Below are instructions on how to submit papers to KDD-2013, as well as pointers to information about the reviewing process and decision process.
Paper Submission Deadlines
Abstract must be electronically submitted to the CMT Web site by 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on Friday February 15th 2013.
Papers must be electronically submitted to the CMT Web site by 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on Friday February 22nd 2013.
In order to be fair to all authors, there will be no extensions to the submission deadline. Papers not submitted by the deadline will not be reviewed.
Note that the CMT site allows you to upload updated versions of your paper up until the deadline – so you may want to upload an early version of the paper which you can later (if you wish to) overwrite with a newer version of the paper up until the deadline.
Evaluation and Decision Criteria
Papers will be reviewed by members of the KDD-2013 program committee and decisions will be emailed to all authors by May 13, 2013. Note that this year there will not be an author response phase between submission and decisions.
The general criteria for evaluation of submitted papers for KDD-2013 is summarized in the call for papers, and repeated for convenience below:
We invite submission of papers describing innovative research on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to: social network analysis, classification and regression methods, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised learning and clustering, graph and link mining, rule and pattern mining, web mining, efficient or distributed mining algorithms, mining temporal and spatial data, probabilistic methods, text mining, security and privacy, optimization techniques, recommender systems, mining sequences, topic and graphical models, matrix and tensor methods, feature selection, online advertising, biological and medical data, anomaly detection, and knowledge discovery from big data. Papers emphasizing theoretical foundations are particularly encouraged, as are novel modeling and algorithmic approaches to specific data mining problems in scientific, business, medical, and engineering applications. Visionary papers on new and emerging topics are also welcome. Authors are explicitly discouraged from submitting papers that contain only incremental results and that do not provide significant advances over existing approaches. Application oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to research are welcome.
Submitted papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity of writing. For papers that rely heavily on empirical evaluations, the experimental methods and results should be clear, well executed, and repeatable. Authors are strongly encouraged to make data and code publicly available whenever possible.
Policy Regarding Dual Submission
Submitted papers must describe work that is substantively different from work that has already been published or is currently under review for another conference. In particular, papers submitted to KDD-2013 should be substantively different to any papers submitted to another conference where the review and decision period of the other conference overlaps with that of KDD-2013.
Formatting Requirements for Submitted and Accepted Papers
All submissions must be in PDF format and must not exceed 10MB in size.
Papers should be no more than 9 pages total in length. The format is the standard double-column ACM Proceedings Style. Additional information about formatting and style files are available online at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates [Tighter Alternate style]
Papers that do not meet the formatting requirements will be rejected.
For accepted papers, authors will have the opportunity to revise their papers in response to the reviewers before final submission for publication in the proceedings.
Indicating the Subject Areas for Your Paper
When you submit your paper to CMT you will be asked to select which terms from a pre-defined list of subject could best be used to describe the content of your paper. The purpose of this is to help us in assigning reviewers to your paper. Reviewers will also indicate their expertise using the same set of subject area terms. The subject areas we are using this year differ from previous years, so please carefully look over the options. You will be allowed to select a single primary subject area, and up to 5 secondary areas. A full list of subject area terms is provided on the Subject Areas Web page. In addition, you are allowed to add free-text keywords describing your paper as you see fit.
Copyright
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