Our motto is “cross-diciplinary learning from diverse fields” - some hot topics include but are not limited to …

* … Interactive Content Analytics from “unstructured” (weakly structured) data (e.g. computational topology in text mining)

* … Big Data Analytics methodologies, methods, approaches and tools (e.g. Hadoop)

* … Multimedia Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery from big data (e.g from the biomedical informatics domain etc.)

* … Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Extraction (e.g. in the context of reputation management)

* … Swarm Intelligence (collective intelligence, crowdsourcing) and collaborative Knowledge Discovery/Data Mining/Decision Making

* … Intelligent, interactive, semi-automatic, multivariate Information Visualization and Visual Analytics

* … Multimedia Data Exploration and Sensemaking of Big Data

* … Time-Oriented Data and Information (e.g. longitudinal data, complex noisy time series, entropy, …)

* … Novel Search User Interaction Techniques (supporting human intelligence with computational intelligence)

* … Future Information Interaction Techniques (Note: science fiction of today is science fact of tomorrow)

* … Modeling of Human Search Behavior and Understanding Human Information Needs

* … Methods and Methodologies (e.g. Support Vector Machines, Boltzmann machines, Evolutionary computing …)

* … Text Analytics (e.g. computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Web Mining, …)

* … Topological Data Analyis (e.g. in images, biomed data, medical diagnostics, clinical assessment, …)

* … Special HCI-KDD solutions in the biomedical domain (e.g. bioinformatics, genome analysis, evolution, …)

* … Practical HCI-KDD solutions in the hospital (e.g. content analytics in business enterprise hospital data, …)