CALL FOR PAPERS	
           Workshop on Data Science for Macro-Modeling DSMM2019 
		    	    	dsmmworkshop.org 
		Held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD 2019

*** DEADLINES ***
Submission deadline: 		March 29, 2019
Notification to authors:	April 26, 2019
Camera ready copy:		May 31, 2019
Registration deadline:		TBA
Workshop:			Sunday June 30, 2019

DSMM 2019 will explore the challenges of macro-modeling with financial 
and economic datasets. The workshop will also showcase the Financial 
Entity Identification and Information Integration (FEIII) Challenge.
https://ir.nist.gov/dsfin

The advent of Big Data infrastructures and analytical tools can support 
information fusion and macro-modeling with diverse datasets, 
and can potentially lead to the exploration of complex financial and 
economic ecosystems.  Although integrating datasets may pose technical 
and policy/privacy challenges, the potential benefits are immense. 
Financial big data and FINTECH applications are in the vanguard of 
activities around the deployment of Open Knowledge Networks. 
http://ichs.ucsf.edu/open-knowledge-network/

The financial world is a closely interlinked Web of financial entities 
and networks, supply chains and ecosystems. Analysts, regulators and 
researchers must address the challenges of monitoring, integrating, and 
analyzing at scale.  Technical challenges include entity identification; 
entity classification; learning relationships among entities. The benefits 
of addressing these challenges may result in improved tools for 
regulators to monitor financial systems or to set fiscal policy.  Additional 
benefits may include fundamentally new designs of market mechanisms, new 
ways to reach consumers and to exploit the wisdom of the crowds.

We expect attendees with an interest in information integration, data 
mining, knowledge representation, network and visual analytics, stream 
data processing, etc.  Past proceedings are available here:  
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3220547 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3077240
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2951894 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2630729

SUBMISSION FORMAT
We will accept the following types of papers in the SIGMOD format:
* Regular papers that are a maximum of 6 pages will have a presentation slot.
* Extended abstracts of up to 2 pages will have a poster and short presentation.

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Doug Burdick		IBM Research		   drburdic@us.ibm.com
Rajasekar Krishnamurthy IBM Research               rajase@us.ibm.com
Louiqa Raschid          University of Maryland     louiqa@umiacs.umd.edu