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KDD Cup is the well-known data mining competition of the annual ACM SIGKDD Int. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). The KDD-09 conference will be held in Paris, France, June 28-July 1.

We invite proposals for KDD Cup 2009. Proposals should include a short paragraph on each of the following items:

• Description of the problem addressed, with general background information on the application domain.
• Description of the available data, guarantee of availability, guarantee of confidentiality of the "ground truth", and size.
• Description of the competition tasks, their scientific and technical merit and their practical significance.
• Description of the evaluation procedures and established baselines (provide a metric of significance in performance differences).
• List of the available resources (team member availability, computers, support staff, other equipment, sponsors).
• Plans of result dissemination (e.g., proceedings).
• Schedule. The competition should last between 6 and 8 weeks and the winners should be notified by mid-May. The winners will be announced in the KDD-2009 conference.
• Names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and short biographies of the organizers.
• Whether the competition is new or has been held before.
• Whether you will award prizes of any form to winning teams.

Please send your proposals to kddcup09@clopinet.com by Oct 30, 2008.

Thanks,

Isabelle Guyon and David Vogel
KDD-09 Cup Co-chairs