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KDD Cup is the oldest data mining competition. It is an integral part of the annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

Information about past KDD Cups can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kddcup/index.php or http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/kddcup.html.

With this call, we invite proposals for KDD Cup 2008. In your proposal, please provide the following information:

1. Description of the data set (e.g., availability, size, etc) and its application domain.
2. Description of the competition tasks. A KDD cup competition usually consists of 2-3 tasks and each participating team can choose to compete in one or more tasks. Please give a description of each proposed task and its practical significance.
3. Evaluation measures.
4. Various deadlines. Usually the competition starts in March and ends in late June or early July. The winners will be announced at the KDD-2008 conference.
5. Names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and short bios of the organizers.
6. Whether the competition is new or has been held before.

An ideal competition task is one that is practically useful, can be done without extensive application domain knowledge, and can be evaluated objectively. Of particular interests are non-traditional tasks that may need novel solutions. Please send your proposals to kdd08chairs@gmail.com by October 30, 2007.

For your information, KDD-2008 will be held in Las Vegas from August 24-27, 2008.

Bing Liu and Sunita Sarawagi, KDD-08 Program Co-chairs
Ying Li, General Chair

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