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From: Osmar Zaiane
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:10:25 -0700 (MST)
Subject: WEBKDD at ACM SIGKDD 2002, deadline May 20, 2002

Fourth WEBKDD Workshop: Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles In conjunction with

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

http://db.cs.ualberta.ca/webkdd02/

Important Dates
Abstracts due: Monday May 20th.
Papers due   : Friday May 24th.
Notification : Friday June 18th.
Camera Ready : Friday June 25th
Workshop date: Tuesday July 23rd

WEBKDD'02 is the 4th of a successful series of workshops on knowledge discovery in the Web. The Web presents a key driving force for a large spectrum of applications, in which a user interacts with a company, a governmental authority, a non-governmental organization or other non-profit institution. User preferences and expectations together with usage patterns form the basis for personalized, user-friendly and business-optimal services. Enabling technologies include data mining, document classification, user modelling and quality evaluation models for them. Recipient technologies that demand for user profiling and usage patterns include recommendation systems, application servers coupled with content management systems and fraud detectors.

The WEBKDD'02 workshop aims at bringing together practitioners on web-commerce, portals and ASPs, decision-makers in non-commercial institutions that exploit web technologies to optimize their services, technology providers and data mining researchers to foster the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of emerging solutions on user and usage modelling for web-based applications.

Topics of interest:

WEBKDD'02 calls for contributions related to data mining of log data, site information, document contents, user records and preferences, for the exploitation of the mining results in user profiling and usage modelling. These include the following subjects:

Enabling technologies

Data warehousing (both web and non-web data)
Data collection including event streams, such as clickstreams
and call center streams, and transactional data
Techniques for web data preparation, including cleansing,
transformation, and sampling
Classification of web page texts and multimedia content

Modelling users and usage

Profile establishment upon declared and derived preferences
Deriving profiles from usage
Discovering misuse and fraud
Recommendation systems
Student profiles in e-learning
Alert systems
Permission marketing

Applications for web-usage mining in

Recommendation systems, such as travel assistants
E-learning, such as collectors of personalized teaching materials
Alert systems, such as personalized delivery of news and journals
discovering misuse and fraud, such as credit-card fraud and network intrusion

Publication of the workshop proceedings:

The workshop notes will be published by ACM and distributed during the workshop.

The full version of the accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag, pending approval, after a second round of reviews. Springer has published the proceedings of 1999 and 2001.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Brij Masand (Data Miners Inc., USA)
Myra Spiliopoulou (Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany)
Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota, USA)
Osmar R. Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada)

For inquiry, send e-mail to webkdd02@cs.ualberta.ca

Paper Submission:

For Paper Submissions, check http://db.cs.ualberta.ca/webkdd02/

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