IEEE ICDM08 Data Mining Contest: monitoring the nuclear-test-ban treaty (KDnuggets News 08:18, item 5, Features)

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From: Maurizio Atzori
Date: 16 Sep 2008
Subject: IEEE ICDM08 Data Mining Contest: monitoring the nuclear-test-ban treaty

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
ICDM 2008 Data Mining Contest:
Radioxenon monitoring for verification of the Comprehensive nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ADA/icdm08cup/

The IEEE ICDM 2008 Data Mining Contest is, simply put, about keeping the world safe using data mining. This contest is about developing and testing data mining techniques to verify worldwide compliance of the global ban on nuclear tests. Such tests can be detected by measuring the amount of special xenon isotopes. Obviously, it's not just that simple; these isotopes are also emitted during various legal activities.

Organizers:

Kurt Ungar, Trevor Stocki and Jing Yi - Health Canada
Nathalie Japkowicz - University of Ottawa
Arno Siebes - Universiteit Utrecht

Timeline for the Contest:
1) September 12, 2008: Release of the Training Data and Test Data sets
and the Software tools that will be used to evaluate the results.
2) October 22, 2008: Results from the labelled set are due.
3) November 8, 2008: Results obtained on the unlabeled data set are due
4) December 15-19: Results of the competition are announced at the conference.

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