[UAI] SIGKDD 2002 - Call for Workshop/Tutorial/Panel Proposals

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    SIGKDD -- WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS/PANELS
    CALL FOR PROPOSALS -- DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 22, 2002

    The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    July 23-26, 2002
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Call for Workshop, Tutorial, and Panel Proposals

    In the past few years, the ACM SIGKDD conference has established itself
    as one of the premier conferences on knowledge discovery and data
    mining. To continue with this tradition, the eighth ACM SIGKDD
    conference will provide a forum for the academic researchers and
    industry practitioners to share their research and experience. The
    conference will be co-located with AAAI. It will feature keynote
    presentations, plenary paper presentations, poster presentations,
    tutorials, workshops, panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition.

    The organizing committee is soliciting proposals for Workshops,
    Tutorials and Panels related to KDD. (details below)
    More details can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002/

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    Call for Workshop Proposals

    Workshops Chair:
    Renee Miller
    University of Toronto, Canada
    (miller@cs.toronto.edu)

    The KDD-2002 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to
    be held in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these
    workshops is to provide participants with the opportunity to discuss
    novel research ideas on focused technical topics in an informal
    setting. Researchers and practitioners from all segments of the
    data-mining community are invited to submit proposals for review. The
    organizers of approved workshops are expected to define the workshop's
    focus, gather and review submissions, and decide upon final program
    content. They may elect to form organizing or program committees for
    assistance in these tasks.

    PROPOSAL DETAILS
    Proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, and must include
    the following information:

    1.Description of the research issues that will be the focus of the workshop.
    2.Reasons why the topic is of interest.
    3.Contact information (address, email, phone) for all organizers, and
      a designated primary contact.
    4.List of potential reviewers, authors, and attendees (if possible).

    Proposers are encouraged to have their drafts reviewed by potential
    workshop participants before submission.

    IMPORTANT DATES
    February 22, 2002 --- Workshop proposals due
    March 25, 2002 --- Notification of proposal acceptance
    July 23, 2002 --- KDD-2002 workshops held

    Workshop proposals should be sent by e-mail to the Workshops Chair,
    Ren&eacutee J. Miller (miller@cs.toronto.edu), by the submission
    deadline of February 22, 2002. PDF format is highly preferred.

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    Call for Tutorial Proposals

    Tutorials Chair:
    Alexander Hinneburg
    University of Halle, Germany
    (hinneburg@informatik.uni-halle.de)

    Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Tutorials
    Chair. Proposals may take the form of plain text, Postscript, PDF,
    Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, or some combination of
    these. Contact the Tutorials Chair if you wish to provide
    non-electronic supporting materials along with your proposal.

    PROPOSAL DETAILS
    Tutorial proposals should address the following issues:

    Basic information: Title, brief description, names and contact
    information for each tutor.
    Audience: What is the intended audience for the tutorial, e.g., novice
    users of statistical techniques, expert researchers in text mining, or
    database administrators.
    Interest: Why is this topic important/interesting to the KDD
    community? Provide some informal evidence that people would
    attend. Evidence might include related workshops, conference sessions,
    papers, communities, etc.
    Coverage: How deep/broad is the proposed tutorial? How valuable would
    the tutorial be with the given scope?
    Background: What background will be required of the audience?

    Enough materials should be included in the proposal to provide a sense
    of the scope and depth of the tutorial. The more details that can be
    provided, the better; up to and including actual overhead slides.

    For optimal preparation of the conference please indicate if you like
    to use non-standard or additional supplementary equipment. The
    standard equipment includes a LCD projector, an overhead projector, a
    single projection screen and cordless microphones.

    The proposal should also include some biographical information on each
    tutor (including WWW address, if applicable). This information should
    describe the qualifications of each presenter with respect to the
    tutorial's topic. On the other hand, the tutors should not focus
    mainly on their own research results. A KDD tutorial is NOT a forum
    for promoting one's research or product. If, for certain parts of the
    tutorial, the material comes directly from the tutors' own research or
    product, please indicate this in the proposal.

    IMPORTANT DATES
    February 22, 2002 --- Tutorial proposals due
    March 25, 2002 --- Notification of proposal acceptance
    May 30, 2002 --- Camera ready copy of tutorial notes
    July 23, 2002 --- KDD-2002 tutorials held

    For further information, please contact Alexander Hinneburg
    (hinneburg@informatik.uni-halle.de).

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    Call for Panel Proposals

    Panels Chair:
    Rajeev Rastogi
    Bell Labs, USA
    (rastogi@research.bell-labs.com)

    The Eighth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
    Mining (KDD-2002) is the premiere event for the data mining community,
    expected to bring together leading researchers from academia and
    industry. Among other activities, the conference program includes
    panels, and the program committee invites submission of proposals for
    them.

    Panel proposals are expected to address new, exciting, and
    controversial issues. They should include:

    1.Summary of the topics to be covered.
    2.Name, affiliation and contact information for the panel chair.
    3.Names and affiliations of up to four panelists (in addition to the
    panel chair) who have made a commitment to participate.
    4.Short summary of their position statements.
    5.Brief biography of each participant.

    A mix of industry and academic panel members is encouraged.

    Panel proposals should be submitted electronically in ASCII format to
    the Panels Chair, Rajeev Rastogi (rastogi@research.bell-labs.com).

    IMPORTANT DATES
    February 22, 2002 --- Panel proposals due
    March 25, 2002 --- Notification of proposal acceptance

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