ACM TKDD Special Issue: Connected Health at Big Data Era
The availability
of big data and the emergence of wearable computing, network science, and
computational social science as areas of inquiry has
been changing the landscape of how we decipher our lives, our social
interactions, and our day-to-day activities. This well-connected world has
proposed novel requirements on transforming healthcare from reactive and
hospital-centered, to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered
and focused on well-being rather than ailment recovery.
This
special issue aims to summarize how data mining techniques echo with these emerging
challenges. The topics of this special issue include,
but are not limit to, the following:
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Health care applications advanced by data mining techniques
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Disease modeling and early intervention
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Infectious
disease modeling and controlling
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Data-driven
methods for personalized medicine
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Care coordination
and pathway analysis
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Mobile health
o
Social media and public
health
o
Comprehensive risk
prediction
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Community based
elder care
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New data mining techniques motived by health care applications
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Multi-source data sets integration and linkage
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Quality assessment and improvement of different data
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Big graph mining
(e.g., social networks, patient networks, etc.)
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Medical text
mining (e.g., clinical notes, medical forums, etc.)
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Behavioral
modeling and sentiment analysis
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Large scale and longitudinal
analysis of multi-faceted information
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Visual analytics
and interactive computation
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Scalable (medical)
data management and mining systems
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Privacy preservation
and information security
Submission Format and Guidelines
All
submitted papers must be clearly written in English and must contain only
original work, which has not been published by, or is currently under review
for, any other journal, conference, symposium, or workshop. Submissions should
be prepared according to the instruction at: http://tkdd.acm.org/authors.html#ManuscriptPreparation
All
manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the
Manuscript Center for TKDD: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tkdd. The authors must
select "SI: BIGCHAT special issue" as Manuscript
Type during the submission.
All papers
will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Requests for
additional information should be addressed to the guest editors.
Important Dates
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October 30th, 2014: paper submission
due
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December 30st, 2014: first round review
due
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February 15th, 2015: author revision due
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March 15th, 2015: second round review due
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April 15th, 2015: final decision
(approximate date)
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April 30th, 2015: camera-ready due
Guest Editors
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Hanghang Tong. Assistant Professor. Computer
Science Department. CUNY City College. Email: hanghang.tong@gmail.com
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Fei Wang. Research Staff Member. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Email: fwang@us.ibm.com.
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Munmun De Choudhury. Assistant
Professor. School of Interactive Computing. Georgia Institute of Technology.
Email: mchoudhu@cc.gatech.edu
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Zoran
Obradovic. Laura H. Carnell Professor. Computer and Information Sciences Department,
Temple University. Email: zoran.obradovic@temple.edu