[ecoop-info] DMIN'07 - International Conference on Data Mining - CfP

[Data Mining 2007]

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       The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining
                    http://www.dmin-2007.com
                             DMIN'07
         One of 24 conferences at the 2007 WORLDCOMP 
World Congress in Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Computing
          Monte Carlo Resort, L.a.s V.e.g.a.s, Nevada, USA
                       June 25-28, 2007
          http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07
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Dear Researchers & Practitioners!

You are invited to participate in the 2007 International Conference on Data Mining!

DMIN'07 is an international conference held simultaneously with 23 other joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'07, The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.

The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter- disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Each of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP'07 is a premier conference for presenting advances in their respective fields (for the complete list of joint conferences please see www.dmin-2007.com). The last Joint Conferences (WORLDCOMP'06) attracted over 1,500 researchers and practitioners from 78 countries. It is anticipated that The WORLDCOMP'07 will attract about 2000 participants. The WORLDCOMP'07 is composed of 24 (planned) major conferences - attendees will have full access to all 24 conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials (planned). Each event is the premier conference for presentation of advances in their respective subjects. All conferences will be held simultaneously (same location and dates: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA).

You are invited to submit a draft paper via our website www.dmin-2007.com. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The names of technical session/workshop organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the proceedings/books as Associate Editors.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
Data Mining Applications
- Bioinformatics/Medicine
- Business/Industrial
- Engineering
- Military/Security
- Social science
- Data mining software
- Others
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

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 stronger into consideration.
 
DRAFT PAPER
We welcome all contributions through theoretical research papers and industrial reports and case studies on applications in form of regular research papers of 7 pages IEEE style. In addition, we welcome student research proposals as short papers of 4 pages plus plenary presentations to receive guidance from established experts, online demonstrations of prototype software systems of 1 page and presentation in informal poster sessions. Accepted submissions include:
- regular research papers (max. 7 pages IEEE style, formal presentation)
- regular industry & application reports (max. 7 pages IEEE style, formal presentation)
- short research papers (max. 4 pages IEEE style, poster presentation)
- short industry & application reports (max. 4 pages IEEE style, poster presentation)
- student research proposals (max. 4 pages IEEE style, formal presentation)
- posters (max. 1 page IEEE style, poster presentation)
 
Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (between 1 to 7 pages, standard 2 column IEEE style) via our online submission system by Feb. 20, 2007. Online submissions of PDF-files via the conference management system are encouraged. For all other forms of submission please contact the conference organisers. 

CAMERA READY PAPERS
The length of the accepted camera ready papers will be limited to 7 IEEE style pages. Standard IEEE templates & typing instructions, copyright forms, conference registration forms etc. will be supplied upon acceptance. After the conference, selected papers will be considered for publication in appropriate journals and special issues. All conference proceedings are considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to provide easy access to the current literature of the sciences (e.g.: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC ...). Presentation time and form will be limited to 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion depending on the submission category.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Please visit the conference website at www.dmin-2007.com

IMPORTANT DATES
February 20, 2007 - Draft papers due
March 20, 2007 - Notification of acceptance
April 20, 2007 - Camera ready papers & pre-registration due
June 25-28, 2007 - 2007 DMIN & WORLDCOMP

CONFERENCE FEES - PRELIMINARY INFORMATION (2007 assumed to be similar to 2006)
2006:
Non-students fee:
USD 490 (USD 100 late registration after April 20 2007) Full-time student fee:
USD 390 (USD 100 late registration after April 20 2007) The fee includes: books & 4 breakfasts & 12 refreshment breaks & one formal dinner & booklets & CDs & access to all tutorial sessions & access to all sessions of all conferences. Last year we were also able to sponsor free drinks receptions on 5 evenings of the conference for DMIN attendees, a sponsored student dinner and a farewell reception with free drinks!

CONFERENCE VENUE
The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort, L.a.s.V.e.g.a.s., Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms, with extensive recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, easy river water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars etc. (most are open 24 hours a day and suitable for families & children). The hotel is a few minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street shows etc.). The room rate for conference attendees is approximately USD 79 (2006) per room per night (single or double occupancy).

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION DMIN'07
General Conference Chair:
Robert Stahlbock
University of Hamburg
Department of Business Administration
Institute of Information Systems (IWI)
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
email: conference-chair (at) dmin-2007.com
www: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/rstahl

Conference & Programme Co-chairs:
Sven F. Crone
Lancaster Centre for Forecasting
Lancaster University Management School
Department of Management Science
Lancaster, LA1 4YX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44.1524.5-92991
Fax: +44.1524.844885
email: s.crone (at) dmin-2007.com
www: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk

Stefan Lessmann
University of Hamburg
Department of Business Administration
Institute of Information Systems (IWI)
Von-Melle-Park 5
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Tel: +49.40.42838-5500
Fax: +44.40.42838-5535
email: s.lessmann (at) dmin-2007.com
www: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/slessm/
 
If you have any questions regarding the conference please do not hesitate to contact one of the chairs.


The world's largest gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing: The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following 24 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and date: June 25-28, 2007, USA): The 2007 International Conference on...
PDPTA'07 ... Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
GCA'07 ... Grid Computing and Applications
CDES'07 ... Computer Design
CSC'07 ... Scientific Computing
ICAI'07 ... Artificial Intelligence
GEM'07 ... Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
BIOCOMP'07 ... Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
SERP'07 ... Software Engineering Research and Practice
ICWN'07 ... Wireless Networks
IPCV'07 ... Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
MSV'07 ... Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
CGVR'07 ... Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
MSA'07 ... Multimedia Systems and Applications
ICOMP'07 ... Internet Computing
SWWS'07 ... Semantic Web and Web Services
SAM'07 ... Security and Management
DMIN'07 ... Data Mining
IKE'07 ... Information and Knowledge Engineering
EEE'07 ... e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
ESA'07 ... Embedded Systems and Applications
FECS'07 ... Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering
FCS'07 ... Foundations of Computer Science
ERSA'07 ... Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
CIC'07 ... Communications in Computing
A link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws