KDD 2012 Summer School - Call for Participation

The summer school will have presentations from leading researchers and will focus on Mining of Complex Data and Large Scale Data Mining.

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The summer school will be held Aug 10-11, 2012 at at Tsinghua University,
prior to the KDD 2012 conference (Aug 12-16, Beijing).

Registration: KDD 2012 website kdd2012.sigkdd.org/registration.shtml

Summer School Committee: Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University), Xiaoyong Du (Remin University), Hang Li (Huawei Technologies)

Program

Aug. 10, Mining of Complex Data

• Jianwei Han (2 hours): Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
• Christos Faloutsos (2 hours): Large Graph Mining - Patterns, Tools and Cascade Analysis
• Bing Liu (2 hours): Modeling Opinions and Beyond in Social Media
• Panel Discussion (1 hour)

Aug. 11, Large Scale Data Mining

• Ravi Kumar (2 hours): Two Computational Paradigms for Big Data
• Jure Leskovec (2 hours): Methods for Mining Social Media and Networks
• Haixun Wang (2 hours): Managing and Mining Billion-Node Graphs
• Panel Discussion (1 hour)

For more information, visit

kdd2012.sigkdd.org/summer_school.shtml