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The 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2010) will be held on July 25-28, 2010 in Crystal City, Washington, DC. The conference will include two refereed paper tracks: the Research track, and the Industry/Government track.

In addition, the conference will include workshops, tutorials, panels, posters, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup data mining competition. The latest information will always be available at the KDD website:

http://www.kdd2010.com.

Important Dates (Research and I/G tracks):

• Abstract Submission: February 2, 2010
• Electronic Paper Submission: February 5, 2010
• Notification: April 30, 2010
• Conference Dates: July 25-28, 2010

ACM KDD 2010: Industry/Government Track Call for Papers

ACM KDD 2010: Call for Papers Industrial/Government Applications Track The Industrial/Government Applications Track of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'10) will highlight successful uses of KDD technology, including deployed applications incorporating KDD technologies and discoveries of valid, novel, understandable, and demonstrably useful patterns from large datasets in industry and government. It will also include papers that address challenges, lessons, concerns, and research issues arising out of attempts - both successful and unsuccessful - to deploy KDD technology for the solution of actual industry and government problems. The KDD'10 Industrial/Government Applications (I/G) Track seeks to:

• provide a forum for exchanging ideas between KDD practitioners, researchers, companies, and government organizations;
• help industrial and government organizations highlight successful KDD applications;
• raise interesting (research) challenges and other concerns more specific to industry and government -- customer privacy issues, analysis of data not generally available in academia, issues of scale that arise more heavily in a corporate setting, etc. The I/G Applications Track solicits papers describing implementations of KDD solutions relevant to industrial or government settings. The primary emphasis is on papers that advance the understanding of practical, applied, or pragmatic issues related to the use of KDD technologies in industry and government and highlight new research challenges arising from attempts to create such real KDD applications. Applications can be in any field including, but not limited to: e-commerce, medical and pharmaceutical, defense, public policy, engineering, manufacturing, telecommunications, and government. The I/G Applications Track will consist of competitively-selected contributed papers - presented in oral and/or poster form - as well as invited talks. We envision submissions in three sub-areas. Submitters should identify in which of these sub-areas their paper should be evaluated.
• Deployed KDD case studies
• Discoveries of knowledge with demonstrable value to industry or government
• Emerging applications and technology, including challenges and issues arising from attempts to deploy KDD technology to solve specific industry or government problems

Papers that describe discoveries of knowledge must clearly state what data sources and background knowledge were used, what data mining algorithms were tried, what overall KDD process was used, what the new discovered knowledge is, how the new knowledge was validated, and what the value to the industry or government is of such newly discovered knowledge.

Emerging application and technology papers discuss prototype applications, tools for focused domains or tasks, useful techniques or methods, useful system architectures, scalability enablers, tool evaluations, or integration of KDD with other technologies. Such papers must clearly explain the requirements arising from the particular industry or government setting for which the application is being developed and from the particular databases on which the application is based. These papers must also identify how the emerging solution is using KDD technologies to address these requirements, the deployment plan, and the evaluation methodology and metrics for the emerging application. Pragmatic issues and considerations include important practical and research considerations, approaches, and architectures that enable successful applications. This category may include comparative evaluations of different KDD technologies for particular application problems. Preferences will be given to papers whose insights may generalize to other domains or problems. Product advertisements will not be accepted.

A new feature of this year's I/G track is the inclusion of a video forum, in which the accepted authors can optionally include a video demonstration of their system. These videos will be posted online for effective dissemination of the result. Authors of the I/G track can optionally submit their videos at the time of paper submission as well. Accepted papers can revise and improve their submitted videos later.