CFP

First Call for Papers
DATA MINING 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 1 � 3 December 2003

Full details available on the conference website: www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2003/datamining03/

Data Mining 2003 is the fourth international conference in this successful series, which this year, will focus on building applications for CRM and competitive intelligence. The meeting provides an international forum for researchers and application developers from many different areas, to share state-of-the-art results and practical development experiences.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Researchers, application developers and practitioners from different areas, such as, computer experts, statisticians, knowledge acquisition specialists, data analysts, IT consultants, data visualisation experts, and users and developers in business and industry.

• Keep up-to-date on the latest advances in the field.
• Present your research within a unique forum.
• Collaborate with experts from around the world.
• Immediate publication of your research, if your paper is accepted. The conference book is distributed at the time of Registration.
• Your research work will be publicised internationally.
• Your Paper will be permanently archived in the WIT Press e-Library.

Papers are invited on the topics outlined and others falling within the scope of the meeting. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to the Conference Secretariat as soon as possible. We strongly encourage the submission of abstracts electronically either via email or through our website.

Email: gmckeogh@wessex.ac.uk Web: www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2003/datamining03/

Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted, must be presented at the conference. Each submitted paper is subject to a separate registration.

The language of the conference will be English.

TOPICS
Algorithms and Methods:

• Data and Text Mining
• Data Preparation
• Feature Extraction
• Clustering
• Categorization
• Post-Processing and Knowledge Evaluation
• Mining Spatial and Temporal data
• Visual Data Mining and Visualizing Appeal
• Data Warehousing and OLAP
• Parallel, Distributed and Agent Techniques
• Mining of Data Streams
• Scalable Algorithms and High Performance Platforms

• CRM
• Competitive Intelligence
• Knowledge Management
• Human Resources
• Multimedia Mining
• User Interface for Data Mining
• Risk Analysis
• Genomics and Bioinformatics
• E-Commerce and Web Data
• Financial Data Analysis
• Medical and Health Industry
• Novel Applications
• Benchmarks
• Case Studies

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE These will be confirmed shortly

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Gaye McKeogh, Conference Manager, Data Mining 2003 WESSEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK. Telephone: 44 (0) 238 029 3223 Fax: 44 (0) 238 029 2853 Email: gmckeogh@wessex.ac.uk Website: www.wessex.ac.uk