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SIGKDD Explorations: Special Issue on
Online, Interactive, Anytime Data Mining

Guest Editor: Mohammed J. Zaki

SIGKDD Explorations is the official newsletter of ACM's Special
Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. This
special issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) will focus on the topic of Online,
Interactive, Anytime Data Mining.

Discovering interesting nuggets in large databases can be very compute
and I/O intensive.  This high computational cost may be acceptable
when the database is static since the discovery is done off-line, and
several approaches to this problem have been presented in the
literature.  However, many domains with streaming data, such as
electronic commerce, web mining, stock analysis, intrusion detection,
fault monitoring, etc., impose time and memory constraints on the
mining process.  In such domains, where the databases are updated
continuously and user interactions modify the search parameters,
running the discovery program from scratch is unfeasible, and having
the user wait inordinately long is unacceptable. Hence, there is a
need for techniques that can effectively mine or handle:
    i) streaming data (online updations/deletions),
    ii) user interactions (modifying/constraining the search space),
    iii) anytime response (partial/approximate results).

We invite high quality submissions on any of the above topics for this
special issue.  Submissions should be made to the guest editor at
zaki@cs.rpi.edu. Submissions will be reviewed by the guest editor,
external reviewers and/or associate editors as appropriate.

The previous issues of the SIGKDD Explorations are available online at
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm. SIGKDD Explorations
newsletter is sent to the ACM SIGKDD membership and to a world-wide
network of libraries.

Submissions can be made in any one of the following categories.
    - survey/tutorial articles (short) on important topics not
      exceeding 20 pages
    - topical articles on problems and challenges
    - well-articulated position papers
    - technical articles not exceeding 15 pages.
    - news items on the order of 1-3 paragraphs
    - Brief announcements not exceeding 5 lines in length.
    - review articles of products and methodologies not exceeding 20
      pages
    - reviews/summaries from conferences, panels and special meetings.
    - reports on relevant meetings and committees related to the field

Important Dates:
Submission   --- December 7th, 2001
Notification --- January 4th, 2002
Camera Ready --- January 11th, 2002

Some words about the SIGKDD newsletter:
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SIGKDD Explorations is a bi-annual newsletter dedicated to serve the
SIGKDD membership and community. Our goal is to make SIGKDD
Explorations a very informative, rapid publication, and interesting
forum for communicating with SIGKDD community.

For more information on SIGKDD visit http://www.acm.org/sigkdd and for
more information on the SIGKDD Explorations newsletter, please visit
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm

Mohammed Zaki, Guest Editor
zaki@cs.rpi.edu

Usama Fayyad, Editor-in-Chief
fayyad@acm.org

Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Editor
sunita@it.iitb.ac.in

Paul Bradley, Associate Editor
paulb@digiMine.com