MIDAS 2016 - First Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS (MIDAS)

First Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS (MIDAS)
We invite submissions to the MIDAS Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS, to be held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2016 - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery.
The First Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS
September 19, 2016 - Riva del Garda, Italy
co-located with ECML-PKDD 2016
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We encourage submission of papers on the area of data mining for financial applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Forecasting the stock market
- Trading models
- Discovering market trends
- Predictive analytics for financial services
- Network analytics in finance
- Planning investment strategies
- Portfolio management
- Understanding and managing financial risk
- Customer/investor profiling
- Identifying expert investors
- Financial modeling
- Measures of success in forecasting
- Anomaly detection in financial data
- Fraud detection
- Discovering patterns and correlations in financial data
- Text mining and NLP for financial applications
- Financial network analysis
- Time series analysis
- Pitfalls identification
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite submissions of either regular papers (long or short), and extended abstracts:
- Long regular papers: up to 12 pages long (in the Springer LNCS style, https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164...), reporting on novel, unpublished work that might not be mature enough for a conference or journal submission.
- Short regular papers: up to 6 pages long, presenting work-in-progress.
- Extended abstracts: up to 2 pages long, referring to recently published work on the workshop topics, position papers, late-breaking results, or emerging research problems.
Contributions should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the workshop submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=midas2016. Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the ECML-PKDD 2016 submission guidelines available at http://www.ecmlpkdd2016.org/submission.html.
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of these reviews. If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present the work.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: July 4, 2016
Acceptance notification: July 25, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: August 8, 2016Workshop date: September 19, 2016
Workshop day: September 19, 2016
For more information, please see, http://networks.imtlucca.it/conferences/midas