bi 2011 - The International Workshop on Behavior Informatics (BI2011)

The International Workshop on Behavior Informatics (BI2011)
URL: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/bi/bi2011/,
Submission System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bi2011

Held in conjunction with
The 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (PAKDD2011)
URL: http://pakdd2011.pakdd.org/



Highlights


All accepted papers will be published by LNCS Springer in post-
conference proceedings.

Selected papers will be revised for consideration into a special Issue
on Behavior Computing with Knowledge and Information Systems: An
International Journal.

Selected papers will be revised for consideration into an edited book
on Behavior Computing to be published by Springer in 2011.


Important Dates


Paper Submission Deadline (extended): 15 January, 2011 (Sat)
Author Notification: 21 January, 2011 (Friday)
Camera-Ready Deadline: 18 February, 2011 (Friday)


Workshop Scope


Deep and quantitative behavior analysis such as in social network
cannot be supported by traditional methodologies and techniques in
behavioral sciences. This leads to the emergence of inter-disciplinary
Behavior Representation, Modeling, Analysis and Management (namely
Behavior Informatics). The International Workshop on Behavior
Informatics (BI2011) provides an international forum for researchers
and industry practitioners to share their ideas, original research
results, as well as potential challenges and prospects encountered in
Behavior Informatics.

The BI2011 workshop welcomes theoretical work and applied
disseminations on the categories which will include but are not
limited to the following:

Behavior modeling: formalizing behaviors, relationships, impact and
networks.

Impact-oriented behavior mining: behaviors associated with high
impacts are of particular importance, while impact-oriented behaviors
are often sparse, rare and imbalanced isolated in business and data;
identify impact-oriented behavior patterns involves different pattern
types and computational challenges.

Analysis of behavior social networks handling challenging issues such
as convergence and divergence of behavior, and the evolution and
emergence of hidden groups and communities.
Extracting discriminative behavior patterns from high-dimensional,
high-frequency, high-density, and huge amount of data.

Large intra-class variance between behaviors: Due to the highly
overlapped nature of behavior data, it is extremely difficult to build
a robust behavior model which is tolerant for one behavior category
while differentiate amongst other categories.

Behavior data processing from transactional space to behavior feature
space: Customer demographic and transactional data is generally
privacy-oriented, distributed and not organized in terms of behavior
but entity relationships. In such transactional entity spaces,
behavioral elements are dispersed and hidden within complex business
applications with weak or no direct linkages. As a result, current
behavior analysis which focuses on exterior features in demographic
and service usage data cannot effectively and explicitly scrutinize
human behavior patterns and impacts on businesses. To support genuine
behavior analysis on behavior interior, a challenging task is to
extract and transform transactional behavior-related elements into
explicit behavior features.


Paper Submissions


Papers accepted by BI2011 will be published in the PAKDD2011 workshop
proceedings in LNCS.

Each paper should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names,
postal and email address, an up to 200-words abstract, up to 5
keywords and a body not longer than 12 single-spaced pages with font
size at least 10pts.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript
submission guidelines for manuscript formatting. All papers must be
submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference
management tool.

Papers should be submitted through the following paper submission
system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bi2011

Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is
accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present
the paper.


Organization Committee


General Co-Chair
Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Co-Chairs:
Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Graham Williams, Australian Taxation Office, Australia
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan

Organizing Chair:
Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia

Supported by
Behavior Informatics - Special Interest Group (BI-SIG),
http://www.behaviorinformatics.org/