Meetings

Call for Participation

We are pleased to announce that the 8th French Conference "Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances" (EGC'2008) will take place in the INRIA Sophia Antipolis, close to Nice, France, from January 29 to February 1, 2008.

This conference is devoted to theories, methods and applications of Data Mining, Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases, Knowledge Management and engineering. Its aim is to gather all researchers and company managers in this area in order to present works of high quality and exchange new ideas.

We are also pleased to welcome prestigious invited talks :

• Usama Fayyad, Yahoo! Inc., USA
• Francoise Soulie Fogelman, KXen, France
• Osmar Zaiane, honorary chair of EGC'2008, Univ. of Alberta, Canada.

The proceedings of EGC'2008 will appear in a special issue of the French journal RNTI (C?padu?s publisher). Each paper was read by three reviewers (see the program committee on our web site).

Two special scientific prices of 1500 euros each will be awarded to the best academic and industrial papers.

Registration is available on-line (http://www-sop.inria.fr/axis/egc08).

Yours,

Fabrice Guillet and Brigitte Trousse,
(Program chair and local chair).