Data Mining Topics & Applications 2014

The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM’14) is aimed to gather researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, computational intelligence, pattern recognition, databases and visualization. ECDM’14 is aimed to advance the state of the art in data mining field and its various real world applications. ECDM’14 will provide opportunities for technical collaboration among data mining and machine learning researchers around the globe.

Acceptance will be based primarily on originality, significance and quality of contribution.

Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:

Core Data Mining Topics - Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms - Data streams mining - Graph mining - Spatial data mining - Text video, multimedia data mining - Web mining - Pre-processing techniques - Visualization - Security and information hiding in data mining

Data Mining Applications - Databases, - Bioinformatics, - Biometrics - Image analysis - Financial modeling - Forecasting - Classification - Clustering - Social Networks - Educational data mining

For further details please contact the publicity chair - secretariat@datamining-conf.org

This is a blind peer-reviewed conference.

Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: 31 January 2014
- Notification to Authors: 3 March 2014
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: until 31 March 2014
- Late Registration: after 31 March 2014
- Conference: 15 - 17 July, 2014

Areas and Resources in Software Engineering

The following areas of interest:

• Software engineering in and for the cloud
• Data analytics for software development and engineering
• Programming paradigms and software engineering tools for the Internet of Things
• Tools for testing and verification
• Tools and technologies challenging computer science education in general, and teaching of programming in particular
• Empowering end users with program synthesis
• Programming in the presence of uncertainty and approximation
• Infrastructure for cloud-scale software
  • Server, storage, interconnect, and data center architecture and design
  • Intra- and inter-data center networking
  • Resource models and resource-aware programming models
  •  Resource provisioning, monitoring, and control for cloud computing
  
  

  Resources

  Microsoft offers a wide range of platforms and services of direct relevance to the call. PIs are encouraged to use these, as well as Microsoft Research’s free tools and frameworks. A selection of these follows.
  
  Devices and “Internet of Things” 
  
  
• TouchDevelop – programming on multi-platform devices
• Lab of Things – a research platform for deploying interconnected devices at scale
• Windows Phone Dev Center: development tools for Windows Phone
• .NET Gadgeteer: rapid prototyping platform for small electronic gadgets and embedded hardware devices
• Kinect for Windows

Software engineering in the cloud

• TouchDevelop – programming on multi-platform devices
• Windows Azure: Microsoft's cloud platform
• Windows Azure Research Award Program

Sharing of tools and teaching

• Rise4Fun allows visitors to interact directly with new tools and languages, developed by Microsoft and others—including IDEs, compilers, and analysis—in the cloud
• TouchDevelop: programming on touch devices, including tablets and phones 

Design, programming, and services

• Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate: for lifecycle management of project development
• Debugger Canvas: a new user experience for the debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate
• DKAL: a distributed authorization policy language
• FORMULA: a modern formal specification language targeting model-based development
• F*: dependently typed language for secure distributed programming
• P: a language for asynchronous event-driven programming
• Visual Studio F# 3.0: functional programming with information-rich programming and Try F#
• Koka: a function-oriented language with effect inference

Dynamic analysis tools

• Code Contracts: language-agnostic contracts for Microsoft .NET
• CHESS: concurrency testing tools
• Detours: for detouring Win32 and application APIs
• Pex: automatic unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET
• Stubs: lightweight test stubs and detouring for Microsoft .NET

Static analysis and program verification

• Bek: fast and precise sanitizer analysis using regular transducers
• Boogie: intermediate language for targeting program verifiers
• VCC: program verifier for C with contract language
• Z3: automated theorem prover
• Common Compiler Infrastructure: CIL-metadata reader/writer, compiler/decompiler framework

Infrastructure for cloud-scale software

• An introduction to Global Foundation Services
• Data Center Genome Project
• Energy-Efficient Enterprise and Cloud Computing
• Joulemeter download

Additional resources

• DreamSpark: Microsoft tools for academic use
• Codeplex: open-source project community

All of this software is free for download to by everyone, except for Windows Azure and Microsoft Visual Studio, which are free to universities that are enrolled in DreamSpark.

Research Areas in Software Engineering

Software Engineering group works on development and maintenance of software, with the overall goal of creating high-quality software.  Research done in 

• Software Testing
• Program Analysis
• Program understanding
• Modeling and Design
• Failure Analysis
• Fault Localization 
• Debugging 
• Remote Monitoring
• Human and social aspects of software engineering
• Software Engineering Education

ICSOFT-EA 2014, the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications

Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES
2. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
3. DISTRIBUTED AND MOBILE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
4. SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

AREA 1: ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES

• Business Process Modelling
• Client/Server Computing
• IT Service Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Interoperability
• Middleware
• Business Intelligence
• Decision Support Systems
• Intelligent Problem Solving
• User Modelling and HCI
• Virtual Organizations

AREA 2: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

• Requirements Elicitation and Specification
• Software Integration
• Software Testing and Maintenance
• Model-driven Engineering
• Software Quality
• Software and Information Security
• User Identification and Intrusion Detection
• Web Services
• Formal Methods
• Programming Languages

AREA 3: DISTRIBUTED AND MOBILE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

• Distributed Architectures
• Cloud Applications
• Web-based Software Development
• Mobile Technologies and Applications
• Pervasive Computing and Communications
• Ambient Intelligence
• Agents and Multi-agent Systems
• Communication Networks and Protocols
• Parallel and High Performance Computing
• Process Coordination and Synchronization
• Distributed Systems Privacy

AREA 4: SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Project Management Software
• Scheduling and Estimating
• Software Metrics
• Project Planning, Monitoring and Control
• Agile Methodologies
• Performance Evaluation
• Risk Management
• Quality Assurance
• Certification
• Case Studies of Project Management

   Conference Date: 29 - 31 August, 2014

  Regular Papers

Paper Submission: March 18, 2014
Authors Notification: June 12, 2014
Camera Ready and Registration: June 26, 2014

Position Papers

  Paper Submission: May 21, 2014
 Authors Notification: June 24, 2014
 Camera Ready and Registration: July 7, 2014

The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international journal or in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag. Additional information can be found at http://www.icsoft-ea.org.