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The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining July 23-26, 2002 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/

The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining welcomes participants during the four days between 23rd and 26th of July 2002. The Conference will take place in Edmonton few days apart from other conferences such as AAAI, ISMB and other events (see http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/Edmonton2002/).

This year the SIGKDD conference will have three parallel tracks: two tracks of research papers in addition to the industrial track, a total of 44 papers and 44 posters.

In addition, 6 workshops will be organized on July 23:

• 2nd BIOKDD: Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
• 4th WEBKDD: Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles
• 3rd MDM/KDD: Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
• MRDM Multi-Relational Data Mining
• 2nd Workshop on Temporal Data Mining
• Fractals and Self-similarity in Data Mining: Issues and Approache

• Multivariate Density Estimation and Visual Clustering David W. Scott
• Text Mining for Bioinformatics Hinrich Schuetze, Russ Altman
• Link Analysis : Current State of the Art Ronen Feldman
• Common Reasons Data Mining Projects Fail Monte F. Hancock
• Querying and Mining Data Streams: you only get one look Rajeev Rastogi, Minos Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke
• Visual Data Mining: Background, Techniques, and Drug Discovery Applications Georges Grinstein, Mihael Ankerst, Daniel A. Keim

The Early Registration Fee deadline is June 19, 2002

For more details, please check the conference web site at: http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/