CALL FOR PAPERS PAKDD 2008 The 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining May 20-23, 2008, Osaka, Japan Conference Website http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/ Conference Venue http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/info_venue.html Call for Workshops and Tutorials http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/cf_workshops.html http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/cf_tutorials.html Important Dates: Abstract Submission Due: 23 September 2007 (Sun)* Paper Submission Due: 30 September 2007 (Sun)* Author Notification: 27 December 2007 (Thu) Camera Ready Due: 27 January 2008 (Sun) Workshop Proposal Due: 21 October 2007 (Sun) Workshop Notification: 2 November 2007 (Fri) Tutorial Proposal Due: 27 November 2007 (Tue) Tutorial Notification: 10 December 2007 (Mon) Conference: 20-23 May 2008 (Tue-Fri) *[23:59:59 Pacific Standard Time] ============================================================== Conference Scope The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is a leading international conference in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery. It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition, automatic scientific discovery, data visualization, causal induction and knowledge-based systems. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial papers reporting real data mining applications and system development experience. The conference will confer the Best Paper Award to the best full paper. The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI series. The venue of the conference is Hotel Seagull located in beautiful Osaka bay area which is less than 15 minutes by subway from the center of Osaka city. Many amusement places including internationally famous Osaka Aquarium "Kaiyukan", a museum and a market place are within 5 minutes walk. Universal Studios Japan is reachable by 10 minutes cruise. Accommodations for student participants will be provided in reasonable prices (around 50USD/night/person). ============================================================== Topics The topics of the conference and workshop papers fall into two major categories that will include but are not limited to the following: A. Data Mining Foundations A1. Theoretic Foundations A2. Novel Algorithms A3. Association Rules A4. Classification and Ranking A5. Clustering A6. Text Mining A7. Machine Learning A8. Privacy Preserving Data Mining A9. Statistical Methods A10. Parallel and Distributed Data Mining A11. Interactive and Online Mining A12. KDD Process and Human Interaction A13. Data and Knowledge Management A14. Data and Knowledge Visualization A15. Pre/Post-processing B. Data Mining in Specialized Domain B1. High-Dimensional Data B2. Spatial Data B3. Temporal Data B4. Biomedical Domains B5. Stream/Dynamic/Ubiquitous Data Mining B6. Scientific Databases B7. Text and Semi-structured/unstructured Data B8. Multimedia B9. Reliability and Robustness Issues B10. Security and Intrusion Detection B11. Web, Community, and Social Network B12. Mining Trends, Opportunities or Risks B13. OLAP and Data Mining B14. Integration of Data Warehousing, B15. Graphic Model Discovery B16. Software Warehouse and Software Mining B17. Other Applications ============================================================== Paper Submission Each paper should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names, postal and email address, an up to 200-words abstract, up to 5 keywords and a body not longer than 12 single-spaced pages with font size at least 11 pts. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. Detailed instructions will be available at the conference website http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/. The submitted papers must not be previously published anywhere, and must not be submitted to any other conferences before and during the PAKDD review process. A journal submission may be concurrent, but would be expected to have significant additional material not in the conference submission, and the final revision should not have been submitted until the PAKDD reviews have been made available to the authors. Ideally the final journal version should be prepared after the conference so that feedback from the conference can be included. Submitting a paper to the conference means that if the paper were accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the paper. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. The program committee chairs are not allowed to submit papers to the conference for a fair review process. Before submitting your paper, please carefully read and agree with the submission policy and no-show policy of PAKDD 2008. http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/Submission_Policy.html http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/No_Show_Policy.html ============================================================== Conference Officers General Co-Chairs * Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan * Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA Program Committee Chair * Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan Program Committee Co-Chairs * Einoshin Suzuki, Kyushu University, Japan * Kai Ming Ting, Monash University, Australia Workshop Co-Chairs * Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA * Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney, Australia Tutorial Co-Chairs * Achim Hoffmann, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia * Akihiro Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Japan Local Arrangement Chair * Takashi Okada, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Local Arrangement Co-Chairs * Katsutoshi Yada, Kansai University, Japan * Kouzou Ohara, Osaka University, Japan Publicity Chair * Kouzou Ohara, Osaka University, Japan Publication Chair * Akihiro Inokuchi, Osaka University, Japan Web MasterK * Kouzou Ohara, Osaka University, Japan ============================================================== Steering Committee Chair * David Cheung, University of Hong Kong, China Co-Chair * Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia (Life long member) Treasurer * Graham Williams, ATO, Australia Members * Arbee L. P. Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, ROC * Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC * Tu Bao Ho, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan * Huan Liu, Arizona State University, U.S. * Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Hiroshi Motoda, AFOSR/AOARD, Japan (Life long member) * Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, U.S.A * Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China ============================================================== For further information, please contact the Program Committee Chair * Takashi Washio ISIR, Osaka University, Japan Email: washio@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp Phone: (81)6-6879-8540 Fax: (81)6-6879-8544 ============================================================== Organized by I.S.I.R., Osaka University Co-organized by School of Science & Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University Faculty of Commerce, Kansai University In Cooperation with The Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence ==============================================================