The deadline for submitting papers to the PROFIT workshop with title “ 1^st International Workshop on the Internet For Financial Collective Awareness and Intelligence”, co-located with the INSCI 2016 conference has been extended to July 1^st.

Although participation to the workshop is free, early registration is recommended: http://ifin-workshop.iti.gr/register.html

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IFIN 2016 - 1st International Workshop on the Internet for Financial Collective Awareness & Intelligence in conjuction with the 3rd International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2016)

September 12, 2016

University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: June 15, 2016July 1st, 2016
• Notifications: July 1, 2016 July 11^th, 2016
• Camera ready version: July 21, 2016, July18th, 2016

Topics of the Workshop

Topics include, but are not limited to: 

Financial web data retrieval, analysis and presentation

• Financial web data indexing and retrieval
• Content extraction from financial data in the web
• Aggregation of financial data
• Interfaces, presentation and visualization tools for financial data
• Semantic web approaches for financial data
• Decision support services and reasoning of financial data
• Financial news analysis and media literacy

Financial forecasting models based on web data

• Financial forecasting models based on market sentiment
• Business cycle fluctuations

Financial literacy assessment & education web tools

• Financial literacy assessment tools
• Personal financial education tools
• Gamification in financial education

Financial awareness technological platforms

• Surveys
• Interesting use cases and scenarios
• Personalised and recommendation services based on financial information
• Incentives for participation

Scope of the Workshop

IFIN seeks to open a multidisciplinary dialogue on how we could use the Internet to promote financial awareness and capability among citizens. Towards this goal, IFIN workshop will consist of two parts:

• presentation of related work
• roundtable interactive discussions with participants

Under the first part, it will alsopresent key ideas from the recently initiated EU-funded project called PROFIT: Promoting Financial Awareness and Stability. Under the second part, it will enable interactive discussions with the audience in a roundtable fashion being led by experts.

For more information, please visit ifin-workshop.iti.gr or send your inquiries at [email protected]

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