MCDM 2009 - Workshop on mining text, semi-structured, web, or multimedia data-the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision making

Call for Papers
Workshop on mining text, semi-structured, web, or multimedia data
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The central goal of this workshop is to explore text, semi-structured, web, and multimedia data mining that relate to the management and decision making in business and scientific problems.
Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. The workshop will focus on, but not limited to, the following topics:
1.data mining
2.information retrieval
3.text mining
4.semi-structured data mining
5.e-commerce and web mining
6.multimedia data mining
7.computational linguistics
8.nature language processing
9.security and privacy issues in data mining
10.mining network data flow/stream

Authors should submit their paper via email: kougang-AT-uestc.edu.cn. All manuscripts for this special issue should be submitted electronically before December 15, 2008. Some important dates:

 Full papers submission: December 15, 2008
 Notification of workshop acceptance: January 1, 2009
 Camera-ready of accepted workshop papers: January 31, 2009
 Final advanced registration of workshop opens: January 31, 2009

Workshop papers will be published in a separate workshop proceeding in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Selected papers will be fast-track reviewed for special issues in:
 Journal of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis
 Decision Support Systems (SCI-indexed),
 Annals of Operations Research (SCI-indexed)
 International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (SCI-indexed).

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Refereeing and the selection of papers will be carried out according to the standards of Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems£¨http://www.mcdm2009.cn/default.html£©. Please, note that papers must not exceed eight pages in length, a paper without figures can be around 4500 words maximally.

Contact:
Prof Gang Kou, Prof Zhongfang Zhou
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Email: kougang-AT-uestc.edu.cn