CFP

ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

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IEEE ICDM 2002: Call for Workshop Proposals
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As an important part of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '02), the ICDM '02 workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in data mining. It will provide a venue for several topical workshops on specific data mining research and/or application problems. ICDM '02 workshops will foster the discussion of exciting research directions and works in progress through paper presentations, round table and panel discussions, and invited talks. Suggested topics for workshops include, but are not limited to, the following:

o Data Mining for Bioinformatics/Medicine
o Second Generation Methods/Systems in Data Mining
o Data Mining in Electronic Commerce
o Data Mining for Web/Business Intelligence
o Multimedia Data Mining
o Preprocessing/Postprocessing Techniques
o Management/Refinement of Discovered Knowledge
o Performance Evaluation in Data Mining
o Security and Privacy Issues in Data Mining
o Scientific Discovery

Workshop chairs define the focus and structure of each workshop. Responsibilities include (1) writing the call for papers and publicizing it, (2) selecting the workshop organizing and program committees, (3) deciding the workshop program content, and (4) coordinating the production and distribution of the workshop notes.

Submission Instructions =======================

June 30, 2002: Workshop proposals are due.

Workshop proposals should be sent via email to the ICDM '02 Workshops Chair:

Dr. Einoshin SUZUKI Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University 79-5, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan phone & fax: +81-45-339-4148 e-mail: suzuki@dnj.ynu.ac.jp

Electronic submissions in ascii, pdf, ps, or html formats are preferred.

A workshop proposal should include the following information:

(1) Workshop title (2) Workshop organizers with full contact information (3) Description of the workshop including objectives, content, and
format of the workshop (4) List of potential attendees (5) List of potential authors of workshop contributions

July 15, 2002: Notification of workshop proposal acceptance.

Suggested Timeline for Workshop Chairs

July 26, 2002: Workshop call for papers has been sent out. September 13, 2002: Workshop paper submissions due.
October 11, 2002: Workshop paper acceptance notices.
October 25, 2002: Camera-ready version of workshop papers due.
December 9, 2002: Workshop takes place.