First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 
  April 5-7, 2001, Midland Hotel, Chicago, USA
      http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm01/

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts Submission: October 20, 2000 
Full Paper Submission: October 27, 2000
Author Notification: January 15, 2001
Final Version of Papers Due: February 5, 2001

Advances in information technology and data collection methods have 
led to the availability of large data sets in commercial enterprises 
and in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. 
Examples of such large data sets in the scientific domain are genomic 
data (Biology), climate data (Earth Sciences), sky survey data 
(Astronomy), and computational simulations that run on high 
performance computers. In the commercial domain, the use of bar codes 
in commercial outlets, the computerization of business transactions, 
and the  explosion of e-businesses are also providing a flood of data. 

We have an unprecedented opportunity to analyze this data and extract 
intelligent and useful information. The field of data mining draws 
upon extensive work in areas such as statistics, machine learning, 
pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing to 
discover interesting and previously unknown information in data sets. 

This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent 
results in data mining, including applications, algorithms, software, 
and systems. The conference will feature peer reviewed, contributed 
papers as well as invited talks, tutorials and workshops. Proceedings of the
conference will be available on CD-ROM as well as online.

Several workshops will be held on Saturday, April 7 on topics of
current interest.  These workshops will allow the presentation and
discussion of recent results.  The workshops planned include:
  - Mining Scientific Data Sets
  - Data Mining for Genomic Data 
  - Data Mining for E-commerce
  - Web Mining

See the conference webpage for topics of interest, submission
procedures, and other relevant details. 

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Robert Grossman, Magnify, Inc. and Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Vipin Kumar, AHPCRC - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA 

PUBLICITY CHAIR: 
Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA