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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Call for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">"Metaheuristic and optimization in data science and big data"</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">11<sup>th</sup> Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2015)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">June 7-10<sup>th</sup> 2015, Agadir, Morocco</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.lifl.fr/MIC2015/index.htm">http://www.lifl.fr/MIC2015/index.htm</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Aim and Scope</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The Big Data is focused on the development of skills in management and statistical analysis of massive and unstructured data, and technologies and algorithms mastering to
exploit these data with big volumes. The role of this new data science is to create added values from data. The expert of this domain must provide the techniques and Big Data analytics through appropriate tools. We need to control related topics to quantitative
analysis such as business, technology, and optimization.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The purpose of this session to see the contribution of metaheuristics for these data operating in the big data</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Topic include (but not limited to):</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Optimization and
<span style="background:white">Decision Making</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Data Mining Theory, Systems and Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Machine learning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Big data, search and mining;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Big data and cloud technologies;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">High performance, parallel computing on Big Data;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Real-time or near real-time data streaming
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Tools and new language to perform the treatment
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Visualization<a name="_GoBack"></a> Big Data</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Applications of Big data (health, financial, social, weather forecasting, etc )</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Submission:
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Authors are invited to provide a full paper written in English in accordance with the template format provided by the conference and available at the
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.lifl.fr/MIC2015/submission.html"><span lang="EN-US">MIC 2015 website</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">There are 3 types of submissions:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers on an important research aspect of a maximum of 3 pages</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Important dates:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">February 6, 2015: deadline for paper submission</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">March 20, 2015: notification of acceptance/reject</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">April 10, 2015: deadline for camera ready paper</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">April 10, 2015: Deadline for author registration</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Special Session Organizers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">R. Chelouah, EISTI France,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:rc@eisti.eu">rc@eisti.eu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">S. Krywyk, Business & Decision, France,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:serge.krywyk@businessdecision.com"><span lang="EN-US">serge.krywyk@businessdecision.com</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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