C A L L F O R P A P E R S =============================== The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining DMIN'08 Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/book. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: + Data Mining Tasks - Regression/Classification - Time series forecasting - Segmentation/Clustering/Association - Deviation and outlier detection - Explorative and visual data mining - Web mining - Mining text and semi-structured data - Temporal and spatial data mining - Multimedia mining (audio/video) - Others + Data Mining Algorithms - Artificial neural networks - Fuzzy logic and rough sets - Decision trees/rule learners - Support vector machines - Evolutionary computation/meta heuristics - Statistical methods - Collaborative filtering - Case based reasoning - Link and sequence analysis - Ensembles/committee approaches - Others + Data Mining Integration - Mining large scale data - Distributed and grid based data mining - Data and knowledge representation - Data warehousing and OLAP integration - Integration of prior/domain knowledge - Metadata and ontologies - Agent technologies for data mining - Legal and social aspects of data mining - Others + Data Mining Process - Data cleaning and preparation - Feature selection and transformation - Attribute discretisation and encoding - Sampling and rebalancing - Missing value imputation - Model selection/assessment and comparison - Induction principles - Model interpretation - Others + Data Mining Applications - Bioinformatics/Medicine - Business/Industrial - Engineering - Military/Security - Social science - Others + Data Mining Software We particularly encourage submissions of industrial applications and case studies from practitioners. These will not be evaluated using solely theoretical research criteria, but will take general interest and presentation stringer into consideration. + Alternative and additional examples of possible topics include: Data Mining for Business Intelligence; Emerging technologies in data mining; Computational performance issues in data mining; Data mining in usability; Advanced prediction modelling using data mining; Data mining and national security; Data mining tools; Data analysis; Data preparation techniques (selection, transformation, and preprocessing); Information extraction methodologies; Clustering algorithms used in data mining; Genetic algorithms and categorization techniques used in data mining; Data and information integration; Microarray design and analysis; Privacy-preserving data mining; Active data mining; Statistical methods used in data mining; Multidimensional data; Automatic data cleaning; Data visualization; Theory and practice (knowledge representation and discovery); Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD); Uncertainty management; Data reduction methods; Data engineering; Content mining; Indexing schemes; Information retrieval; Metadata use and management; Multidimensional query languages and query; Multimedia information systems; Search engine query processing; Pattern mining; Applications (examples: data mining in education, marketing, finance and financial services, business applications, medicine, bioinformatics, biological sciences, science and technology, industry and government, ...). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper in PDF format (about 5 to 7 pages, standard double column IEEE style, single spaced, 10 pt font size, margins left/right/bottom/top 0.75" (19 mm), first page top margin 1" (25 mm), via the DMIN'08 online paper submission system by Feb. 25, 2008. The link to the online submission system will be available on the DMIN'08 website (www.dmin-2008.com). The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each author as well as the name of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, DMIN'08). The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. To reflect upon feedback from last year we will extend the constructive feedback given within the review in aligning them with the IEEE guidelines for IJCNN and WCCI. In particular, we aim at a fair, objective and transparent review process. Therefore, we are publishing the review criteria to further support the reviews provided (see www.dmin-2008.com). Papers will be evaluated for relevance to DMIN, originality, significance, information content, clarity, and soundness on an international level. Each aspect will be evaluated on a scale of 1 (bad - reject) to 10 (excellent - accept) or 10%-100%. Papers need to achieve at least 50% overall score to be accepted without mandatory revisions. Each paper will be refereed by at least two researchers in the topical area, and all reviews are being considered for the acceptance/rejection decision. Each reviewer can indicate their expertise and therefore their relative confidence in a particular recommendation. The camera-ready papers will be reviewed by one person. We particularly encourage submissions of industrial applications and case studies from practitioners. To reflect the requirements of an application or project centric case study presentation, these will be subject to different review criteria. In particular, they will not be evaluated using predominantly theoretical research criteria of originality etc., but will take general interest and presentation stronger into consideration. The camera-ready papers will be reviewed by one person. CONFERENCE SPONSORS: Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors: --> Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/ --> Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/ --> Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA http://www.msi.umn.edu/ --> Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA http://bioinformatics.bioen.uiuc.edu/ --> BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://www.bio-miblab.org/ --> Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/ --> Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and MIT, USA http://bcl.med.harvard.edu/ --> Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/ --> Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA --> Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/ --> Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, Iowa, USA http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/ --> The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA http://www.und.edu --> International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine http://www.isibm.org/ --> Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. --> Telecommunications Task Force of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) http://wmn.csie.ntpu.edu.tw/isatc/ Corporate Co-Sponsors: --> Google, Inc. http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html --> NIIT Technologies http://www.niit-tech.com/ Other Co-Sponsors: --> High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano) http://www.hpcnano.org --> International Technology Institute (ITI) http://www.itiworld.org/ --> GridToday http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html --> HPCwire http://www.hpcwire.com/ --> Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: The program committee includes members of the chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) The names of the members of the program committee will soon be posted on the web site. Those interested in joining the program committee should email Sven F. Crone ([log in to unmask]) and Robert Stahlbock ([log in to unmask]) the following information: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests. For the list of the members of program committee of DMIN'07, refer to: http://www.dmin-2007.com/programme_committe.htm Many members of the program committee include renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts. IMPORTANT DATES: January 31, 2008: Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops Feb. 25, 2008: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) March 25, 2008: Notification of acceptance April 25, 2008: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due July 14-17, 2008: The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08) URL WORLDCOMP: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org URL DMIN'08: http://www.dmin-2008.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping