Call For Papers

Call for Papers and 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 (PAKDD-03) aims to provide a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners 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. The conference solicits research papers as well as proposals for tutorials and workshops on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining.

Areas of Interests (including, but not limited to)

* Data Mining Biomedical Domains
* Novel Data Mining algorithms
* Data and Knowledge Representation
* Scientific Discovery
* Machine Learning Methods
* Statistical Methods
* Mining High Dimensional Data
* Text Data Mining
* Temporal Data Mining
* Data and Knowledge Visualization
* Interactive and Online Mining
* KDD Process and Human Interaction
* Data Mining in Advanced (OO, Spatial, Multimedia) Databases
* Integration of Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining
* Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
* Data Mining and the Internet
* Multi-agent, Multi-task KDD Systems
* Data Mining from Unstructured and Multimedia Data
* Security and Privacy Issues

Organization Committee

Honorary Chairs:
   Won Kim , Cyber Database Solutions, USA/Ewha Womans Univ., Korea
   Sukho Lee , Seoul Nat. Univ., Korea
International Advisory Committee:
   Rakesh Agrawal , IBM Almaden, USA
   Jiawei Han, UIUC, USA
   Jongwoo Jeon, Seoul Nat. Univ./SRCCS, Korea
   Kuan-Tsae Huang, Taskco Corporation, Taiwan
General Chair:
   Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST/AITrc, Korea
Program Chairs:
   Kyuseok Shim, Seoul Nat. Univ./AITrc, Korea
   Jaideep Srivastava, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Tutorial Chairs:
   Sang Kyun Cha, Seoul Nat. Univ., Korea
   Rajeev Rastogi, Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Workshop Chairs:
   Doheon Lee, KAIST, Korea
   Bongki Moon, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Industrial Program Chairs:
   Jaehee Cho, Kwangwoon Univ., Korea
   Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden, USA
Organization Committee Chairs:
   Eui Kyeong Hong, Univ. of Seoul/AITrc, Korea
   Won Chul Jhee , Hongik Univ., Korea
Publication Chair:
   Byoung-Kee Yi, POSTECH, Korea
Registration Chair:
   Byung Yeon Hwang, The Catholic Univ. of Korea, Korea
Publicity Chairs:
   Myung Kim, Ewha Womans Univ., Korea
   Byung S. Lee , Univ. of Vermont, USA
Local Arrangements:
   Yong Chul Oh(Chair), Korea Polytec. Univ., Korea
   Sungzoon Cho, Seoul Nat. Univ., Korea
   Jinho Kim, Kangwon Nat. Univ./AITrc, Korea
Steering Committee Members:
   Hongjun Lu (Chair), Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong
   Hiroshi Motoda (Co-chair), Osaka Univ., Japan
   Arbee L. P. Chen, Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
   Ming-Syan Chen, Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
   David W. Cheung, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   Masaru Kitsuregawa, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
   Rao Kotagiri, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
   Huan Liu, Arizona State Univ., USA
   Takao Terano, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
   Graham Williams, CSIRO, Australia
   Ning Zhong, Maebashi Inst. of Tech., Japan
   Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua Univ., China

Important Key Dates

November 22, 2002 24:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST)	Paper Submissions Due (Firm Deadline: Current EST is shown in the submission home page.)
January 17, 2003	Notice of Acceptance, Rejection to Paper Authors
February 5, 2003	Camera-Ready Copy Due
October 25, 2002	Tutorials and Workshop Proposals Due

Paper Submission

The paper should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word summary, 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's manuscript submission guidelines, available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for their initial submission. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. Detailed instructions will be available at http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~pakdd03.

Only when on-line submissions are not possible, should five copies of the paper be sent to one of the program co-chairs at the following address:

Prof. Kyuseok Shim
Program Co-Chair, PAKDD 2003
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seoul National University,
Kwanak P.O. Box 34, Seoul, 151-742, KOREA
Email: shim@ee.snu.ac.kr
Phone: +82-2-880-7269
Fax: +82-2-871-5974

Prof. Jaideep Srivastava
Program Co-Chair, PAKDD 2003
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
4-192 EE/CSci Building
200 Union Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455 , USA
Email: srivasta@cs.umn.edu
Phone: +1-612-625-4002
Fax: +1-612-625-0572

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance to KDD, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings.

Tutorial Proposal Submission

Tutorial proposals must clearly identify the intended audience. A proposal should include, in English, a description and outline of the proposed contents; names, affiliations, and biographical sketches of the speaker(s). The intended length of the tutorial (3 or 6 hours) should also be indicated. Submit the proposals (preferably by email) directly to Tutoral Chairs: (Follow this link for detailed information.)

Prof. Sang Kyun Cha
Tutorial Co-Chair, PAKDD 2003
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seoul National University,
Kwanak P.O. Box 34, Seoul, 151-742, KOREA
Email: chask@kdb.snu.ac.kr
Phone: +82-2-880-7319
Fax: +82-2-882-4656

Dr. Rajeev Rastogi
Tutorial Co-Chair, PAKDD 2003
Information Sciences Research Center
Bell Laboratories
700 Mountain Avenue, 2A-231
Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA.
Email: rastogi@bell-labs.com
Phone: +1-908-582-3728
Fax: +1-908-582-1239

Workshop Proposal Submission

Workshop proposals must be sent (preferably by email) directly to Workshop Chairs: (Follow this link for detailed information.)

Prof. Doeheon Lee
Workshop Co-Chair, PAKDD 2003
Dept. of BioSystems
Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon, 305-701, KOREA
Email: dhlee@mail.kaist.ac.kr
Phone: +82-42-869-4316
Fax: +82-42-869-4310

Prof. Bongki Moon
Workshop Co-Chair, PAKDD 2003
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Gould-Simpson Bldg., Romm 715
P.O. Box 210077
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, USA
Email: bkmoon@cs.arizona.edu
Phone: +1-520-621-4326
Fax: +1-520-621-4246

Proceedings Publisher

Accepted papers will appear in proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as part of their LNCS/LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Details about the LNCS/LNAI series can be found at http://www.spriner.de/comp/lncs/index.html

Organized by Advanced Information Technology Center (AITrc), a KOSEF ERC, and Statistical Research Center for Complex Systems (SRCCS), a KOSEF SRC.