[agents] [Mycolleagues] CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS of IEEE/ACM/ASA DSAA'2020

[Satoshi Kurihara via Mycolleagues]

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IEEE/ACM/ASA DSAA'2020
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
06-09 Oct. 2020
Sydney, Australia
http://dsaa2020.dsaa.co
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Important Dates
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* Special Session Proposal Due: 14 Feb. 2020
* Special Session Proposal Notification: 21 Feb. 2020
* Special Session Submission Deadline: 24 May 2020
* Special Session Notification: 26 Jul. 2020


Highlights of DSAA'2020
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* Strong Research track and Applications track.
* Student Poster and Industry Poster sessions with lightning results
highlighting student’s
  research advances and industry’s best practices.
* One-day Industry Day with Data Science School for business.
* Special sessions on the foundations and emerging areas for data science.
* Special panel on the trends and controversies of data science and analytics.
* A strong interdisciplinary research program spanning the areas of
data science, including
  statistics, machine learning, computing, and analytics.
* Strong cross-domain interactions among researchers and industry and
government policy-makers
  and practitioners.
* Industry and research exhibits.
* Technically sponsored and supported by IEEE CIS, ACM SIGKDD and ASA,
proceedings by IEEE
  Xplore and EI indexed.


About DSAA'2020
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The 7th IEEE/ACM/ASA International Conference on Data Science and
Advanced Analytics (DSAA) features its strong interdisciplinary
synergy between statistics (via ASA), computing and
information/intelligence sciences (IEEE and ACM), and cross-domain
interactions between academia and business for data science and
analytics. DSAA sets up a high standard for its organizing committee,
keynote speeches, submissions to main conference and special sessions,
and a competitive rate for paper acceptance. DSAA has been widely
recognized as a dedicated flagship in data science and analytics such
as by the Google Metrics and China Computer Foundation as an
influential event in the area.

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced
Analytics (DSAA’2020) will provide a premier forum that brings
together researchers, industry and government practitioners, as well
as developers and users in statistics, computing science, and
intelligence science for the exchange of the latest theoretical
developments in Data Science and Analytics and the best practice for a
wide range of applications. The conference invites submission of
papers describing innovative research on all aspects of data science
and advanced analytics as well as application-oriented papers that
make significant, original, and reproducible contributions to
improving the practice of data science and analytics in real-world
scenarios.

DSAA’2020 is a dual-track conference consisting of a Research Track
and an Research Track.  DSAA’2020 will also feature a peer-reviewed
Student Poster session and an Industry Poster session, whose purpose
is to showcase recent and early-stage research developments on topics
that are of interest to students and industry/government practitioners
in data science and analytics.


About DSAA Special Sessions
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DSAA Special Sessions are an important part of the main conference
program. Special sessions are crucial for promoting emerging data
science research areas that are not well established and covered in
the main conference tracks. They bring together researchers, industry
experts, practitioners and potential users who are interested in
cultivating specialized and important aspects of data science and
analytics.

DSAA special sessions feature much higher quality, integrity and
impact of presentations than classic workshops typically hosted in all
major conferences. Papers submitted to special sessions are not deemed
to take obvious acceptance advantage than to the main
conference. Quality integrity will be enforced across all special
sessions and with the main conference.  DSAA’2020 will feature a
number of special sessions.


Special Session Proposal Submission and Review
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Proposals for hosting special sessions at DSAA’2020 are welcome. The
proposals must address:

(1) Title
(2) Aims and scope
(3) Topics of interest
(4) Relevance to the DSAA main conference tracks and topics
(5) Organizers
(6) Past special sessions or relevant experiences or track records
(7) Potential committee members
(8) Potential invited speakers

For each organizer in (5), provide name, affiliation, country, email
and a short biographical sketch, describing relevant qualifications
and experience; identify at least one organizer as the contact person.
For (6), list any special session or relevant events (e.g., workshops)
the organizers have organized in recent years in DSAA or other major
conferences; for each, list the year, the conference, number of
submissions, number of papers accepted, number of participants, etc.
For (7), give a list of qualified committee members who would be
invited.  For (8), please provide the names of one or two
authoritative speakers that could open the special session, and that
can deliver a comprehensive overview of the topic of interest.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Data quality and misinformation
* Understanding data characteristics and complexities
* Statistical and mathematic foundations for data science
* Quantum computing for data science
* Domain-specific data science areas, e.g., FinTech, environmental
data science, educational data science,
  health/medical data science, government/enterprise data science
* Data science applications and practice
* Data science systems, infrastructure and software
* Deep learning and its practice in data science and analytics
* Statistical machine learning and practice in data science and analytics
* Social and ethical issues and impact, privacy, fairness, and bias in
data science and analytics
* Interpretability, visualization and presentation
* Better data science practice
* Data science education
* Other emerging topics

Special session proposals will be reviewed based on the above criteria
and quality of the proposals as well as their relationship to the main
conference topics. Preference may be given to timely topics that are
critical for data science and analytics, inspire highly interactive
discussions, and showcase the impact of data science and analytics.


Special Session Organization, Paper Submission and Review
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Once a special session proposal has been accepted, its organizers
should widely publicize the session for calling for papers. Papers for
a special session should be submitted to the special session track
instead of the main conference in the DSAA’2020 submission
system. Special session papers strictly follow the same
specifications, requirements and policies as the main conference
submissions in terms of the paper submission deadline, notification
deadline, paper formatting and length, and important policies.

All papers submitted to special sessions will be double-blind reviewed
that will be coordinated by each special session’s
organizers. Organizers of each special session will recommend program
committee members to the DSAA Program Chairs and Special Sessions for
review. Approved program committee members will be invited by the
conference Special Session Chairs into the submission system for each
special session.  Papers will then be assigned to appropriate
committee members by the special session organizers for review.
Special session organizers will make recommendations of
acceptance/rejection for papers in their sessions, which will be
double-checked by the conference Special Session Chairs for
confirmation. To guarantee uniform quality control for all special
sessions and to be consistent with the main conference, the final
decisions of special session paper acceptance/rejection are made by
the DSAA Program Chairs.


Proceedings, Indexing and Special Issues
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All accepted full-length special session papers will be published by
IEEE in the DSAA main conference proceedings under its Special Session
scheme. All papers will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore
Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI
indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.

Organizers of special sessions may arrange special issues to further
publish the extended journal versions of the papers. Several past
special sessions have published special issues with the International
Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA, Springer).


Submission
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Special session proposals should be submitted to the DSAA’2020
Special Session chairs at ssc_dsaa20 at dsaa.co.


Enquiries
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General enquiries about special session proposals, the organization of
special sessions, and special session paper selection can be sent to
the DSAA’2020 Special Session chairs at ssc_dsaa20 at dsaa.co.  Specific
enquiries about a special session should be submitted to the session
organizers.

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