CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
                          SIGKDD 2005
         THE 11TH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
            ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING

                     August 21-24, 2005
                      Chicago, IL, USA
              http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2005
                   http://www.kdd2005.com



IMPORTANT DATES: 

  Electronic Abstract Submission: Feb. 22, 2005 *at noon CST*
  Electronic Paper Submission: Feb. 28, 2005 *at noon CST*

Submission Format:

  Camera-Ready (no more than 10 pages), electronic
  submissions in PDF format only
  
  Papers on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data
  mining are solicited.


Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applications of data mining (biomedical, e-commerce, defense)
- Data and result visualization
- Data mining and data warehousing
- Data mining for community generation, social network analysis,
  and graphstructured 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

Abstracts and full papers must be submitted electronically at the conference
Web site (see URL above). Abstracts must be submitted on or before February 22,
2005, 12 noon CST (Central Standard Time). An abstract may not contain more
than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract
submitted on time. Full papers must be submitted on or before February 28,
2005, at 12 noon CST. This is a FIRM deadline.  Papers must be no more than 10
pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references and appendices.
Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font,
approx. 1in margins). Templates are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers must be submitted in
PDF format. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that their submissions
display and print properly.

All papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality,
relevance to KDD, and presentation clarity. Papers should describe original
work that has not been published before, is not under review elsewhere, and may
not be submitted elsewhere during KDD-2005's review period (specialized
workshops with a limited audience excluded).

A separate call is being issued for industrial/government track papers; see the
conference Web site at the URL above. Reviewers can assign research track
submissions to the industrial/government track and vice-versa, if they feel
this to be more appropriate. Calls for workshop, tutorial and panel proposals
can also be found at the conference Web site.

The KDD-2005 Best Paper 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.
Applications/applied research papers are judged by the practical impact and
current or potential usefulness of the work. In both cases, the clarity and
quality of presentation are also considered.