The 14th ACM SIGKDD International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD-2008)
will be held in Las Vegas on August 24-27, 2008.
Data Mining in
various forms is becoming a major component of how businesses
operate. Almost every business process today involves some form of
data mining. Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain
Optimization, Demand Forecasting, Assortment Optimization, and
Business Intelligence are just some examples of business functions
that haven been impacted by data mining techniques.
Even though data
mining has become critical to businesses, most of the academic
research in data mining is conducted on mostly publicly available
data sources. This is mainly due to two reasons: 1) the
unavailability of large, new, and interesting sources of data to
academic researchers. 2) limited access to domain experts who
can provide a practical perspective on existing problems and provide
a new set of research problems. Corporations are typically wary of
releasing their internal data to academic and in most cases, there
is limited interaction between industry practitioners and academic
researchers working on related problems in similar domains.
The goals of this
workshop are:
1. Bring together
researchers (from both academia and industry) as well as
practitioners from different fields to talk about their different
perspectives and to share their latest problems and ideas.
2. Attract business
professionals who have access to interesting sources of data and
business problems but not the expertise in data mining to solve them
effectively.
We would like to
focus on the following topics in the workshop:
- fielded applications of
data mining
- new classes of research
problems motivated by real-world business problems.
- data mining
applications as components of business processes
- how to sell data mining
technology/projects inside your organization or to your
customers
- integration of data
mining technologies with other kind of technologies
- lessons learned from
practical experiences
Submissions
Submissions should be sent by May 26, 2008, in electronic form
as a PDF (or Word) file, to rayid.ghani@accenture.com..
Submitted papers
will be reviewed by referees from the Program Committee. Accepted
papers will be published in the Workshop proceedings.
Notification of acceptance and rejection will be sent by June 9,
2008.
Papers Due: May 26
Notification: June 9
Final Version Due: June 16
Workshop: August 24
Schedule
Workshop Chairs
Rayid Ghani
Accenture Technology
Labs, 161 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60601
rayid [DOT] ghani [AT] accenture [DOT] com
Carlos
Soares
LIAAD-INESC Porto LA/Faculdade de Economia Universidade do Porto
csoares [AT] fep [DOT] up [DOT] pt
Francoise Soulie Fogelman
KXEN
Francoise [DOT] SoulieFogelman [AT] kxen [DOT] com
Katharina Probst
Accenture Technology Labs
katharina [DOT] a [DOT] probst [AT] accenture [DOT] com
Patrick Gallinari
University Pierre & Marie Curie
Patrick [DOT] Gallinari [AT] lip6 [DOT] fr
Program Committee
Massih Amini, University of Paris 6
Chid Apte, IBM Research
Thierry Artières, University of Paris 6
Eric Auriol, Climpact
Bart Baesens, University Leuven
Stephen Bay, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Samy Bengio, Google
Younes Bennani, University of Paris 13
Clive Best, JRC European Commission
Leon Bottou, NEC
Paul Bradley, Apollo Data Technologies
Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto
Paula Brito, University of Porto
Doug Bryan, KXEN
Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney
André Carvalho, University of São Paulo
Rob Cooley, KXEN
Christian Derquenne, EDF
Raul Domingos, VADIS
Nick Dumas Brown, Discover
Robert Engels, ESIS
John Elder, Elder Research
Steve Gallant, KXEN
Bin Gao, Microsoft Research
Catherine Garbay, University of Grenoble
Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Brigham Young University
Fernanda Gomes, BANIF
Grégory Grefenstette, CEA
Khosrow Hassibi, KXEN
Nitin Indurkhya, University of New South Wales
Alípio Jorge, University of Porto
Arno Knobbe, Kiminkii/University of Utrecht
Guimei Liu, National University of Singapore
Dragos Margineantu, Boeing Company
Gabor Melli, PredictionWorks
Dunja Mladenic, Josef Stefan Institute
Steve Moyle, Secerno
Reza Nakhaeizadeh, University of Karlsruhe
Jakub Piskorski, JRC European Commission
Lubos Popelínský, Masaryk University
Ruy Ramos, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação
Ken Reed, Lower My Bills
Laura Squier, KXEN
Luís Torgo, University of Porto
Brigitte Trousse, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis
Peter van der Putten, Chordiant Software/Leiden University
Shengrui Wang, University of Sherbrooke
Damien Weldon, LoanPerformance
Dennis Wilkinson, HP Labs
Graham Williams, Australian Taxation Office/University of Camberra
Stefan Wrobel, Fraunhofer Institute
Liu Zehua, Circos.com
Min-Ling Zhang, Hohai University
