CFP

KDD2007 Workshop

Second Data Mining Case Studies Workshop and Practice Prize

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Case Studies and Success Stories Including the Data Mining Practice Prize

www.kdd2007.com/workshops.html#dmcs
www.dataminingcasestudies.com/

THE DATA MINING CASE STUDIES WORKSHOP

The Data Mining Case Studies Workshop was established in 2005 to showcase the very best in data mining case deployments. We also established that Data Mining Practice Prize to attract the best submissions, and to provide an incentive for commercial companies to come into the spotlight. The workshop uncovered a dozen significant deployments.

We continue Data Mining Case Studies into its second workshop, to be held at KDD2007. Data Mining Case Studies will highlight data mining implementations that have been responsible for a significant and measurable improvement in business operations, or an equally important scientific discovery, or some other benefit to humanity.

Examples of Data Mining Case Studies from previous years have included: (a) a medical application that has save hundreds of lives by mining through hundreds of thousands of patient records to identify patients who have show all the signs for heart disease, yet have not been prescribed heart medication, (b) a system which has uncovered hundreds of millions in sheltered tax evasion rings, (c) a system which has raised revenue by improved cross-selling of computer peripherals and equipment.

Data Mining Case Studies will allow papers greater latitude in (a) range of topics - authors may touch upon areas such as optimization, operations research, inventory control, and so on, (b) page length - longer submissions are allowed, (c) scope - more complete context, problem and solution descriptions will be encouraged, (d) prior publication - if the paper was published in part elsewhere, it may still be considered if the new article is substantially more detailed, (e) novelty - the use of established techniques to achieve successful implementations will be given partial allowance. Unsuccessful data mining systems that describe lessons learned and "war stories" will also be assessed.

THE DATA MINING PRACTICE PRIZE

Introduction: The Data Mining Practice Prize will be awarded for the best Data Mining Case Study submission. 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.

Award: A plaque will be awarded to the authors on the winning paper. In this first year, a private awards ceremony will be held at the conference with the winners where the checks will be presented and photos taken. Sponsors: We wish to particularly thank our Gold Sponsors, Elder Research Inc.and Microsoft Corporation, for their generous donation of prize money, incidental costs, time and support.

DATES

Notify organizers of intention to submit: Now
Draft Submission deadline including client contact information: Now
Special Extended Submission deadline including client contact information if not already provided 6/30/2007
Notification of acceptance 7/10/2007

For additional information and details see

www.kdd2007.com/workshops.html#dmcs

www.dataminingcasestudies.com/

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