics while taking us on an integrated, technology driven, innovation path for the future.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Submissions</b> are invited in healthcare analytics, smart grid and any other application areas of analytics in the following forms:</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Keynote speakers:</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/ibm_fellows/2014/mike_haydock.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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Michael P. Haydock</span></b></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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IBM Fellow, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Partner, Chief Scientist - Business Analytics and Optimization Application Architect: AIX/UNIX</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/biography/41509.wss"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://www.bill-franks.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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Analytics Officer for Teradata </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:black"><a href="http://sharda.iris.okstate.edu/">Dr. Ramesh Sharda</a></span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
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of Business/Oklahoma State University</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:4"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>Important Dates:</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:4"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">August 15, 2014: 1,000-word paper summary deadline</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level:4"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">August 15, 2014: Papers Abstracts (100 words or less) Deadline</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">August 15, 2014: Panel Proposals Deadline</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">August 24, 2014: Authors Notified of Paper Acceptance Decision</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">August 31, 2014: Final Paper Revisions Resubmission</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Conference submission website:</b>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sharp20140">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sharp20140</a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Location:
</b>Conference will be held in the scenic city of <strong>Chattanooga TN</strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">,</span></strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> one of America’s most
breathtaking cities tucked between the mountains of Southeast Tennessee, along the beautiful Tennessee River.
<strong>Chattanooga, Tennessee</strong> is one of the South’s top travel destinations. In fact, the New York Times named Chattanooga TN one of the “Top 45 Places to go" in the World. The conference is carefully scheduled around the time when fall colors are
at its best and numerous festivals are underway.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Also called the Gig city, </span>
</strong>Chattanooga is built on the most advanced smart grid system in the nation and is the first city in the Western Hemisphere to offer one-gigabit-per-second fiber internet service to all residents and businesses. The smart grid is the first killer app
for Chattanooga's Gig network.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Conference Chair:</b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Ashish Gupta, PhD</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Associate Professor of Analytics & Information Systems</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">College of Business</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">University of Tennessee Chattanooga</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Email: <a href="mailto:gupta@utc.edu">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Phone: (423) 425-4156</font></p>
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