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We invite proposals for KDD Cup 2010 competition. KDD Cup is the well-known data mining competition of the annual ACM SIGKDD Int. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)

The KDD-2010 conference will be held in Washington, DC, USA, July 25-28 2010 (http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd2010/). One proposal will be selected for the 2010 competition, and one member of the organizing team will be invited to be the second KDD Cup 2010 co-chair.

Proposals should include a short paragraph on each of the following items:
1. Description of the problem addressed, with general background information on the application domain.
2. Description of the available data, guarantee of availability, guarantee of confidentiality of the "ground truth", and size.
3. Description of the competition tasks, their scientific and technical merit and their practical significance.
4. Description of the evaluation procedures and established baselines (provide evidence that non-trivial performance can be achieved, and an estimate of what constitutes a significant difference in performance).
5. List of the available resources (team member availability, computers, support staff, other equipment, sponsors).
6. Schedule. The competition should last between 6 and 8 weeks and the winners should be notified by mid-June. The winners will be announced in the KDD-2010 conference.
7. Names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and short biographies of the organizers.
8. Whether the competition is new or has been held before.
9. Whether you will award prizes of any form to winning teams.

A good competition task is one that is practically useful, scientifically or technically challenging, can be done without extensive application domain knowledge, and can be evaluated objectively. Of particular interests are non-traditional tasks that may need novel techniques and solutions. Please send your proposals to alexnic@gmail.com by Nov 15, 2009.

Thank you,

Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil
KDD Cup 2010 Co-chair
www.kdd.org/kdd2010/kddcup.shtml