Announcing The New IDA
Truly Analyzing and Understanding Complex Systems
Tucson, Arizona, United States
19-21 May, 2010
Call for Papers
IDA 2010 solicits papers on all aspects of intelligent data analysis, particularly papers on intelligent support for modeling and analysing complex, dynamical systems. Many important scientific and social systems are poorly understood. Intelligent support for understanding these kinds of systems goes beyond the usual algorithmic offerings in the data mining literature and includes data collection, including novel modes of data acquisition, such as crowdsourcing and other "citizen science" mechanisms; data cleaning and curation; data semantics and markup; searching for data and assembling datasets from multiple sources; data processing, including workflows, mixed-initiative data analysis, and planning; data and information fusion; incremental, mixed-initiative model development, testing and revision; and visualization and dissemination of results. IDA particularly encourages papers about 1) end-to-end software systems that incorporate several of these technologies; 2) applications of these technologies to modeling complex systems such as gene regulatory networks, economic systems, ecological systems, resources such as water, and dynamical social systems such as online communities; and 3) robustness, scaling properties, and other usability issues that arise when these technologies are put into in practice.
Papers about established technology will only be accepted if the technology is embedded in intelligent data analysis systems, or is applied to analysing and/or modeling complex systems. IDA 2010 does not encourage papers about isolated algorithms that refine, polish, extend slightly, or offer minor variants of established ideas; and it will not publish papers about classification, clustering, dimension reduction, and other conventional data mining topics unless they clearly contribute to problems of modeling complex systems.
Conventional reviewing accentuates criticism and favors established work against which reviewers can make no complaints. These criteria discourage the kinds of papers IDA 2010 hopes to publish. Consequently, IDA 2010 will accept any paper for which at least one senior reviewer writes an informed, thoughtful, positive review. The names of reviewers will be published in footnotes. In some cases, reviews will be published alongside the papers.
IDA 2010 will be a highly interactive "working conference." Bring your data, technologies and systems; your questions and quandaries; and plan to work with domain experts on modeling problems in the natural and social sciences.
Authors are encouraged to communicate with the program chairs about any aspect of this call for papers.
Call for presentation of late-breaking research
A poster session will be held for late-breaking results, wild new ideas, software demonstrations, student work, etc. Poster submissions will be reviewed, but not published. Please submit a one-page pdf abstract by email to posters@ida2010.org by May 1st if you'd like to present a poster at this session. Inquiries may be posted to the same e-mail address.