News

              July 23-26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002
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Submission Deadlines: Electronic Abstract Submission  -  Feb. 22, 2002
                      Electronic Paper Submission     -  Mar. 1, 2002
Submission Format   : Camera-Ready (no more than 10 pages)
                      Electronic Submission only
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In the past few years, the ACM SIGKDD conference has established itself
as one of the premier conferences on knowledge discovery and data
mining.  To continue with this tradition, the eighth ACM SIGKDD
conference will provide a forum for the academic researchers and
industry practitioners to share their research and experience. The
conference will be co-located with AAAI. It will feature keynote
presentations, plenary paper presentations, poster presentations,
tutorials, workshops, panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition.

Papers on all aspects of knowledge discovery are solicited. Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to:

Data Mining Biomedical Domains    | Novel Data Mining algorithms
Data Mining with Constraints      | Preproessing and Postprocessing
Data Mining and Data Warehousing  |  for Data Mining
Data Mining and the Internet      | Robust and Scalable Statistical
Data and Result Visualization     |  Methods
Foundations of Data Mining        | Security and Privacy Issues
Mining High Dimensional Data      | Temporal Data Mining
Interactive and Online Mining     | Text Data Mining
KDD Framework and Process         |

Both research track and industry track papers are solicited. All papers
will be judged based on their technical merits, relevance to KDD, and
presentation clarity. Because the number of submissions is expected
to be high, the conference will have two parallel tracks on research papers,
thereby increasing the number of papers to be accepted and presented
in the conference.

Important Dates:
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Deadlines are for both Research and Industrial tracks

Abstract Submission Deadline : February 22nd, 2002
Workshop/Tutorial/Panel
 Proposal Submission Deadline: February 22nd, 2002
Paper Submission Deadline    : March 1st,2002
Notification of Acceptance   : May 17th, 2002
Camera Copy Deadline         : May 31st, 2002

Organizing Committee
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Conference General Chair : Randy Goebel
Program Chairs           : David Hand,
                           Daniel Keim,
                           Raymond Ng
Industrial Session Chairs: Michael Berthold,
                           William DuMouchel
Best Paper Award Chair   : Hans-Peter Kriegel
Student Awards Chair     : Jiawei Han
Exhibits Chair           : Nick Koudas
Treasurer                : Davood Rafiei
Publicity Chair          : Osmar Zaiane
Local Arrangements Chair : Mario Nascimento
Panels Chair             : Rajeev Rastogi
Proceedings Chair        : Osmar Zaiane
Sponsorship Chair        : Charu Aggarwal,
                           Nick Cercone,
                           Mario Schkonik
Tutorials Chair          : Alexander Hinneburg
Workshops Chair          : Renee Miller
Webmaster                : Osmar Zaiane
Registration Chair       : Joerg Sander

Program Committee:
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Niall Adams          Dimitris Gunopulos  Stephen North
Jess S. Aguilar      Yike Guo            Doug Nychka
Mihael Ankerst       Monte Hancock       Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Daniel Barbara       Joann Harveyk       Daryl Pregibon
Roberto Bayardo      Howard Ho           Foster Provost
Michael Berthold     Adele Howe          Prabhakar Raghavan
Richard Bolton       William Hsu         Raghu Ramakrishnan
Paul Bradley         Alfred Inselberg    Marco Ramoni
Nick Cercone         David Jensen        Greg Ridgeway
David Cheung         Ted Johnson         Joerg Sander
Ken Church           Laveen Kanal        Bernhard Seeger
Di Cook              Jon Kleinberg       Matt Schonlau
Gutnam Das           Ronny Kohavi        Dale Schuurmans
Vasant Dhar          Flip Korn           Kyuseok Shim
Umeshwar Dayal       Vipin Kumar         Roberta Siciliano
Victor DeGruttola    Diane Lambert       Simeon J. Simoff
Chabane Djeraba      Jose Latorre        Padhraic Smyth
Maggie Dunham        Doheon Lee          Paul Stolorz
Martin Ester         Bing Liu            Sal Stolfo
Christos Faloutsos   Howard Hamilton     Hannu Toivonen
Tom Fawcett          Xiao Hui Liu        Alexander Tuzhilin
Usama Fayyad         Hongjun Lu          K.P.Unnikrishnan
Ronen Feldman        David Madigan       Ramasamy Uthurusamy
Ada Fu               Heikki Mannila      Matthew Ward
Alex Gammerman       Doug Martin         Ed Wegman
Minos Garofalakis    Stan Matwin         Xindong Wu
Johannes Gehrke      Shinichi Morishita  Xiang Yang
George Grinstein     Sally Morton        Hwan-Seung Yong
                     Rajeev Motwani      Ning Zhong

Executive Committee:
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Chair              : Won Kim
Secretary/Treasurer: Rakesh Agrawal
Board of Directors : Christos Faloutsos, Usama Fayyad, Jiawei Han,
                     Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy Uthurusamy

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts must be submitted electronically at the paper submission
web site on or before 6pm PST Feb. 22, 2002. An abstract must not
contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without
having the abstract submitted in time.

Full papers must be submitted electronically at the paper submission
web site on or before 6pm PST March 1, 2002.  Authors are required to
submit a version of their full papers in camera-ready format. As such,
the formating instructions are identical to the SIGKDD conference paper
instructions (http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/). Papers
should be no more than 10 pages, single spaced, in no smaller than 10
point font with 1 inch margins (left, right, top, bottom.)  This page
limit is inclusive of all references.  Appendices can be attached and
not counted towards the page limit. But appendices may not be read by
the referees. The program committee will strictly enforce the page
limit.

All papers must be submitted in either PDF, postscript or MS Word
format. However, PDF is the preferred submission format.
It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submitted
papers print correctly on a variety of printers. If any special fonts
are used, they must be included in the submission. Finally, all papers
must be original, and have not been submitted elsewhere.

Best Paper Awards: The KDD-2002 Best Papers Awards recognize the best
paper in two categories: fundamental research and applications/applied
research.  Fundamental research papers are judged by the significance
and originality of their contribution.  Application/applied research
papers are judged by the practical impact and current or potential
usefulness of the work.  In both categories, the clarity and quality
of presentation are also considered.