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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/).

Registration on-line at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/

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 Approach

• 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

• Daryl Pregibon
• Geoffrey Hinton

Please book your hotel room and register for ACM SIGKDD Early!

Hotels fill-up quickly, especially that 8 conferences (AAAI, ISMB, etc.) are taking place in Edmonton in the same period. Check conference web page for accommodation.