ADVISORY COMMITTEE

8th International Conference on Soft

Computing and Pattern Recognition
(SoCPaR 2016)

Two Day Pre-Conference Workshop

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Chief Patron
Dr. G. Viswanathan

Chancellor

Patrons
Mr. Sankar Viswanathan
Dr. Sekar Viswanathan
Mr. G. V. Selvam
Ms. Kadhambari S. Viswanathan

Vice President
Vice President
Vice President
Asst. Vice President

Co-Patrons
Dr. Anand A. Samuel
Dr. S. Narayanan
Dr. V. Raju

Vice Chancellor
Pro-Vice Chancellor
Pro-Vice Chancellor

Convener
Dr.Aswani Kumar Cherukuri
Co-Convener
Dr. M. Dinakaran

Dean (SITE)
HoD / IT

Coordinators
Prof. R.K Nadesh
Dr.T.Ramkumar

Assistant Professor [SG] / IT

Associate Professor
/ IT

ABOUT VIT UNIVERSITY

(17th & 18th September, 2016)

Organized By
Department of Information Technology
School of Information Technology &
Engineering [SITE]
VIT University, Vellore 632 014

VIT University was established with the aim of

providing quality higher education on par with
International Standards. It persistently seeks and
adopts innovative methods to improve the quality of
higher education on a consistent basis. The campus
has a cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from
all corners of the globe. Experience and learned
teachers are strongly encouraged to nurture the
students. The global standards set at the VIT in the
field of teaching and research spurs us on in our
relentless pursuit of excellence. In fact, it has
become a way of life for us. The highly motivated
youngsters on the campus are a constant source of
pride. Our memoranda of understanding with
various international Universities are our major
strengths. They provide for an exchange of students

and faculty and encourage towards joining research

project for mutual benefit of these Universities.
Many of our students, who pursue their research
projects in foreign Universities, bring high quality of
their work and esteem to India and have done as
proud.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL

The School of Information Technology &
Engineering (SITE) emphasizes the fields of
Information Technology, Software Engineering and
Domain Specific Applications so as to facilitate the
evolution of skills among students to help them for
attaining a higher degree of knowledge, global
competency and excellence for the betterment of
the society. The school offers B.Tech, M.Tech,
BCA, MCA and Ph.D., programmes. Major areas of
research include Computer Networks, Parallel
Architecture, Software Engineering, Data Mining,
Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Intelligence
Systems and Information Security. It has highly
qualified faculty members and distinguished
professionals
from
industry
and
eminent
researchers. The academic programmes of the
school have been designed to cater to the ever
changing needs and demands of the IT industry.
The focus is on holistic learning and empowering
students to make significant contributions at all
levels. The School has 4,565 students and 182
committed members of the faculty, apart from many
visiting professors and distinguished professionals
from the industry and academia.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Information Technology offers
high quality education with research ambience.
It offers B.Tech (IT), M.Tech (IT &Networking)
programmes with state-of-the art curriculum. The
faculty members are highly motivated and devoted
in delivering the highest quality professional
education to students and strive to excel in their
research areas.

About SoCPaR 2016

The 8 International Conference on Soft Computing
and Pattern Recognition (SocPaR 2016) will be held
at VIT University, Vellore during December 19-21,
2016. The objective of the conference is to provide
an opportunity for the researchers to meet and
discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and
methods in solving intriguing problems in the field of
Soft
Computing
and
Pattern
Recognition.
http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar16/

Need for predictive analytics A Big Data perspective

Modeling techniques in predictive analytics
Predictive analytics and Data Mining
Big Data tool for predictive analytics

Workshop Objective

Target Audience:

The task of analyzing big data is always a

challenging one. Though there are many methods,
tools and techniques emerging rapidly in the
promising area, the art of discovering pattern of
interest from the massive amount of big data with
diversified nature is always a crucial task from the
perspective of Data Scientists. The objective of the
workshop is to explore the importance of predictive
modeling techniques and methods for analyzing the
big data towards identifying novel pattern of interest
in the process of decision making.

Faculty members, Industry

Scholars and Students.

Resource Person

Dr.Jeffrey Strickland,

Two Day Pre-Conference Workshop

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Session Details: 17-09-2016

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Humalytica Analytics,
Colorado Springs, USA. &
Adjunct Professor SITE, VIT University
As an Operations Research Analyst cum analytical
scientist, Dr. Jeffrey Strickland is having 20 years of
subject matter expertise in predictive modeling and
analysis, He has authored many books in the
domain of data analytics of which "Predictive
Analytics using R" and "Data Science and Analytics
for Ordinary People have received numerous
readers and significant attention among data
analytics community.

(17th & 18th September, 2016)

Session Details: 18-09-2016

Registration Form

R for predictive modeling

Evaluating predicting models
Predictive analytics with Python
Big Data Use-Cases based on predictive analytics

People,

Research

Registration Details:
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Name:
Designation: .

Note: Participants are requested to bring their

Laptop with R Studio.

Ph.D.,

Predictive Analytics on Big Data

1000/- per participant (Including service tax)

The number of participants is limited to 60 on
first come- first serve basis.
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Last date for registration is on or before 15
September, 2016
Accommodation will be provided only on prior
request with a nominal charge at VIT Hostels.

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Prof. Nadesh R.K / Dr.T.Ramkumar

Co-ordinators
Two Day Pre-Conference Workshop on Predictive
Analytics on Big Data
Department of Information Technology
School of Information Technology & Engineering
VIT University,Vellore 632 014
Tamilnadu
Contact: rknadesh@vit.ac.in, (M) 9444139524
ramkumar.thirunavukarasu@vit.ac.in
(M) 9442421674

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(DD must be drawn in favour of VIT University payable
at Vellore)

Date:

Signature of the Participant

Note: Registration form and D.D should reach the

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coordinators on or before 15 of September, 2016.