CFP

CFP of AM-2002: Call For Paper of INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ACTIVE MINING (AM-2002) IN ICDM2002: THE 2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan Workshop URL of ICDM2002: http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/tylin/icdm02_workshop.html (Main URL of ICDM2002: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02/)

Active mining is a new direction in the knowledge discovery process for real- world applications handling various kinds of data with actual user need.

Our ability to collect data, be it in business, government, science, and perhaps personal, has been increasing at a dramatic rate. However, our ability to analyze and understand massive data lags far behind our ability to collect them. The value of data is no longer in "how much of it we have". Rather, the value is in how quickly and how effectively can the data be reduced, explored, manipulated and managed.

Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (KDD) is an emerging technique that extracts implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information (or patters) from data. Recent advancement made through extensive studies and real world applications reveals that no matter how powerful computers are now or will be in the future, KDD researchers and practitioners must consider how to manage ever-growing data which is, ironically, due to the extensive use of computers and ease of data collection, ever-increasing forms of data which different applications require us to handle, and ever-changing requirements for new data and mining target as new evidences are collected and new findings are made. In short, the need is ever increasing in this era of information overload for 1) identifying and collecting the relevant data from a huge information search space, 2) mining useful knowledge from different forms of massive data efficiently and effectively, and 3) promptly reacting to situation changes and giving necessary feedback to both data collection and mining steps.

Active mining is a collection of activities each solving a part of the above need, but collectively achieves the various mining need. By "collectively achieving" we mean that the total effect outperforms the simple add-sum effect that each individual effort can bring. Said differently, a spiral effect of these interleaving three steps is the target to be pursued. To achieve this goal the initial action is to explore mechanisms of 1) active information collection where necessary information is effectively searched and preprocessed, 2) user-centered active mining where various forms of information sources are effectively mined, and 3) active user reaction where the mined knowledge is easily assessed and prompt feedback is made possible.

The objectives of this workshop is to gather researchers as well as practitioners who are working on various research fields of active mining, share hard-learned experiences, and shed light on future development of active mining. This workshop will address many aspects of active mining ranging from theories, methodologies, algorithms, to their applications. Through this workshop, we hope to produce a contemporary overview of modern solutions and to create synergy among different branches but with a similar goal - facilitating data collection, processing and knowledge discovery via active mining.

The workshop will consist of the three invited talks by

Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), Luc de Raedt (University of Freiburg, Germany), Stefan Wrobel (University of Magdeburg, Germany),

and presentation of contributed papers and posters.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline of Paper Submission : September, 30, 2002 Notification of Review Result: October, 15, 2002 Deadline of Camera Ready Copy; November, 4, 2002 Workshop Date : December, 9, 2002

PAPER SUBMISSION

The paper for the review must follow the standard IEEE-Computer Society Format (URL: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). The length of the paper must be within 6 pages. The paper exceeding this length will not be reviewed. The paper prepared for the review in PDF format must be attached to a mail, and sent to the following address. Address for Paper Submission: papersubmit@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chair : Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan) Program Committee Chair: Takashi Washio (Osaka University, Japan)

CONTACT PERSON

Prof. Takashi Washio (Program Committee Chair) Division of Intelligent Systems Science, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan Phone: +81-6-6879-8541 Fax: +81-6-6879-8544 E-mail: washio@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp