DM: PAKDD-98: Final Call for Papers

[LIPO WANG]

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                 The Second Pacific-Asia Conference on
 
             Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-98)
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           Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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                           15-17 April 1998
 
            Home Page: http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98

                      Papers Due: 16 October 1997

                             Sponsored by:
            MAIC: Monash Artificial Intelligence Consortium
  Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University
 ACSys: Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Computational Systems
 
                           Invited Speakers:
  Jiawei Han (ACSys Keynote Speaker, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
             Chris Wallace (Monash University, Australia)
            Bhavani Thuraisingham (MITRE Corporation, USA)

The Second  Pacific-Asia  Conference on Knowledge Discovery   and Data
Mining (PAKDD-98) will provide  an international forum for the sharing
of  original research  results  and practical development  experiences
among researchers   and   application developers from    different KDD
related  areas   such as   machine  learning,  databases,  statistics,
knowledge   acquisition,  data visualization, software re-engineering,
and knowledge-based systems.  It  will follow the success of  PAKDD-97
held  in  Singapore in  1997  by  bringing together  participants from
universities, industry and government.

Papers on  all aspects  of  knowledge discovery  and  data  mining are
welcome.  Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Data and Dimensionality Reduction
   - Data Mining Algorithms and Tools
   - Data Mining and Data Warehousing
   - Data Mining on the Internet
   - Data Mining Metrics
   - Data Preprocessing and Postprocessing
   - Data and Knowledge Visualization
   - Deduction and Induction in KDD
   - Discretisation of Continuous Data
   - Distributed Data Mining
   - KDD Framework and Process
   - Knowledge Representation and Acquisition in KDD
   - Knowledge Reuse and Role of Domain Knowledge
   - Knowledge Acquisition in Software Re-Engineering and Software 
     Information Systems
   - Induction of Rules and Decision Trees
   - Management Issues in KDD
   - Machine Learning, Statistical and Visualization Aspects of KDD
     (including Neural Networks, Rough Set Theory and Inductive Logic
     Programming)
   - Mining in-the-large vs Mining in-the-small
   - Noise Handling
   - Security and Privacy Issues in KDD
   - Successful/Innovative KDD Applications in Science, Government,
     Business and Industry.

Both research  and  applications papers are solicited.   All submitted
papers will  be reviewed on the basis  of technical quality, relevance
to KDD, significance, and clarity.   Accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag (in the Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence series).  A selected number of the accepted
papers will be expanded and  revised for inclusion  in a special issue
of an international journal.

All submissions  should be  limited to a  maximum of 5,000 words. Four
hardcopies should be forwarded to the following address.

     Professor Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (PAKDD '98)
     Department of Computer Science
     The University of Melbourne
     Parkville, VIC 3052
     Australia

Please  include a cover   page  containing the title, authors  (names,
postal and  email   addresses),  a  200-word  abstract  and  up  to  5
keywords.  This cover page must accompany the paper.

     *************** I m p o r t a n t   D a t e s ***************
     * 4 copies of full papers received by:     October 16, 1997 *
     * acceptance notices:                     December 22, 1997 *
     * final camera-readies due by:             January 30, 1998 *
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Conference Chairs:
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        Ross Quinlan            RuleQuest Research Pty Ltd
        Bala Srinivasan         Monash University

Program Chairs:
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        Xindong Wu              Monash University
        Ramamohanarao Kotagiri  Melbourne University

Organising Committee Co-Chairs:
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        Kevin Korb              Monash University
        Graham Williams         CSIRO, Australia

PAKDD-98 Publicity Chair:       
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        Lipo Wang               Deakin University

PAKDD-98 Tutorial Chair:
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        Jon Oliver              Monash University
   
PAKDD-98 Treasurer: 
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        Michelle Riseley        Monash University

Program Committee:
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    Grigoris Antoniou    James Boyce         Ivan Bratko
    Mike Cameron-Jones   Arbee Chen          David Cheung
    Vic Ciesielski       Honghua Dai         John Debenham
    Olivier de Vel       Tharam Dillon       Guozhu Dong
    Peter Eklund         Usama Fayyad        Matjaz Gams
    Yike Guo             David Hand          Evan Harris
    David Heckerman      David Kemp          Masaru Kitsuregawa
    Kevin Korb           Hingyan Lee         Jae-Kyu Lee
    Deyi Li              T.Y. Lin            Bing Liu
    Huan Liu             Zhi-Qiang Liu       Hongjun Lu
    Dickson Lukose       Kia Makki           Heikki Mannila
    Peter Milne          Shinichi Morishita  Hiroshi Motoda
    Hwee-Leng Ong        Jon Oliver          Maria Orlowska
    G.Piatetsky-Shapiro  Niki Pissinou       Peter Ross
    Claude Sammut        S. Seshadri         Hayri Sever
    Arun Sharma          Heinz Schmidt       Evangelos Simoudis
    Atsuhiro Takasu      Takao Terano        B. Thuraisingham
    Kai Ming Ting        David Urpani        R. Uthurusamy
    Lipo Wang            Geoff Webb          Graham Williams
    Beat Wuthrich        Xin Yao             John Zeleznikow
    Diancheng Zhang      Ming Zhao           Zijian Zheng
    Ning Zhong           Justin Zobel

Further Information
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        Dr Xindong Wu
        Department of Software Development
        Monash University
        900 Dandenong Road
        Caulfield East, Melbourne 3145
        Australia

        Phone: +61 3 9903 1025
        Fax: +61 3 9903 1077
        Email: Xindong.Wu@fcit.monash.edu.au