SMLIR 2015 - Workshop on Tools and Technologies in Statistics, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval for Educational Data Mining

Workshop on Tools and Technologies in Statistics, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval for Educational Data Mining
SMLIR
https://sites.google.com/site/smlir2015edm/home
Department of Computers and Information Technologies, University of Craiova
to be held in conjunction with the upcoming Educational Data Mining - EDM conference in
http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2015/
Madrid, Spain 26-29 June, 2015.
Given your interest in this subject, we would like to encourage you to submit a paper to the SMLIR workshop.
SMLIR workshop aims bringing together researchers from academia and industry practitioners with special interest in statistics/machine learning, information retrieval, data mining to (1) discuss current state of the art tools and technologies, (2) identify patterns for proper usage of various options for different tasks, and (3) lay out a vision regarding practical ways in which tools and technologies will influence future applications. The organizers hope to obtain common background knowledge for integrating various tools and technologies in future EDM research infrastructures.
Cheers,
Cristian Mihaescu
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Within Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) research area there may be found several subareas such as Machine Learning/Statistics, Information Retrieval, Data Mining and lately Big Data and Cloud Computing. The exact boundaries between these research areas are not very clear and may mislead research efforts, each one having its own particularities in terms of input type and size, data processing methodologies and obtained output. As Data Mining makes intensive use of all these research subareas, it is mandatory to be aware of their subtle differences and, therefore, design and implement IDA systems that make research efforts sound and effective. The goal of this workshop is to gather research efforts that fall into any of the categories of subareas and have results into the application area of Education. The workshop is looking for contributions that provide experimental results in the area of EDM/Information Retrieval and are focused on data processing fundamentals from Machine Learning/Statistics perspective. From the practical point of view, the focus should be on presenting the details regarding what and how tools and technologies are used in order to obtain relevant data analysis engines.
Research Issues
Here are several research issues that may be addressed:
? what technical issues impact on experimental results and validation of research activity?
? what/how standards influence the interoperability in data analysis processes?
? what makes a visual data analytics tool/technology appropriate for a certain research issue?
? given a research issue, what tool/technology properly implements the needed data analysis algorithm (stream mining, classification, clustering, etc.)?
? in experimental data analysis, what are the theoretical/practical constraints offered by existing tools/technologies?
These questions and issues are not exclusive: the workshop solicits papers that touch on any theme related to educational application area.
Theoretical, philosophical or experimental papers are welcome. Papers will be reviewed by members of the program committee or other appropriate reviewers.
Publication. Accepted papers will be hosted at http://ceur-ws.org/. All submissions should be novel and not previously published work.
Proceedings. A one-page overall summary of the workshop will be included in the main conference Proceedings.
Post Conference Publication. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their works for review and potential publication in the Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering (AECE) Journal (http://www.aece.ro/ ).
Steering Committee
Mihai Mocanu
Department of Computers and Information Technology, University of Craiova
Costel Ionascu
Department of Statistics and Economic Informatics, University of Craiova
Mirel Cosulschi
Department of Informatics, University of Craiova
ProgramCommittee
Ivan Lukovic
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Vintan Lucian
"Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania
Stefan Trăuşan-Matu
University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania
Andrea Zielinski
Fraunhofer IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mihai Lupu
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Vladimir Fomichov
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE),
Moscow, Russian Federation
Costin Bădică
Universitatea din Craiova, Romania
Innar Liiv
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Adrian Graur
University of Suceava, Romania
Vladimir Ivančević
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Vladimir Cre?u
University "Politehnica" of Timisoara
Mihai Gabroveanu
University of Craiova
Important Dates
? Paper submission deadline: April 5th
? Notification of decision: April 19th
? Camera-ready copy due: April 26th
? Workshop date: TBA [June 26nd to June 29th]
Short or long papers, ranging from 4 to 8 pages, using the EDM conference format are welcome:
Word http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2015/uploads/t...
LaTeX http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2015/uploads/t...
Please submit papers in a PDF file using easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edm201...
and choosing “Workshop on Tools and Technologies” track.