ICDM '05 The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

IEEE Data Mining 2005: Call for Participation

The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) to be held at the Inter-Continental Hotel, 2222 West Loop South Houston, TX 77027, USA
November 27th - 30th, 2005, invites you to attend.

Register by October 22nd to get the early-bird rate!

Be sure to book hotel rooms by November 17, 2005 for discounted rates.

Hotel Website: http://www.houston.intercontinental.com/
The three letter code to get special rate, during online booking is 'S07'.
The code for phone booking is 'ICDM 2005' or 'IEEE ICDM 2005'

ICDM received a total of 630 paper submissions this year, from which 69 regular papers and 72 short papers were selected for presentation.

Conference highlights include the following.

Four Invited Talks (November 28 - 30, 2005)

(Abstracts and schedule available)

1. "Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes"

Dr. John F. Elder IV
Chief Scientist, Elder Research, Inc., USA

2. "The Million Book Digital Library Project: Research Problems in Data Mining And Discovery"

Dr. Raj Reddy (Turing Award Winner)
Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor
of Computer Science and Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
3. "Graphical Models for Structure Extraction and Information Integration"

Dr. Sunita Sarawagi
Associate Professor
KR School of Information technology
IIT Bombay, India
4. "Efficient Indexing Technology for Data Mining of Scientific Data"

Dr. Arie Shoshani
Senior Staff Scientist, NSERC
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Five Tutorials (Sunday, November 27, 2005)

(More information available)

Models and Methods for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining and Data Publishing, ICDM'05 Invited Tutorial
by Johannes Gehrke (3 hours, in the morning)

Clustering with Constraints
by Sugato Basu and Ian Davidson (3 hours, in the morning)

Bioinformatics and Bioimage Analysis
by Chris Ding and Hanchuan Peng (3 hours 20 mins, in the afternoon)
Mining and Searching of Graph-Structured Databases,
ICDM'05 Invited Tutorial,
by Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, and Philip Yu (3 hours, in the afternoon)
DMX, XML for Analysis and SQL Server Data Mining Platform,
ICDM'05 Invited Tutorial
by Zhaohui Tang (7:00 pm ~10:00 pm).
Note: this tutorial is complimentary for all conference participants
(without any charges).

Nine Workshops (Sunday, November 27, 2005):

(More information available)

1. Multiagent Data Warehousing and Multiagent Data Mining
(8:00 am ~12:45 pm)
2. Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques with Applications
(8:00 am~12:45 pm)
3. Data Mining Case Studies and Practice Prize
(1:15 pm ~ 6:00 pm)
4. Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications
(8:00 am~6:00 pm)
5. Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed, Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous Data and Knowledge Sources
(1:15 pm ~6:00 pm)
6. Computational Intelligence in Data Mining
(1:15 pm ~6:00 pm)
7. Foundation of Semantic Oriented Data and Web Mining
(8:00 am~6:00 pm)
8. Mining Complex Data (8:00 am ~12:45 pm)
9. Privacy and Security Aspects of Data Mining
(8:00 am ~ 12:45 pm)

One Panel (2:00 pm ~ 3:00 pm, Tuesday, November 29, 2005)

(Panelists and topics information available)

Data Mining -- Where to go?
Panel Chair: Wen-Ran Zhang

141 Technical Paper Presentations (November 28 - 30, 2005)

There are 21 sessions on:
Time Series,
Clustering Schemes,
Pattern Analysis on Text and Structured Data,
Quality Assessment,
Spatial Data and Classification Schemes,
Preprocessing Techniques and Feature Selection,
Learning Techniques,
Data Representation,
Security and Privacy,
Bio-Medical and Social Data Mining Applications,
Statistical Methods,
Web Data Mining Applications, Tools and Algorithms,
Data Mining Applications, and
Optimization Techniques.