The CCC is pleased to partner with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to sponsor a Blue Sky Paper track at their upcoming conference SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24). The Blue Sky Track emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. The conference will be held in Houston, TX from April 18-20, 2024.
Important Dates
Full Paper /Blue Sky Idea Submission Deadline: September 22, 2023, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time
Decision Notification: Late December 2023
The goal of the Blue Sky Idea Track is to invite leaders of our research community to present position papers that may help inform or shape new directions of research. These are not typical conference research papers, rather they are expected to be visionary papers that set a direction.
The Blue Sky Ideas should be bold in their vision, tackle a wicked problem or present new algorithmic / methodological opportunities or challenge existing assumptions behind methods or approach. It is expected that the Blue Sky Ideas will help foster new directions or innovations through the collective initiative of our community in subsequent SDM’s and beyond. Ideally, the Blue Sky Ideas become a topical focus and our community submits research papers in response to it. There will be a special track dedicated to Blue Sky Ideas during the SDM’23 Conference.
The Blue Sky Ideas are not supposed to be incremental or have preliminary results. Rather, the Blue Sky Ideas present a bold vision, accompanied by the following elements:
- What is the Blue Sky Idea?
- Why is it a Blue Sky Idea? Why should the community ponder over it? Why now?
- Does the Blue Sky Idea push the frontier or does it challenge our current set of assumptions or does it take a bold approach to solve a wicked problem?
- What are the challenges?
- What will success look like?
Submission Instructions
The Blue Sky Idea papers should be no more than 4 pages using the Paper Format outlined below, and submitted via the google form at https://forms.gle/U3qiVoxpQ5khQZnr9, using the format below.
The papers will be reviewed by a specially convened program committee of experts in our field. It is expected that some papers might be desk rejected based on the fit for the track.
Paper Format
All papers should have a maximum length of four pages (single-spaced, two column, 10-point font, and at least 1″ margin on each side). Authors should use U.S. Letter (8.5″ x 11″) paper size. Papers must be prepared in LaTeX2e, and formatted using SIAM’s double column macro. The macro is available here.
All submissions should clearly present the author information including the names of the authors, the affiliations and the emails. These elements, as well as the abstract, technical details, empirical results, and bibliography, are included in the four-page limit.
All questions regarding paper submissions must be sent via email to the Blue Sky Chair Matteo Riondato, Amherst College.
Learn more and submit your paper on the SDM’24 website!
