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Call for Applications/Participation

The Second European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS 2012)

http://cs.ulb.ac.be/conferences/ebiss2012/

July 15 - 21, 2011
Brussels, Belgium

organized by
ECP (Ecole Centrale Paris) and ULB (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles)
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We are pleased to announce the Second European Business Intelligence Summer
School. This summer school, presented by leading researchers in the field,
represents an opportunity for postgraduate students (PhD or MSc), postdoc and
other young researchers to equip themselves with the theoretical, practical,
and collaboration skills necessary for developing challenging Business
Intelligence applications. To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students
the school will be limited to 50 participants. Furthermore, industrial
presentations will allow participants to gain a deep understanding of
current product offer.

The summer school will provide a stimulating and enjoyable environment in which
participants will benefit not only from the formal sessions but also from informal
and social interactions with established researchers and the other participants in
the school. To further facilitate communication and feedback all attendees will
present a poster on their own research. The electronic copy of all course lectures
will be available to participants through the web site.

APPLICATION

The number of attendees will be limited. Applications are submitted by filling
the Application Form available at the address
http://cs.ulb.ac.be/conferences/ebiss2012/application.html
and also emailing a CV to ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be.

Application deadline: April 2, 2012
Notification: April 10, 2012

LECTURERS

* Nesrine Ben Mustapha, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
* Gianluca Bontempi, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
* Yves De Smet, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
* Christophe Debruyne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Pieter De Leenheer, Collibra, Belgium and VU University Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
* Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France
* Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
* Michael Saecker, Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany
* Sabri Skhiri, Euranova, Belgium
* Marcus Spies, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
* Alejandro Vaisman, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

* Alberto Abell?, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain
* Marie-Aude Aufaure, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
* Alexander L?ser, TU Berlin, Germany
* Patrick Marcel, Universit? de Tours, France
* Esteban Zim?nyi, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

LECTURE NOTES

The course material used during the summer school will be published
with Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(LNBIP) series.

REGISTRATION

Details of the registration process will be announced on the Web site,
after the application deadline.
* All inclusive registration fee (including room, meals and social
events): 600 Euros
* Registration without accommodation: 300 Euros

ORGANIZERS

Marie-Aude AUFAURE
MAS Laboratory - Academic Chair in Business Intelligence
Ecole Centrale Paris, France
Marie-Aude.Aufaure@ecp.fr

Esteban ZIMANYI
Computer & Decision Engineering Department
Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be

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