We invite submissions to the first issue of the second volume of
SIGKDD Explorations to be published by the middle of the year.  SIGKDD
Explorations is the official newsletter of ACM's Special Interest
Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Volume 2, Issue 1 will focus on the topic of Internet Data Mining.
The Internet and the World Wide Web provide an excellent source of
challenging data mining problems and large amounts of data.  As such,
there has been much recent work in this field from academia and
industry.  Hence, SIGKDD Explorations will focus on this timely and
lively area of research in the data mining community.  While other
submissions will be considered, we urge authors to submit papers in
the categories listed below on the topic of Internet Data Mining.
Subtopics include, but are not limited to:
      - Web Mining
      - Privacy and Data Mining
      - Search Engines and Data Mining
      - E-Commerce and Data Mining

Two issues of the first volume issue are already out and available
online at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm.  SIGKDD
Explorations newsletter is sent to the ACM SIGKDD membership and to
a world-wide network of libraries.

Submissions can be made in any one of the following categories.
      - survey/tutorial articles (short) on important topics not
        exceeding 20 pages
      - topical articles on problems and challenges
      - well-articulated position papers
      - technical articles not exceeding 15 pages.
      - news items on the order of 1-3 paragraphs
      - Brief announcements not exceeding 5 lines in length.
      - review articles of products and methodologies not exceeding 20
        pages
      - reviews/summaries from conferences, panels and special meetings.
      - reports on relevant meetings and committees related to the field

We also have added a for-pay advertisement section to allow
vendors, companies, consultants, and others to reach the rapidly
growing SIGKDD community. Advertising rates start at $250
for quarter page, $500 per half page, and $1000 for a full page.

Submissions should be made to bradley@microsoft.com.  All submissions
must arrive by June 23, 2000 for inclusion in the next issue.  Authors
will be notified of acceptance and camera-ready copy of the final
article is due July 14, 2000.  SIGKDD Explorations will be published
on July 28, 2000.

Some words about the SIGKDD newsletter:
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SIGKDD Explorations is a bi-annual newsletter dedicated to serve the
SIGKDD membership and community. Our goal is to make SIGKDD
Explorations a very informative, rapid publication, and interesting
forum for communicating with SIGKDD community.

Submissions will be reviewed by the guest editor and/or associate
editors as appropriate. The distribution will be very wide (on the web,
to all members but probably not restricted access the first year, and
to ACM's world-wide network of libraries. Members get e-mail notifications
of new issues and get hardcopies if they desire).

For more information on SIGKDD visit http://www.acm.org/sigkdd and for
more information on the SIGKDD Explorations newsletter, please visit
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm

Paul Bradley, Guest Editor
bradley@microsoft.com

Usama Fayyad, Editor-in-Chief
fayyad@acm.org

Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Editor
sunita@cs.berkeley.edu