The topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Managing the Flood of Solar & Stellar Astronomy Big Data
- New Computational Models for Storage, Distribution, Processing and Mining of Astronomy Data
- Evaluation of Information Quality for Astronomy Data from Telescopes, as well as Derived Data Products (Meta-Data)
- New Scientific Standards for Information Processing and Mining, and their Quality Evaluation
- System Architectures, Design and Deployment of Solar and Stellar Astronomy Data Archives, Portals and Analytical Services
- Data Management and Stream Mining for Astronomy Data in Cloud and Distributed Environments
- Integration of Heterogeneous Information from Multiple Data Repositories for the purpose of Knowledge Discovery from these Databases
- Solar & Stellar Data Science, Informatics and Statistics
- New Computational Models for Search, Retrieval, and Mining of Astronomy Data
- Scalable Algorithms and Systems for Solar & Stellar Activity Recognition
- Solar & Stellar Astronomy Data Search Architectures, their Scalability, Efficiency, and Real-life Usefulness
- Visualization and Interaction Tools for Large Astronomy Data Bases
- Computational Astrostatistics (e.g., irregularly sampled data, multivariate and survival analysis, nonlinear regression)
- Hyperspectral Imaging: Technologies and Techniques
- Cloud-, Distributed-, and Stream-Data Mining for High Velocity Astronomy Data
- Image Processing for Unbiased Image, Spatial and Time Series Analysis
- Multimedia, Multi-structured, and Spatiotemporal Astronomy Data Mining
- Novel Data Mining Models, including new algorithms available through Hadoop, MapReduce, No-SQL, etc.
- Applications Related to Solar & Stellar Big Data Management and Mining
- Complex Space Weather Applications in Science, Engineering, Education, Navigation, Power Grids, and Telecommunication for Government, Public and Private Industry Sectors
- New Real-life Case Studies of Big Solar Data Mining (e.g. Space Weather)
- Experiences with Big Data Mining Project Deployments in Solar Physics
- Successful Crowdsourced Scientific Research (e.g. Zooniverse)
- Solar and Stellar Astronomy Data and Knowledge Distribution in the Social Web
- Enhancing the Solar-Stellar Connection with Big Data
- Surveys of Millions of Suns – Is the Sun a Typical Sun-like Star?
- Helioseismology and Asteroseismology
- Flares, Planets and Supernovae – Identifying Transient/Periodic Events in Time Series Data
- Solar and Stellar Dynamo Modeling
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