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[Apologies if you receive this more than once]<br><br><br>===========================================================================<br><br>Call for Papers<br><br><br><br>PAKDD 2012: The 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining<br><br><br><br>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29 - June 1, 2012<br><br><br><br>Conference web site: http://pakdd2012.pakdd.org/<br><br><br><br>===========================================================================<br><br><br><br>Important Dates:<br><br><br><br> Paper Submission: October 2, 2011<br><br> Author Notification: December 30, 2011<br><br> Camera Ready: January 22, 2012<br><br><br><br>===========================================================================<br><br><br><br>The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)<br><br>is a leading international conference in the areas of data mining and<br><br>knowledge discovery (KDD). It provides an international forum for<br><br>researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original<br><br>research results and practical development experiences from all KDD<br><br>related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning,<br><br>aritificial intelligence, databases, statistics, knowledge engineering,<br><br>visualization, and decision-making systems. The conference calls for<br><br>research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial<br><br>papers reporting real data mining applications and system development<br><br>experience.<br><br><br><br>The topics of relevance for the conference papers include but not limited<br><br>to the following:<br><br><br><br>Novel models and algorithms<br><br>Clustering<br><br>Classification<br><br>Ranking<br><br>Association analysis<br><br>Anomaly detection<br><br>Data pre-processing<br><br>Feature extraction and selection<br><br>Mining heterogeneous data<br><br>Mining multi-source data<br><br>Mining sequential data<br><br>Mining spatial and temporal data<br><br>Mining unstructured and semi-structured data<br><br>Mining graph and network data<br><br>Parallel, distributed, and high performance data mining on the cloud platform<br><br>Privacy preserving data mining<br><br>Mining high dimensional data<br><br>Mining uncertain data<br><br>Mining imbalanced data<br><br>Mining dynamic/streaming data<br><br>Statistical methods for data mining<br><br>Visual data mining<br><br>Interactive and online mining<br><br>Mining behavioral data<br><br>Mining multimedia data<br><br>Mining scientific databases<br><br>Ubiquitous knowledge discovery<br><br>Agent-based data mining<br><br>Mining social networks<br><br>Financial data mining<br><br>Fraud and risk analysis<br><br>Security and intrusion detection<br><br>Opinion mining and sentiment analysis<br><br>Post-processing including quality assessment and validation<br><br>Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining<br><br>Human, domain, organizational and social factors in data mining<br><br>Applications to healthcare, bioinformatics, computational chemistry,<br><br>eco-informatics, marketing, online gaming, etc<br><br><br><br>All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed<br><br>instructions are provided on the conference home page.<br><br><br><br>Travel awards will be available to a limited number of students to<br><br>partially support their travel expenses attending the conference.<br><br><br><br><br><br>=====================Organizing Committee =====================<br><br><br><br>CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS<br><br><br><br>Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA<br><br>Hong-Tat Ewe, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia<br><br>Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore<br><br><br><br>PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS<br><br><br><br>Pang-Ning Tan, Michigan State University, USA<br><br>Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney, Australia<br><br>Chin-Kuan Ho, Multimedia University, Malaysia<br><br><br><br>TUTORIAL CHAIR<br><br><br><br>Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA<br><br><br><br>WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS<br><br><br><br>Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan<br><br>Jun Luo, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China<br><br><br><br>PUBLICITY CHAIRS<br><br><br><br>Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota, USA<br><br>Ming Li, Nanjing University, China <br><br>Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany<br><br><br><br>PROCEEDINGS CHAIR<br><br><br><br>James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia<br><br><br><br>LOCAL ORGANIZATION CO-CHAIRS<br><br><br><br>Victor Tan, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia<br><br>Wen-Cheong Chin, Multimedia University, Malaysia<br><br>Soung-Yue Liew, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia<br><br><br><br>=====================Steering Committee =====================<br><br><br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS<br><br><br><br>Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia<br><br>Graham Williams (co-chair), Australian National University, Australia<br><br><br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE LIFE MEMBERS<br><br><br><br>David Cheung, University of Hong Kong, China<br><br>Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan<br><br>Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia<br><br>Hiroshi Motoda, AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka University, Japan<br><br>Graham Williams (Treasurer), Australian National University, Australia<br><br>Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan<br><br><br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS<br><br><br><br>Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC<br><br>Tu Bao Ho, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan<br><br>Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore<br><br>Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA<br><br>Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA<br><br>Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan<br><br>Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Thammasat University, Thailand<br><br>Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea<br><br>Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia<br><br>Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China<br><br>Krishna Reddy, IIIT, Hyderabad, India<br><br> </div></body>
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