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<font color="#323045"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:21pt" size="6">The Second International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021)</font></font></font></p>
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<span style="text-transform:uppercase"><font color="#414142"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:15pt" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing:0.3pt">NOVEMBER 15-17, 2021</span></font></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="text-transform:uppercase"><font color="#414142"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:15pt" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing:0.3pt">TARTU, ESTONIA.</span></font></font></font></span></p>
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<font color="#58595b"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">CALL FOR PAPERS</font></font></p>
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<font color="#58595b"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">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:</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Business Analytics</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Text Analytics</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Web Analytics</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data Integrity</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data Privacy and Security</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data Warehouse</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Information Integration</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Human Behaviour Understanding</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data Mining</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Semi-Structured and Unstructured Data</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data Fusion</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Pattern Recognition</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Predictive Modelling</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data Mining</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Performance Analysis and Evaluation</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Evolutionary Computing and Optimization</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Feature Selection</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Fuzzy Computing</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Hybrid Methods</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Neural Networks</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Deep Learning</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Process Mining</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Granular Computing</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Mobile data</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">City Data Management</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Transparency in Research Data</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data and Information Quality</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Data Virtualization</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Management of Sensor Data</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Semantic Web Technologies</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Big Data</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">FULL PAPER IMPORTANT DATES</font></p>
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<font color="#ff0000"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Full paper submission: July 1st, 2021</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Full paper acceptance notification: September 15th, 2021</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Full paper camera-ready submission: October 8th, 2021</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Submission Site:</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idsta2021</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Paper format</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Length</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Originality</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Papers submitted to IDSTA must be the original work of the authors. The may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may
not be submitted to IDSTA. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Publication:</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in IDSTA2021 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for possible publication.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">IDSTA will host a series of workshops and is also inviting new workshop proposals. The purpose of the workshops is to emphasize current and emerging topics of particular interest to the community.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Proposal Format</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Each workshop proposal must include (maximum 4 pages, in PDF format):</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Title of the workshop.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Workshop organizers (name, affiliation and short biography).</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Scope and topics of the workshop.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Rationale:</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Why the workshop is related to IDSTA 2021.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Why the topic is important.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Why the workshop may attract a significant number of attendees.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Workshop details:</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:108%;text-align:left;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">
<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">A draft call for papers (including organizers, program committee, and steering committee if any). Organizers are expected to be fully committed and physically present at the workshop.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Workshop tentative schedule (number of expected papers, duration full/half day, format talks/posters, etc.). We encourage full-day events that demonstrate the interest of the community in the proposed topic and guarantee
the commitment of the organizers. Half-day proposals are also welcome but expected to provide a rationale for the proposed duration.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Names of potential participants and invited speakers (if any).</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Workshop history: if there are past workshops, the history of the workshop.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">WORKSHOPS IMPORTANT DATES</font></p>
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<font color="#ff0000"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Workshop proposal submission: May 30th, 2021</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Workshop proposal acceptance notification: June 15th, 2021</font></p>
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Anastasija Nikiforova</div>
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Researcher, PhD</div>
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Expert of the Latvian Council of Sciences</div>
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Associate member of the Latvian Open Technologies Association<br>
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University of Latvia, Faculty of Computing</div>
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