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ICDM'09: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
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Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

December 6-9, 2009
Miami, U.S.A.
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/ICDM09/

Important Dates
April 13, 2009        Deadline for workshop proposals
June 26, 2009         Deadline for paper submission,
                                   tutorial submission, and
                                   panel proposals
September 4, 2009     Notification to authors
September 28, 2009    Deadline for camera-ready copies
December 6-9, 2009    Conference

Call for Papers
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The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has
established itself as the world's premier research conference in data
mining. The 2009 edition of ICDM provides a leading forum for
presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and
dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The
conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms,
software and systems, and applications.  In addition, ICDM draws
researchers and application developers from a wide range of data
mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern
recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization,
knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting
novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to
challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously
advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical
program, the conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, and
the ICDM data mining contest.

Paper Submissions
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High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original
papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful
consideration.  Papers that have already been accepted or are
currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be
considered for ICDM'09.

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines
http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=ICDM+2008
).
All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality,
significance, and clarity. A double blind review process will be
adopted. Authors should avoid using identifying information in the
text of the paper. A Submission Form to submit your work will be
announced on the ICDM'09 website.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE
Computer Society Press and accorded oral presentation times in the main
conference. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 10
pages in the proceedings. Submissions accepted as short papers will be
allocated 6 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation
time at the conference than regular papers.

A selected number of IEEE ICDM'09 accepted papers will be invited for
possible inclusion, in expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and
Information Systems journal published by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards
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IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best application
paper, and (3) the best student paper.  Strong, foundational results
will be considered for the best research paper award and
application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best
application paper award. The best student paper award will be given to
the authors of the best paper written solely by one or more students.

Workshops and Tutorials
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ICDM'09 will host short and long tutorials as well as workshops that
focus on new research directions and initiatives. All accepted
workshop papers will be included in a separate workshop proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

ICDM Data Mining Contest
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ICDM'09 will host a data mining contest to challenge researchers and
practitioners with a real practical data mining problem. For further
details on proposals and expression of interest, please see the Call
for Data Mining Contest Proposals.

Topics of Interest
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* Data mining foundations
  - Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as
    classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling,
    pattern discovery, and association analysis)
  - Models and algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as
    arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific
    domains
  - Developing a unifying theory of data mining
  - Mining sequences and sequential data
  - Mining spatial and temporal datasets
  - Mining textual and unstructured datasets
  - Distributed data mining
  - High performance implementations of data mining algorithms
  - Privacy and anonymity-preserving data analysis
* Mining in emerging domains
  - Stream data mining
  - Mining moving object data, RFID data, and data from sensor networks
  - Ubiquitous knowledge discovery
  - Mining multi-agent data
  - Mining and link analysis in networked settings: web, social and
    computer networks, and online communities
  - Mining the semantic web
  - Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation,
    sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks
* Methodological aspects and the KDD process
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature
    transformation
  - Quality assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing
  - Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining
  - Handling imbalanced data
  - Automating the mining process and other process related issues
  - Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models
  - Human-machine interaction and visual data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
  - Data mining query languages
  - Security and data integrity
* Integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences
  - Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, ecoinformatics
  - Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets
  - Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance
  - Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research
  - Customer relationship management
  - Telecommunications, network and systems management
  - Sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation systems

Organizing Committee
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Conference Co-Chairs:
  Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida
  Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago

Program Co-Chairs:
  Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  Wei Wang, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Steering Committee:
  Xindong Wu (Chair), University of Vermont, USA
  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
  David J. Hand, Imperial College, London, UK
  Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
  Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets, USA
  Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
  Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Local Arrangements Chair:
  Tao Li, Florida International University

Finance Chair:
  Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University

Awards Committee:
  Jiawei Han (Chair), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Wei Fan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  Minos N. Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA
  Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Panels Chair:
  Haym Hirsh, NSF and Rutgers

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University
  Jeffrey Xu Yu, CUHK

Tutorials Chair:
  Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute

ICDM Data Mining Contest Chair:
  Qiang Yang, HKUST

Sponsorship Chair:
  To be announced

Publicity Co-Chairs:
  Ina Lauth, Fraunhofer IAIS (Europe)
  Kun Liu, IBM Almaden Research Center (North America)

Exhibit and Demo Chairs
  To be announced

Further Information
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