Special Sessions and Workshops

All special sessions and workshops are part of DMIN'10 and attendance is open to attendees of all conferences held at WORLDCOMP'10.

For DMIN'10, the following special sessions are accepted (this list will be updated):

1) Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives

2) Web Mining

1) Special Session on Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives - Call for Papers

Organizer: Dr. Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, Ford Motor Company - Research and Innovation Center, mabounas@ford.com

The past decade has witnessed a vast growth of the amount of data produced and the proliferation of specialized databases in a wide range of business, industrial, medical and scientific applications. Data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool in the process of knowledge discovery and the transformation of data into valuable information. The objective of this special session is to provide a forum for the data mining researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss data mining applications, issues, and the challenges that arise when addressing real-world problems (e.g. dealing with highly skewed data sets, massive and high dimensional data sets, non-stationary data, unknown misclassification costs, lack of training data, missing and noisy data, business process issues, etc.). 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Enterprise knowledge management/knowledge discovery

·         Sales forecasting

·         Automotive diagnostics

·         Medical  diagnostics

·         Bioinformatics

·         Challenges, including

o        highly skewed data sets

o        massive and high dimensional data sets

o        non-stationary data

o        unknown misclassification costs

o        missing and noisy data

This special session of DMIN’10 (the 6th International Conference on Data Mining) will cover all aspects of data mining applications. The special session will be held during the DMIN conference, July 12-15, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. All papers should be submitted using the standard procedures for DMIN papers. For your submission of the draft paper, please select the Track 'DMA - Special Session on Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives'.

Any questions should be directed to the special session organizer or to one of the DMIN conference organizers.

2) Web Mining

Organizers: Peter Géczy, Stefan Lessmann, Robert Stahlbock, Gary Weiss

Mining world wide web has been attracting considerable attention of researchers and practitioners from both academia and commerce.  Rapid growth of information and data, diversity, and web dynamics have been presenting variety of challenges and opportunities. Novel problems and approaches are constantly emerging. The objective of this special session is to highlight the latest developments and trends among a broad range of subjects including, but not limited to:

·        Web mining foundations and web science

·        Novel web mining algorithms and applications

·        Web intelligence and analytics

·        Dynamic and dark web mining

·        Human-web interaction mining

·        Mining social networks and graphs

·        Predictive web mining and forecasting

·        Mining data streams and semi-structured data

·        Mining web service registries, services and architectures

·        Security and adversarial web mining

·        Privacy preserving web mining

·        Tracking, profiling, targeting, and personalization

·        Security, privacy, and legal aspects in web mining 

This special session of DMIN’10 (the 6th International Conference on Data Mining) will cover all aspects of web mining. The special session will be held during the DMIN conference, July 12-15, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Prospective authors are invited to sumbit their original works in web mining and related domains using the standard submission procedures for DMIN papers. For your submission of the draft paper, please select the Track 'WM - Special Session on Web Mining. According to the DMIN review procedure and criteria, each submission will be comprehensively reviewed and evaluated according to the originality, relevance, significance, and presentation.

Any questions should be directed to the special session organizer or to one of the DMIN conference organizers.

It is planned to publish a special issue consisting of extended versions of extended papers on web mining, e.g., within Annals of Information Systems (Springer). Updated inforrmation will be published as soon as possible.

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