DM: Update on MDM/KDD99 - Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining

[Simeon J. Simoff]

MDM/KDD99 Workshop Update

I received numerous e-mail messages from people who couldn't access the MDM/KDD99 Web page. Due to networking problems for the MDM/KDD99 workshop website, the deadline for submissions for the workshop on Multimedia Data Mining has been extended to June 28, 1999.

Although the original URL should be accessible by now, the system is still under recovery. Fay Sudweeks, Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Technology, Murdoch University kindly offered to mirror the workshop web page. The alternative URL for accessing the MDM/KDD99 web site is http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/mdm_kdd99/

I appologise for the inconvenience. I would appreciate if you can forward this email to any colleagues of yours that intend to participate in the workshop and may not be on this list.

Below is the workshop information with updated deadlines and urls.

Call for Papers

MDM/KDD99 - Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
Sunday, August 15,1999, San Diego, CA, USA,

in conjunction with
KDD99: The ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and
Data Mining (KDD99) (August 15-18)

http://research.microsoft.com/datamine/kdd99/

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in analysis of digital media content, state- of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, and domain experts from different applied disciplines with potential in multimedia data mining. The major topics of the workshop are:

- multimedia data mining methods and algorithms;
- electronic documents - multimedia data representation and reuse of
discovered knowledge;
- content-based search, retrieval, and discovery methods;
- uncertainty management in multimedia data mining;
- complexity, efficiency and scalability of multimedia data mining
algorithms;
- the incorporation of domain knowledge;
- multimedia data mining and interactive exploration;
- integrated data mining of text and image data;
- data analysis of video and audio data.

Submissions on the above and related topics of knowledge discovery in digital media are invited. We also encourage submissions, which present early stages of research work, software applications and solutions.

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
Simeon J. Simoff and Mary Lou Maher (simeon, mary@arch.usyd.edu.au)
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney

CFP and updated information on the workshop is available at

http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~simeon/mdm_kdd99/index.html
http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/mdm_kdd99/index.html
SUBMISSION

There is no restriction on the length of submissions. Contact author and email address should be specified. Electronic submission of papers in PDF, PS, RTF or Microsoft Word Document formats are preferable. Please, e-mail electronic submissions to simeon@arch.usyd.edu.au with subject "MDM/KDD99". If not submitting an electronic version, please send a hard copy original to:

Simeon J. Simoff
Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (G04)
University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia

DEADLINES
Submissions Due: June 28; Acceptance: July 3; Camera ready copy: July 
16

REGISTRATION
Registration for the workshop is free for the registrants of KDD-99.
Workshop attendance is limited to 60 participants only.