Winter Conference on Business Intelligence (http://gkmc.utah.edu/winter/) provides a unique forum for exchanging creative research ideas/findings/perspectives as well as building strong synergy among leading information systems researchers and business executives. Through papers, panels, and discussions we will highlight the data-centric challenges and opportunities for creating business strategies. The conference will provide abundant opportunities for feedback and dialogue among participants --- either at the conference venue or while racing down the slopes of scenic Wasatch mountains.

Conference topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Data driven strategies, optimization, applications, solutions or experimentation
• Knowledge discovery in social or complex networks
• Service oriented data driven architecture
• Mobile, wireless and multimedia applications
• Search engine marketing and optimization
• Online auctions
• Recommendations
• Personalization
• Customer segmentation or profiling
• Bio-medical, scientific, engineering or marketing data-intensive applications
• Data, text, web or process mining methods
• Knowledge and workflow representation, inference and visualization
• Design strategies or issues for data-intensive business intelligence systems
• Active learning and imbalanced data handling
• Cost-oriented data mining
• Economic issues of data-intensive information systems
• Impact, adoption, and diffusion of data-intensive business intelligence systems
• Information privacy
• Business models based on user-generated contents in Web 2.0

Participants will have authorized access to soft copies of papers and presentation slides. The conference does not publish proceedings but provides researchers valuable opportunities to receive detailed feedback and constructive comments for paper revisions and submissions to prestigious research outlets.

Important Dates
Deadline for submission of paper summary*: Nov 30, 2009
Decision on paper selection: Dec 21, 2009
Deadline for speakers' conference registrations: Feb 26, 2010
Deadline for complete papers: February 26, 2010

*The paper summary (< 1,000 words) should include: (1) research question (2) approach (3) main findings/expected contributions, and (4) current status of manuscript. We invite both preliminary and mature works for presentation at the conference.

Conference registration will cover meals and transportation between the meeting facility and the snow sports/event venues. The conference closing dinner will be a seafood dinner buffet at one of Zagat's America's Top Restaurants – Snow Park Lodge at Deer Valley with lots of favorite food items available to vegetarians and meat lovers alike.  Box lunches will be distributed before departures for optional snow sports during breaks. Lodging and the sessions will be hosted at the University Guest House on the beautiful campus of University of Utah. Participants will be responsible for lodging, travel and snow sports costs in addition to conference registration.

Email for Submissions
winter@gkmc.utah.edu

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