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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
SDM'08: 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
Sponsored by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
April 24-26, 2008.
This conference is held in cooperation with the American Statistical
Association (ASA).
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[Pre-registration deadline: Monday, March 24, 2008]
On-line registration and conference program schedule is now available at
http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm08/
HIGHLIGHTS
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* 4 plenary talks
* 3 full day and 1 half day workshops
* 4 tutorials
* 40 full and 37 short papers
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
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* Geometry and Analysis on Digital Data, Emergent Structures and
Knowledge Building
Ronald Coifman, Yale University
* Algorithms for understanding the Sky
Andrew W. Moore, Google Inc.
* Mining Multilingual Documents
Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland at College Park
* Data Mining and Materials Informatics
Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University
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Tutorials
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Note that tutorials are complementary with conference registration.
* Mining Massive Collections of Shapes and Time Series:
With Case Studies in Anthropology and Astronomy
Eamonn Keogh, University of California - Riverside
* Anomaly Detection
Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Varun Chandola, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Aleksandar Lazarevic, United Technologies
* Data Mining based Social Network Analysis from Online Behavior
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Muhammad A Ahmad, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Nishith Pathak, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
David Kuo-Wei Hsu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
* Fast N-body Algorithms for Massive Datasets
Alex Gray, Georgia Tech
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Workshops
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* Data Mining for Biomedical Informatics (Full Day)
* Link Analysis, Counterterrorism, and Security (Full Day)
* Text Mining 2008 (Full Day)
* Practical Privacy-Preserving Data Mining (Half Day)