[Bioforum] NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION NEXT GENERATION DATA MINING SUMMIT: ENERGY, EMISSIONS & TRANSPORTATION

[Ina Lauth]

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION NEXT GENERATION DATA MINING SUMMIT: DEALING WITH THE ENERGY CRISIS, 
GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS, AND TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES

Location: Baltimore
Date: October 1--3, 2009
Workshop Web Site: http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM09/
Primary Sponsors: National Science Foundation and KD2U


CALL FOR PAPERS

The world is facing a number of critical challenges. Finding the next 
generation of solutions for energy supply, reducing greenhouse emission, 
and transportation problems is critical to sustain the world and our 
civilization. Energy crisis is a major challenge that needs to be 
addressed for sustaining and further developing the world. Greenhouse 
emissionsis widely believed to be connected with energy consumption. 
Transportation system has significant effect on the energy consumption 
and on greenhouse emission. Many problems related to greenhouse emissions
and transportation industry are critically connected to the consumption 
and supply of energy. Information processing and advanced data analysis 
techniques are likely to play important roles in solving these problems 
for the next generation.

Efficient production, distribution, and consumption of existing and 
alternate energy would require supporting information processing 
networks in order to adaptively control and protect the underlying 
physical systems. Understanding the effects of greenhouse emissions
requires advanced data analysis techniques for understanding remotely 
sensed data. Reducing the carbon footprints of buildings, vehicles, and 
airplanes would require continuous monitoring of sensors and detecting 
deviation from desired behavior. Designing the next generation of 
transportation network becomes particularly challenging in the context 
of increasing demand for energy supplies and reducing greenhouse 
emission. Sensor networks for highways and vehicles equipped with 
diagnostic data bus along with the availability of machine-to-machine 
wireless communication networks are going to make the role of advanced 
data mining techniques very important in the transportation industry. 
Computing in itself is under scrutiny from the perspective of its effect 
on greenhouse emissions and pollution. We need to pay close attention to 
the environmental impacts of computing and the supporting 
infrastructure. Overall, we need to explore technology for sustainable 
computing and computing technology for a sustainable world.

The Next Generation Data Mining (NGDM?09) Summit: Dealing with Energy 
Crisis, Greenhouse Emission, and Transportation Challenges? will bring 
together data mining researchers, scientists and engineers from a 
diverse background along with domain experts. 


NGDM'09 will focus on the following areas:

1) Energy crisis, information processing, and data mining

2) Greenhouse emissions, climate changes, and data mining

3) Transportation, emissions, and data mining


The summit will generate a report based on the presentations and 
discussions of the participants. We would like to invite paper (extended 
abstract) submissions from data mining researchers and practitioners. 
The papers should be relevant to the focus areas of NGDM'09. The papers 
must present innovative research directions that may be suitable for the 
agenda of the summit. Submitted papers should not exceed 5 pages. The 
summit will accept only electronic submission of papers in PDF or 
Postscript format to "info at kd2u dot org" with "NGDM09 Submission" in 
the subject line. The papers will be included in the NGDM?09 
proceedings. The summit will also produce an edited book. Extended 
versions of the selected papers will be included in the book.


For more details please visit the workshop website.


INVITED SPEAKERS

NGDM'09 will have many invited speakers. The list includes:


Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Cisco
(http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM09/Castilla-Rubio.pdf)
Tom Dietterich, Professor, Oregon State University
(http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/)
Carla Gomes, Professor, Cornell University
(http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/)
Vipin Kumar, Professor, University of Minnesota
(http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/)
Rich Lechner, Vice President, IBM
(http://www-05.ibm.com/hu/soasummit/cv_lechner.html)
Mark McGranaghan, Director, Electric Power Research Inst.
(http://my.epri.com)
Shashi Shekhar, Professor, University of Minnesota
(http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar/)
Brian Worley, Director CSED, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
(http://www.cc.gatech.edu/directory/brian-worley)
Philip Yu, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
(http://www.cs.uic.edu/~psyu/)



**More to be announced soon......**


GENERAL CHAIR

Hillol Kargupta
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of 
Maryland Baltimore County
& Agnik
Web: www.cs.umbc.edu/~hillol
E-mail: info from kd2u.org


STEERING COMMITTEE

Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University
Carla Gomes, Cornell University
Hillol Kargupta, Univ. of Maryland, Balt. County
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ashok Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Lab.


REPORTS CHAIR 

Chris Giannella, New Mexico State University


PUBLICITY CHAIR

Codrina Lauth, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany


NGDM'09 ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Budhedra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
Alok Chowdhary, Northwestern University
Wei Fan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory
Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University
Dino Pedreschi, Università di Pisa, Italy


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper/Poster/Demo-proposal Submission deadline: August 15, 2009 
Notification: August 31, 2009 
Camera-ready due: September 15, 2009
Pre-Registration Deadline: September 8, 2009
Summit: October 1-October 3, 2009