Welcome to PAKDD2013, Gold Coast, Australia

-----The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Important Dates

*[23:59:59 Pacific Standard Time]

Conference Introduction

The Pacific-Asia Conference in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining is the largest conference of its field in the pacific region attracting over 300 delegates from Canada and the US across to Australia and New Zealand and including all Asian countries with high participation from Japan, Korea, China, and  Singapore. It often attracts many participants from Europe. In Australia, PAKDD was ranked as Tier A conference. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial papers reporting real data mining applications and system development experience.

The 17th Pacific Asia Conference in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013) will be held in Gold Coast Australia. The conference will be organized right after Easter and ICDE 2013 in Brisbane. The famous Gold Coast is Australia at its best. Experience the largest selection of beaches, sub-tropical rainforest, theme parks, nightlife, shopping, attractions and accommodation providers in one accessible destination. PAKDD 2013 in Gold Coast will enjoy the balance between an exciting technical forum and unlimited family-oriented opportunities in Gold Coast. It will create a unique opportunity for you to enjoy the beauty and balance of Australian life by taking your family with you for a wonderful holiday in Australia. The conference venue, the refreshed Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa, is the Gold Coast's newest paradise within paradise. This breathtaking Gold Coast beach resort hotel’s location puts it within easy reach of pristine beaches, fashionable shopping precincts and picturesque hinterland valleys in Surfers Paradise, Australia.

The conference will feature several world-leading keynote speeches, workshops and tutorials around all hot areas, and exciting technical program. In particular, the conference will offer a unique interaction and synergy between industry and academia by organizing several opportunities for the interactions. A pre-conference Big Data Summit and the Government-Industry Data Mining Workshop will bring industry, business, government and academic representatives together to discuss the challenges and prospects of big data analytics. This edition of conference, once every 10 years in Australia, will form a summit in Australia and New Zealand as well as pacific Asia for students, practitioners, researchers and decision-makers to debate challenges and to share the advance in big data for smarter decision making.

The conference seeks sponsorship at all levels that can enable the social events and keynote speakers. Sponsors can provide donations in cash or in kind. Contributions in kind could include sponsoring the Big Data Summit, the cocktail of industry-academia interaction, sponsoring an invited speaker, sponsoring the conference materials/bag/souvenir, for example. The conference also seeks to expand its partnership with academic and industrial organizations as well as with societies in the Information and Communication Technologies to expand and support the activities of the conference as well as to contribute to the attractiveness of the program and the publicity of the event.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI series, two special issues will be organized for selected best papers from the conference.

See you and your family at PAKDD2013 in Gold Coast, one of the most attractive cities in Australia!