This document provides information about the International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization (II-SDV) that will take place in Singapore on March 14-15, 2011. The conference will bring together approximately 20 speakers over two days to discuss new trends in search tools, data and text mining tools, and visualization technologies. Presentations that demonstrate substantially new products or significant upgrades to existing products are encouraged. Potential speakers are invited to submit abstracts and biographies by October 2, 2010 for consideration.

1. SINGAPORE, 14–15 March 2011
International Information conference
on Search, Data Mining and Visualization
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2. Offers of presentations should include an informative title, a short, descriptive abstract as The II-SDV meeting takes place in SINGAPORE 14–15 March
to what will be covered, plus a short biography of the proposed speaker. Please note that 2011 for an intensive two days. It provides an international forum for
this meeting is not an appropriate occasion for pure product pitches or descriptions of those in the field of tools for advanced search applications, data and
existing products. News of entirely new products, or beta versions of substantial upgrades text mining, and visualization technology. A significant focus is on
to existing products, may however be of interest to meeting attendees. Presentations the exploitation of patent information, since patents provide a rich
accepted will be expected to make real contributions to the field of new trends, mainly in
field for the application of advanced tools, but the meeting also
patent and information searching, analysis and data mining, or in furthering the
understanding of the meeting participants in the general search tools and mining areas. All analyses the requirements of specialists in all scientific and technical
presentations will be in full sessions; there are no breakout or parallel sessions at this information.
meeting. The conference language will be English.
The meeting will be of interest to those who wish to update
Those presenting will be given one free registration to the two-day conference (one themselves and keep in touch with the leading edge of information
registration per presentation). Speaker expense reimbursement will not normally be offered. search and analysis tools and technologies; it features approximately
20 speakers for the two days. There will be an adjacent, focused
Please send offers, in the first instance, to Harry Collier at Infonortics exhibition to complement the conference programme.
(harry.collier@infonortics.com). Absolute deadline is October 02, 2010.
Presentations should emphasize new trends in search, mining and visualization research and
technology, and directly related areas
II-SDV is organised by Infonortics, a specialist
Some theme areas of particular interest for the 2011 Meeting are: technology company that is also well known for its
previous Search Engine Meetings, and for its ICIC
• New data and text mining tools. meetings in the field of scientific, technical and
• New visualization tools. patent information. See www.infonortics.com.
• New tools for competitive intelligence.
• Advances in patent searching, mining, mapping and analysis.
• Search personalization, recommendation engines, collaborative filtering.
• In general, new information tools, beta applications, novel applications (product
descriptions).
Speakers Agreed as at end July 2010
• Pierre Buffet — Questel, France
• Mac Exon-Taylor — Leximancer, Australia
• Lulin Gao — Founder Chairman East IP. Former Commissioner of the
State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) China
• Marjorie Hlava — Access Innovation, USA
• Professor Tadashi Ishii — Faculty of Intellectual Property, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
• John Kuriakose — InfoSys Technologies, India
• Willem-Geert Lagemaat — CEO, Lighthouse IP, The Netherlands
• Gregory McKenzie — Filament, Australia
• Jacques Michel — Former Vice President, European Patent Office
• Peter Noerr — MuseGlobal, USA
• Rajeev Rastogi — Yahoo Labs, India
• W. Scott Spangler — Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Robert Stembridge — Thomson Reuters, UK
• Yo Takagi — Assistant Director General, WIPO, Switzerland