Call for Tutorial Proposals

The Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD03)

The Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX), Seoul, Korea
April 30 – May 2, 2003
http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~pakdd03

 

The Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD03) solicits tutorial proposals. Please submit the proposals, preferably by email, to one of tutorial chairs by October 25, 2002.

 

Tutorial Chairs

Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Laboratories, rastogi@research.bell-labs.com
Sang K. Cha, Seoul National University, chask@kdb.snu.ac.kr

 

Proposal Detail

Tutorial proposals may take the form of plain text, Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, or some combination of these. They should address the following issues:

• Basic information: Title, brief description, names and contact information for each tutor, the intended length (3 or 6 hours).
• Audience: Who is the intended audience for the tutorial, e.g., novice users of statistical techniques, expert researchers in text mining, or database administrators.
• Interest: Why is this topic important/interesting to the KDD community? Provide some informal evidence that people would attend. Evidence might include related workshops, conference sessions, papers, communities, etc.
• Coverage: How deep/broad is the proposed tutorial? How valuable would the tutorial be with the given scope?
• Background: What background will be required of the audience?

Enough materials should be included in the proposal to provide a sense of the scope and depth of the tutorial. The more details that can be provided, the better; up to and including actual overhead slides.

For optimal preparation of the conference please indicate if you need any non-standard equipment. The standard equipment includes a LCD projector, an overhead projector, a single projection screen and cordless microphones.

The proposal should also include the biographical information of each tutor (including WWW address, if applicable). This information should describe the qualifications of each tutor with respect to the tutorial's topic. On the other hand, the tutors should not focus mainly on their own research results. A PAKDD tutorial is NOT a forum for promoting one's research or product. If, for certain parts of the tutorial, the material comes directly from the tutors' own research or product, please indicate this in the proposal.

 

Important Dates

      October 25, 2002: Tutorial proposal due

      November 1, 2002: Notification of proposal acceptance

      February 15, 2003: Camera ready copy of tutorial notes

      April 30, 2003: PAKDD 03 tutorials held