Call for Special Session on Intelligent Data Mining
12th Special Session on Intelligent Data Mining in IEEE BigData 2026
Following the successful organization of eleven previous editions of the Special Session on Intelligent Data Mining held in Santa Clara, CA (2015); Washington, DC (2016), Boston, MA (2017), Seattle, WA (2018), Los Angeles, CA (2019), Online Pandemic Sessions (2020,2021), Osaka, Japan (2022), Sorrento, Italy (2023), Washington, DC, USA (2024) and Macau SAR, China (2025), the 12th Special Session will be organized in Phoenix, AZ, USA, as part of IEEE BigData 2026.
The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) are interdisciplinary, including computer science, mathematics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, etc. This interdisciplinary special session seeks scientific understanding on data and intelligence. This session aims to foster scientific advancement to propose robust and powerful schemes between human nature and data processing. The Intelligent Data Mining session is open to all researchers as well as industrial partners.
Some trending topics in intelligent data mining are:
Strengthen international and academia industry collaborations in the fields of theory and applications of
- other disciplines to discuss a better understanding of big data and intelligence.
- neuroscience and
- philosophy,
- linguistics,
- psychology,
- mathematics,
- computer science,
- artificial intelligence,
- data mining,
The papers submitted to this special session might be in a large range of topics that include theory, application, and implementation of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining, including but not limited to the topics (Artificial Intelligence || Machine Learning || Deep Learning) given below:
- Demo Applications in Data Mining,
- Industrial Challenges in Data Mining,
- Future Directions and Challenges in Data Mining,
- Recent Theory, Trends, Technologies and Applications in Data Mining,
- HPCC and Hadoop,
- Sustainability,
- Biometrics,
- Neuroscience and Bioinformatics,
- Philosophy,
- NLP,
- Mathematics,
- Sensors, Networks, Devices,
- Mobile Computing,
- Algorithms,
- IoT, Autonomous Systems and Agents,
- Semantic Computing,
- Social Media, Social Networking, Social Data,
- Smart Cities & Energy,
- Data Classification, Regression, Cleaning,
- Information Security,
- Information Retrieval,
- Knowledge Discovery, Integration, Transformation
- Scalable Computing, Cloud Computing,
- Deep Learning,
- Medical Imaging,
- GPU Applications,
- Homeland Security and Data Analysis,
- Data Security and Privacy,
- Graph Mining,
- Big Data and Services,
- Model Fine-Tuning Techniques,
- Large Language Models (LLMs),
- Data Warehouse, Clustering, Visualization,
- Data Mining, Data Science and Big Data,
Submissions Guidelines and Instructions:
- At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference for inclusion in the proceedings.
- Accepted papers will be included in the official IEEE BigData 2026 conference proceedings.
- They must be submitted in PDF format using the standard two-column IEEE conference template.
- Papers should be submitted for this special session by Sept 27, 2026
Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website. All submissions will undergo peer review. If you have any questions about this special session, please do not hesitate to direct your questions to the special session organizer, Asst. Prof. Dr. Uraz YAVANOGLU (urazyavanoglu@gmail.com, uraz@gazi.edu.tr)
Special Session Organizer
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Uraz YAVANOGLU, Department of Computer Engineering (CS) Gazi University, Turkey
Important Dates for this session:
- Conference Dates: Dec 14-17, 2026
- Camera-ready papers & Pre-registration: Nov 14, 2026, 11:59pm PST
- Notification of Acceptance: Nov 1, 2026
- Full Paper Submission Deadline: Sept 27, 2026 11:59 pm PST