‘Ethics in “Big Data” collection, collation and usage
&
CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh
present
IMTECH-SIS
2014
st
31 Convention & Conference of SIS
on
“BIG DATA Mining: The Concepts, Methods and
Applications”
(November 27-29, 2014)
To be held at
CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology
Sector-39 A, Chandigarh
BACKGROUND
Theme of the Conference:“BIG DATA Mining: The Concepts, Methods and Applications”
Past few years have seen an exponential growth in data generation, dissemination and use across
all domains be it science, engineering, humanities, arts and so on. The main drivers to data
growth are increasing research, subject domains diversity, better understanding of complex data
mining tools and techniques, global inter institutional linkages and an increasing willingness to
share data. The term rightly used for the availability and growth of data is “BIG DATA”.
This Conference seeks to provide the researchers, academicians industry and students a platform
to share the newer developments in this area. The research and the business both are positively
impacted by availability of large volumes of data, whether it is structured or unstructured. The
Conference, therefore, would have several sessions to discuss the issues germane to the spread
of ‘Big Data’ as a discipline.
SUB-THEMES
The Conference sub-themes are:
1. Exponential Growth in Scientific Data: Globally the inflow of data has increased at an
enormous pace to the advantage of researchers across multiplicity of research domains.
Availability of huge volumes of data affords a unique opportunity in using such data
volumes to create research focus be it in biological, chemical, physical sciences or in social
sciences. Due to exponential growth of scientific data, new interdisciplinary fields have
emerged in last decade that includes Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Pharmainformatics.
Under this theme various resources or database contain scientific information will be
discussed.
2. Mining “Big Data” in Social media: Context, creation and applications thereof:
Facebook, twitter, watssap, we chat, and few more such platforms are driving the social
media crazy with volumes of information and data availability. Such data has huge
implications for researchers and industry across a cross section of domains. Research
publications using mined information would be the focus of this sub-theme.
3. “Big Data” as an information power-house for ‘analytics’ and ‘visualization’ in
business systems: For business systems or financial markets, the availability of marketing
or manufacturing data helps in growth. Data gives them a power of visualization and
analysis thereby creating for them areas of big opportunities. Case studies on this theme
would create a focus for this session.
4. Structured databases as ‘Innovation’ ecosystem: Innovation is driven by creativity and
curiosity; both have their basis in availability of information and data. This sub-theme shall
have presentations on how availability of information mined out of structured databases
help researchers.
5. Reaching beyond 3 Vs of “Big Data”: ‘Volume’ ‘Velocity’ and ‘Variety’ of ‘data’ helped by
‘Variability’ and ‘Complexity’ lead to appropriate decision making and help bring in accurate
analysis. The session shall address issues on a sub-theme which would afford the
students/researchers/academicians an opportunity to present their work on a theme of
seminal importance.
6. Genomes based Personalized Medicine: Due to advancement in sequencing technology,
there is exponential growth in genomic data; trillions of data generated every day.
Genomics is leading the life sciences research and is driven by ever evolving data mining
techniques. Under this theme application of genomic information in health science will be
discussed.
7. ‘Ethics in “Big Data” collection, collation and usage: Maintaining ‘Ethics’ and ‘ethical
conduct’ have importance in all spheres of life, and are equally applicable in data mining
and its subsequent use where Ethical considerations do play a major role. The session
would have case presentations on this theme.
OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE
The principal objective of this Conference is to provide a platform for exchange of knowledge,
ideas & learning experience among the Information specialists, Scientists, Academicians and
researchers.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Practicing Information Specialists, Academicians, IT Professionals, Research Scientists,
Bioinformaticians, Cheminformaticians and Students.
CALL for PAPERS
Papers based on case studies, Researches, Practical experiences, etc. on the main theme and
sub-themes of the Conference are invited from the interested participants. The Paper should be
within 6000 word including Abstract of about 300 words with 4 keywords and typed in MS-WORD
in 12-point Times New Roman. All the references should be properly tagged and referred
following MLA Style Manual. The authors should agree with the transfer of the copyright of the
papers to SIS, New Delhi and CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. The same should be sent as e-mail
attachment to the Organizing Secretary on or before November 1, 2014. All the received papers
will be peer-reviewed. Only the accepted papers will be published in an edited book format to be
published under the aegis of SIS, India.
General Instructions:
1. Both invited and contributed papers will be considered
2. A generalized presentation should be avoided
3. A declaration by the author (S) should be made separately that the paper(s) has/have not
been sent elsewhere for publication/presentation
4. All accepted papers will be invited for presentation
5. The decision of the Editorial Committee will be final.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Paper Submission
Notifications for Acceptance
Camera Ready Paper Submission
Conference Date
: November 1, 2014
: November 10, 2014
: November 15, 2014
: November 27-29, 2014
REGISTRATION
Delegates are requested to fill the registration form and return the same with conference fee and
other applicable payments to the Conference Secretariat latest by November 1, 2014.
Conference Fee
(Early Registration by
SIS
members
Working
industry
professionals
and nonmembers
Rs 2000
Rs. 3000
Rs 2500
Rs. 3500
Accompanying
person
Overseas
Rs. 1000
Rs. 1500
$ 100
Rs. 1500
Rs. 2000
$120
Students, Retired
Information
specialists
October 31, 2014)
Regular (After October
31, 2014)
The registration fee will cover registration materials, lunch, dinner, tea & snacks. The demand
draft should be drawn in favor of ‘SIS 2014’ and payable at Chandigarh
TRAVEL GRANT
The Organising Committee shall provide travel grant to a maximum of 10 students of bonafide
institutions for travel by rail/road (3rd AC or equivalent). Those interested may put up their request
for the same.
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation charges will be Rs.500/- per person per day on sharing basis.
Accommodation will be provided to the delegates in the institute guest house, other guest houses,
and hostels on first come first serve basis.
VENUE
CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh
CLIMATE
The participants are advised to bring some woolen clothes as during November the weather will
be moderately colder one.
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME:
November 27, 2014
Inaugural Session: 4.30 pm – 7.00 pm
- Keynote address on the ‘Theme’ of the Conference
- Award of SIS Fellowships & Young Information Scientist
- Annual General Meeting of the SIS.
Dinner:
7.30-9.00 pm
November 28, 2014
9.30-10.15 am
10.15-11.30 am
11.45-1.00 pm
1.00-1.45 pm
2.00 -3.15 pm
3.15-4.30 pm
4.30-5.45 pm
8.00 pm
Nagarajan Memorial Oration
Sub Theme-I Exponential Growth in Scientific Data
Sub-theme-II Mining “Big Data” in Social media: Context, creation
and applications thereof
Lunch
Sub-theme –III“Big Data” as an information power-house for
‘analytics’ and ‘visualization’ in business systems
Sub-theme-IV Structured databases as ‘Innovation’ ecosystem
Sub-theme-V Reaching beyond 3 Vs of ‘Big Data’
Dinner
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
9.30-11.00 am
11.30-1.00 pm
1.00 – 2.00 pm
02-3.00 pm
Sub theme VI: Genomes based Personalized Medicine
Sub theme VII: Ethics in “Big Data” collection, collation and usage
Lunch
Closing session- Valediction
TUTORIALS
Two tutorial sessions will be held on November 27, 2014 one the “Techniques of Data mining” and
the other on “Creation of Data structures and use thereof”.
Those interested in attending the tutorial programmes are requested to send their names
separately with the tutorial fee of Rs. 500/- for each of the Tutorial sessions.
THE HOST
CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh
Set-up in 1984 to be a fore-runner in the sun-rise area of Biotechnology, the Institute provides a
truly world-class R&D ambience. Its primary asset is a team of highly motivated scientists and
students, who are undertaking world-class research projects in diverse biotechnology research
areas, including production of therapeutically and industrially useful recombinant/engineered
proteins and their scale-up; Molecular microbiology of pathogens with respect to disease
causation, drug resistance etc; vaccine development and immunology of infectious diseases;
Yeast Genetics, Screening of microorganisms for beneficial enzymatic and bio- activities, strain
improvement, biochemical process development, and Bioinformatics and high-end computational
biology, to cite a few. The intensive research efforts are continuing to result in High-impact
publications and new scientific concepts on the one hand, and technology licensing, on the other.
CSIR-IMTECH has the unique distinction of hosting India’s first International Depositary Authority,
the Microbial Type Culture Collection & Gene Bank and a Protein Engineering Centre of
international standards (http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/) .
CSIR-IMTECH scientists are leading Indian efforts on ‘Big Data’ with numerous cutting edge
studies on predicting numerous algorithms, protein structures, and creating a large number of
databases. One of the mega projects at CSIR-IMTECH is GENESIS (Genomics and Informatics
Solutions for Integrating Biology) for mining big data particularly genomic data. GENESIS is an
interdisciplinary project that aims to integrate computational scientists and biologists across CSIR
to understand complex biological problems and mine experimental data (http://info.csir.res.in/).
One ambitious plan is to develop an Indian portal of resources/information to improve efficacy of
data intensive research in biological sciences. The project proposes developing, mirroring and
maintaining databases of rapidly growing biological data and creating software based support
environment to assist researchers in deciphering functionally relevant information from highthroughput sequencing data. Overall, this project will strengthen infrastructure essential for
advancing computational biology research in CSIR labs and is in-sync with the prime mandate of
CSIR to serve Indian society (http://crdd.osdd.net/).
SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE (SIS)
The Society for Information Science (SIS) (http://www.sis.org.in/) founded in 1976, works in the
broad domain of information sciences. The Society was formed with the following aims;
i) To promote interchange of information in the discipline of information science and its
subdivision amongst the specialists and between specialists and the public.
ii) To encourage and assist the professionals to maintain the integrity and competence of the
profession.
iii) To foster a sense of partnership amongst the professionals engaged in these fields.
The Society is of the opinion that there should be systematic approach in adapting new
information technology with cost-benefit analysis. The Society is firmly committed to provide a
congenial environment for interaction among Research Institutions, industry and academician.
The SIS functions through an Executive committee consisting of experts from different institutions
and assisted by various sub-committees for carrying out its programme.
Society for information Science (SIS) is an all India professional body devoted to encouraging
interaction among information professionals, scientists, managers and users. The Society being
professional in nature, enrolls only qualified persons as members after the applications have been
screened and approved by the Membership Screening Committee which is duly nominated by the
Executive Committee.
The Society has come a long way in 38 years of its existence; it has been able to peruse the
programme quite successfully maintaining its vibrant character. It is a body of experts and leading
professionals from different esteemed Indian institutions such as CSIR, IITs, IIMs, ICMR, and
different universities, colleges and others in the field of Information Science.
‘IMTECH-SIS 2014’
31st
National Convention & Conference of SIS On BIG DATA Mining
(The Concepts, Methods and Applications)
Organized by
CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh
(November 27-29, 2014)
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