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2024

Data Science is reshaping different academic and industry fields and is playing an increasingly important role in almost all domains. The Southwest Data Science Conference (SDSC 2024) at Baylor University on March 22, 2024, provides an international forum for the presentation of original research results in different data science domains as well as the dissemination and exchange of novel data handling and methodology experiences.

SDSC 2024 invites submissions of papers or abstracts consisting of new, unpublished work, reporting advances in data science and its intersections with other fields. SDSC 2024 welcomes submissions from, but is not limited to, the following domains:

  • AI and Applied Data Science
  • Business and Social Data Science
  • Biomedical and Health Data Science
  • Cyber Data Science
  • Data Science for Education

Full papers describe new advances in data science and its intersections with other fields. The paper should be self-contained, but authors may provide supplemental material via web links if needed. Note that the supplement will not be included in the proceedings. Paper submissions should be between 12- and 15-pages including references, appendices, and other details. Papers should be in the LNCS format.

Abstracts or Posters describing ongoing work in data science and its application domains are also accepted.

Physical Location: Baylor University in Waco, Texas: Cashion Academic Building (corner of 4th and Speight), Room 506

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       Paper deadline: February 26, 2024

       Abstract/Poster deadline: March 15, 2024


Keynote speakers – Info coming soon

Paper Submission and Publication

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 15 pages but at least 12 pages in the LNCS format . The submitted papers should be original work not published or under reviewed in other venues.

Accepted papers will be published in Springer proceedings. In addition to the proceeding publications, selected papers will be further recommended to be published in SCI-index journals related to data science such as BMC Bioinformatics, Information Systems, Computational Biology and Chemistry and other leading data science journals.

The SDSC 2024 committee especially encourages papers from undergraduate students.

Please submit your paper via here.

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Keynote Speaker

Jianhua Ruan

Jianhua Ruan, PhD

Professor, Department of Computer Science

Core Faculty, School of Data Science

University of Texas at San Antonio

presents

“Bridging knowledge discovery and predictive modeling with small data and big intuition”

Conference Organization

Chair: Henry Han, PhD, McCollum Family Chair in Data Science  Henry_Han@baylor.edu

Program Committee

Hisham AI-Mubaid, University of Houston, USA 

Mary Lauren Benton, Baylor University, USA 

Erdogan Dogdu, Angelo State University 

Jeff Forest, Slippery Rock University, USA 

Mark Ferguson, University of South Carolina USA 

Michael Gallaugher, Baylor University, USA 

Chan Gu, Ball State University, USA 

Haiquan Li, University of Arizona, USA 

David Li,  Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS, China 

Wenbin Liu, Guanhzhou University, China 

Zhen Li, Texas Woman's University, USA 

Joe Zhou, Columbia University, USA 

Greg Speegle, Baylor University, USA 

Michael Pokojovy, University of Texas, El Paso, USA 

Eli Olinick, Southern Methodist University, USA 

Guimin Qin, Xidian University, China 

Yang Sun, California Northstate University, USA 

Ye Tian, Case Western Reserve University, USA 

Stellar Tao, UT Health Center, USA 

Tie Wei, Guangxi University, China 

Juanying Xie, Shaanxi Normal University, China 

Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA 

Jeff Zhang, California State University, Northbridge, USA 

Liang Zhao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 

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