Call for Papers

 

 

Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems

 

Data and Information Cleaning and Preprocessing

 

Submissions due 1 December 2003

 

As the Web rapidly becomes an information flood, individuals and organizations can take into account low-cost information and knowledge on the Internet when making decisions. However, data and information from these external sources might be untrustworthy or even fraudulent; they can both disguise the real patterns useful to the application and degrade system performance. So, how to efficiently identify quality knowledge from different data sources presents a significant challenge. This special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems intends to be a leading forum for timely, in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the cleaning and preprocessing of data and information.

 

Topics of Interest

 

* Data preparation and its theories

* Data cleaning

* Data preprocessing

* Data reduction

* Data classification and clustering

* Interactive and integrated data mining environments

* Group data mining systems

* Data preparation for multidatabase mining

* Quality measurements

 

Important Dates

Submission deadline     1 December 2003

Notification of acceptance      1 February 2004

Final version due        25 April 2004

 

 

Guest Editors

 

Shichao Zhang and Chengqi Zhang

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Qiang Yang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

 

Submission Guidelines

 

Submissions should be from 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure or table as 250 words) and should follow the magazine’s style and presentation guidelines (see http://computer.org/intelligent/author.htm). References should be limited to 10 citations.

 

To submit a Manuscript

 

Access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central, at http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/index.html.