********** Final Call for Papers ********* SoDAC 2012 – INNS Symposium on Data Analytics and Competitions Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012 http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/ (http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=23067) Important Dates =============== Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2012 Camera-ready paper: August 1, 2012 Data analytics is fast becoming the norm in various industries and government sectors to provide support for improved decision making. It focuses on the process of inference based on available data and domain knowledge. There is also a push for open data accessibility for the advancement and dissemination of timely scientific content. SoDAC2012 provides an opportunity for researchers from various disciplines and fields to share and discuss their achievements and challenges, providing novel insights in the interdisciplinary field of data analytics. Subjects of interest range from business analytics to data visualization to knowledge management and discovery. One or more data competitions will also be featured in this event. Paper Submission The submission of papers to SoDAC2012 is available online at EasyChair: (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=innswc2012). Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work of up to 12 pages in the areas including (but not limited to) the following: * Business intelligence * Air quality and environmental issues * Chemo-informatics * Social networks and analytics * Speech prosody * Geo-informatics * Neuro-informatics * Internet and web analytics * Data visualization techniques * Data quality analysis * Decision support and analytics * Knowledge management and discovery * Advanced database analytics * Content and information retrieval * Modeling and simulation of complex systems * Optimization techniques * Bio-data analysis * Complex scheduling problems * Scalability of data analysis * Data competitions The submission must conform to the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of INNS-WC2012 as an Elsevier Procedia Computer Science open access volume (indexed by EI, Scopus and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - formerly ISI Proceedings). Extended version of selected papers may be invited for publication in special issues of international journals after the conference. All submissions will be checked by VeriGuide for originality. Symposium Organizers: Donald Wunsch (Chair), Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Hava Siegelmann (Co-Chair), University of Massachusetts, USA Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Greg Evans, University of Toronto, Canada Jonathan H. Chan, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Bunthit Watanapa, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand