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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">The 18th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">October 14, 2023, Phoenix, AZ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">Organized by INFORMS Data Mining (DM) Society<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Data Mining Society of INFORMS is organizing the 18th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics in conjunction with</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_0" id="-640497575"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">

the</w:Sdt><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

<span style="color:#292929">You are cordially invited to join us and share your recent research work with peers from data mining, decision analytics, and artificial intelligence.

<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">To participate, a full paper must be submitted before the deadline for consideration. The workshop committee also announces the best

 paper competition in both theoretical and applied research tracks. All accepted papers are automatically considered for the best paper competition in the chosen track. Suitable finalists will be recommended for fast-track submission to

</span><a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/ijds"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#003087">INFORMS Journal on Data Science (IJDS)</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">

 or invited to submit the extended abstract to the special issue of </span><a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/ijoc/calls-for-papers"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Responsible AI and Data Science for Social Good at INFORMS Journal on

 Computing</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">Topics of interest

</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Large-Scale Data Analytics and Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Interpretable Data Mining</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Simulation/Optimization in Data Analytics</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Network Analysis and Graph Mining</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Privacy & Fairness in Data Science</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bayesian Data Analytics</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Healthcare Analytics</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Longitudinal Data Analysis</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Causal Mining (Inference)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Anomaly Detection</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deep Learning</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Emerging Data Analytics in Industrial Applications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Analytics in Social Media & Finance</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Reliability & Maintenance</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Visual Analytics</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Web Analytics/Web Mining</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Text Mining & Natural Language Processing</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ethics and Security in Data Mining</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;line-height:106%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fairness in Machine Learning</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#292929;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Data analytics to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">June 1: Paper submission begin           

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">August 8: Paper submission close</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;text-align:justify;line-height:106%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">September 1:  Final review decision</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;text-align:justify;line-height:106%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">September 14: Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics registration deadline</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">Papers submission guideline<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Maximum of 10 pages (including abstract, tables, figures, and references).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;text-align:justify;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Single-spacing and 11-point font with one-inch margins on four sides.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;text-align:justify;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Papers must be submitted via this<b>

<span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YWB722gDI7OP_GKaHD3JcrY9v3Gs9lRIFuH4sXjJyRM/prefill"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">link</a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.

 Late submission will not be considered for further review.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#292929;text-align:justify;line-height:106%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">

<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Copyright:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> The DM workshop will not retain the copyrights on the papers; so, the authors

 are free to submit their papers to other outlets.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#292929">DM Workshop Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ying Lin, Houston University,

</span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:ylin58@uh.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ylin58@uh.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Feng Liu, Stevens Institute of Technology,

</span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:fliu22@stevens.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">fliu22@stevens.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Xiaochen Xian, University of Florida,

</span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:xxian@ufl.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">xxian@ufl.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Michael Lash, University of Kansas,

</span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:michael.lash@ku.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">michael.lash@ku.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Xiaochen Xian<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Assistant Professor <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">University of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">380 Weil Hall</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Gainesville, FL

</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333132;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">32611-6595</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>

</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Phone: (352) 294-7713</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><br>

</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">E-mail:

</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:xxian@ufl.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0563C1;background:white">xxian@ufl.edu</span></a><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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