CALL FOR PAPERS

KDD 2008 Workshop on
Data Mining for Business Applications

August 24, 2008
Philadelphia, PA

http://labs.accenture.com/kdd2008_workshop/

Organizers:
Carlos Soares, LIAAD-INESC Porto LA/Faculdade de Economia Universidade do Porto
Rayid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs
Francoise Soulie Fogelman, kxen
Katharina Probst, Accenture Technology Labs
Patrick Gallinari, University Pierre & Marie Curie

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 business applications of data mining
    • new classes of research problems motivated by real-world business problems.
    • data mining applications as components of business processes
    • lessons learned from practical experiences

Participation and Submissions:

We encourage both research and application papers. The main goal of the workshop is to bring people from different backgrounds together and have interactive discussions during the workshop. To facilitate that goal, we welcome short papers (up to 4 pages) describing new research with business applications, new and interesting business problem descriptions, preliminary work, and position papers. Submissions can be postscript, pdf or word documents sent to Rayid.Ghani@accenture.com

Submission Deadline: May 26, 2008