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A Report on ‘Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2019)’, December 17-20, 2019

Organized by Ahmedabad University Venue: School of Engineering and Applied Science, GICT Building

This report constitutes brief of the proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2019) held at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India from December 17 to December 20, 2019.

The BDA conference is an international conference about Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Machine Learning and related topic. 'BDA2019' was managed by leading researchers working extensively in the domain of Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, and related areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Big Data Analysis conferences were previously organized at IIT Delhi, IIIT Hyderabad, Delhi University and NIT Warangal.

This year’s conference – BDA2019 included three keynotes, five invited talks, six tutorials, two workshops, one panel discussion, and eighteen research papers. Live interactions and participation by more than 180 delegates from various countries including USA, Canada, China, Japan, France, Vietnam, and India made BDA2019 conference truly vibrant.

The proceedings of the Big Data Analytics (BDA 2019) conference are published by Springer in the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series, which ensures a good visibility to the published papers. The papers are indexed by EI, DBLP and other major indexes for computer science. Springer provides online access at:

(https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-37188-3)

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Keynote Talks BDA2019 conference included very interesting and thought-provoking keynote talks. The list is as follows:

• ‘From GPS, Google Maps & Uber to Spatial Computing’ by Dr. Shashi Shekhar, Distinguished Professor, University of Minnesota, USA

• ‘Enterprise on Blockchain, let you big data sing’ by Dr. Elizabeth Chang, Professor, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

• ‘Deep Learning Models for Medical Image Analysis: Challenges and Future Directions’ by Dr. R. K. Agrawal, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Invited Talks The conference had invited talks by following internationally renowned speakers:

• ‘Elections & Social Media’ by Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Associate Professor, IIIT Delhi, India

• ‘Turning Sensing Data into Smart Data for Smart Sustainable Cities’ by Dr. Koji ZETTSU, Director General, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan

• ‘Interactive Web-Based Geospatial Big-Data Analytics for Vegetation Monitoring’ by Dr. Shashikant Sharma, Scientist-SG and Group Head, Space Application Center (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India

• ‘Segment-search vs Knowledge Graphs: Making a Keyword Search Engine for Web Documents’ by Dr. Subhash Bhalla, Professor, The University of Aizu, Japan.

• ‘The potential of Big Data Analytics in making sense of Urban Heat Island and Air Quality Monitoring data’ by Dr. Girish Agrawal, Professor, Jindal School of Art and Architecture (JSAA), Jindal Global University (JGU), NCR of Delhi, India.

December 17, 2019: Day 1 (Pre-conference Workshop) The conference had two pre-conference workshops on ‘Big Data: Algorithms, Frameworks and Machine Learning Techniques for Problems in Evolving Networks and Computer Vision’ and ‘Data Science for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management.’

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Workshop on ‘Big Data: Algorithms, Frameworks and Machine Learning Techniques for Problems in Evolving Networks and Computer Vision’ was enriched with the following invited talks:

• “Video Analytics” by Mehul Raval, PDPU, Gandhinagar, India. • “GPU accelerated High Performance Computing”, by Bhaskar Chaudhury, DA-IICT,

Gandhinagar, India. • “IoT: Emergence of Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge”, by Sombabu Gunithi,

eInfochips, Ahmedabad, India. • “Data Clustering with Applications in Computational Biology”, by Srikrishnan

Divakaran, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India. • “Big Data and Machine Learning for Disaster Management”, by Sanjay Madria,

Distinguished Professor, Missouri University of Sc. & Tech., USA. • “Stemmers for Gujarati Language” by Nakul Dave, VGEC – Ahmedabad and Mayuri

Mehta, SCET - Surat

Workshop on “Data Science for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management” had the following stimulating invited talks:

• “Predictive Soil Modelling - Development of Machine Learning Approach” by Ranendu Ghosh, Professor and Dean (Students), DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India.

• “Developing Big Data Analytics Architecture for Spatial Data” by Sanjay Chaudhary and Purnima Shah, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University.

• “Information Technology and Natural Resource Management” by G.P. Obi Reddy, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur, India.

• ‘New report initiatives in the area at Data Science in Agriculture’ by Shashi Shekhar, McKnight Distinguished University Professor, University of Minnesota, USA.

December 18, 2019: Day 2 (Main Conference) The main conference program started with the warm welcome by Dr. Sanjay Chaudhary, Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University. He talked about the overall purpose of the conference. Dr. Chaudhary invited Dr. P. Krishna Reddy, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Madria and Dr. Philippe Fournier-Viger. Dr. Madria briefed the delegates about Call for Papers and Review process. Further, Dr Philippe Fournier-Viger informed the delegates that there was about 53 submissions, from which 13 were selected for publication (an acceptance rate of about 25%), and five invited papers were also published, for a total of 18 papers. The idea of having invited papers from top researchers was a good one, as it brought some really very good papers.

Professor Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University addressed delegates during the inauguration session at 9:00 am on December 18, 2019. Professor Chandra talked

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about the vision of the University and the importance of the conference in achieving the same. Professor Errol D'Souza, Director, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India was the Chief Guest and delivered the inaugural talk. He mentioned very interesting and relevant use cases related to big data analytics for generating productive outcomes.

First keynote talk was delivered on ‘Enterprise on Blockchain, let your big data sing’ by Dr. Elizabeth Chang, Professor, Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Australia. The keynote talk was moderated by Dr. Mukesh Mohania, Professor, IIIT Delhi. Dr. Mohania discussed about the operational and enterprise issues in ERP due to tremendous growth in all the fronts including data volume. After a short tea break, there were invited talks on ‘Elections & Social Media’ by Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Professor, IIIT Delhi, India and 'Interactive Web-Based Geospatial Big-Data Analytics for Vegetation Monitoring' by Shashikant Sharma, Group Head, SAC-ISRO, Ahmedabad. The talk by Professor Kumaraguru focused on impact of conversation and trends on Social Media on the General LokSabha Election 2019.

The conference had parallel sessions after the lunch break. It included three tutorial talks on Data for AI by Dr. Hima Patel, IBM Research – India, Large-Scale Information Extraction from Emails under Data Constraints by Dr. Rajeev Gupta, Microsoft R&D, India and Streaming Data Processing by Dr. Prasad Despande, Co-founder, Alpha Analyst, India.

The following seven research papers were presented in the afternoon:

• Paper 1: Data Cube is Dead, Long Life to Data Cube in the Age of Web Data, Selma Khouri, Nabila Berkani, Ladjel Bellatreche and Dihia Lanasri. ENSMA, France; Poitiers University, France.

• Paper 2: Improving Result Diversity using Query Term Proximity in Exploratory Search, Vikram Singh and Mayank Dave. National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.

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• Paper 3: Pairing Users in Social Media via Processing Meta-data from Conversational Files, Meghna Chaudhary, Ravi Sharma and Sriram Chellappan, University of South Florida, USA.

• Paper 4: Suśruta: Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian Knowledge Network in Health Care – Smartphone Apps for diagnosis and differentiation of anemias with higher accuracy at Resource Constrained Point-of-Care settings, Asoke Talukder, Shubham Yadav, Debanjan Das, Venkanna U, Rajarshi Mahapatra, Ankur Shrivastava, Prantar Chakrabarti and Sakthi Ganesh. IIIT Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India; SRIT India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India; AIIMS, India; NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India.

• Paper 5: Market Intelligence for Agricultural Commodities using Forecasting and Deep Learning Techniques, Swapnil Shrivastava, Supriya N Pal and Ranjeet Walia. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Bangalore, India; National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India.

• Paper 6: TKG: Efficient Mining of Top-K Frequent Subgraphs, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Chao Cheng, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin and Unil Yun, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China; Western Norway University, Norway; Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

• Paper 7: Recent Advances and Challenges in design of Non-Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems, Akanksha Mehndiratta and Krishna Asawa. Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India.

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In the evening, the conference continued with the cultural program having a music and dance show, performed by students of the Ahmedabad University. Although students may not be professional, the show was full of excitement and energy. The students presented some traditional dances and Indian songs. The show was followed by a dinner.

December 19, 2019: Day 3 (Main Conference) Conference opened on day 3 with keynote talk on ‘From GPS, Google Maps & Uber to Spatial Computing’ by Dr. Shashi Shekhar, McKnight Distinguished University Professor, University of Minnesota, USA. He talked about evolution of GIS, relevance of spatial computing, standards related to geo-spatial analytics, and his research projects in the area of spatial computing which are used by cities in USA.

The conference continued with an invited talk on ‘Turning Sensing Data into Smart Data for Smart Sustainable Cities’ by Dr. Koji Zettsu, NICT, Japan. Further, there were two tutorial talks on Emergence of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Healthcare by Dr. Mayuri Mehta, SCET, Surat and Knowledge Graphs: Representation, Management and Applications by Dr. Raghava Mutharaju, IIIT Delhi, India.

The following research papers were presented:

• Paper 8: Gossip Based Distributed Real Time Task Scheduling with Guaranteed Performance on Heterogeneous Networks, Moumita Chatterjee, Anirban Mitra, Sudipta Roy, Somasis Roy, Hirav Shah, Sanjit Kr. Setua, Calcutta.University , India; Ganpat University, Mehsana, India; Academy of Technology, India; Washington University, USA.

• Paper 9: Data-Driven Optimization of Public Transit Schedule, Sanchita Basak, Fangzhou Sun, Saptarshi Sengupta and Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA.

• Paper 10: Discovering Spatial High Utility Frequent Itemsets in Spatiotemporal Databases, P.P.C Reddy, R. Uday Kiran, Koji Zettsu, Masashi Toyoda, P. Krishna Reddy, and Masaru Kitsuregawa, IIIT, Hyderabad, India; National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan; National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

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• Paper 11: Deep Learning in the Domain of Near-Duplicate Document Detection, Rajendra Kumar Roul and Jajati Keshari Sahoo. Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India; BITS-Pilani, Goa, India.

• Paper 12: Real Time Static Gesture Detection using Machine Learning, Kalpdrum Passi and Sandipgiri Goswami. Laurentian University, Canada.

• Paper 13: Efficient Algorithms For Flock Detection in Large Spatio-Temporal Data, Jui Mhatre, Harsha Agrawal, and Sumit Sen. Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai, India; Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India.

• Paper 14: Local Temporal Compression for (Globally) Evolving Spatial Surfaces , Xu Teng, Prabin Giri, Matthew Dwyer, Jidong Sun, and Goce Trajcevski. Iowa State University, USA.

After all presentations, there was a very live panel discussion on ‘Big Data Analytics is different from AI’ by Shashi Shekhar of University of Minnesota, USA, Goce Trajcevski of Iowa State University, Philippe Fournier-Viger of, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China, Ladjel Bellatreche of Poitiers University, France, and Sanjay Madria of Missouri University of Sc. & Tech., USA. Panel Discussion was moderated by Anirban Mondal of Ashoka University, New Delhi and it was found to be very much fascinating. Four questions were asked to panel members and then the audience asked various intense questions. All the questions were answered with in-depth analysis.

December 20, 2019: Day 4 (Conference) Final day of the conference began with a key note talk on ‘Deep Learning Models for Medical Image Analysis: Challenges and Future Directions’ by Ramesh Agrawal, Dean, School of

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Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He talked about various effective deep learning models developed to address the challenges of medial image analysis.

The conference continued with the tutorial talk on ‘Big Data Analysis Using Multilayer Networks’ by Abhishek Santra, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. The following papers were presented on the Day 4:

• Paper 15: An Explicit Relationship between Sequential Patterns and their Concise Representations, Hai Duong, Tin Truong, Bac Le and Philippe Fournier-Viger. University of Science, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; University of Dalat, Dalat, Vietnam, and Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China.

• Paper 16: A Novel Approach to Identify the Determinants of Online Review Helpfulness and Predict the Helpfulness Score Across Product Categories, Debasmita Dey and Pradeep Kumar. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

• Paper 17: Analysis and Recognition of Hand-drawn Images with Effective Data Handling, Mohit Gupta and Pulkit Mehndiratta. Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India.

• Paper 18: Interpreting Context of Images using Scene Graphs, Himangi Mittal, Ajith Abraham, and Anuja Arora, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India; MIR Labs, USA.

The conference ended with the invited talk on ‘Segment-search vs Knowledge Graphs: Making a Keyword Search Engine for Web Documents’ by Subhash Bhalla, Professor, The University of Aizu, Japan.

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The proceedings of the Big Data Analytics (BDA 2019) conference are published by Springer in the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series, which ensures a very good visibility to the published papers. The papers are indexed by EI, DBLP and other major indexes for computer science. This is the proceedings book, which is available electronically to attendees:

Organization Committee Following were the chairs of Organization Committee:

Chief Patrons Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Sudhir Jain, Director, IIT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Honorary Chairs K. S. Dasgupta, Director, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Sunil Kale, Dean, Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India Rekha Jain, Professor, IIM, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

General Chair Sanjay Chaudhary, Ahmedabad University, India

Steering Committee Chair P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India Program Committee Chairs Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and

Technology, USA Philippe Fournier-Viger, Herbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China

Organizing Committee Chairs

Kumar Shashi Prabh, Ahmedabad University, India Mehul Raval, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India

Sponsorship Chair Anil Roy, DA-IICT, India

Finance Committee Chairs Dhaval Patel, Ahmedabad University, India Amitava Ghosh, Ahmedabad University, India

Publication Chair P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India

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Workshop Chairs Srikrishnan Divakaran, Ahmedabad University, India Punam Bedi, University of Delhi, India

Tutorial Chairs Mukesh Mohania, IBM, Australia Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

Publicity Chairs Shelly Sachdeva, National Institute of Technology Delhi, India M. T. Savaliya, Vishwakarma Govt. Engineering College, India

Website Chair Pratik Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, India

Steering Committee S.K. Gupta, IIT Delhi, India Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT Bangalore, India Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Raj K. Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA Vasudha Bhatnagar, University of Delhi, India Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research, Australia H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA Ramesh Kumar Agrawal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara Arun Agarwal, University of Hyderabad, India Subhash Bhalla, The University of Aizu, Japan Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Anirban Mondal, Ashoka University, India Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Organizing Committee Barbara Moraswka, Ahmedabad University, India Anurag Lakhlani, Ahmedabad University, India C. K. Bhensdadia, Dharmsinh Desai University, India Amit Ganatra, CHARUSAT, India Sanjay Sampat, Government Polytechnic College - Surat, India Aditya Patel, Ahmedabad University, India Vinay Vachcharajani, Ahmedabad University, India Siddhi Shah, Ahmedabad University, India

Local Arrangements Committee

Kuntal Patel, Ahmedabad University, India George Varughese, Ahmedabad University, India Govind Prajapati, Ahmedabad University, India Amar Gajjar, Ahmedabad University, India

Web Site and Media Committee

Kangana Bagani, Ahmedabad University, India Rahul Bhathiji, Ahmedabad University, India Kinjal Arya, Ahmedabad University, India Aman Dave, Ahmedabad University, India Kruti Yadav, Ahmedabad University, India Manav Shah, Ahmedabad University, India Jainam Shah, Ahmedabad University, India Mohit Vaswani, Ahmedabad University, India

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Tirth Jivani, Ahmedabad University, India

Registration Committee Shefali Naik,Ahmedabad University, India Jaydeep Raolji, Ahmedabad University, India Kunjal Gajjar, Ahmedabad University, India Hiral Vegda, Ahmedabad University, India Jayesh Bhatt, Ahmedabad University, India Neha Shukla, Ahmedabad University, India

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References 1. Conference webpage: https://bda2019.org/ 2. Proceedings of the conference: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-

37188-3 3. Post by Dr P. Fournier-Viger: http://data-mining.philippe-fournier-viger.com/a-brief-

report-about-the-big-data-analytics-2019-conference-bda-2019/ 4. https://www.facebook.com/sanjay.chaudhary.37266/posts/10156901653150886