The rapid growth of data and information has created a need and an opportunity for extracting knowledge from databases, and both researchers and application developers have been responding to that need. Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), also referred to as data mining, is an area of common interest to researchers in machine discovery, statistics, databases, knowledge acquisition, machine learning, data visualization, high performance computing, and knowledge-based systems. KDD applications have been developed for astronomy, biology, finance, insurance, marketing, medicine, and many other fields.


Check out KDD-99!
The Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining volume (edited by David Heckerman, Heikki Mannila, Daryl Pregibon, and Ramasamy Uthurusamy) was scheduled to be available in late August 1997.
It can be ordered through this AAAI Press order form.
322 pp., $60.00 paperback
ISBN 1-57735-027-8

Published by the AAAI Press
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The organizers of KDD-97 wish to thank all the participants for helping to make it a successful conference. Please give us your comments and suggestions by filling out the evaluation form and mailing it back to us. Your input will help us to make KDD-98 even better.
KDD-98 will be held Aug 27-30, 1998, in New York City, NY, USA. It will be chaired by Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro.


The winners of the KDD-97 Best Paper Awards, sponsored by Knowledge Stream Partners, are:

In the Fundamental Research category,
Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, NYNEX Science and Technology Center, for the paper
Analysis and Visualization of Classifier Performance: Comparison under Imprecise Class and Cost Distributions
(the runner-up paper was A Probabilistic Approach to Fast Pattern Matching in Time Series Databases
Eamonn Keogh and Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine)

In the Applied Research category,
the winners are
Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine; Michael Ghil and Kayo Ide, University of California, Los Angeles; Joe Roden, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Andrew Fraser, Portland State University, for the paper
Detecting Atmospheric Regimes using Cross-Validated Clustering
(the runner-up paper was JAM: Java Agents for Meta-Learning over Distributed Databases
Sal Stolfo , A. Prodromidis, and P. Chan)

The awards will be presented at KDD-97.

KDD-97 Best Paper Awards Chair:
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Knowledge Stream Partners

KDD-97 Best Paper Awards Committee:
Tej Anand, Charles Elkan, Se June Hong, David Jensen, Brij Masand, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ted Senator, Graham Wills, Wojtek Ziarko


The conference will be held at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Tennis Club, beginning on the morning of August 14, 1997 and ending on the afternoon of August 17, 1997.


KDD-97 is sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in cooperation with the American Statistical Association (ASA), immediately following the 1997 Joint Statistical Meetings JSM-97 in Anaheim, California.


The Third International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD-97, will follow the successes of the The First (KDD-95) and Second (KDD-96) conferences, held in Montreal and Portland in 1995 and 1996 respectively, by bringing together researchers and application developers from different areas focusing on unifying themes.


David Heckerman (Microsoft Research)
Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Research)


General Conference Chair
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors)
Publicity Chair
Paul Stolorz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Demo and Poster Sessions Chair
Tej Anand, (NCR Corporation)
Tutorial Chair
Padhraic Smyth (University of California at Irvine)
Awards Chair
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Knowledge Stream)
Panel Chair
Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany)


Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Helena Ahonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Tej Anand (NCR)
Ron Brachman (AT&T Laboratories)
Carla Brodley (Purdue University)
Dan Carr (George Mason University. USA)
Peter Cheeseman (NASA AMES Research Center)
David Cheung (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Wesley Chu (University of California at Los Angeles)
Gregory Cooper (University of Pittsburgh)
Robert Cowell (City University, UK)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Bill Eddy (Carnegie Mellon University)
Charles Elkan (University of California at San Diego)
Usama Fayyad (Microsoft Research)
Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Jerry Friedman (Stanford University)
Dan Geiger (Technion, Israel)
Clark Glymour (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Moises Goldszmidt (Stanford Research Institute)
Georges Grinstein (University of Lowell)
Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
David Hand (Open University, UK)
Trevor Hastie (Stanford University)
David Heckerman (Microsoft Corporation)
Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University)
Jim Hodges (University of Minnesota)
Se June Hong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University)
Yannis Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin)
Larry Jackel (AT&T Laboratories)
David Jensen (University of Massachusetts)
Michael Jordan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dan Keim (University of Munich, Germany)
Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany)
Ronny Kohavi (Silicon Graphics)
David Lewis (AT&T Laboratories)
David Madigan (University of Washington)
Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Brij Masand (GTE Laboratories)
Gary McDonald (General Motors Research)
Eric Mjolsness (University of California at San Diego)
Sally Morton (Rand Corporation)
Richard Muntz (University of California at Los Angeles)
Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Steve Omohundro (NEC Research)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Knowledge Stream)
Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Laboratories)
Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Pat Riddle (Boeing Computer Services)
Ted Senator (NASD)
Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Wei-Min Shen (University of Southern California)
Arno Siebes (CWI, Netherlands)
Avi Silberschatz (Bell Laboratories)
Evangelos Simoudis (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Andrzej Skowron (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Padhraic Smyth (University of California at Irvine)
Ramakrishnan Srikant (IBM Almaden Research Center)
John Stasko (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Sal Stolfo (Columbia University)
Paul Stolorz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Hanna Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Alex Tuzhilin (NYU Stern School)
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation)
Graham Wills (Bell Laboratories)
David Wolpert (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Jan Zytkow (Wichita State University)


For further information, send inquiries regarding

submission logistics to
AAAI at kdd@aaai.org
Phone: 415-328-3123; Fax: 415-321-4457

KDD-97 sponsorship and industry participation to
Ramasamy Uthurusamy at samy@gmr.com Phone: 810-696-0669, Fax: 810-696-0580

technical program and content to
kdd97pgm@aig.jpl.nasa.gov

general and publicity issues to
kdd97@aig.jpl.nasa.gov

this web site to
Alexander Gray, KDD-97 webmaster, at agray@aig.jpl.nasa.gov

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