CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'07)

Embassy Suites Hotel, Omaha, NE, USA
October 28-31, 2007

http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/

Sponsored by:

Microsoft adCenter Labs
First National Bank of Omaha
The University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Center on Fictitious Economy &
Data Science
Mutual of Omaha
Thomson
The Peter Kiewit Institute
IBM Research
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
InTheDetails Events & Marketing
Websplashes Website Development

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* 101 research track papers selected from 530 submissions
* 11 workshops
* 3 invited talks
* 4 tutorials
* panel on mining for web search and its future

All main conference and workshop proceedings will be published in
the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, now
indexed by EI.

Best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors
of
(1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper.

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!!! Advance Registration by 10 SEP 2007!!!
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On-line registration (and more information) at
http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/register/

Regular registration covers all the events of ICDM'07 during the four
conference days including workshops and tutorials, and covers
proceedings for the conference and the workshops.

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KEYNOTE TALKS
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 Prof. Joseph M. Hellerstein, UC Berkeley
 "Bricolage: Data at Play"

 Prof. Ian Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand
 "Learning from Society"

 Dr. Tamara Kolda, Sandia National Labs
 "Tensor Decompositions and Data Mining"

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Tutorials include:

 "Detecting Clusters in Moderate-to-High Dimensional Data: Subspace
 Clustering, Pattern-based Clustering, and Correlation Clustering"
 Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kroeger, and Arthur Zimek
 Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen,
Germany


 "Mining for Software Reliability"
 Chao Liu (Yahoo! Research), Tao Xie (North Carolina State
University),
 and Jiawei Han (UIUC)

 "Contrast Data Mining: Methods and Applications"
 James Bailey (University of Melbourne) and Guozhu Dong (Wright State
University)

 "Practical Relational Data Community Generation"
 Bo Long and Zhongfei Zhang (SUNY Binghamton),
 and Philip Yu (IBM T.J.  Watson Research Center)

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The workshops include:

 Data Mining in Web 2.0 Environments

 KDM: Knowledge Discovery from Multimedia Data and Multimedia
Applications

 ICDM Workshop on Mining and Management of Biological Data

 Data Mining in Medicine

 Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques with Applications

 Workshop on High Performance Data Mining

 Workshop on Mining Graphs and Complex Structures

 Data Mining on Uncertain Data

 Workshop on Data Streaming Mining and Management

 Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

 Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining

SOCIAL PROGRAM
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ICDM'07 offers an exciting social program, including the conference
welcome
reception, outdoor activities at the world-class Henry Doorly Zoo, and
the
conference banquet at the state-of-art building of The Peter Kiewit
Institute.
The conference will be held in the Embassy Suites Hotel, which is
located in the
heart of the historic Old Market restaurant, entertainment and
shopping district,
within walking distance of downtown Omaha and the Qwest Center /
Arena, and only
ten-minute drive from the airport and the Henry Doorly Zoo. More
information
about attractions is available from the conference webpage:
http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/

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*** Contact Information ***

For further registration information, see:
http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/attendees/register.php
or contact the registration chair:

Parvathi Chundi
University of Nebraska at Omaha
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE  68182-0500 USA
pchundi@mail.unomaha.edu

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Conference Co-chairs: 
  Yong Shi, University of Nebraska at Omaha (USA)/Chinese Academy of
Sciences (China) 
  Christopher W. Clifton, Purdue University (USA)

Program Committee Chairs: 
  Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech (USA) 
  Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta (Canada)

Workshop Chairs: 
  Qiuming Zhu, University of Nebraska at Omaha (USA) 
  Anthony K.H. Tung, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Tutorials Chair: 
  Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University (Canada)

Panels Chair: 
  Geoffrey I. Webb, Monash Uiversity (Australia)

ICDM Data Mining Contest Chairs: 
  Chris Ding, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) 
  Gang Kou, Thomson Corporation (USA) 
  Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong
Kong)

ICDM Steering Committee Chair:
  Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA