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Areas Of Interest

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of data mining, including, but not limited to, biomedical, commerce, search, and security applications
• Data and result visualization
• Data mining and data warehousing
• Data mining for community generation, social network analysis, and graph-structured data
• Foundations of data mining
• KDD framework and process
• Mining data streams
• Mining high-dimensional data
• Mining text and semi-structured data
• Multi-media data mining
• Novel data mining algorithms
• Spatial and temporal data mining
• Security and privacy issues
• Interactive and online data mining
• Pre-processing and post-processing for data mining
• Robust and scalable statistical methods

Submission Guidelines (Research 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 research track can be found at:

http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGKDD2004RES/

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 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.