Special Session on "Tools for Discovery, Decision, and Design" SCOPE TOPICS SUBMISSION DATE CONTACT

Special Session on "Tools for Discovery, Decision, and Design" in IEEE SMC 2011 Special Session on "Tools for Discovery, Decision, and Design" http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~yada/conf/smc11/ in the IEEE SMC conference 2011 (http://www.smc2011.org/). 9-12 October, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska. SCOPE This session is for discussing and publishing about information systems that reinforce the creativity of human, i.e., for human to discover knowledge and chances, to make a break-through decision, and to design new systems and new environment. As we have been learning for years in studies on Chance Discovery, these three D's (Discovery, Decision, and Design) are to be linked with each other via - humans' process of thought, communication, and action - computational analysis/visualization of data. Thus, as well as in previous sessions on Chance Discovery, we seek interdisciplinary approaches. Papers relevant to chance discovery, business data mining, social risk management, congitive science, artificial intelligence, decision/creativity support systems, etc., new combinations of these disciplines, and thoughts going beyond are strongly relevant to this session. TOPICS Technical issues include (but not limited to) Design -social and organizational design -system design -network design -product design -servise design -inovation and organizational change Marketing -marketing science -consumer behavior -retailing and pricing -advertising -customer relationship management -brand management -inovation Data Mining -machine learning algorithms and methods -text and semi-structured data mining -pattern recognition -knowledge representation -statistics and probability SUBMISSION Please see the website of SMC 2011. http://www.smc2011.org/ Papers will be reviewed by at least two independent experts for their originarity, significance, creativity and applicability. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register and pay fees. IMPORTANT DATE Submissions due: April 1, 2011 April 15, 2011 (New Deadline!!) Notifications of Acceptance: June 1, 2011 Camera-ready paper due: July 5, 2011 SPONSOR Data Mining Laboratory in Kansai University CONTACT US Session Co-Chair: Ohsawa, Yukio (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Session Co-Chair: Yada, Katsutoshi (Kansai University, Japan) [Contact Person] Katsutoshi Yada Faculty of Commerce, Kansai University. OSAKA, 564-8680, JAPAN. http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~yada/english/ E-mail: yadalab.conf at gmail.com