Opening talk by Dmitry Ignatov on the conference history and statistics.

1. Dmitry Ignatov,
Alexander Panchenko et al.
The 6th
Conference on Analysis of
Images, Social Networks, and Texts
(AIST 2017)
27-29 of July 2017. Moscow, Russia. Moscow Polytechnic University.

2. Outline
• General facts
• Paper selection procedure & proceedings
• Sponsors and partners
• Conference program highlights

3. AIST in numbers
• AIST 2012 – 49 submissions
• AIST 2013 – 40 submissions
• AIST 2014 – 74 submissions
• AIST 2015 – 140 submissions
• AIST 2016 – 142 submissions
• AIST 2017 – 127 submissions
– Only in English this year!

4. Upgrade of the proceedings series
• Springer CCIS → Springer LNCS
• The top series for conference proceedings at
Springer. Many top conferences e.g. ECIR publish
their proceedings in the LNCS series.
• The first Russia-based conference in Data Science
with the LNCS proceedings.

5. Main Volume: Springer’s LNCS series
• Annually 600+ volumes, 20,000+ papers, 45,000+ authors
published
• This distinguished conference proceedings series publishes
the latest research developments in all areas of computer
science – quickly, informally and at a high level.
• Volumes are indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings
Citation Index, Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Google
Scholar, DBLP, etc.

6. AIST in numbers
• We received 127 submissions
• 28 papers were rejected without reviewing
• partial submissions
• papers violated the submission rules
• The remaining 99 papers were reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.
• The best 37 papers in the respective tracks were selected for Springer LNCS
volume.
• Each section acceptance rate varied in the range 33-41%
• the total acceptance rate to the LNCS volume is 37%
• Extensive poster session (incl. the CEUR-WS supplementary volume)

7. More tracks and a strong international
committee of experts
Track 1. General topics of data analysis (GTDA)
• Sergey Kuznetsov (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
• Amedeo Napoli (LORIA, France)
Track 2. Natural language processing (NLP)
• Natalia Loukachevitch (Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia)
• Alexander Panchenko (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Track 3. Social network analysis (SNA)
• Stanley Wasserman (Indiana University, USA)
Track 4. Analysis of images and video (AIV)
• Victor Lempitsky (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia)
• Andrey Savchenko (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Track 5. Optimization problems on graphs and network structures (OPGNS)
• Panos M. Pardalos (University of Florida, USA)
• Mikhail Khachay (IMM UB RAS & Ural Federal University, Russia)
Track 6. Analysis of dynamic behavior through event data (ADBED)
• Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Russia)

8. Submissions by Track

9. Top keywords of all submissions

10. Companion volume: CEUR-WS
• Open access
• Normally, indexed by:
– Scopus
– DBLP

11. Program Committee: a Strong
International Board of Experts
• 167 members from 30 countries:

12. Sponsors & Partners

13. Special Thanks go to our Host:
Moscow Polytechnic Univercity

14. Organizing committee
• Rostislav Yavorskiy (Higher School of
Economics, Russia)
• Marina Danshina (Moscow Polytechnic
University, Russia)
• Anna Kalenkova (Higher School of Economics,
Russia)
• Andrey Novikov

15. Invited Speakers: Core Data Science

16. Industry Keynote

17. Invited Industry Speakers

18. Ready?
Let’s start!