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KDD-2003
THE NINTH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING

August 24-27, 2003
Washington, DC, USA

http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003

IMPORTANT DATES:
Electronic abstracts due: February 21, 2003 (12 noon PST)
Electronic paper submissions due: February 28, 2003 (12 noon PST)
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 23, 2003
Camera-ready papers due: June 6, 2003

The Industrial/Government Track of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will highlight successful applications of KDD technology; explore issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of KDD applications; and promote the exchange of ideas between basic and applied data mining.

KDD-2003 is expanding the scope of the Industrial Track to include applications of KDD to government and homeland-security problems, which have recently gained importance. As such, the track will be called the KDD-2003 Industrial/Government Track. The goals of the expanded track are: (1) to provide a forum for an exchange of ideas between KDD practitioners, researchers, companies and government organizations; and (2) provide government organizations with an understanding of successful KDD applications. To achieve these goals, the Industrial/Government Track will solicit papers from practitioners and companies that have KDD products and solutions relevant to government and security applications.

The Industrial/Government Track will consist of papers in three sub-tracks: (1) deployed KDD application case studies; (2) emerging applications, technology, and issues; and (3) KDD vendor submissions. In addition, the Industrial/Government Track will present invited talks and panel discussions. Deployed KDD application case studies must describe deployed applications with measurable benefits that include some aspect of KDD technology. Emerging application, technology, and issue papers discuss prototype applications, domain/task focused tools, evaluation of tools, techniques or methods, unsuccessful attempts, system architectures that work, scalability of techniques, integration of KDD and other technologies, etc. KDD vendor submissions clearly describe KDD technology offered or embedded in commercial products (no product advertisements, please).

Abstracts must be submitted on or before February 21, 2003, at 12 noon PST (Pacific Standard Time). An abstract may not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract submitted on time. Full papers must be submitted on or before February 28, 2003, at 12 noon PST. Papers must be no more than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references and appendixes. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html . Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that their submissions display and print properly. Check the conference website (http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003/) for detailed submission instructions.

Papers should describe original work that has not been published before, is not under review elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere during KDD-2003's review period (specialized workshops with a limited audience excluded). Reviewers can assign research track submissions to the industrial/government track and vice-versa, if they feel this to be more appropriate.

Please see the full Industrial/Government Track Call for Papers at: www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003/Ind-Gov-CFP.pdf.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair:	Ted Senator (DARPA)
Program Chairs:	Pedro Domingos (Univ. Washington) Christos Faloutsos (CMU)
Industrial/Government	Paul Bradley (Microsoft Research)
Track Chairs:	Michael Pazzani (NSF)
Workshops Chair:	Charu Aggarwal (IBM Yorktown)
Tutorials Chair:	Ramakrishnan Srikant (IBM Almaden)
Panels Chair:	Steve Lawrence (Google)
Best Paper Awards Chair:	Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Labs)
Student Awards Chair:	Mark Craven (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Proceedings Chair:	Lise Getoor (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
Local Arrangements Chair:	Tim Oates (Univ. Maryland, Baltimore County)
Other Chairs:	TBA
SIGKDD Chair:	Won Kim (Cyber Database Solutions)

INDUSTRIAL/GOVERNMENT TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See the conference Web site at the URL above.