These are opening slides of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts (AIST 2019). We summarise general facts on AIST conf. series. See http://aistconf.org website for more details.

1. Dmitry Ignatov
Mikhail Khachay
Andrey Novikov
Alexander Panchenko
Elena Tutubalina
Rostislav Yavorskiy
AIST 2019
The 8th International Conference on Analysis
of Images, Social Networks, and Texts
17-19 of July 2019, Kazan, Russia
Kazan Federal University.

2. Outline
• General facts: AIST in numbers
• Paper selection procedure & proceedings
• Community needs: Call for continuation of
the project on “Map of Data Science in Russia”
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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
– Submissions only in English
• AIST 2018 – 107 submissions
– Reviewers observed
a higher quality of submissions
• AIST 2019 – 134 submissions
– We are growing again 3

4. AIST’18 observation is still valid:
quality not quantity
• Reviewers observed a higher quality of
submissions: by an anonymous reviewer …
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5. Main Volume: Springer’s LNCS series
• 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.
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6. Main Volume: Springer’s LNCS series
• This distinguished conference
proceedings series publishes the
latest research developments in all
areas of computer science.
• Volumes are indexed in the ISI
Conference Proceedings Citation
Index, Scopus, EI Engineering
Index, Google Scholar, DBLP, etc.
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7. Companion Volume: Springer’s CCIS
series
● Communications in Computer and
Information Science series is devoted to
the publication of proceedings of
computer science conferences.
● While the focus is on publication of peer-
reviewed full papers presenting mature
work, inclusion of reviewed short papers
reporting on work in progress is welcome,
too.
● Migration from CEUR-ws to CCIS.
● The main volume series of AISTs in 2014–
2016.
● CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP,
Google Scholar, EI-Compendex,
Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, and
Scopus. ISI Proceedings is still on the way.
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8. AIST in numbers
• We received 134 submissions
• 21 papers were rejected without full reviewing
• papers violated the submission rules
• partial submissions
• The remaining 113 papers were reviewed by at least 3 reviewers (or
scheduled for extra review loop in case of conditional acceptance).
• The best 34 papers in the respective tracks were selected for Springer LNCS
volume plus one reviewed tutorial paper
• The total acceptance rate to the LNCS volume is 30%
• Not taking into account the 21 (semi-)automatically rejected papers.
• Extensive poster session (>30 submissions incl. the CCIS companion volume
as revised selected papers)
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9. International committee of area chairs
Track 1. General topics of data analysis (GTDA)
• Sergey Kuznetsov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
• Amedeo Napoli (LORIA, France)
Track 2. Natural language processing (NLP)
• Natalia Loukachevitch (Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia)
• Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Elena Tutubalina (Kazan Federal University, Russia)
Track 3. Social network analysis (SNA)
• Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Valentina Kuskova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
Track 4. Analysis of images and video (AIV)
• Marcello Pelillo (University of Venice, Venice, Italy)
• Andrey Savchenko (Higher School of Economics, Nizhniy Novgorod, 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 (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
• Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
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10. Program Committee: a Strong
International Board of Experts
• 160 members from 25 countries (106 from Russia):
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11. Submissions by Track
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12. Sponsors & Partners
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13. Special Thanks go to our Host:
Kazan Federal University
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14. Our main academic sponsor
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15. Map of Data Science in Russia
http://bit.ly/MDSR2018
Rostislav Yavorskiy, Tamara Voznesenskaya, Kirill Rudakov
Faculty of Computer Science
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
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AIST’2018, 5-7 of July 2018, Moscow, Russia

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There is a need for new
tools and results!
And connections...

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First day highlights

19. Ready?
Let’s start!
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