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 IEEE Data Mining 2003: Call for Participation
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 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 at 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.