CFP

SYNOPSIS

Data Mining Case Studies, located at IEEE's Conference on Data Mining, showcases data mining success stories. The workshop will award the Data Mining Practice Prize to the best data mining implementation of the year, and bestow a variety of honors to winners and runners up including $1000 in prize money and a short article in the journal SIGKDD Explorations.

Some examples of Data Mining Case Studies include:

• a description of how Data mining techniques were able to identify a gene involved in cancer,
• Description of a system that autonomously hedges funds in on-line auctions,
• Description of a deployed Customer Relationship Management system that significantly increased the profitability of the deployment organization.

THE DATA MINING PRACTICE PRIZE

The Data Mining Practice Prize will be awarded each year to the best Data Mining Case Study paper. The prize will be awarded for work that has had a significant and quantitative impact in the application in which it was applied, or has significantly benefited humanity. Detailed rules and regulations can be found on the Data Mining Case Studies web site http://www.dataminingcasestudies.com.

DATES

Notify organizers of intention to submit Now
Draft submission (Optional - see note) September 1, 2005
Final submission October 1, 2005

Note: We recommend authors submit a draft of their paper by September 1, so that we can begin the process of validating claims. The paper will not be reviewed - only the chairs will see the paper. If you cannot provide the article by this date, you may still submit by the final submission deadline

HOST CONFERENCE

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2005) in New Orleans
http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Brendan Kitts (co-chair), iProspect
• Gabor Melli (co-chair), Simon Fraser University
• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDNuggets
• Richard Bolton, KnowledgeBase Marketing, Inc.
• Diane Lye, Amazon
• Simeon J. Simoff, University of Technology Sydney
• Karl Rexer, Rexer Analytics
• David Freed, Exa Corp.
• John Elder, Elder Research
• Kevin Hetherington, MITRE Corp.
• Parameshvyas Laxminarayan, iProspect
• Tom Osborn, Verism Inc.
• Ed Freeman, Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle
• Martin Vrieze, Harborfreight
• Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University
• Kristen Stevensen, iProspect

http://www.dataminingcasestudies.com
Email us at submissions at data mining case studies.com without the spaces.