Special Issue on
Intelligent Analysis for Big Data and Social Informatics
Guest Editors:
Tzung-Pei Hong
National University of
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
tphong@nuk.edu.tw
Been-Chian Chien
National University of
Tainan, Taiwan
bcchien@mail.nutn.edu.tw
Wen-Yang Lin
National University
of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
wylin@nuk.edu.tw
Shyue-Liang Wang
National University
of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
slwang@nuk.edu.tw
The phrase “big data” refers to large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets
generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other
digital sources available today and in the future. It appears in various areas like engineering, commerce,
finance, medical science, etc. In addition, social networks have become very popular in daily life. They
have received considerable attention due to the popularity of mobile devices in recent years. It involves
the study of all kinds of social aspects of computerization. Both the big data and social informatics
need efficient and effective data analysis techniques to find useful but not inundating knowledge. The
objective of the proposed special issue is to highlight an ongoing research, bring forward recent
advances, and present state-of-the-art developments on intelligent analysis for big data and social
informatics in various domains. Original contributions about intelligent analysis approaches,
methodologies and techniques in the following topics are welcome:
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Intelligent data visualization techniques
for big data and social informatics
Intelligent data pre-processing and
post-processing for big data and social
informatics
Intelligent data analysis techniques for big
data and social informatics
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Intelligent tools and applications for big data
and social informatics
Intelligent integration of domain knowledge
in big data and social informatics
Time Table
Paper submission deadline: November 31, 2015
Deadline for the completion of the first review: March 31, 2016
Deadline for the submission of modified papers: May 31, 2016
Deadline for the completion of the second reviews: July 31, 2016
Date for submitting the accepted material to the publisher: August 31, 2016
Date for publication: March 31, 2017
Online Submission
Authors should submit their manuscripts to the guest editor, Prof. Tzung-Pei Hong, at:
tphong@nuk.edu.tw. The instructions for authors lie on the journal webpage at:
http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligent-data-analysis