Features

The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Las Vegas, August 24-27, 2008
www.kdd2008.com

**** Early registration deadline: July 20, 2008 ****
http://kdd2008.com/registration.html

The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-08 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition.

3 Invited talks

• Trevor Hastie (Stanford University), "Regularization Paths and Coordinate Descent"
• Michael Schwarz (Yahoo! Research), "Internet Advertising and Optimal Auction Design"
• Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley), "The Future of Image Search"

• Chair: Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research
• Panelists: Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University); David Jensen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Jure Leskovec (Carnegie Mellon University); Gueorgi Kossinets (Cornell University)

• 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, N. Agarwal, "Blogosphere: Research Issues, Applications, and Tools"
• X. Yan, K. Borgwardt, "Graph Mining and Graph Kernels"
• R. Feldman, L. Ungar, "Applied Text Mining"

• The 2nd International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD'08)
• The 9th Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
• 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

• 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
• KDD Cup and Workshop on Mining Medical Data

The KDD08 Organizing Committee