[rede.APPIA] Data Mining for Business PAKDD07 Workshop: Call for Presentations

[Carlos Soares]

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		            DATA MINING FOR BUSINESS


                                   22 May 2007
                                 Nanjing, China

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                         workshop to be held in conjunction with

       the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data 
Mining.


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                               CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS


Business, government and science organizations are increasingly moving 
towards
decision-making processes that are based on information. In parallel, 
the amount
of data representing the activities of organizations that is stored in 
databases
is also growing. Therefore, the pressure to extract as much useful 
information as
possible from this data is very strong. Many tools for Data Mining (DM) and
Business Intelligence have been developed for that purpose. 
Additionally, DM
methods are increasingly being integrated into other information systems 
and
tools (e.g., customer relationship management, database management systems,
network security tools). Despite the maturity of the field, new problems 
and
applications are continuously challenging both researchers and 
practitioners. The
successful development of solutions for those problems requires that 
companies and
universities work in close contact. Feedback from people with a 
business-oriented
perspective is useful to assess current research results and to provide
researchers with new challenges to work on. On the other hand, 
practitioners as
well as decision makers in general need to be in touch with 
state-of-the-art
research. Otherwise, they will not be able to provide the best solutions to
their problems or to the problems of their clients. However, contact 
between
these two communities is not as frequent as would be desirable. Although 
data
mining, knowledge discovery and machine learning conferences provide an 
important
contribution, they mostly attract an audience with a more technical and 
research
background.


ORGANIZERS
* Carlos Soares (Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal)
* Yonghong Peng (School of Informatics, University of Bradford, UK)
* Jun Meng (College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China)


IMPORTANT DATES
* Extended abstract submission: 5 January 2007
* Notification of acceptance: 5 February 2007
* Camera-ready paper submission: 30 February 2007
* Workshop date: 22 May 2007


TOPICS OF INTEREST
We are interested in presentations concerning applications, techniques 
and products.
We are interested in applications from (but not restricted to) the 
following areas:
* government
* banking and finance
* insurance
* retail
* e-business
* telecommunications
* network security
* entertainment
* automotive industry
* health
* pharmaceutics
We welcome success stories as well as applications which did not 
succeed. In
any case the presentations should include lessons learned that can be 
useful in
different situations. Submissions comparing different tools on 
applications are
also interesting. In the case of techniques, we are particularly 
interested in
innovative techniques used to address novel problems. Finally, submissions
concerning tools can describe the integration of DM and BI technologies 
into IS
tools of different kinds, especially in the case of tools for vertical
applications.


SUBMISSION
Interested authors should submit an extended abstract (max. 4 pages) in 
LNCS
format, either in english or chinese. More information about the LNCS 
format can
be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Each submission will be evaluated by two reviewers, which will take the
following dimensions into account:
* innovation
* interest
* maturity
* lessons learned
* technical quality
* quality of presentation
Submissions should be sent by email to dmbiz at liacc.up.pt in the form of 
a PDF
file. The authors of accepted presentations will be asked to prepare a 
poster.

Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, 
at least
one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. For no-show 
authors,
their affiliations will receive a notification.

Selected papers will be given the opportunity to submit longer versions 
of their
work to be included in Post Proceedings volume to be published as a 
Springer LNAI
volume.


OTHER FORMS OF PARTICIPATION
Interested companies may become partners of this event. For more 
information,
please contact the workshop organizers.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alípio Jorge			University of Porto		Portugal
André Carvalho			University of São Paulo		Brazil
Arno Knobbe			Kiminkii/Utrecht University	The Netherlands
Bhavani Thuraisingham		Bhavani Consulting		USA
Carlos Soares			University of Porto		Portugal
Carolina Monard			University of S. Paulo		Brazil
Chid Apte			IBM Research			USA
Dave Watkins			SPSS				USA	
Eric Auriol			Kaidara				France
Gerhard Paaß			Fraunhofer			Germany
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro	KDNuggets			USA
Jinlong Wang			Zhejiang University		China
Jinyan Li			Institute for Infocomm Research	Singapore
João Mendes Moreira		University of Porto		Portugal
Jörg-Uwe Kietz			Kdlabs AG			Switzerland
Jun Meng			Zhejiang University		China
Katharina Probst		Accenture Technology Labs	USA
Liu Zehua			Yokogawa Engineering		Singapore
Lou Huilan			Zhejiang University		China
Lubos Popelínský		Masaryk University		Czech Republic
Mykola Pechenizkiy		University of Eindhoven		The Netherlands
Paul Bradley			Apollo Data Technologies	USA
Peter van der Putten		Chordiant Software/Leiden University	The Netherlands
Petr Berka			University of Economics of Prague	Czech Republic
Ping Jiang			University of Bradford		UK
Raul Domingos			SPSS				Belgium
Rayid Ghani			Accenture			USA
Reza Nakhaeizadeh		DaimlerChrysler			Germany
Robert Engels			Cognit				Norway
Rüdiger Wirth			DaimlerChrysler			Germany
Ruy Ramos			University of Porto/Caixa Económica do Brasil	Portugal
Sascha Schulz			Humboldt University		Germany
Steve Moyle			Secerno				UK
Tie-Yan Liu			Microsoft Research		China
Tim Kovacs			University of Bristol		UK
Timm Euler			University of Dortmund		Germany
Wolfgang Jank			University of Maryland		USA
Walter Kosters			University of Leiden		The Netherlands
Xiangjun Dong			Shandong Institute of Light Industry	China
YongHong Peng			University of Bradford		UK
Zhao-Yang Dong			University of Queensland	Australia
Zhiyong Li			Zhejiang University		China


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