Greetings Colleague, We have extended the submission deadline for papers submitted to the Seventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2017). Please consider this opportunity for presenting your work in developing or apply data mining methods to Earth and climate science domains. Student and postdoc papers are very welcome.
Forrest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** CALL FOR PAPERS *** *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *** **Seventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2017)** **https://www.climatemodeling.org/workshops/dmess2017/** ** **Co-conveners: Forrest M. Hoffman, Auroop R. Ganguly, Jitendra Kumar, and Richard Tran Mills** ** **New Orleans, Louisiana, USA** **November 18–21, 2017** *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** *Workshop Description:* Spanning many orders of magnitude in time and space scales, Earth science data, from point measurements to process-based Earth system model output, are increasingly large and complex, and often represent very long time series, making these data difficult to analyze, visualize, interpret, and understand. An “explosion” of heterogeneous, multi-disciplinary data–including observations and models of interacting natural, engineered, and human systems–have rendered traditional means of integration and analysis ineffective, necessitating the application of new analytical methods and the development of highly scalable software tools for synthesis, assimilation, comparison, and visualization. For complex, nonlinear feedbacks among chaotic processes, new methods and approaches for data mining and computational statistics are required for classification and change detection, model evaluation and benchmarking, uncertainty quantification, and incorporation of constraints from physics, chemistry, and biology into analysis. This workshop explores various data mining approaches and algorithms for understanding nonlinear dynamics of weather and climate systems and their interactions with biogeochemical cycles, impacts of natural system responses and climate extremes on engineered systems and interdependent infrastructure networks, and mitigation and adaptation strategies for natural hazards and infrastructure and ecosystem resilience. Encouraged are original research papers describing applications of statistical and data mining methods that support analysis and discovery in climate predictability, attributions, weather extremes, water resources management, risk analysis and hazards assessment, ecosystem sustainability, infrastructure resilience, and geo-engineering. Rigorous review papers that either have the potential to expose data mining researchers to commonly used data-driven methods in the Earth sciences or discuss the applicability and caveats of such methods from a machine learning or statistical perspective, are also desired. Methods may include, but are not limited to cluster analysis, empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs), extreme value and rare events analysis, genetic algorithms, neural networks and deep learning methods, physics-constrained data analytics, automated data assimilation, and other machine learning techniques. Novel approaches that bring new ideas from nonlinear dynamics and information theory, network science and graphical methods, and the state-of-the-art in computational statistics and econometrics, into data mining and machine learning, are particularly encouraged. Program Committee Members: * *Michael W. Berry* (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) * *Bjørn-Gustaf J. Brooks* (USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA) * *Nathaniel O. Collier* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA) * *Auroop R. Ganguly* (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) * *William W. Hargrove* (USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA) * *Forrest M. Hoffman* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA) * *Jian Huang* (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee USA) * *Evan Kodra* (risQ Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) * *Jitendra Kumar* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA) * *Vipin Kumar* (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) * *Miguel D. Mahecha* (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, GERMANY) * *Richard T. Mills* (Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA) * *Steven P. Norman* (USDA Forest Service, Asheville, North Carolina, USA) * *Sarat Sreepathi* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA) * *Vamsi Sripathi* (Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA) * *Karsten Steinhaeuser* (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) * *Min Xu* (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA) Paper Submission: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of up to 10 pages reporting unpublished, mature, and original research and recent developments/theoretical considerations in applications of data mining to Earth sciences by _*August 28, 2017*_, in IEEE 2-column format. Accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings. Additional details and a link to the manuscript submission system will be provided in the near future. /Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper./ Please submit your paper via the website at https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2017/icdm17/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SP19&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2017/icdm17/scripts/ws_submit.php. *Important Dates: *Full paper submission: _*August 28, 2017*_ Author notification: September 4, 2017 Conference: November 18–21, 2017 *Contact:* URL: http://www.climatemodeling.org/workshops/dmess2017/ E-mail: dmess2017 at climatemodeling dot org -- Forrest M. Hoffman Climate Change Science Institute Computational Earth Sciences Group Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301 [email protected] ORCiD 0000-0001-5802-4134 <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5802-4134> http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest <http://www.climatemodeling.org/%7Eforrest> (865) 576-7680 voice Deliveries: One Bethel Valley Road 35° 55’ 23” N 84° 19’ 20” W
