Prasath R., Kathirvalavakumar K (Eds.). Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration

Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2013. — 862 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-03843-8, e-ISBN: 978-3-319-03844-5First International Conference, MIKE 2013, Tamil Nadu, India, December 18-20, 2013 ProceedingsThis volume contains the papers presented at MIKE 2013: The First International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration held during December 18 – 20, 2013, at the Research Center in Computer Science, Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars’ Senthikumara Nadar(VHNSN) College (Autonomous), Tamil Nadu, India (http://www.mike2013.org/). There were 334 submissions from 19 countries. After an initial screening, 289 qualified submissions were selected for review. Each paper was reviewed by at least two Program Committee members using the criteria of relevance, originality, technical quality, and presentation. The committee accepted 82 papers for oral presentation (accpetance rate: 28.3%)
and 52 papers for short/poster presentation at the conference.
The International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE) is an initiative focusing on research and applications on various topics of human intelligence mining and knowledge discovery. The primary goal is to present state-of-art scientific results, to disseminate modern technologies, and to promote collaborative research in mining intelligence and knowledge exploration. Human intelligence has evolved steadily over several generations, and today human expertise is excelling in individual domains and in knowledgeacquiring tasks. Thus, mining human intelligence becomes an essential and exciting part of human expertise/knowledge exploration tasks. The primary objective is to focus on the frontiers of human intelligence mining as a unified research field.
The accepted papers were chosen on the basis of their contribution which, in certain ways, provides a starting point to young researchers involved in investigating the learning algorithms and knowledge-discovery tasks. We have grouped the accepted papers into various subtopics such as feature selection, classification, clustering, image procesing, network security, speech processing, machine learning, information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, language, cognition and computation, and other problems in dynamical systems. Young researchers presented their current work and had ample opportunity to interact with eminent professors and scholars in their area of research.
The researchers also benefitted from the discussions that sparked new ideas in approaching their research problems. The authors of short/poster papers illustrated their work during a special session and obtained feedback from eminents.
A large number of eminent professors, well-known scholars, and young researchers participated in making MIKE 2013 a great success. We express our sincere thanks to the management of VHNSN College, particularly Thiru. P.C.S. Govindaraja Perumal, Secretary Correspondent, and Capt. Dr. P. Sundara Pandian, Principal, VHNSN College (Autonomous), Virudhunagar, who served as patron of this event. We were pleased to have Prof. Yutaka Maeda, Kansai University, Japan, Prof. Ramon Lopaz de Mantaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain, Prof. Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India, Prof. Bj¨orn Gamb¨ack, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, Dr. Philip O’Reilly, University College Cork, Ireland, and Dr. Santiago Ontanon, Drexel University, USA, serving as advisory chairs of MIKE 2013.
Several eminent scholars, including Prof. Ramon Lopaz de Mantaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain, Prof. Pinar Ozturk, Norwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU), Norway, Prof. Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and Prof. N. Subba Reddy, Gyeongsang National University, Korea, delivered invited talks on learning and knowledge exploration tasks in various interdisciplinary areas of science and technology. We also had an industrial talk delivered by Dr. Krishnaiah Jallu, Dy. Manager (R&D), BHEL Tiruchirappalli, India.
Dr. Prasenjit Majumdar, DAIICT, Gandhi Nagar, India, and Dr. Amitava Das, University of North Texas, USA, served as the workshop chairs. We thank
the organizers of the Language, Cognition and Computation (LCC 2013) Workshop: Prof. Anupam Basu, Mr. Tirthankar Dasgupta, and Ms. Manjira Sinha, from the Communication Empowerment Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology, and Dr. Sibansu Mukhopadhay, SNLTR, Kolkata, for their pains and efforts in orgranizing LCC 2013. We thank Dr. Amitava Das and Dr. Balamurali, A.R, Samsung Research India, for initiating steps to organize the First Workshop on Sentiment Analysis for Indian Languages (SAIL 2013). We also thank the invited speakers of these workshops: Dr. Kamal Kr. Choudhary, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, Rajastan, and Dr. Uttama Lahiri, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat.
We are very grateful to all our sponsors including FEXCO Financial Services, Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland, Elena Geo Systems, Government
of India funding bodies, and especially the University Grants Commission, Department of Science and Technology, Defence Research and Development Organization, All India Council for Technical Education, and the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology for their support of MIKE 2013.
We thank the Program Committee and the additional reviewers for their timely and thorough participation in the reviewing process. We appreciate the time and effort put in by the local organizers at the Research Center in Computer Science and the Department of Information Technology, VHNSN College, who dedicated their time to MIKE 2013. Finally, we acknowledge the support of EasyChair in the submission, review, and proceedings creation processes. We are very pleased to express our sincere thanks to Springer, especially Alfred Hofmann and Anna Kramer for their faith and support in publishing the proceedings of MIKE 2013.