DMKD-2000

       Call for Papers and Participation

 2000 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Workshop

  in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference

        http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~dg/DMKD.html

             May 14, 2000
             Dallas, Texas


SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  March 20, 2000

TOPICS

The Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery (DMKD) was started four years
ago as a forum to encourage database researchers
to discuss and investigate data mining research
issues focusing on large databases and data
warehouses. The workshop is being held in
cooreration with the SIGMOD/PODS 2000 conference
(http://www.seas.smu.edu/sigmod2000/index.html).

The focus of previous workshops has ranged from
novel data mining algorithms to experiences in
deploying data mining systems and applications.
For this year's workshop, we would like to retain
the above two themes, but in addition also solicit
papers that that address the following three
topics that we believe are important for the data
mining field today. 

1. Foundations of data mining. There are numerous
techniques that fall under the broad umbrella of
"data mining" algorithms (e.g., association rules,
classification, clustering). A framework or model
that unifies these disparate techniques would be a
major contribution to the field (e.g., is data
mining simply the process of generating "good"
summaries of the data?). 

2. Data mining techniques for vertical
applications. These are techniques that focus on
specific applications and exploit domain-specific
knowledge to mine the data more effectively.
Examples of such applications include E-commerce,
Fraud detection (telecom, credit-card), Network
management, customer relationship management, etc.

3. Novel Data Applications. These are data mining
techniques and applications that focus on
exploring novel kinds of data, such as
geographical data, environmental data, or medical
data. 



SUBMITTING PAPERS 

Send the full paper electronically to dg@cs.ucr.edu or
rastogi@research.bell-labs.com before 11:59pm PST,
March 20, 2000.
If this is more convenient for you, send a hardcopy
to the following address by the same date:
D. Gunopulos
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
Bourns College of Engineering
Univ. of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
phone: 909-787-2479

Papers will be published and presented as part of the 
workshop proceedings after being peer reviewed.

Notification of Acceptance: April 23, 2000 
Camera Ready Copy Due: May 1, 2000 
Workshop Date: May 14, 2000

REGISTRATION

There is no separate registration for the
workshop. It is included in the SIGMOD/PODS 2000
registration. 

SPONSORS

We would like to thank Lucent Bell Labs and AT&T
for sponsoring the workshop.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Dimitrios Gunopulos, Univ. of California, Riverside
Rajeev Rastogi, Lucent Bell-Labs

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden  
Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay 
Surajit Chaudhari, MICROSOFT Research
Gautam Das, MICROSOFT Research 
Usamma Fayyad, MICROSOFT Research 
Minos Garofalakis, Lucent Bell-Labs
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell Univ.
Jiawei Han, Simon Frasier Univ.
Ted Johnson, ATT Research
Nick Koudas, ATT Research
Laks Lakshmanan, IIT Bombay
Heikki Mannila, NOKIA research
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford Univ.
Raymond Ng, Univ. of British Columbia
Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay
Kyuseok Shim, Lucent Bell-Labs
Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden
Hanu Toivonnen, NOKIA Research
Mohammed Zaki, RPI