This is the story on the personal author's experience in editing Springer's LNCS/LNAI and CCIS proceedings.

1. Personal Experiences of Publishing with
Springer from both Editor and Author
Perspectives
Dmitry Ignatov
Faculty of Computer Science @ HSE
Data Analysis and AI Dept. &
Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis Lab

2. Outline
● Publishing proceedings of reputed conferences in LNCS/LNAI
series
– ICCS 2013, ICFCA 2012
– PReMI & RSFDGrC 2011
– ECIR 2013
● Young conferences and summer schools in CCIS
– AIST (since 2014)
– RuSSIR (since 2014)
● Publishing in journals
● Future prospects (EEML workshop)

3. Formal Concept
Analysis
● R. Wille, Restructuring lattice theory: An approach based on
hierarchies of concepts, 1982
● B. Ganter, R. Wille, Formale Begriffsanalyse, Springer, 1996
● B. Ganter, R. Wille, Formal Concept Analysis, Springer, 1999
● Chapter in B. Davey, H. Priestly, Introduction to Order and
Lattices, 1990.
● Chapter in G. Grätzer (Ed.), General Lattice Theory.
● Concept Data Analysis, C. Carpineto, G. Romano, 2004.
● Galois Connections and Applications, K. Denecke, M. Erné, S.
L. Wismath (Eds.), Springer Science & Business Media, 2004

4. Formal Concept Analysis
● Poelmans et al., 2013

5. ICFCA & ICCS

6. ICFCA 2012

7. ICCS 2013

8. PReMI & RSFDGrC 2011
https://premi11.hse.ru/
● Organising and Proceedings Chair

9. PReMI & RSFDGrC 2011
https://rsfdgrc.hse.ru/
● Organising and Proceedings Chair

10. R. Agrawal at RSFDGrC 2011

11. ECIR 2013
https://ecir2013.org/

12. ECIR 2013
https://ecir2013.org/
● Proceedings Chair and DC Co-chair

13. How to Submit a Proposal?
● https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/editor-guidelines-for-springer-
proceedings

14. How to Submit a Proposal?
● https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/editor-guidelines-for-springer-
proceedings

15. AIST 2016
Mikhail Yu. Khachay
Natalia V. Loukachevitch
Valeri G. Labunets
Sergei I. Nikolenko
Alexander I. Panchenko
Konstantin V. Vorontsov
Dmitry I. Ignatov
ANALYSIS OF IMAGES, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND
TEXTS
April, 7-9th, Yekaterinburg
THE 5th
INTERNATIONAL DATA SCIENCE CONFERENCE

16. Outline
• General facts
• Paper selection procedure & proceedings
• Sponsors and partners
• Conference program highlights
• Best paper and best poster awards

17. AIST in numbers
• AIST 2012 – 49 submissions
• AIST 2013 – 40
• AIST 2014 – 74
• AIST 2015 – 140
• AIST 2016 – 142
• AIST’16 authors & speakers: Russia – 237, Austria
– 5, Vietnam – 3 , UK – 3, Australia – 2, Norway – 2,
US – 2, France – 1, Hungary – 1, India – 1, Italy – 1,
Mexico – 1, Sweden – 1
• Are we slightly growing or just stable?

18. AIST in numbers
Section Submitted Accepted
(Springer)
Accepted
(CEUR-WS)
Data Analysis, Graphs &
Complex Data
39 7 17
Natural Language Processing 32 12 8
Analysis of Images and Video 52 11 17
Here the total number of submissions is 123, not 142 due to technical rejects of some
papers.

19. Selection Process

20. Main Volume
• Communications in Computer and Information
Science series
Series Editors: Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, S., Chen, P., Du, X.,
Filipe, J., Kara, O., Kotenko, I., Liu, T.,
Sivalingam, K.M., Washio, T. (Eds.)
CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex,
Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for
the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
And the last two editions have been indexed in WoS.

21. Companion volume
• CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)
Online Proceedings for Scientific Workshops
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1710/
see also:
Vol-1452
Vol-1197
Supplementary Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on
Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts (AIST-SUP 2015),
Yekaterinburg, Russia, April 9-11, 2015.
Edited by: Mikhail Yu. Khachay, Natalia Konstantinova, Alexander
Panchenko, Radhakrishnan Delhibabu, Nikita Spirin, Valeri G. Labunets
Submitted by: Nikita Spirin, Dmitry Ignatov
Published on CEUR-WS: 15-Oct-2015
ONLINE: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1452/
URN: urn:nbn:de:0074-1452-7
ARCHIVE:
ftp://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/pub/publications/CEUR-WS/
Vol-1452.zip

22. Program Committee in 2016
• 130 members
• From 28 countries: Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil,
Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Spain,
Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States
• From Academia: Carnegie Mellon University,
• KU Leuven, TU Eindhoven, INRIA-CNRS, HSE, UrFU,
Skoltech, TU Darmstadt, INSA Lyon…
• From Industry: IBM Research, HP Labs, Yandex, Kontur
Labs, Intel, Xerox Research Center, …

23. Conference Chairs in 2016
• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
– Mikhail Khachay, co-chair, IMM UB RAS & Ural Federal University,
Yekaterinburg, Russia
– Konstantin Vorontsov, co-chair, MIPT & Computer Center of RAS, Russia
• Natural Language Processing
– Natalia Loukashevitch, co-chair, Moscow State University, Russia
– Alexander Panchenko, co-chair, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt,
Germany
• Images and Video
– Valeri Labunets, co-chair, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
– Andrey Savchenko, co-chair & Proceedings Chair, Higher School of Economics,
Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
• Data Analysis and Complex Networks
– Sergei Nikolenko, co-chair, Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS, Higher
School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
– Dmitry Ignatov, co-chair & Proceedings Chair, Higher School of Economics,
Moscow, Russia

24. AIST’2016 Sponsors
• Golden Sponsors
• Bronze Sponsor

25. AIST’2016 Partners

26. Keynote Speakers

27. Eigenfaces of Industry Speakers
http://dataconf.org/

28. 2017 edition’s upgrade!
http://aistconf.org/
● AIST 2017 is accepted to LNCS/LNAI series

29. RuSSIR
http://romip.ru/russir2017/

31. Future Prospects
● The Fourth International Workshop on
Experimental Economics and Machine
Learning (EEML 2017)
● https://tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaft/wiid/forschung/eeml-2017
● https://eeml.hse.ru/2016
● Prospective proposal for LNBIP:
http://www.springer.com/series/7911

32. Ready?
Let’s start!