ACM SIGKDD

KDD-2002 Call for Papers

The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

July 23-26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002

Submission Deadlines: Electronic Abstract Submission - Feb. 22, 2002
  Electronic Paper Submission - Mar. 1, 2002
Submission Format: Camera-Ready (no more than 10 pages)
  Electronic Submission only
Text version here

In the past few years, the ACM SIGKDD conference has established itself as one of the premier conferences on knowledge discovery and data mining. To continue with this tradition, the eighth ACM SIGKDD conference will provide a forum for the academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research and experience. The conference will be co-located with AAAI. It will feature keynote presentations, plenary paper presentations, poster presentations, tutorials, workshops, panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition.

Papers on all aspects of knowledge discovery are solicited. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Data Mining Biomedical Domains
  • Data Mining with Constraints
  • Data Mining and Data Warehousing
  • Data Mining and the Internet
  • Data and Result Visualization
  • Foundations of Data Mining
  • Mining High Dimensional Data
  • Interactive and Online Mining
  • KDD Framework and Process
   
  • Novel Data Mining algorithms
  • Preproessing and Postprocessing for Data Mining
  • Robust and Scalable Statistical Methods
  • Security and Privacy Issues
  • Temporal Data Mining
  • Text Data Mining

Both research track and industry track papers are solicited. All papers will be judged based on their technical merits, relevance to KDD, and presentation clarity. Submissions to both tracks will undergo the same review process but reviewers can assign accepted papers to the respective other track if they feel this to be more appropriate. Because the number of submissions is expected to be high, the conference will have two parallel tracks of research papers in addition to the industrial track, thereby increasing the number of papers to be accepted and presented in the conference.

Important Dates:

Deadlines are for both Research and Industrial tracks

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 22nd, 2002
Workshop/Tutorial/Panel
Proposal Submission Deadline		: February 22nd, 2002
Paper Submission Deadline : March 1st,2002
Notification of Acceptance : May 17th, 2002
Camera Copy Deadline : May 31st, 2002

Organizing Committee

Conference General Chair Randy Goebel, U. Of Alberta, Canada
Program Chairs David Hand, Imperial College, UK
Daniel Keim, AT&T, USA,
Raymond Ng, U. of British Columbia, Canada
Industrial Session Chairs Michael Berthold, Tripos, USA,
William DuMouchel, AT&T, USA
Best Paper Award Chair Hans-Peter Kriegel, U. of Munich, Germany
Student Awards Chair Jiawei Han, U. of Illinois, USA
Exhibits Chair Nick Koudas, AT&T, USA
Treasurer Davood Rafiei, U. Of Alberta, Canada
Publicity Chair Osmar Zaiane, U. Of Alberta, Canada
Local Arrangements Chair Mario Nascimento, U. Of Alberta, Canada
Panels Chair Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs, USA
Proceedings Chair Osmar Zaiane, U. Of Alberta, Canada
Sponsorship Chair Charu Aggarwal, IBM, USA,
Nick Cercone, U. of Waterloo, Canada,
Mario Schkolnik
Tutorials Chair Alexander Hinneburg, U. of Halle, Germany
Workshops Chair Renee Miller, U. of Toronto, Canada
Webmaster Osmar Zaiane, U. Of Alberta, Canada
Registration Chair Joerg Sander, U. Of Alberta, Canada
KDD-Cup Chairs Mark Craven, U. of Wisconsin, USA,
Alexander Yeh, MITRE Corp., USA

Program Committee:
Niall Adams Dimitris Gunopulos Stephen North
Jesús Aguilar-RuizYike Guo Doug Nychka
Mihael Ankerst Monte Hancock Gregory Piatetski-Shapiro
Daniel Barbara Joann Harveyk Daryl Pregibon
Roberto Bayardo Howard Ho Foster Provost
Michael Berthold Adele Howe Prabhakar Raghavan
Richard Bolton William Hsu Raghu Ramakrishnan
Paul Bradley Alfred Inselberg Marco Ramoni
Nick Cercone David Jensen Greg Ridgeway
David Cheung Ted Johnson Joerg Sander
Ken Church Laveen Kanal Bernhard Seeger
Di Cook Jon Kleinberg Matt Schonlau
Gautam Das Ronny Kohavi Dale Schuurmans
Vasant Dhar Flip Korn Kyuseok Shim
Umeshwar Dayal Vipin Kumar Roberta Siciliano
Victor DeGruttola Diane Lambert Simeon J. Simoff
Chabane Djeraba Jose Latorre Padhraic Smyth
Maggie Dunham Doheon Lee Paul Stolorz
Martin Ester Bing Liu Sal Stolfo
Christos Faloutsos Howard Hamilton Hannu Toivonen
Tom Fawcett Xiao Hui Liu Alexander Tuzhilin
Usama Fayyad Hongjun Lu K.P.Unnikrishnan
Ronen Feldman David Madigan Ramasamy Uthurusamy
Ada Fu Heikki Mannila Matthew Ward
Alex Gammerman Doug Martin Ed Wegman
Minos Garofalakis Stan Matwin Xindong Wu
Johannes Gehrke Shinichi Morishita Xiang Yang
George Grinstein Sally Morton Hwan-Seung Yong
  Rajeev Motwani Ning Zhong

Executive Committee:
Chair : Won Kim
Secretary/Treasurer: Rakesh Agrawal
Board of Directors : Christos Faloutsos, Usama Fayyad, Jiawei Han, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy Uthurusamy

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts must be submitted electronically at the paper submission web site on or before 6pm PST Feb. 22, 2002. An abstract must not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract submitted in time.

Full papers must be submitted electronically at the paper submission web site on or before 6pm PST March 1, 2002. Authors are required to submit a version of their full papers in camera-ready format. As such, the formating instructions are identical to the SIGKDD conference paper instructions (http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/). Papers should be no more than 10 pages, single spaced, in 9-point Times Roman font with 1 inch top and bottom margins and no less than 0.75 inch left and right margins. This page limit is inclusive of all references. Appendices can be attached and not counted towards the page limit. But appendices may not be read by the referees. The program committee will strictly enforce the page limit.

All papers must be submitted in either PDF, postscript or MS Word format. However, PDF is the preferred submission format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submitted papers print correctly on a variety of printers. If any special fonts are used, they must be included in the submission. Finally, all papers must be original, and have not been submitted elsewhere.

Best Paper Awards: The KDD-2002 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.