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The Fourteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-08)

August 24 - 27, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
www.kdd.org/kdd2008/

As the premier international conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, KDD 2008 provides a forum for academic researchers, industry and government innovators to share their results and experiences. Researchers and practitioners will gather to present academic and industrial papers, panels, implemented software demos, posters, workshops, and tutorials, as well as the esteemed KDD Cup competition.

CONFERENCE VENUE

The KDD 2008 conference will take place in the Las Vegas area, at the Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort, 101 Montelago Boulevard, Henderson, Nevada, where you will enjoy the conference in a beautiful resort surrounding.

Please go to www.kdd2008.com/registration.html to register online for the conference and find hotel reservation code to enjoy group rate for hotel. The early bird conference registration deadline is July 20th and the cut-off date for conference hotel room rates is July 25, 2007. You can direct registration questions to

KDD 2008 c/o Executive Events Toll Free: 1-888-526-1242
Email: gandrew@executivevents.com

You can also find the conference organizer contact infomation at KDD08 web site: www.kdd2008.com.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Tutorials
www.kdd2008.com/tutorials.html

Tutorials are free to all registered participants. This year, the conference is please to offer the following tutorials given by leading researchers and practitioners

• J. Han, J. Lee, H. Gonzalez, X. Li, "Mining Massive RFID, Trajectory, and Traffic Data Sets"
• J. Neville, F. Provost, "Predictive Modeling with Social Networks"
• J. Pei, M. Hua, Y. Tao, X. Lin, "Mining Uncertain and Probabilistic Data: problems, Challenges, Methods, and Applications"
• H. Kriegel,P. Kroger, A. Zimek, "Detecting Clusters in Moderate-to-High Dimensional Data: Subspace Clustering, Pattern-based Clustering, and Correlation Clustering"
• H. Liu and N. Agarwal, "Blogosphere: Research Issues, Applications, and Tools"
• X. Yan & K. Borgwardt, "Graph Mining and Graph Kernels"
• R. Feldman, L. Ungar, "Applied Text Mining"

Full day workshops:

• The 2nd International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD'08)
• WEBKDD'08: 10 Years of Knowledge Discovery on the Web
• The 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD, 2008)
• The 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD'08)
• The 2nd SNA-KDD Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis
• KDD CUP

• The 2nd International Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources.
• The 2nd KDD Workshop on Large Scale Recommenders Systems and the Netflix Prize.
• Data Mining with Constraints.
• Data Mining using Matrices and Tensors.
• The 8th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD08)
• Data Mining for Business Applications.
• The 9th Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining

Based on data provided by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, this year's KDD Cup competition focuses on the early detection of breast cancer from X-ray images of the breast.

Keynotes and Conference program will be announced soon as they are finalized. Please check the KDD'08 web site for latest updates.

KDD 2008 Conference Organizers (www.kdd2008.com/organizers.html)