CiDaS aims at providing first class environment for data scientists and other related areas and disciplines, who use data science innovations in their field, to brainstorm and share their novel research results. This is not limited only to scientists and academics, but also industries and organisations. To this aim, we accept applied as well as fundamental research papers. Survey papers are also welcome to this conference. We would also welcome papers that show the application of novel data science and big data techniques and tools in other areas such as healthcare, manufacturing, finance and etc. Main topics to be addressed in the CiDaS conference include, but not limited to:

• Big Data Analysis
• Linked Open Data
• Scalable Machine Learning
• Distributed Data Storage and Analysis
• Algorithmic and Statistical Techniques for Big Data
• Privacy and Ethics
• Machine Learning and Data science
• Deep Learning
• Text Mining and Natural Language Processing
• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• Statistical Models in Data Science
• Probabilistic graphical models
• Semantic Data Science
• Knowledge Discovery
• Semantic Technologies
• Novel Information Retrieval
• Linked data and Semantic Web
• Ontologies
• Graph and Network Analysis
• Applied Data Science
• Computer vision
• Biological data analysis and Bioinformatics
• Social network analysis
• Large Scale Data retrieval and analysis in Smart Cities
• Data Science for Gamification
• IoT and WoT
• Industry 4.0
• Malware detection

All submissions should be in English. All accepted full papers will be published as a book chapter by Springer (tbc). Authors are requested to use the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer's Author Instructions. Submissions should be in PDF format. Two types of submissions will be accepted: (1) Full paper and (2) Short paper. Full paper submissions are not allowed to exceed 16 pages including references. Short paper submissions should be maximum 6 pages. At least one author of accepted papers should register to the conference and present the paper. All accepted papers should be presented in the conference. “No Show” papers will not appear in the conference publications.

• Each poster is assigned a specific poster location in the exhibition hall.
• Check with the volunteers or the registration desk if you cannot find your poster board.
• The size of posters holders is 90cm x 150cm and the format is vertical.
• You can print your poster in vertical A0 (84.1 x 118.9cm).
• Please review the CiDaS19 poster template for more details on how to prepare your poster.
• Please link the picture(s) when you have both text and picture(s) in your poster and submit the picture data with.
• Make the poster in CMYK mode, the different colors will be found in RGB mode and make clear which scale is used (such as 1/1, 1/10, 1/20).

CiDaS19 Poster Sample CiDaS19 Poster Template

• You should send your poster file to email address cidas-poster@iasbs.ac.ir before the conference day (Wednesday, March, 6, 14:00)
• The Conference staff will check the data and transmit it to the printing company which will judge if it is printable or not.
• If it is printable, we will inform you when you can collect your poster at the registration counter.
• The printing cost of 500,000 Rials should be paid in cash when you receive the poster at the registration counter.
• In case of any question, you can contact cidas-poster@iasbs.ac.ir or call the number below:
+98 990 742 3017, Mr. Mohammad Mahmoudi

• If you have not already registered to the conference, please kindly register as soon as possible using the following link: Registration Form
• The final early registration hard deadline (no extension) is 24th February.
• The late registration deadline is 2nd March.
• Payment of registration fee is mandatory for your participation. If you miss the late registration deadline, you will not be able to participate in the conference and your paper will be excluded from the conference proceedings.

• Please submit the camera-ready version of your manuscript latest till 24 February 2019. The deadline will not be extended.
• In case if your camera-ready submission will not be submitted till stated deadline or your submitted camera-ready version will not include comments and change requested of our reviewers, your manuscript will be excluded from the conference publications.
• Please make grammatic and linguistic proofread before submitting your camera-ready.
• Please use original template and standards provided by the conference for your camera-ready version. Otherwise, your paper may be excluded for publication.
• During the publication of the book by Springer, your manuscript will be checked for plagiarism and also Springer may ask you for further editorial modifications. So, you will remain responsible for any changes that we may ask you later.

• The official language of slides as well as your oral presentation will be in English. So, please avoid presenting in any other language.
• You will have total 30 minutes (20min Talk+ 10min QA) time for your oral presentation.
• In case, if your paper will not be presented in its dedicated time-slot, it will be marked as "no-show" and will be excluded from the conference publications.
• Please send the final version of your presentation (Slides) in the PDF form latest till 14:00, 5th March to the following email address: cidas@iasbs.ac.ir. Please use paper ID number in the subject of your email.
• We will use our computers and all presentations of each track will be copied to the system before starting the sessions. So, copying presentations during the conference will not be possible and we kindly please you to send them to us before stated deadlines.
• In case, you will have any special need for your presentation, such as internet connection, voice/video facilities inside your presentation or any other special need such as software, please kindly inform us, while sending your presentation to the organizing committee.

• If you need any accommodation facilities while your stay in Zanjan, please send your individual requests to the following email address (cidas@iasbs.ac.ir) including your registration receipt as an attachment.
• Please be aware that we have only limited number of free dorms, so first come, will be first served.
• The confirmation of accommodation reservation will be sent to you after receiving your request, if there would be possibilities.

• In case of any further question, please contact us by phone: +98 24 3315 3374 or email: cidas@iasbs.ac.ir
• If you are not subscribed to our social network channel, we recommend you to join us at https://t.me/CiDaSConf