******************************************* Call for papers see below!! ******************************************* Call for Workshop proposals see below!! ******************************************* Call for Panel Proposals see below!! ******************************************* Call for Exhibits see below!! ******************************************* KDD-2000 Workshop Call for Participation KDD-2000: The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000 Information on Workshops http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2000/KDD2000-Workshops.htm KDD-2000 Workshops Chair: Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology, (pkc@cs.fit.edu) The workshops aim at discussing recent research advances in focused areas of knowledge discovery and data mining. They are intended to be small and intimate to foster open discussion. For workshop attendance, please contact the corresponding workshop organizers directly by July 15. The fees for workshop notes ($10-15) will be collected on site by ACM. Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery Hillol Kargupta (hillol@eecs.wsu.edu) Joydeep Ghosh (ghosh@ece.utexas.edu) Vipin Kumar (kumar@cs.umn.edu) Zoran Obradovic (zoran@eecs.wsu.edu) Multimedia Data Mining Simeon J. Simoff (simeon@arch.usyd.edu.au) Osmar R. Zaiane (zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca) Post-Processing in Machine Learning and Data Mining: Interpretation, Visualization, Integration, and Related Topics A. (Fazel) Famili (Fazel.Famili@iit.nrc.ca) Ivan Bruha (bruha@mcmaster.ca) Text Mining Marko Grobelnik (Marko.Grobelnik@ijs.si) Dunja Mladenic (Dunja.Mladenic@cs.cmu.edu) Natasa Milic-Frayling (natasamf@microsoft.com) Web Mining for E-Commerce -- Challenges and Opportunities Ronny Kohavi (ronnyk@bluemartini.com) Myra Spiliopoulou (myra@wiwi.hu-berlin.de) Jaideep Srivastava (jaideep@yodlee.com) Further information on the individual workshops is available at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000/. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* KDD-2000 Call for Papers KDD-2000: The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000 Electronic abstract for hard copy: Feb 29, 2000 Hard Copy of full paper: March 3, 2000 Electronic abstract for electronic submission: Feb 28, 2000 Electronic submission of full paper: Feb 29-Mar 3, 2000 Research Papers: Prospective authors are encouraged to submit research papers on any topics of relevance to knowledge discovery and data mining. In addition to fundamental research, we solicit papers fostering cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary integration, as well as papers that describe significant experiences and implementation lessons. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): KDD Techniques: Mining Enterprise Databases: --------------------------- ----------------------------------- New KDD algorithms Scalable algorithms Mining the Web Data cleaning/noisy data Mining text/multimedia data Unification of mining with querying Incremental algorithms Database architectures for KDD High-dimensional data Database primitives for KDD Background knowledge Distributed architectures for KDD Combining multiple models Integration: mining/warehouse/OLAP Implementation and Applications: Human Interaction and the KDD Process -------------------------------- ------------------------------------ Implementation & use of KDD Data and knowledge visualization, systems and visualization of large, high- Data mining and e-commerce dimensional data Data mining and privacy issues Evaluating knowledge and potential Vertical applications discoveries Case studies: success/failure Interactive exploration Benchmarks How to Submit Research Papers: Electronic Abstract: By Feb 29, 2000, authors must electronically submit an abstract containing: the title of the paper the subject areas of the paper the names of the authors an abstract of at most 250 words Hard Copy of Full Paper: By March 3, 2000, authors must submit six hardcopies of their research paper, which should: be a maximum of 20 pages, not counting the title page have a line spacing of 1.5 use no smaller than a 12pt font have at least a 1 inch margin on each side Electronic Submission of Full Paper: Authors may choose to submit the full research paper electronically instead of submitting hard copy versions. Electronic submission of papers will begin Feb 29th 1pm PST and end on March 3rd. To submit an electronic version of the full paper authors must: (1) Submit an Electronic Abstract by Feb 28th (2) Submit the full paper in Word 95/97, PDF or PostScript format. Word and PDF are the preferred formats, but PostScript will be accepted. It is the absolute responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submitted papers will print easily using a variety of printers. The paper will be rejected if that is not the case. All PostScript submissions need to be uncompressed and printable by both Windows and Unix machines (3) Include their Paper ID (assigned during abstract submission) and email address Note: You must electronically submit an abstract for a paper to be considered. The address to mail the hardcopies will appear on the electronic submission confirmation page and will also be emailed to the author who submits the abstract. The contact author's address, telephone number, email address and PaperID (which will be assigned by the electronic submission system) should appear on the title page of the submission. If you submit your full research paper in hard copy format, you will receive an email confirmation by March 10th. If you submit your full research paper electronically, you will receive an email confirmation within 24 hours of your submission. Overlength or late papers will be rejected without review. All authors of accepted papers will be required to sign copyright release forms, and one author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. Questions regarding research papers may be directed to program committee chairs: Raghu Ramakrishnan and Sal Stolfo at kdd2000@cs.wisc.edu. Awards: Best Paper Awards: The KDD-2000 Best Papers Awards recognize the best paper in two categories: fundamental research and applications/applied research. Fundamental research papers are judged by the significance and originality of their contribution. Application/applied research papers are judged by the practical impact and current or potential usefulness of the work. In both categories, the clarity and quality of presentation are also considered. Student Travel Awards: SIGKDD, AAAI, SIGMOD and SIGART are sponsoring student travel awards to KDD-2000, August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA. Detailed information will be made available at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000. Webmaster: kdd2000@microsoft.com KDD-2000 Program Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------- D. Barbara, George Mason Univ. R. Bayardo, IBM Almaden K. Bennett, RPI P. Bradley, Microsoft Res. W. Buntine, Ultimode Sys. D. Carr, George Mason Univ. P. Chan, Florida Inst. Tech. S. Chaudhuri, Microsoft Res. K. Church, AT&T Research T. Dasu, AT&T Research I. Dhillon, Univ. of Texas T. Dietterich, Oregon State Univ. G. Dong, Wright State Univ. W. Eddy, Carnegie Mellon S. Eick, Bell Laboratories O. Etzioni, Univ. Washington C. Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon U. Fayyad, Microsoft Res. R. Feldman, Bar-Ilan Univ. T. Fukuda, IBM Japan J. Gehrke, Cornell Univ. C. Glymour, Carnegie Mellon W. Grundy, Columbia Univ. A. Gupta, MIT D. Heckerman, Microsoft Res. R. Kohavi, Blue Martini L. Lakshmanan, Concordia Univ. D. Lee, Chon Nam Univ. W. Lee, North Carolina St. U. H. Liu, NUS W.-Y. Loh, Univ. of Wisconsin H. Lu, HKUST D. Madigan, AT&T Research O. Mangasarian, U. of Wisconsin H. Mannila, Helsinki U. of Tech. B. Masand, Redwood Invest. Sys. C. Merz, NASA Ames Res. Center S. Morishita, Univ. of Tokyo R. Motwani, Stanford Univ. R. Miller, Univ. of Toronto R. Ng, Univ. British Columbia M. Pazzani, U. C. Irvine G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, W. Potts, SAS Institute Knowledge Stream Partners F. Provost, New York Univ. R. Rastogi, Bell Laboratories T. Richardson, Univ. of Wash. G. Ridgeway, Univ. of Wash. R. Schapire, AT&T Research J. Shafer, IBM Almaden J. Shavlik, Univ. of Wisconsin N. Soparkar, Univ. of Michigan P. Stolorz, NASA H. Toivonen, Nokia A. Tuzhilin, New York Univ. K. Wang, NUS P. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Res. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGKDD Chair: Won Kim, Cyber Database Solutions, won.kim@cyberdb.com KDD-2000 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Ismail Parsa, Epsilon, iparsa@epsilon.com Program Co-chairs: Raghu Ramakrishnan, Univ. of Wisconsin, raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sal Stolfo, Columbia University, sal@cs.columbia.edu Advising Co-Chair: Daryl Pregibon, AT&T Research, daryl@research.att.com Industrial Track Chairs: Kenneth Church, AT&T Research, kwc@research.att.com Mario Schkolnick, SGI, schkol@schkol.engr.sgi.com Awards Chair: Heikki Mannila, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Heikki.Mannila@hut.fi Student Travel Awards: Wenke Lee, NCSU, lee@csc.ncsu.edu Conference Treasurer: John Lin, Epsilon, jlin@epsilon.com Demos/Exhibits Chair: Dorian Pyle, Knowledge Stream Partners, dpyle@dca.net Local Arrangements Chair: Kathleen Wright, Knowledge Stream Partners, kwright@ksp.com Panels Chair: Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, atuzhili@stern.nyu.edu Proceedings Chair: Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research, bayardo@almaden.ibm.com Publicity Chair: Paul Bradley, Microsoft, bradley@microsoft.com Registration Chair: Amar Gupta, MIT, agupta@mit.edu Sponsorship Chair: Robert Grossman, Magnify, rlg@magnify.com Tutorials Chair: Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, rng@cs.ubc.ca Workshops Chair: Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology, pkc@cs.fit.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* KDD-2000 Workshops Call for Proposals KDD-2000: The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000 Call for Proposals http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2000/KDD2000-WorkshopsCFP.htm Workshop proposals due: Feb 1, 2000 Notification: Feb 15, 2000 Workshop Call for Papers: Mar 1, 2000 Papers due: May 15, 2000 Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2000 Revisions due: July 15, 2000 Workshop!: August 20, 2000 KDD-2000 Workshops Chair: Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology, (pkc@cs.fit.edu) Call for Proposals: KDD-2000 will host a set of related workshops to capitalize on the presence of researchers at the main conference. Workshops are intended to by technically oriented and focused on specific research issues or topics. Workshops are intended to encourage informal presentations of important problems, work in progress, or exciting research ideas that may not have reached maturity. Workshop chairs define the focus of the workshop, review submissions, and decide final program content. Workshop chairs may elect to for organizing or program committees as they deem necessary. Workshop proposals (details below) should be sent to the Workshops Chair Philip Chan (pkc@cs.fit.edu) electronically by the submission deadline of February 1, 2000. Schedule: February 1, 2000: Workshop proposals due. Submit plain text electronically to Workshops Chair Philip Chan (pkc@cs.fit.edu). Proposals should include the following information: 1. Topic Description: Description of research issues that will be the focus of the workshop. 2. Relevance of Topic: Briefly describe why the topic is of particular interest at this time. 3. Organizing Committee's Contact Information: Including address, email and phone number. 4. List of Possible Organizers/Reviewers. 5. List of Possible Authors/Attendees. February 15, 2000: Notification. March 1, 2000: Workshops Call for Papers. May 15, 2000: Papers due. June 15, 2000: Acceptance notification. July 15, 2000: Revisions due. August 20, 2000: Workshops! **************************************************************** **************************************************************** KDD-2000 Call for Panel Proposals KDD-2000: The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000 Call for Panel Proposals http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2000/KDD2000-PanelsCFP.htm Panel proposals due: March 3, 2000 Expected notification: April 10, 2000 KDD-2000 Panels Chair: Alex Tuzhilin, New York University, (atuzhili@stern.nyu.edu) The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2000) is the premiere event for the data mining community expected to bring together more than 800 attendees from academia and industry. Among other activities, the conference program includes panels, and the Program Committee invites submission of proposals for the panels to be held at the conference. Panel proposals are expected to address new, exciting, and controversial issues. They should include a summary of the topics to be covered, names and affiliations of up to 4 panelists who have made a commitment to participate, a short summary of their position statements, and a brief biography of each participant. A mix of industry and academic panel members is encouraged. Panel proposals should be submitted electronically in the ASCII format to the Panel Chair Alex Tuzhilin (atuzhili@stern.nyu.edu) by March 3, 2000. The expected notification date is April 10, 2000. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | KDD-2000 CALL FOR EXHIBITS | | | | KDD-2000: The ACM SIGKDD Sixth International Conference | | on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | | | | August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA | | Exhibits Dates: August 21-22, 2000 | | http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2000/ | | | | Sponsored by: | | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - SIGKDD | | | | Co-sponsored by: | | AAAI, ACM SIGMOD, and ACM SIGART | | | | In cooperation with: | | Interface, ASA SCS (Stastical Computing Section) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2000) is the premiere event for the data mining community bringing together KDD professionals from all over world. KDD has enjoyed steadily growing rates of attendance, both from the academia and the industry. This year we are expecting 1000+ attendees. On average, 40 percent of the attendees have academic affiliations while 60 percent are affiliated with the industry. The introduction of the industrial track last year proved enormously popular and boosted the participation from industry. For more information about the conference, please visit the URL listed above. The exhibits are a crucial part of KDD, as the field is driven by applications. Initially started as a half-day long display of research prototypes, the KDD exhibits quickly evolved into an industry event eagerly sought by the practitioners, researchers and the vendors in the field. The KDD-99 Exhibits were a great success. The strong participation of 32 Exhibitors (27 commercial, 5 research prototypes) attracted a lot of interest from the attendees. This year, we are continuing the flexible fee structure for the Exhibits which proved so popular last year. Exhibitors in need of larger exhibits space will be able to get it. Accordingly, a single, 6 foot table top will cost $500, double space for $750, triple space for $1,000, etc. As usual, in this space, exhibitors will be allowed to distribute product/service/company literature, display product/service demonstrations and set up signage. Exhibitors are responsible for bringing all hardware and software required for their demonstrations. Please e-mail a 200 word (maximum) description of your product(s) to: dpyle@ksp.com along with your space requirement if you choose to participate. We welcome designated and undesignated donations to the conference. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Important Dates | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ The conference will be held in Boston between August 20-23, 2000. The exhibits area will be open during the following dates/hours: August 21: 12:00-6:00 PM August 22: 10:00-6:00 PM. Looking forward to see you in Boston this summer. Best wishes, Dorian. Dorian Pyle SIG-KDD Exhibits Chair 148 State Street Boston MA 02108 USA E-MAIL : dpyle@ksp.com V-MAIL 1: (617) 619-7152 V-MAIL 2: (610) 255-3555 FAX: (617) 742-5820