Some hot topics include but are not limited to …
* … Graph-based Knowledge Discovery (e.g. Knowledge Discovery with graph entropy, etc.)
* … Structural Graph Analysis (e.g. in Biology, Systems Biology, Medicine and Image Analysis, etc.)
* … Methods for Structural Network Analysis (e.g. graph measures and properties thereof, information-theoretic techniques such as entropy, etc.)
* … Knowledge Discovery from complex networks (e.g. large social networks, large biomedical data, protein-protein networks, etc.)
* … Interactive Content Analytics from “unstructured” (weakly structured) data (e.g. computational topology in text mining)
* … Big Data Analytics methodologies, methods, approaches and tools (e.g. Hadoop)
* … Multimedia Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery from big data (e.g from the biomedical informatics domain etc.)
* … Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Extraction (e.g. in the context of reputation management)
* … Swarm Intelligence (collective intelligence, crowdsourcing) and collaborative Knowledge Discovery/Data Mining/Decision Making
* … Intelligent, interactive, semi-automatic, multivariate Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
* … Multimedia Data Exploration and Sensemaking of Big Data
* … Time-Oriented Data and Information (e.g. longitudinal data, complex noisy time series, different entropy methods, …)
* … Novel Search User Interaction Techniques (supporting human intelligence with computational intelligence)
* … Future Information Interaction Techniques (Note: science fiction of today is science fact of tomorrow)
* … Modeling of Human Search Behavior and Understanding Human Information Needs
* … Methods and Methodologies (e.g. Support Vector Machines, Boltzmann machines, Evolutionary computing …)
* … Text Analytics (e.g. computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Web Mining, …)
* … Topological Data Analyis (e.g. in images, biomed data, medical diagnostics, clinical assessment, …)
* … Special HCI-KDD solutions in the biomedical domain (e.g. bioinformatics, genome analysis, evolution, …)
* … Practical HCI-KDD solutions in the hospital (e.g. content analytics in business enterprise hospital data, …)