[LFG] Call for Papers: Special Issue on “New Trends in Humanistic Informatics: Implementations and Applications”

[Valia Kordoni]

Elsevier, Computers & Electrical Engineering

Special Issue on “New Trends in Humanistic Informatics: Implementations
and Applications”
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/call-for-papers/special-section-on-new-trends-in-humanistic-informatics)

Call for Papers:

The abundance of available data that is retrieved from or is related to
the areas of Humanities challenges the research community in processing
and analyzing it. The aim is two-fold: on the one hand, to extract
knowledge that will help understand human behavior, communication,
creativity, way of thinking, reasoning, learning, decision making,
socializing; on the other hand,  to exploit the extracted knowledge by
incorporating it into intelligent systems that will support humans in
their everyday activities.

The nature of humanistic data can be multimodal, dynamic, time and
space-dependent, and highly complicated. Translating humanistic
information, e.g. behavior, state of mind, artistic creation and
linguistic utterance, into numerical or categorical low-level data is a
significant challenge on its own.  New mining techniques, appropriate to
deal with this type of data, need to be proposed and existing ones adapted
to its special characteristics.

The proposed special issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary
approaches that focus on the application of innovative as well as existing
mining and knowledge discovery techniques (like decision rules, decision
trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, learning, classifier
systems, neural networks, support vector machines, preprocessing, post
processing, feature selection, visualization techniques) to data derived
from Humanistic Sciences, e.g. linguistic, historical, behavioral,
psychological, artistic, musical, educational, social etc.

Topics of interest:

- Humanistic & social data mining and interpretation
- Cloud-based mining of humanistic data
- Social data analytics
- Supervised or unsupervised learning of humanistic knowledge
- Knowledge discovery, representation and reasoning
- Humanistic data-driven architectures, algorithms & applications
- High-performance humanistic computing applications
- Data visualization techniques
- Heterogeneous data mining & fusion
- Exploitation of contextual information in humanistic computing systems
- Humanistic context modeling and extraction
- Biomedical data mining
- Computational intelligence for humanistic media adaptation and
personalization
- Privacy preserving humanistic data mining and social networks

Submission Information

Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers that falls within the
topics of this special section. Submitted articles must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. For
work that has been published previously in a workshop or conference, it is
required that submissions to the special issue have at least 40% new
content/contribution. Submissions that do not meet these requirement will
be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted via journal’s
submission website and should adhere to standard formatting requirements.
Authors are required to select article type "SI-hinf" for paper
submission.

Guest Editors:

Spyros Sioutas, Associate Professor, Ionian University, Greece,

Email: sioutas at ionio.gr

Yannis Velegrakis, Associate Professor, University of Trento, Italy,

Email: velgias at disi.unitn.eu

Valia Kordoni, Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany,

Email: evangelia.kordoni at anglistik.hu-berlin.de

Prospective schedule of deadlines:

Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2016
Notification of the first review: January 15, 2017
Revised paper submission: February 5, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2017
Final manuscript: May 15, 2017
Expected publication: November 2017