KDD-2004 Call for Industrial/Government Track Papers, deadline February 20, 2004
KDD-2004 THE TENTH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING August 22-25, 2004 Seattle, WA, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004 Paper Deadlines Electronic abstracts due: February 20, 2004 (12 noon PST) Electronic paper submissions due: February 27, 2004 (12 noon PST) Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 21, 2004 Camera-ready papers due: June 4, 2004 Areas Of Interest The Industrial/Government Track of the Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will highlight successful applications of KDD technology; explore issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of KDD applications; and promote the exchange of ideas between basic and applied data mining. The KDD-2004 Industrial/Government (I/G) Track seeks to: (1) provide a forum for exchanging ideas between KDD practitioners, researchers, companies, and government organizations; and (2) help commercial and government organizations understand successful KDD applications. The I/G Track solicits papers from practitioners and companies that have KDD products and solutions relevant to commercial or government challenges. The I/G Track will consist of competitively-selected contributed papers - presented in oral and poster form - as well as invited talks and panel discussions. (The full conference will also feature keynote presentations, workshops, tutorials, research track papers, and the KDD Cup competition.) We envision submissions along three sub-areas: (1) emerging applications, technology, and issues; (2) deployed KDD case studies; and (3) Products. Emerging application, technology, and issue papers discuss prototype applications, tools for focused domains or tasks, useful techniques or methods, project "war stories", useful system architectures, scalability enablers, tool evaluations, or integration of KDD and other technologies. Case studies describe deployed projects with measurable benefits that include KDD technology. Product submissions clearly describe KDD technology embedded in commercial products (without otherwise being a product advertisement). Submitters are encouraged (but not required) to select one (or more) of these sub-areas for their papers. In their submission, authors are encouraged to explain why the application is important, the specific need for KDD technology to solve the problem (including why other methods may fall short), and any innovations or lessons learned in the solution. We understand that reasons of confidentiality have often discouraged practitioners from submitting papers. When possible, we encourage authors to abstract any such specifics into a more general problem that may be presented, while explaining how the abstracted challenge is important for KDD. Guidelines Abstracts must be submitted on or before February 20, 2004, at 12 noon PST (Pacific Standard Time). An abstract may not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract submitted on time. Full papers must be submitted on or before February 27, 2004, at 12 noon PST. Papers must be no more than 10 pages in length, including all figures, tables, references and appendixes. Papers should be submitted as PDF files in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, ~1 inch margins). Templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that their submissions display and print properly. Detailed submission instructions appear on the conference website (http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004/). Papers should describe original work that has not been published before, is not under review elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere during KDD-2004's review period (unless at a specialized workshop with a limited audience). Reviewers may assign research track submissions to the industrial/government track and vice-versa, if they feel this to be more appropriate. Calls for workshop, tutorial and panel proposals can also be found at the conference Web site. Awards The KDD-2004 Best Paper awards recognize the best paper in two categories: fundamental research and applications/applied research. Fundamental research papers are judged by the significance and originality of their contribution. Applications/applied research papers are judged by the practical impact and current or potential usefulness of the work. In both cases, the clarity and quality of presentation are also considered. KDD-2004 will also award scholarships to selected students to help defray the cost of participating in the conference. Details will appear on the conference Web site. Program Committee I/G Track Program Co-Chairs: John Elder, Elder Research, USA R. Bharat Rao, Siemens Medical, USA Dean Abbott, Abbott Consulting, USA Scott Bennett, RSA, USA Pavel Berkhin, Yahoo, USA Eric Bloedorn, Mitre, USA Steve Donoho, Mantas, USA Ashutosh Garg, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Paul Hess, Hess Consulting, USA Cheryl Howard, Elder Research, USA Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, USA Bert Kappen, Univ. of Nijmegen / Promedas, Netherlands Brendan Kitts, iProspect, USA Jacek Koronacki, University of Warsaw / NuTech Solutions, Poland Kamal Nigam, Intelliseek, USA Claudia Pearce, NSA, USA Dorian Pyle, Data Miners, USA Karl Rexer, Rexer Analytics, USA Greg Ridgeway, RAND, USA Sigal Sahar, Intel, USA/Israel Joseph Sirosh, Fair Isaac, USA Volker Tresp, Siemens Research, Germany Jaffray Woodriff, Biomind, USA Kenji Yamanishi, NEC Research, Japan Conference details (including the full cfp's for the Research Track and for the Industrial/Govt Track) may be found at: www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004
