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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2017)
Special Session on "Information Systems for Design and Marketing" in IEEE SMC 2017
5-8 October, 2017, Banff Center, Banff, Canada.
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Website: http://www2.kansai-u.ac.jp/dslab/workshop/2017/SMC2017

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SCOPE
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In this special session, we discuss and study information systems for activating and integrating two business phases, i.e., design and marketing (D&M) to reinforce manufacturing/production teams. We highlight designers and marketers as the brains of enterprise creativity, living on information circulation. We aim to establish information system consisting of humans, computers, and their social environment, and stimulate dynamic streams of information and data. In order to find new horizons, we would like to encourage participations from various domains systems design, marketing science, knowledge/chance discovery, decision making, communication analysis, business sciences, and ideas beyond existing disciplines.

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TOPICS
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Technical issues include (but not limited to)

Design
-social and organizational design
-system design
-network design
-product design
-servise design
-inovation and organizational change

Marketing
-marketing science
-consumer behavior
-retailing and pricing
-advertising
-customer relationship management
-brand management
-inovation

Data Mining
-machine learning algorithms and methods
-text and semi-structured data mining
-pattern recognition
-knowledge representation
-statistics and probability

We are interested in the emergence of new business systems in the real business world, and encouraging new applications of data mining in service science. Therefore, submitted papers will be evaluated from the perspectives of traditional criteria such as technical originality and prediction accuracy, while also going beyond to consider creativity and applicability. Case studies that include successes and failures in service science are also welcome.

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SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION
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Please see "Information For Authors" on the website of SMC 2017.
http://www.smc2017.org/

Manuscripts for a Special Session should NOT be submitted in duplication to any other regular or special sessions and should be submitted to SMC 2017 main conference online submission system on SMC 2017 conference website. All submitted papers of Special Sessions have to undergo the same review process (three completed reviews per paper). The technical reviewers for each Special Session paper will be members of the SMC 2017 Program Committee and qualified peer-reviewers to be nominated by the Special Session organizers.

For submitting manuscripts for our Special Session, Please use the following URL. (Our code is x9vbp.)
http://www.smc2017.org/?q=node/6

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IMPORTANT DATE
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April 7, 2017:
- Deadline for submission of regular, special, short, demo, and poster sessions
May 25, 2017:
- Acceptance notification for all categories of papers and posters
Jul 9, 2017:
- Final camera-ready papers due for regular, special and demo paper sessions

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SPONSOR
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Kansai University Data Science Laboratory
http://www2.kansai-u.ac.jp/dslab/en/

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ORGANIZATION
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Session Chair:
- Yada, Katsutoshi (Kansai University, Japan)
Session Co-Chair:
- Zuo, Yi (Nagoya University, Japan)
- Wang, Hao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

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CONTACT US
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Katsutoshi Yada, Ph.D.
Professor of Management Information System
Data Science Laboratory, Kansai University.
OSAKA, 564-8680, JAPAN.

Yi Zuo, Ph.D.
Institute of Innovation for Future Society
Nagoya University.
Nagoya, 464-8601, JAPAN.

[Contact email for this session]
yadalab.conf@gmail.com, zuo@coi.nagoya-u.ac.jp