Dear all,
We are going to have the following workshop in IJCAI2015.
Could you please deliver this cfp to your friend and submit your papers?
best regards,
Akinori and Yukio
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[CALL FOR PAPERS]
International Workshop on Chance Discovery, Data Synthesis and Data Market
in IJCAI2015
July 25th to July 27th, 2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://ultimaVI.arc.net.my/ave/IJCAI2015/
Workshop Themes: [Chance Discovery: Synthesis and Curation of Chance, and data
market]
Chance Discovery is the discovery of chance, rather than discovery by chance.
A ``chance" here means a new event/situation that can be conceived either as
an opportunity or as a risk in the future. The ``discovery" of chances is of
crucial importance since it may have a significant impact on human decision
making. Desirable effects of opportunities should be actively promoted,
whereas preventive measures should be taken in the case of discovered risks.
In other words, chance discovery aims to provide means for inventing or
surviving the future, rather than simply predicting the future.
This workshop will discuss several problems in Chance Discovery. As shown,
Chance Discovery is a research to study how to discover rare or novel events
causing potentially significant situation. Although the event itself could not
be significant. A chance might be computationally or manually discovered. Thus,
advanced computational techniques such as abduction and induction (including
data mining) could be applied to Chance Discovery. In addition, personalised
and very traditional (sometimes, manual) data mining method could also be
effective in Chance Discovery. We have discussed limitations of conventional
data mining methods. And many new computational methods, and concepts and
mechanisms of human discovery have been proposed. In the contexts, we have
discussed how to discover and suggest events causing significant but hidden
events. Our common understandings are that we deal with events in the real
world, therefore, we need to have knowledge about movement in a society,
behaviour of people, as well as computational methods. In addition, it is
important to discuss effective chance evaluation, selection, and suggestion
methods. It would be a gate for fantastic and innovative applications. Thus,
we would like to discuss from logical, computational, cognitive, sociological,
economical and psychological viewpoints. Model-based reasoning (MBR) has also
been dealing with such applications as creative changes, scientific discovery
and conceptual change. MBR combines many research fields such as philosophy,
artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and logic (including abduction)
for modeling and model retrieval. MBR deals with model which can be applied to
suggest or discover a chance. Contributions from MBR is very important for
chance discovery, and we have the same viewpoints and problems.
In addition, we would like to discuss ``curation'' of chance. We have started
discussion on ``curation'' of chance since 5th International Workshop on
Chance Discovery (IWCD5). Traditionally, curation is not only concerned with
long-term care of books, paintings or other artefacts. It is also about
maintaining their integrity and enabling and promoting their availability to
appropriate audiences (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/e-sciencecurationreport.pdf). As
shown above, for chance discovery, we have focused on strategies to discover
rare or novel events and those to present hints of chance to users. By
curation, we add a more active action to chance discovery, which curators
usually struggle to explicitly or implicitly express extended or hidden
meanings (values) to potential audiences.
In addiition, as an actual application of chance discovery, we focus on
service science. In midst of service applications in engineering and the
increasing importance of the service sector in the global economy, services
are being scientific and much attention is being focused on service science
as a means to improve productivity. Since services are amorphous (they have
no shape) and have the special characteristic of simultaneously causing both
production and consumption, it has been difficult to research services in a
scientific way. However recently, due to the spread of the internet and
technical innovations in sensor networks, huge amounts of data related to all
kinds of service activities and processes are being collected, and a new
frontier of service research is starting to appear. Thus for service science,
we will focus on empirical findings, methodological, theoretical, and
conceptual insights related to chance discovery in the field of various
service application areas. Of course, as you can guess, service science can be
discussed from the viewpoint of curation.
Topics to be discussed (will not be restricted to):
--Decisions by synthesis of information
Methods and processes for synthesizing evidences for/by chance discoveries
Data synthesis by integration of computational and manual methods for data
analysis.
--Basic and theoretical issues
Cognitive factors in chance discovery and synthesis of information.
Logical formalization for discovering chances and synthesizing pieces of
information.
--Data analysis and data mining
Analyses of complex systems (society, community etc.) involving human
behaviors.
Methodologies and models for foretelling next trends, for discovering
rare/novel events, and for noticing/evaluating the significance of events.
--New directions in chance discovery
Curation of chances: methodologies for suggesting and exhibiting information
Creations and innovations by extending or applying Chance Discovery.
Business/daily-life applications of Chance Discovery.
Market of Data
Data collection and consruction.
Determination and visualization of value of data.
Actually, we are waiting for new research fields or proposals (not included
in the above list) which might be related to or contribute to chance discovery.
Important date:
15 April, 2015: Due date for full workshop papers
by 15 May, 2015: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
TBA: Early registration deadline
10 June, 2015: Camera-ready of accepted papers
TBA: Late registration deadline
25-27 July, 2015: Workshop date
Submission:
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 6 pages in the IJCAI
conferene paper format.
Papers can be submitted to Akinori Abe ([email protected]) and
Yukio Ohsawa([email protected]).
Review:
All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality,
significance, soundness and clarity. At least three referees will review
each submission independently.
Publication:
Accepted papers will be published in the conference workshop proceedings
(CD-ROM?) by the IJCAI2015 and accorded oral presentation times in the
main conference.
Chairs:
Akinori Abe
Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
1-33 Yayoicho, Inageku, Chiba 263-8522, JAPAN
E-mail: [email protected]
Yukio Ohsawa
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656 JAPAN
E-mail: [email protected]
Program Committee (will be added more):
David Bergner (Saint Mary's College of California, USA)
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Italy)
Ruediger Oehlmann (Kingston University, UK)
Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane University, Japan)
Katsuyoshi Yada (Kansai University, Japan)
Special information:
We plan to publish a book or a journal special issue on Chance Discovery and
data market based on contributions in this workshop and the other workshops.
Previous Chance Discovery and related Workshops:
Workshop on Designing the Market of Data --- for Synthesizing Data in Sciences
and Businesses (MoDAT) in ICDM2014
Workshop on Designing the Market of Data --- for Synthesizing Data in Sciences
and Businesses (MoDAT) in ICDM2013
1st European Workshop on Chance Discovery and Data Synthesis (EWCDDS12) in
ECAI2012
6th Int'l Workshop on Chance Discovery in IJCAI 2011
5th Int'l Workshop on Chance Discovery in ICDM2010
4th Int'l Workshop on Chance Discovery in ICML2005
First European Workshop on Chance Discovery (EWCD-04) in ECAI2004
3rd Int'l Workshop on "Chance Discovery and Its Management" in HCI 2003
International
2nd Int'l Workshop on Chance Discovery (CDWS2) in PRICAI2002
International Workshop on Chance Discovery in JSAI 2001
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Akinori Abe
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