The opening talk at AIST 2014 -- Analysis of Images, Social networks, and Texts 2014, Russia, Yekaterinburg

1. AIST 2014
Dmitry I. Ignatov
Natalia S. Konstantinova
Mikhail Yu. Khachay
Alexander I. Panchenko

2. Outline
• General facts
• Paper selection procedure & proceedings
• Sponsors and partners
• Conference program highlights
• Best paper and best poster awards

3. AIST in numbers
• AIST 2012 – 49 submissions
• AIST 2013 – 40 submissions
• AIST 2014 – 74 submissions
• AIST’14 authors: Russia – 120, Germany – 2, India
–1, Poland – 1, Spain – 1, Ukraine – 1, USA – 1
• We are growing!

4. AIST in numbers
Topic Submissions
Natural Language Processing 29
Analysis of images and video 24
Information Retrieval 12
Core Data Mining and Machine
Learning techniques
12
Sematic Web and Ontologies 10
Data Mining in social sciences and
economics
7
Recommender systems and
collaborative technologies
5
Social Network Analysis 4
Medical Informatics 3
Educational Data Mining 3
Geoinformation systems 1
Experimental Economics 1
Computational econometrics 1

5. Line Diagram of Submission Lattice

6. Selection Process

7. Main Volume
• Communications in Computer and
Information Science series
Series Editors: Barbosa, S., Chen, P., Cuzzocrea, A., Du,
X., Filipe, J., Kara, O., Kotenko, I.,Sivalingam, K.M., Slezak,
D., Washio, T., Yang, X. (Eds.)
AIST 2014 Volume number is CCIS 436
CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-
Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS
volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI
Proceedings.

8. Companion volume
• Open Systems publisher & National Open
University (with ISBN)

9. Program Committee
• 59 members
• From 11 countries: India, UK, Russia, France,
US, Cyprus, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland,
Germany, Australia
• From Academia: Stanford, KU Leuven, TU
Eindhoven, INRIA, …
• From Industry: HP Labs, Yandex, Kontur Labs,
Become.com …

10. Conference Chairs
• Dmitry Ignatov, co-chair, Higher School of
Economics, Moscow, Russia
• Mikhail Khachay, co-chair, IMM UB RAS & Ural
Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
• Alexander Panchenko, co-chair, Digital Society
Laboratory, Moscow, Russia & Universite
Сatholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium
• Natalia Konstantinova, Proceedings Chair,
University of Wolverhampton, UK

11. Organizing committee
• Rostislav Yavorskiy, Higher School of Economics,
Moscow
• Eugeniya Vlasova, Higher School of Economics,
Moscow
• Dmitry Ustalov, IMM UB RAS and Ural Federal
University, Yekaterinburg
• Andrey Shelomentsev, APIO, Yekaterinburg and
Moscow
• Maria Khakimova, PSU, Perm

12. Eigenfaces of Organizing Committee
Eugeniya Vlasova
Dmitry Ustalov
Rostislav Yavorsky

13. AIST’2014 Sponsors & Partners

14. AIST’2014 Sponsors & Partners

15. Invited Speakers

16. Invited Speakers

17. Industrial Speakers

18. Ready?
Let’s start!