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IEEE DSS-2018 CFP *****************************</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>The
4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems
(DSS-2018) </b></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.21cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://cse.stfx.ca/~dss2018/">http://cse.stfx.ca/~dss2018/</a>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.21cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Exeter,
England, UK, 28-30 June 2018 </b></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Sponsored
by</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br>
IEEE, IEEE
Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing
(TCSC). </font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Courier New, serif">***
The paper submission deadline is extended to 23 March 2018 (firm
deadline) ***</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">INTRODUCTION<br>
=============</font></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">As
an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from
a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics,
computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing,
information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision,
natural language processing, etc. Data Science is on the essence of
deriving valuable insights from data. </font></font></font>
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<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Data
Systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of
current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of
applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance,
media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double
every two years over the next decade and further. With this
continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data
efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. </font></font></font>
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<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">DSS
(Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime
international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and
domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and
Data Systems as well as their synergy. DSS-2018 will be hosted in
Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county with a
central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture.
The city is also home to the magnificent Exeter Cathedral, which
dates back to Norman times. Exeter is also ideally placed to base a
trip to branch out visiting places such as the famous Dartmoor
National Park and the unspoilt beaches of the North and South Devon
coastlines.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers to DSS-2018. All accepted
papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed
by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will
be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special
issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the
conference.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">SCOPE
AND TOP</font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">I</font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">CS</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">================</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.21cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Track
1: Data Science</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.21cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Track
2: Data Processing Technology</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.21cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Track
3: Data Systems</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.21cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Track
4: Data Applications</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">IMPORTANT
DATES<br>
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<li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Paper
Submission Deadline: 23 March 2018</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Authors
Notification: 22 April 2018</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Camera-Ready
Paper Due: 22 May 2018</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Early
Registration Due: 22 May 2018</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Conference
Date: 28-30 June 2018</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">PAPER
SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>
==========================</font></p>
<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">All papers need to be submitted
electronically through the conference submission website (
<a href="http://dss.ex.ac.uk/" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">http://dss.ex.ac.uk/</a> ) with PDF
format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published
or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or
10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references
using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two
columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web
page:<br>
<a href="http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/</a>
Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found
at:<br>
<a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a>
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<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Once accepted, the paper will be
included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE
Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors
of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the
conference.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">JOURNAL
SPECIAL ISSUES</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">======================
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<p style="text-indent:0.8cm;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Distinguished papers selected
from the conferences and associated workshops, after further
extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the
following prestigious journals or their Special Issues:</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">-
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (IEEE Computer Society)</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">-
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">-
Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">-
Expert Systems Journal (Wiley)</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">-
Cognitive Computation journal (Springer)</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%;direction:ltr;text-align:left"><font face="Consolas, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">-
Big Data Analytics (BioMed Central/Springer)</font></font></font></font></p>
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