The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) to be held at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Melbourne, Florida, USA November 19 - 22, 2003, invites you to attend.
* On-line registration (and other information) is available at http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Register by October 17 to get the early-bird rate!
* Registration includes a half-day tour of the NASA Kennedy Space Center!
* Be sure to book hotel rooms by October 31 at 5pm for discounted rates (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm/hotel-03.shtml)
ICDM received a total of 501 paper submissions this year, from which 58 regular papers, 61 short papers, and 9 industry-track papers were selected for presentation.
Conference highlights include the following.
* Five Invited Speakers:
- Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University, USA. "Sequential Supervised Learning: General Methods for Sequence Labeling and Segmentation" - Usama M. Fayyad, DMX Group, LLC, USA. "Grand Challenges on the Road to Practical Data Mining Systems" - Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland. "Global Structure from Sequences" - Gene W. Myers, University of California, Berkeley, USA. "Pattern Discovery for Genomics" - Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA. "Real-Time Monitoring and Surveillance using Data Stream Mining"
* Four Tutorials:
November 19, Morning
- Chris Ding, "Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Methods" - Ronen Feldman, "Information Extraction: Theory and Practice"
November 19, Afternoon
- Alexander Hinneburg and Daniel Keim, "Advances in Clustering and Applications" - Aleksandar Lazarevic, Jaideep Srivastava, and Vipin Kumar, "Data Mining for Security Applications"
* Six Full-Day Workshops (November 19):
- Clustering Large Data Sets - Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC '03) - Foundations and New Directions in Data Mining - Frequent Itemset Mining Implementations (FIMI '03) - Privacy Preserving Data Mining (PPDM) - VDM@ICDM2003: The 3rd International Workshop on Visual Data Mining
* One Panel:
"Security and Data Mining: Funding Priorities and Opportunities" Panel Chair: Michael J. Pazzani, National Science Foundation, USA.
* 128 Technical Paper Presentations (November 20 - 22, 2003):
There are sessions on Association Analysis, Bayesian Networks, Clustering, Databases and Datamining, Feature Selection, Mining Sequential and Hierarchical Data, Mining User Behavior, Spatial and Temporal Tasks, Support Vector Machines, Nearest-Neighbor Methods, Privacy-Preserving Datamining, Linkage-based Methods, Rule-Based Methods, Text Mining, Visualization, Image Processing, Issues in Supervised Learning, and Applications.
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