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Areas Of Interest

The Industrial/Government Track of the Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will highlight successful applications of KDD technology; explore issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of KDD applications; and promote the exchange of ideas between basic and applied data mining.

The KDD-2004 Industrial/Government (I/G) Track seeks to:

• Provide a forum for exchanging ideas between KDD practitioners, researchers, companies, and government organizations
• Help commercial and government organizations understand successful KDD applications

The I/G Track solicits papers from practitioners and companies that have KDD products and solutions relevant to commercial or government challenges.

The I/G Track will consist of competitively-selected contributed papers – presented in oral and poster form – as well as invited talks and panel discussions. (The full conference will also feature keynote presentations, workshops, tutorials, research track papers, and the KDD Cup competition.)

We envision submissions along three sub-areas:

• Emerging applications, technology, and issues
• Deployed KDD case studies
• Products

Emerging application, technology, and issue papers discuss prototype applications, tools for focused domains or tasks, useful techniques or methods, project “war stories”, useful system architectures, scalability enablers, tool evaluations, or integration of KDD and other technologies. Case studies describe deployed projects with measurable benefits that include KDD technology. Product submissions clearly describe KDD technology embedded in commercial products (without otherwise being a product advertisement). Submitters are encouraged (but not required) to select one (or more) of these sub-areas for their papers.

In their submission, authors are encouraged to explain why the application is important, the specific need for KDD technology to solve the problem (including why other methods may fall short), and any innovations or lessons learned in the solution. We understand that reasons of confidentiality have often discouraged practitioners from submitting papers. When possible, we encourage authors to abstract any such specifics into a more general problem that may be presented, while explaining how the abstracted challenge is important for KDD.

Submission Guidelines (Industrial/Government Track)

Abstracts must be submitted electronically at the paper submission web site on or before noon PST (Pacific Standard Time), February 20 2004. A full paper can only be submitted if an abstract for the paper has been submitted. The paper submission site for the industrial/government track can be found here:

http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGKDD2004IND/

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 noon PST February 27, 2004. 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/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

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 PDF or in Microsoft Word 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 and are not under submission elsewhere.