[UAI] Call for Tutorial Proposals -- KDD-2001

From: Tom Fawcett (tfawcett@hpl.hp.com)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 15:49:01 PST

  • Next message: Padhraic Smyth: "[UAI] Call for Papers and Announcement for INTERFACE '01"

                             Call for Tutorial Proposals
        KDD-2001: The Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
                         Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
                  August 26-29, 2001, San Francisco, California, USA
                          http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2001

    INTRODUCTION

    Tutorials have become an integral part of KDD conferences. This is
    partly because of the interdisciplinary nature of data mining, but
    also because of the amount and speed of progress in the past decade.
    Tutorials are an effective way to educate conference attendees in
    specific topics and emerging sub-fields. Traditionally, KDD
    conferences have offered high quality tutorials on many aspects of
    data mining.

    For KDD-2001, we are seeking proposals for 4 to 8 tutorials, each of
    1.5 or 3 hours duration. A tutorial should ideally appeal to more
    than one sub-community of data mining, i.e., databases, machine
    learning and statistics. It should both educate conference attendees
    about a subfield and provide background necessary to understand
    technical advances. It may discuss novel data mining techniques,
    successful applications in data mining, and/or theme-oriented
    comprehensive surveys.

    PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

    Tutorial proposals should be submitted by March 7, 2001. Proposals
    should be submitted electronically to the Tutorials Chair (Tom Fawcett
    <tom_fawcett@hp.com>). 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:

       (a) Basic information: Title, brief description, names and contact
           information for each tutor, the length of the proposed tutorial
           (1.5 or 3 hours).

       (b) Audience: What is the intended audience for the tutorial, e.g.,
           novice users of statistical techniques, expert researchers in
           text mining, or database administrators.

       (c) 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, mailing lists, discussions, papers, symposia,
           communities, etc.
           
       (d) Coverage: How deep/broad is the proposed tutorial?
           How valuable would the tutorial be with the given scope?

       (e) 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.

    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. For the proposed subject matter the tutor should
    have appropriate qualifications. On the other hand, the tutor should
    NOT focus mainly on his or her 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 tutor's
    own research or product, please indicate this in the proposal.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    March 7, 2001: Tutorial proposals due
    March 30, 2001: Notification of proposal acceptance
    August 26, 2001: KDD-2001 Tutorials held

    For further information, please contact Tom Fawcett (tom_fawcett@hp.com).



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jan 08 2001 - 15:56:11 PST