We hope this finds you thriving and healthy. 

The deadline for abstracts submission has been extended until April 30, 2021, as we understand many are facing challenges in the current global situation.

Please remember that the workshop will take place as an ONLINE event on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. For further background information, please refer to the email below, the attached flyer, and the workshop web page (https://www.sds2021.ch/1st-international-symposium-on-the-science-of-data-science). Looking forward to the discussion with you!

Registration:

The new deadline for abstract submission and final registration is April 30, 2021.

We are looking forward to a short presentation (10-15 min.) and an accompanying abstract from each registered participant. However, your abstract and presentation may outline preliminary ideas and hypotheses – the symposium will then offer plenty of time to discuss these and move towards a synthesis of the individual views.

For the registration and abstract submission, you can either use this form https://forms.gle/EP2xsEWbkgheLSPx7 (Google account required) or, otherwise, send an email to flum@zhaw.ch (please mention “1st International Symposium on the Science of Data Science” in the email).

Best regards

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann (ZHAW, Prof. AI/ML, Scientific Director ZHAW digital)

Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling (ZHAW, Senior Researcher Deep Learning)

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Fuechslin (ZHAW, Head of Applied Complex Systems Science)

Dr. Dandolo Flumini (ZHAW, Assoc. Prof., Applied Complex System Science)

Dear colleague

We would like to remind you about the 1st International Symposium on the Science of Data Science, ISSDS 2021.

The workshop will take place as an ONLINE event on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. You can find the workshop webpage at https://www.sds2021.ch/1st-international-symposium-on-the-science-of-data-science. The workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the 8th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS 2021), which takes place the following day, June 9, 2021, as a hybrid event online and at KKL Lucerne, Switzerland: https://www.sds2021.ch/. See also the attached Flyer with the CfP and more information.

Background Information:

Data science, one of the most significant developments in computing in the 21^st century, is a discipline in the making, drawing principles, methods and tools from established fields like computer science, statistics, science, business, politics, and any domain with adequate data. Yet, data science is just starting. What are its underlying principles and techniques (models, methods) that are applicable across different use cases and fields of application? What «science» underlies this emerging discipline?

We are launching an activity to develop a reference framework for data science and invite your participation, organized in a two-stage process:

• This first symposium on June 8, 2021, to share and discuss preliminary thoughts and hypotheses.
• A future second symposium to solicit participation of a larger community (time and location TBD, e.g. co-located with a major data science conference), including published proceedings.

We invite contributors to present their ideas at the first symposium and to continue the development of a reference framework for data science as an activity in the intl. data science community, to be finalized during the second symposium.

Subjects of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Data as a 3^rd pillar of science: what input can the humanities give to this scientific upheaval?
• Data science foundations drawn from, but not fully included in the constituent disciplines
• Data science models and methods with broad impact that emerged within the field
• Open research questions into the “more than the sum of its parts”-aspects of data science
• Engineering principles required to apply existing foundations, e.g., from statistics, in practice
• Cross-field lessons learned, e.g., can data science help solve problems in which nobody has multi-year experience yet?

The workshop is organized by researchers of Zuerich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Registration:

The deadline for abstract submission and final registration  is April 9, 2021.

We are looking forward to a short presentation (10-15 min.) and an accompanying abstract from each registered participant. However, your abstract and presentation may outline preliminary ideas and hypotheses – the symposium will then offer plenty of time to discuss these and move towards a synthesis of the individual views.

For the registration and abstract submission, you can either use this form https://forms.gle/EP2xsEWbkgheLSPx7 (Google account required) or otherwise you can send an email to flum@zhaw.ch (please mention “1st International Symposium on the Science of Data Science” in the email).

Please note that we are in contact with publishers regarding conference post-proceedings of extended abstracts (based on your submission and incorporating any discussion results from the workshop itself you might have received). We will keep you updated about the progress. The goal is to produce one of the first volumes on the substance of data science in terms of the different presented perspectives.

Looking forward to the discussion with you!

Best regards

Prof. Dr. Thilo Stadelmann (ZHAW, Prof. AI/ML, Scientific Director ZHAW digital)

Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling (ZHAW, Senior Researcher Deep Learning)

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Fuechslin (ZHAW, Head of Applied Complex Systems Science)

Dr. Dandolo Flumini (ZHAW, Assoc. Prof., Applied Complex System Science)