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Call For Workshop Proposals
ICDM '05: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Workshops: 27 November 2005
(followed by Main Conference: 28-30 November 2005)
http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/
(Proposals Due: 15 June 2005)
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The ICDM '05 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to
be held in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these
workshops is to provide participants with an informal setting for
discussing innovative work in progress on important new technical
directions. Workshops will be held on November 27, immediately
preceding the conference on November 28-30.
The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '05)
provides a premier forum for the dissemination of innovative,
practical development experiences as well as original research results
in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and
systems. The conference draws researchers and application developers
from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics,
machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing,
data visualization, knowledge-based systems and high performance
computing. By promoting high quality and novel research findings, and
innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the
conference seeks to continuously advance the state of the art in data
mining. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program
will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the
tutorials program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the
latest developments in data mining.
Researchers and practitioners from all areas of the data mining
community are invited to submit proposals for review. The organizers of
approved workshops are expected to define the workshop's focus, gather
and review submissions, and decide upon final program content. Although
the format of the workshop also is to be determined by the organizers,
substantial time should be allotted for discussion. Two successful
workshop formats that worked in the past (somehow complementary) are:
. a focused, technical area with a large enough community to sustain it
(e.g. "Techniques and representations for text clustering"), or
. a cross-field topic attractive to researchers from several
sub-communities (e.g. "Privacy and Security of Genetic and Bioinformatics
Data".
The schedule for submission and preparation of workshop papers also will be
left to the discretion of the workshop organizers. Because ICDM will handle
publication of the informal workshop proceedings, we ask that
1. Workshop papers be prepared in the same format as ICDM conference papers
(Latex style file available here)
2. Workshop papers adhere to a 10 page limit (2 pages longer than the
conference limit), and
3. Workshop organizers prepare the camera-ready proceedings by October 26.
IMPORTANT DATES
15 June 2005 Deadline for proposals
07 July 2005 Notification of proposal acceptance
26 September 2005 Camera ready papers from authors for proceedings due
26 October 2005 Camera ready workshop proceedings from oragnizers
for proceedings due
27 November 2005 Workshops at ICDM '05
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Workshop proposals should be submitted electronically (in Postscript, PDF or
MS Word) to:
Pawan Lingras
Math and Computing Science, Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3
e-mail: Pawan.Lingras@stmarys.ca/pawan@cs.smu.ca
Phone: 902-420-5798, Fax: 902-420-5035
Web: http://cs.smu.ca/~pawan
HOW TO PROPOSE A WORKSHOP
Proposals for workshops should be at most five pages in length (fewer if
possible) and should contain:
. A brief description of the specific technical issues that the workshop
will address.
. The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time.
. The names, postal address, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of
the Workshop Organizing Committee. This committee should consist of at
least three experts in the field, not all at the same institution.
. The name of one member of the Workshop Organizing Committee who is
designated the contact person.
. A list of previously-organized related workshops by any of the Workshop
Organizing Committee. Previous experience organizing workshops is not a
requirement.
. A list of potential attendees.
. A draft workshop Call for Papers.
. A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room
requirements.
Workshop proponents may wish to look at web pages from ICDM'03 Workshops and
ICDM'04 Workshops Home Pages