Security Data Mining (in Club Regent room)

Security-related data mining researchers and practitioners are invited to an informal "Birds of Feather" (BOF) session at the KDD-07 conference. It will be a knowledge exchange and professional networking session. It is relevant to people who are interested in techniques which automate and reduce manual parts of security-related screening processes.

Please visit http://www.kdnuggets.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=221 for more information and updates or contact Clifton Phua (clifton.phua@infotech.monash.edu.au) if you are interested or want more information.

E-commerce data mining (in Empire Room)

The eCommerce data mining Birds of a Feather (BOF) is an informal meeting for researchers interested in data mining applications in eCommerce. It will be a knowledge exchange and professional networking session for people interested in this topic. The format will be informal; we will begin with a short kick-off talk introducing a data mining challenge we face. After the introduction talk the format will be open discussion ('coffee and white-boards'). Please feel free to bring any material you wish to share in poster format. Don't forget your business cards and your LinkedIn addresses and be prepared to share ideas!

Please visit http://www.kdnuggets.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=223 for more information and updates or contact Pip Courbois (pipc@amazon.com) if you are interested or want more information.

As part of KDD 07, we are attempting to organize Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions. According to O'Reilly "Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts". BOFs can be organized around research areas, application topics, or projects. BOFs are entirely upto the participants. KDD posts the topics as part of the conference announcement, provides the space and time (e.g., lunch tables). You provide the topic and conduct the BOF.

Suggested topics for BOF include:

• Internet data mining
• Social networks data mining
• eCommerce data mining
• Data mining to support service (CRM, Technical service, Break/Fix)
• Data mining to support supply chain optimization

With this note we are trying to gauge interest in BOFs and the topics for those BOFs. If you are interested, please send a note to sankarv at crystaliz dot com. If there is enough interest, we will organize a forum to help in coordinating the topics and the BOF logistics.

Expressions of interest are due no later than December 15, 2006.