Social genomes are the digital footprints of individuals. They consist of records about people's interactions with governments, businesses, and other individuals, as collected and linked from many data sources. Social genomes are the basis of Population Informatics, the emerging discipline of studying populations by analyzing large population databases that contain detailed information about people, such as the health, education, financial, census, location, shopping, employment, or social networking records of a large proportion of individuals in a population.
Population Informatics is a crucial enabling technology to understand our rapidly changing dynamic societies. It is transforming how researchers in many domains address the global challenges we face today, and how businesses and governments make decisions. Population informatics can realize the potential of Big Data by employing methods such as data mining, data integration, visualization, health informatics, statistics, computational social science, and privacy technologies, on the increasingly large digital traces of individuals. It will provide fresh insights into many domains, for example the social sciences, public health, and demographics, to inform government policies and improve business processes.
PopInfo'15 will be an interdisciplinary workshop invites contributions addressing current research in Population Informatics, as well as experiences, novel applications and future challenges.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Algorithms and techniques for managing, processing, analyzing, and mining large population databases
- Requirements analysis for Population Informatics
- Models and algorithms for Population Informatics
- Scalable algorithms for dealing with dynamic and temporal population databases
- Scalable algorithms for dealing with uncertain and probabilistic population databases
- Scalable algorithms for dealing with privacy aspects in Population Informatics
- Parallel and distributed algorithms for large-scale Population Informatics
- Visualization, visual analytics, and user-interfaces for Population Informatics
- Architectures and frameworks for Population Informatics
- Large-scale Population Informatics in the cloud
- Research case studies of Population Informatics in health, demographics, ecology, economics, the social sciences, and other research domains
- Applications of Population Informatics in governments and businesses
- Policy issues around population databases and Population Informatics, and using Population Informatics to manage public resources
- Ethical, social, privacy, and confidentiality aspects when dealing with population databases
Important Dates
Workshop paper submissions Friday 5 June 2015
Workshop paper noti fications Tuesday 30 June 2015
Final submission of accepted papers Wednesday 15 July 2015
Workshop date Monday 10 August 2015
Find out more
Visit the website, http://dmm.anu.edu.au/popinfo2015/ or Download the flyer.