CFP

First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
  April 5-7, 2001, Midland Hotel, Chicago, USA
http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm01/

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts Submission: October 20, 2000 (ONE MONTH AWAY!!!)
Full Paper Submission: October 27, 2000
Author Notification: January 15, 2001
Final Version of Papers Due: February 5, 2001

Advances in information technology and data collection methods have
led to the availability of large data sets in commercial enterprises
and in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines.
Examples of such large data sets in the scientific domain are genomic
data (Biology), climate data (Earth Sciences), sky survey data
(Astronomy), and computational simulations that run on high
performance computers. In the commercial domain, the use of bar codes
in commercial outlets, the computerization of business transactions,
and the  explosion of e-businesses are also providing a flood of data.

We have an unprecedented opportunity to analyze this data and extract
intelligent and useful information. The field of data mining draws
upon extensive work in areas such as statistics, machine learning,
pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing to
discover interesting and previously unknown information in data sets.

This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent
results in data mining, including applications, algorithms, software,
and systems. The conference will feature peer reviewed, contributed
papers as well as invited talks, tutorials and workshops. Proceedings of the
conference will be available on CD-ROM as well as online.

Several workshops will be held on Saturday, April 7 on topics of
current interest.  These workshops will allow the presentation and
discussion of recent results.  The workshops planned include:
  - Mining Scientific Data Sets
  - Data Mining for Genomic Data
  - Web Mining

See the conference webpage for topics of interest, submission
procedures, and other relevant details.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Robert Grossman, Magnify, Inc. and Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Vipin Kumar, AHPCRC - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA