The IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) International Conference 2013 will be held in Seattle, Washington (U.S.A.), June 4-7. The conference theme is "Big Data, Emergent Threats and Decision-Making in Security Informatics." Submissions are due Feb. 15, 2013. For a list of potential topics, important dates, and other information, see the conference website at http://isiconference2013.org/pgs/.
- January 2013

The 2013 International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC 2013) will be held in Beijing, China, August 3-4, 2013. The conference will co-locate with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Suggested topics include mining clinical and medical data; information sharing, integration, and extraction; clinical practice and training; assistive, persuasive and intelligent devices for medical care and monitoring; and global systems and large-scale health data analysis and management. Submissions are due April 15, 2013.
- January 2013

The 2013 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2013) will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, August 12-14, 2013. EISIC is the premier European conference on counter-terrorism and criminology. Suggested topics include information sharing and data/text mining; infrastructure protection and emergency response; terrorism informatics; computational criminology; and information systems security. Submissions are due April 15, 2013.
- January 2013

Congratulations to Dr. Hsinchun Chen on his outstanding publication citation rankings. According to Google Scholar's "h-index," Dr. Chen is now #1 among all MIS faculty in the world (tied with Dr. Andrew B. Whinston at UT-Austin). See more in the MIS Bulletin.
- October 2012

The AI Lab received an NSF award of just under $300K to study the global competitive landscape and knowledge diffusion in the field of nanotechnology (CMMI-1249210).
- September 2012

Dr. Hsinchun Chen was featured in the Arizona Daily Star's summer series "100 Days of Science," which featured a different milestone in Arizona's scientific history each day. This story featured Dr. Chen's work with the Tucson Police Department in developing COPLINK(TM), followed by later work on the Dark Web terrorism research project. See more on our "Recognition" page or search the Arizona Daily Star website.
-- August 2012

Dr. Hsinchun Chen was ranked #1 in terms of number of publications in the top 11 information systems (IS) journals during 2005-2009, according to a recent study published in the Communications of the Association for Information Systems ("Assessing Researcher Publication Productivity in the Leading Information Systems Journals: A 2005–2009 Update," by J. G. Clark, Y.A. Au, D. B. Walz, and J. Warren, CAIS, Volume 29, Number 1).
-- June 2012

NEW PUBLICATIONS

	Dark Web: Exploring and Data Mining the Dark Side of the Web (2012) (Volume 30 of the Integrated Series in Information Systems)
	Infectious Disease Informatics and BioSurveillance (2011) (Volume 27 of the Integrated Series in Information Systems)
	Sports Data Mining (2011) (Volume 26 of the Integrated Series in Information Systems)
	Infectious Disease Informatics: Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health and Bio-Defense (2010) (Volume 21 of the Integrated Series in Information Systems)
See additional books on our Books page.

 

Calls for Papers:

• IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2013: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., June 4-7, 2013. Submissions due February 15, 2013.
• International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC) 2013: Beijing, China, August 3-4, 2013. Submissions due April 15, 2013.
• European ISI 2013: Uppsala, Sweden, August 12-14, 2013. Submissions due April 15, 2013.
• ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) is now accepting general submissions and special issues:
  - Special Issue on Informatics for Smart Health and Wellbeing. Submissions due: 30 November 2012.
  - Special Issue on Complexity Systems Engineering. Submissions due: 10 April 2013.
  - Special Issue on Business Process Intelligence. Submissions due: 1 May 2013.
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• Security Informatics, a Springer Open Access journal, is now accepting general submissions and special issues:
  - Special Issue: Fusing Automatic Text Processing with Criminal Data. Submissions due 28 Feb 2013.
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Upcoming Events:

• IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2013: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., June 4-7, 2013
• European ISI 2013: Uppsala, Sweden, August 12-14, 2013.

Previous Events:

• AMIA 2012: November 307, 2012, Chicago, IL, USA
• European ISI 2012: August 22-24, 2012, Odense, Denmark.
• IEEE ISI 2012: June 11-14, 2012, Washington DC, USA.

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