CFP

Distributed and Parallel Databases: An International Journal
Special Issue on PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING
URL: www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/DPDJ.html

GUEST EDITORS:
Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (zaki@cs.rpi.edu)
Yi Pan, Gerogia State University (pan@cs.gsu.edu)

With the unprecedented growth-rate at which data is being collected
and stored electronically today in almost all fields of human
endeavor, the efficient mining of useful information from the data
available is becoming an increasing scientific challenge and a massive
economic need.  While data mining has its roots in the traditional
fields of machine learning and statistics, the sheer volume of data
today poses the most serious problem.  This special issue on parallel
and distributed data mining methods and processes from both an
algorithmic and systems perspective.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to (see URL for more
detailed CFP):

* Efficient, scalable, disk-based, parallel and distributed algorithms
  for large-scale data mining tasks.
* New algorithms for common data mining methods such as
  association rules, sequences, classification, clustering, deviation
  detection, etc.
* Pre-processing and post-processing operations like sampling,
  feature selection, data reduction and transformation, rule
  grouping and pruning, etc.
* Incremental, exploratory and interactive mining
* Meta-mining, coping with distributed and/or heterogeneous
  datasets.
* Integration of mining with parallel/distributed databases and
  data-warehouses.
* Mining non-traditional datasets, such as large scientific
  databases.
* Frameworks for KDD systems, and parallel or distributed mining.
* Agent based approaches for PDDM.
* Applications of PDDM in business, science, engineering,
  medicine, and other disciplines.
* Theoretical foundation of PDDM.

SUBMISSION:
Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. We
encourage electronic submission of postscript files. Submissions
should be in 12pt font, 1.5 line-spacing, and should not exceed 30
pages. Authors must submit 5 hardcopies of the paper to the kluwer
office directly. The cover letter must include the title of the
special issue and the title of the journal. Send the hard copies to:

Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Journals Editorial Office,
101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park,
Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission   --- February 12th, 2001
Notification --- April 30th, 2001
Camera Ready --- June 15th, 2001