<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">_________________________________________________________________</div><div class="">Call for Papers (apologies for multiple copies)</div><div class="">Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested attendees</div><div class="">_________________________________________________________________</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">3rd International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data - MOD 2017</div><div class="">An Interdisciplinary Workshop: Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science without Borders - SIAF Learning Village - Volterra (Pisa) Tuscany, September 14-17, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod/</a></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:modworkshop2017@gmail.com" class="">modworkshop2017@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">+++ CALL FOR PAPERS +++</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2017</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod/call-for-papers/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod/call-for-papers/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MOD 2017 Keynote Speakers:</div><div class="">+ Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Director of AI Research at Apple.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">+ Jun Pei, Hefei University of Technology, China</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other speakers will be announced soon!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The MOD 2017 workshop will consist of four days of workshop sessions and special sessions. We invite submissions of papers, abstracts and posters on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization and Big Data including real-world applications for the workshop proceedings:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod/call-for-papers/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod/call-for-papers/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please prepare your paper in English using the Lecture Notes in </div><div class="">Computer Science (LNCS) template, which is available </div><div class=""><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" class="">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Papers must be submitted in PDF.</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">MOD 2017 Types of Submissions</div><div class="">When submitting a paper to MOD 2017, authors are required to select </div><div class="">one of the following four types of papers:</div><div class="">+ Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 12 pages in Springer LNCS format);</div><div class="">+ Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 4 pages);</div><div class="">+ Work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). </div><div class="">For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the workshop;</div><div class="">+ Work for poster presentation only. The poster format for the </div><div class="">presentation is A0 (118.9 cm high and 84.1 cm wide, respectively 46.8 x 33.1 inch).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For research work which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the workshop.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MOD 2017 Post-Proceedings</div><div class="">All accepted long papers will be published in a volume of the series </div><div class="">'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' from Springer *after* the Workshop. </div><div class="">Instructions for preparing and submitting the final versions </div><div class="">(camera-ready papers) of all accepted papers will be available later on.</div><div class="">All the other papers (short papers, abstract of the oral </div><div class="">presentations, poster presentations) will be published on the MOD 2017 web site.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MOD 2017 Submission System</div><div class="">All papers must be submitted using EasyChair: </div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mod2017</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The deadline is February 28, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MOD 2017 Important Dates</div><div class="">+ Paper Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017</div><div class="">+ Decision Notification to Authors: May 1st, 2017</div><div class="">+ Camera Ready Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2017</div><div class="">+ Deadline for early Registration as Presenting Author: June 1st, 2017</div><div class="">+ Late registration: June 2 – September 17, 2017</div><div class="">+ On-Site registration: September 14-17, 2017</div><div class="">+ MOD 2017 Workshop: September 14-17, 2017</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">We look forward to seeing you in Tuscany!</div><div class=""> Renato Umeton, Piero Conca, Giovanni Giuffrida, Giuseppe Nicosia & Panos Pardalos - MOD 2017 Chairs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod/</a></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:modworkshop2017@gmail.com" class="">modworkshop2017@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MOD 2016 Keynote Speakers:</div><div class="">Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol, UK</div><div class="">George Michailidis, University of Florida, USA</div><div class="">Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK</div><div class="">Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod-2016/keynote-speakers/" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod-2016/keynote-speakers/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MOD 2015 Keynote Speakers:</div><div class="">Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA</div><div class="">Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA</div><div class="">Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.taosciences.it/mod-2015/MOD" class="">http://www.taosciences.it/mod-2015/MOD</a> 2015 </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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