Introduction
This competition is part of the
[Solar Flare Prediction from Time Series of Solar Magnetic Field Parameters](http://dmlab.cs.gsu.edu/bigdata19/flare-comp/index.html)
in the IEEE Big Data 2019 big Data Cup
Important Dates
April 29, 2019:
Competition Opens (team submission is open to any interested individual(s))
September 1, 2019:
Phase 1 Ends: Result submission used for ranking closes.
September 2, 2019:
Phase 2 Begins: Top participants invited to submit an academic paper.
October 1, 2019:
Phase 2 Ends: Academic paper submissions due.
November 1, 2019:
Notification of paper acceptance.
November 15, 2019:
Camera-ready of accepted papers.
December 9-12, 2019:
Conference (Part of [SABiD Workshop](https://grid.cs.gsu.edu/rangryk/workshops/SABID19) (Dec 9 or 12 TBD))
After the competition phase is completed, a link for the submission of the accompanying academic paper will be provided to the top 10 participants as ranked by the public/private leaderboard weighting described on the competition website. The academic papers will be ranked by peer reviewers and a final decision will be made	using the weighting method detailed on the competition website.
Organizers
On behalf of the Data Mining Lab (
[dmlab.cs.gsu.edu](http://dmlab.cs.gsu.edu)
), in the Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, this challenge has been organized by the following.
Dustin J. Kempton, Ph.D. (
[cs.gsu.edu/~dkempton1](https://grid.cs.gsu.edu/~dkempton1/)
)
Berkay Aydin, Ph.D (
[cs.gsu.edu/~baydin/](https://www.cs.gsu.edu/baydin/)
)
Rafal A. Angryk, Ph.D. (
[cs.gsu.edu/~rangryk](https://grid.cs.gsu.edu/~rangryk/)
)