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of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference
participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, </span><span style="color:red;letter-spacing:0.25pt">IDSTA2020 will
run virtually</span><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196);letter-spacing:0.25pt"> and the </span><span style="color:red;letter-spacing:0.25pt">registration fees are reduced accordingly</span><span style="color:rgb(68,114,196);letter-spacing:0.25pt">.</span></p>

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papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the
following journals. </span></p>

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Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397)</span></p>

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Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85)</span></p>

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Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676)</span></p>

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FOR PAPERS</span></p>

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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Huge amount of Data is being generated and
transmitted every day. To be able to deal with this data, extract useful
information from it, store it, transmit it, and represent it, intelligent
technologies and applications are needed. The International Conference on
Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA) is a peer
reviewed conference that will advance the Data Science field by giving an
opportunity for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present their
latest findings in the field. It will also invite key persons in the field to
share their current knowledge and their future expectations for the field.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:</span></p>

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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Business Analytics</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Text Analytics</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Web Analytics</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Data Integrity</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Data Privacy and Security</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Data Warehouse</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Information Integration</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Human Behavior Understanding</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Semi-Structured and Unstructured Data</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Data Fusion</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Pattern Recognition</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Predictive Modelling</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Data Mining</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Performance Analysis and Evaluation</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Evolutionary Computing and Optimization</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Feature Selection</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Fuzzy Computing</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Hybrid Methods</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Neural Networks</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Deep Learning</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Process Mining</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Granular Computing</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Mobile data</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*City Data Management</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Transparency in Research Data</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Data and Information Quality</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Data Virtualization</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Management of Sensor Data</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Semantic Web Technologies</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*Big Data</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submission Site</span><br>
<u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idsta2020" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idsta2020</a></span></u><br>
<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Paper format</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4
IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Please remember to add
Keywords to your submission.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Length</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submitted papers may be 6 to 8 pages. Up to two
additional pages may be added for references. The reference pages must only
contain references. Overlength papers will be rejected without review.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color:red;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Publication</span><span style="color:red"><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">All accepted and registered papers in IDSTA2020
and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for
possible publication.</span></span></p>

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DATES<br>
<span style="color:red">Full paper submission: August
1st, 2020</span><br>
Full paper acceptance notification: August 30th, 2020<br>
Full paper camera-ready submission: Sep 13, 2020</p></div>