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SIGKDD -- WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS/PANELS CALL FOR PROPOSALS -- DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 22, 2002

The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining July 23-26, 2002 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Call for Workshop, Tutorial, and Panel Proposals

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.

The organizing committee is soliciting proposals for Workshops, Tutorials and Panels related to KDD. (details below) More details can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/

Workshops Chair: Renee Miller University of Toronto, Canada (miller@cs.toronto.edu)

The KDD-2002 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to discuss novel research ideas on focused technical topics in an informal setting. Researchers and practitioners from all segments of the data-mining community are invited to submit proposals for review. The organizers of approved workshops are expected to define the workshop's focus, gather and review submissions, and decide upon final program content. They may elect to form organizing or program committees for assistance in these tasks.

PROPOSAL DETAILS Proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, and must include the following information:

1.Description of the research issues that will be the focus of the workshop. 2.Reasons why the topic is of interest. 3.Contact information (address, email, phone) for all organizers, and a designated primary contact. 4.List of potential reviewers, authors, and attendees (if possible).

Proposers are encouraged to have their drafts reviewed by potential workshop participants before submission.

IMPORTANT DATES February 22, 2002 --- Workshop proposals due March 25, 2002 --- Notification of proposal acceptance July 23, 2002 --- KDD-2002 workshops held

Workshop proposals should be sent by e-mail to the Workshops Chair, Renée J. Miller (miller@cs.toronto.edu), by the submission deadline of February 22, 2002. PDF format is highly preferred.

Tutorials Chair: Alexander Hinneburg University of Halle, Germany (hinneburg@informatik.uni-halle.de)

Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Tutorials Chair. Proposals may take the form of plain text, Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, or some combination of these. Contact the Tutorials Chair if you wish to provide non-electronic supporting materials along with your proposal.

PROPOSAL DETAILS Tutorial proposals should address the following issues:

Basic information: Title, brief description, names and contact information for each tutor. Audience: What is the intended audience for the tutorial, e.g., novice users of statistical techniques, expert researchers in text mining, or database administrators. Interest: Why is this topic important/interesting to the KDD community? Provide some informal evidence that people would attend. Evidence might include related workshops, conference sessions, papers, communities, etc. Coverage: How deep/broad is the proposed tutorial? How valuable would the tutorial be with the given scope? Background: What background will be required of the audience?

Enough materials should be included in the proposal to provide a sense of the scope and depth of the tutorial. The more details that can be provided, the better; up to and including actual overhead slides.

For optimal preparation of the conference please indicate if you like to use non-standard or additional supplementary equipment. The standard equipment includes a LCD projector, an overhead projector, a single projection screen and cordless microphones.

The proposal should also include some biographical information on each tutor (including WWW address, if applicable). This information should describe the qualifications of each presenter with respect to the tutorial's topic. On the other hand, the tutors should not focus mainly on their own research results. A KDD tutorial is NOT a forum for promoting one's research or product. If, for certain parts of the tutorial, the material comes directly from the tutors' own research or product, please indicate this in the proposal.

IMPORTANT DATES February 22, 2002 --- Tutorial proposals due March 25, 2002 --- Notification of proposal acceptance May 30, 2002 --- Camera ready copy of tutorial notes July 23, 2002 --- KDD-2002 tutorials held

For further information, please contact Alexander Hinneburg (hinneburg@informatik.uni-halle.de).

Panels Chair: Rajeev Rastogi Bell Labs, USA (rastogi@research.bell-labs.com)

The Eighth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2002) is the premiere event for the data mining community, expected to bring together leading researchers from academia and industry. Among other activities, the conference program includes panels, and the program committee invites submission of proposals for them.

Panel proposals are expected to address new, exciting, and controversial issues. They should include:

1.Summary of the topics to be covered. 2.Name, affiliation and contact information for the panel chair. 3.Names and affiliations of up to four panelists (in addition to the panel chair) who have made a commitment to participate. 4.Short summary of their position statements. 5.Brief biography of each participant.

A mix of industry and academic panel members is encouraged.

Panel proposals should be submitted electronically in ASCII format to the Panels Chair, Rajeev Rastogi (rastogi@research.bell-labs.com).

IMPORTANT DATES February 22, 2002 --- Panel proposals due March 25, 2002 --- Notification of proposal acceptance