CALL FOR TUTORIAS at CODS COMAD 2021 The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Sciences and Management of Data (CODS-COMAD) 8th ACM IKDD CODS and 26th COMAD 2-4 January 2021 Virtual Event https://cods-comad.in ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COVID UPDATE: In response to the ongoing pandemic, we have decided to organize the conference in a fully virtual mode while retaining the same dates i.e. 2nd-4th January, 2021. For more details, please check the conference website regularly for updates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Sciences and Management of Data (CODS-COMAD) 2021 solicit proposals for tutorials on relevant and important topics of data science and databases. Tutorials aim to give a comprehensive overview of an active and interesting topic including the problem, its tractability, and practical implications. Tutorials benefit the attendees by increasing their knowledge, skills, awareness and help them to acquire new ideas and skills applicable to their profession. Attendees at CODS-COMAD consists of students and also include researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia. If you or someone in your network is working on an interesting and relevant topic and would be interested to present a tutorial at the conference, please check the tutorial page for more details: https://cods-comad.in/callforpapers.html SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION To evaluate your proposal we are looking for the following information as part of your submission: TITLE & ABSTRACT (up to 250 words): These will be used to publicize the tutorial. DURATION OF TUTORIAL: The tutorial can be 1.5 hours or 3 hours. We encourage to include hands-on coding sessions during the tutorials, especially for the 3 hours long tutorials. DESCRIPTION & OUTLINE: Provide a brief description of the planned materials in the tutorial and their depth along with a rough outline of the tutorial. DETAILS OF THE PREVIOUS TUTORIAL (IF ANY): If the tutorial was presented earlier, provide the details, including web links if any. GOALS: What are the objectives of the tutorial? What is the benefit to attendees? Why is this tutorial important to include at CODS-COMAD? TARGET AUDIENCE: What is the target audience? What background should attendees have? It would be a plus if you can articulate the prerequisites for the audience, e.g. “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory Calculus”, “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as decision trees and Naive Bayes” PROPOSERS: Please provide names, affiliations, email addresses, and short bios for each proposer of the tutorial. Bios should cover the proposer’s expertise related to the topic of the tutorial. If there are multiple proposers, give details about the distribution of the tutorial among them. Which of the proposers will be available to present the tutorial in-person?: It is strongly encouraged that all proposers attend and present the tutorial. No change in tutorial presenters after the acceptance of tutorial is allowed. REFERENCES: A list of the most important references that will be covered. All tutorial proposals are to be submitted using Easy Chair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=codscomad2021 *There is no page limit on the submission format for the tutorial proposals. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Date: 10th August, 2020 Notification Date: 1st October, 2020 Camera-ready: 24th October, 2020 *All deadlines above are firm and will not be moved [All times are 23:59 Anywhere-on-Earth] TUTORIAL TRACK CHAIRS Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT Hyderabad Himanshu Bhatt, American Express CONTACT codscomad2021@gmail.com