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ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02
Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02

Final Call for Papers

The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '02) provides a leading international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different data mining related areas such as machine learning, automated scientific discovery, statistics, pattern recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, and knowledge-based systems. The conference seeks solutions to challenging problems facing the development of data mining systems, and shapes future directions of research by promoting high quality, novel and daring research findings. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest ==================

Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• Foundations and principles of data mining
• Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis), and in new areas
• Data and knowledge representation for data mining
• Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and Web data to support data mining
• Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
• Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature transformation
• Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
• Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty management for data mining
• Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
• Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining
• Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining
• High performance and distributed data mining
• Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific discovery
• Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining results
• Process centric data mining and models of data mining process
• Security and social impact of data mining
• Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce, bioinformatics, Web intelligence, and intelligent learning database systems

High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review.

There are two different types of paper submission for IEEE ICDM '02: (1) main track submissions and (2) industry track submissions.

For the main track submission, all submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 6,000 words (approximately 20 A4 pages), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All main track paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please use the Submission Form (for main track) at the ICDM '02 webpage: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02 to submit your paper (the due date is June 5, 2002).

For the industry track submission, please first check the following conditions before your submission:

(a) At least one author of each industry track paper should be from a company (rather than a university), and the paper should be about industrial or other real-world applications of data mining. (b) The authors whose papers accepted for industry track would also be requested to show a demo of the system, if feasible.

All papers submitted to the Industry Track will be reviewed by the mini Industry Track Program Committee, and each accepted industry track paper is allocated 2-4 pages in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All industry track paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please use the Submission Form (for industry track) at the ICDM '02 webpage: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02 to submit your paper (the due date is June 5, 2002).

A selected number of IEEE ICDM '02 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by Springer-Verlag.

IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the conference.

Important Dates ===============

June 5, 2002 Main track paper submissions Industry track paper submissions

June 30, 2002 Tutorial submissions Panel submissions Workshop proposals

August 16, 2002 Paper acceptance notices

September 12, 2002 Final camera-readies

December 9-12, 2002 Conference

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02 and http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02

Honorary Chair: ===============

Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan

Conference Chairs: ==================

Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan (zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp)

Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (psyu@us.ibm.com)

Program Committee Chairs: =========================

Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA (kumar@cs.umn.edu, stewart@arc.umn.edu)

Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, Japan (tsumoto@computer.org)

Industry Track Chairs:

Koji Sasaki, AdIn Research, Inc., Japan (sasaki@adin.co.jp, hosokawa@adin.co.jp)

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA (gps)

Workshops Chair: Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan (suzuki@slab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp)

Tutorials Chair: Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan (washio@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp)

Panels Chair: Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany (morik@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de)

Publicity Chair:

Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (jiming@Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK)

Finance Chair: Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA (xindong@computer.org)

Local Arrangements Chair: Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan (otani@maebashi-it.ac.jp)

ICDM Steering Committee

Xindong Wu, Chair (University of Vermont, USA)
Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA
Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Further Information

Professor Ning Zhong (ICDM '02) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan

Telephone & Fax: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp