Welcome
To PAKDD2003
On behalf of the organizing committee of
PAKDD2003, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to Korea for the Seventh
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2003).
The PAKDD conference is a major forum for
academic researchers and industry practitioners in the Pacific Asia region to
share original research results and development experiences from different KDD
related areas such as data mining, data warehousing, machine learning,
databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition and discovery, data visualization,
and knowledge-based systems.
In its seventh year, PAKDD has reached new
heights of recognition as a quality forum for the dissemination and discussion
of KDD research. This is evident from the high number of submissions and the
highly selective nature of the review process. Out of 215 submissions, only 38
were selected as full papers and 20 as short papers for inclusion in the
proceedings. Given this, we were unable to accommodate many high quality papers.
We thank authors of all submitted papers for their efforts, which provided the
basic ingredient for developing an exceptionally solid technical program. PAKDD
has become a truly international forum, as is evident from the fact that papers
were submitted from 22 countries across six continents. Similarly, the program
committee consisted of 70 members from five continents.
We have the privilege of having two
distinguished speakers deliver keynotes. Rakesh Agrawal, an IBM fellow at IBM
Almaden Research Center, will deliver a talk on Privacy Aware Data Management
and Analytics, which is recently becoming a hot issue. Jaideep Srivastava at University
of Minnesota will discuss on Web Mining--Accomplishments and Future Directions,
which should provide the audience new insights into future development of data
and web mining.
PAKDD 2003 has two international workshops
held in conjunction with the main conference: Mining Data for Actionable
Knowledge and Biological Data Mining. The proceedings of these workshops are
being published separately.
This conference is organized by the Advanced
Information Technology Research
Center(AITrc) at KAIST and Statistical Research Center for Complex
Systems(SRCCS) at Seoul National University, both being research centers of excellence
supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation(KOSEF). We have a
number of sponsors who made generous contributions to make the conference
successful. They are Korea Telecom(KT), United States Air Force Office of
Scientific Research(AFOSR), and Asian Office
of Aerospace Research and Development(AOARD). It is also being held
in cooperation with the ACM¡¯s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining(ACM SIGKDD). Finally, we have two major academic sponsors: the
Korea Information Science Society(KISS) and the Korea Data Mining
Society(KDMS), who greatly contributed to organizing and advertising the
conference and encouraging their
members to participate.
At the banquet on Thursday, we will have a
performance of Korean traditional music by distinguished professor Jae-Suk Moon
at Ewha Woman¡¯s University. We are grateful for her generous acceptance of our
invitation.
Many People, including hundreds of authors,
reviewers, presenters, and organizers, contributed to PAKDD 2003. We thank them
all for their dedication and help, without which the conference would not have
been a success.
Kyu-Young
Whang
General
Chair and Director AITrc
Jongwoo Jeon
International
Advisory committee Member and
Director
SRCCS