The 19th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS2018) is the annual meeting by the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences.

The theme of KSS2018 is

Knowledge Acquisition from Structured and Unstructured Data for Effective Social Implementation.

Submission Guidelines

KSS2018 will accept various contributions, which should be written in right English.

• Full papers for scientific and practice contributions

should not exceed 15 pages including abstract,figures and references. Please include a 150 word abstract and 3-6 keywords best describing the paper. Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines of Lecture Notes in Computer Science at Springer Verlag. Author instructions can be downloaded at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Please submit your contribution as a PDF through the EasyChair system:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kss2018

All full-length submission will be double-blinded reviewed by at least 3 technical committee members. Please do remove information, such as authors names, affiliations, email addresses, from the manuscripts. Cross-similarity check will also be conducted under Springer's requirements. Submission with high cross similarity will be rejected directly.

At this category, long abstract no less than 2 pages with keywords and references will also be reviewed simultaneously together with full papers. Based on the review comments, some long abstracts will be recommended to extended to full-length papers and submitted to Journal of Systems Science and Information (open-access) for quick review and publication.

• (Simple) Abstracts

Please submit one A4-sized with around 1000 words to describe your research or practice. All abstracts will be included in one conference brochure provided to all conference participants in print. This item is only for those who just want to make a presentation at KSS2018. Please submit simple abstract to the local host.

• July 30: Deadline for full-length (less than 15 pages) submission  

• August 20: Notification of acceptance
                   Proposal for special sessions

• September 1: Author Registration (at least one author of accepted papers)

       (Only registerred authors will be provided the formal invitation letter by local host)

• September 4: Final version of accepted full-length papers;  
                       Deadline for simple abstract;
                       Deadline for abstract from special sessions 

        (Organizers of special sessions provides simple introduction and list of presentations together with abstracts) 
       

• September 9: Notification of simple abstracts and special session acceptance

        (All participants register as abstract authors)

• November 25-27: KSS2018 convening     

(Note: KSS2018 registration means participation registration for all KSS2018 activities during Nov 25-27, 2018. 

• Topic 1Affective engineering /Kansei engineering
• Agent-based social systems sciences
• Big data analytics
• Big data, culture and tourism
• Big data and education
• Big data and healthcare
• Big data and Internet finance
• Big data, social perception & societal management
• Collective intelligence
• Complex system modeling, complex networks and complexity science
• Data mining and text mining
• Decision analysis and decision support systems
• Deep Learning
• Disaster and emergency management
• Ecosystem, energy and market 
• Information fusion and Information quality
• Interactive design for exploratory analytics
• IoT for open innovation
• Knowledge creation, creativity support and awareness support
• Knowledge management and knowledge systems engineering
• Machine learning and pattern recognition
• Natural language processing
• Meta-synthesis and advanced modeling
• On-line social networks
• Opinion dynamics and opinion mining
• Problem structuring methods and systems methodologies toward wicked problems
• Recommendation systems
• Security analytics for big data management
• Semantic computing
• Service systems science
• Social dynamic network modeling and simulation
• Social media oriented knowledge discovery
• Urban computing and smart city
• Visual analytics

• Jian Chen (IASCYS fellow; Tsinghua University, China)
• Yuji Yamada (Dean of Faculty of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus, Japan)

• Xijin Tang (CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, China)
• Jiangning Wu (Dalian University of Technology, China)
• Mina Ryoke (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

• Mina Ryoke (University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus, Japan)
• Van Nam Huynh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

• Prof. Chonghui Guo (Dalian University of Technology, China). "Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: Data-driven Methods for typical Diagnosis and Treatment Pattern Mining"
• Prof. Setsuya Kurahashi (University of Tsukuba; Vice Chair of IEEE SMC Japan Chapter),  "Model-based Policy Making: Urban Dynamics, Collaborative Learning and Family Strategy"
• Prof. Thanaruk Theeramunkong(Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand; Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand),  "Text Mining from Public Hearing Databases and Automatic Profile Generation from Online Resources" 

KSS2018 proceedings (reviewed full length papers) will be published  as one volume of Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) with Springer.  Accepted long abstracts (1000 words above) will be recommended to extended and submitted to Journal of Systems Science and Information (open-access).

All questions about submissions should be emailed to kss2018.japan.local.committee@gmail.com. For publication and program, please contact ISKSS via  iskss@iss.ac.cn.