Call for papers: SIGKDD Explorations
Special Issue on Constraints in Data Mining
Guest editor: Roberto Bayardo
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SIGKDD Explorations is the official newsletter of ACM's Special
Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. This
special issue invites submissions which explore novel applications and
uses of constraints in knowledge discovery and data mining.
Constraints play many important roles in KDD, among them:
o controlling search cost
o enabling comprehensible visualizations
o improving accuracy, interpretability and stability of classification
and other models.
While papers on improving data-mining algorithm performance
through constaints will be welcome, we particularly encourage
submissions which propose novel methods of dealing with or exploiting
constraints within the knowledge discovery process. Example topics of
interest might include methods for aiding the end user in setting or
understanding the effects of constraints, techniques for optimizing
models given a number of conflicting constraints, applications of
constraints to phases of knowledge discovery such as data cleansing or
data presentation, and theoretical underpinnings of constraint-based
mining.
We invite high quality submissions on the above topics for this
special issue. Submissions should be made to the guest editor at
bayardo@almaden.ibm.com. Submissions will be reviewed by the guest
editor, external reviewers and/or associate editors as appropriate.
The previous issues of the SIGKDD Explorations are available online at
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm. SIGKDD Explorations
newsletter is sent to the ACM SIGKDD membership and to a world-wide
network of libraries.
Submissions can be made in any one of the following categories.
- survey/tutorial articles (short) on important topics not
exceeding 20 pages
- topical articles on problems and challenges
- well-articulated position papers
- technical articles not exceeding 15 pages.
- news items on the order of 1-3 paragraphs
- Brief announcements not exceeding 5 lines in length.
- review articles of products and methodologies not exceeding 20
pages
- reviews/summaries from conferences, panels and special meetings.
- reports on relevant meetings and committees related to the field
Important Dates:
Submission --- April 15, 2002
Notification --- May 7, 2002
Camera Ready --- May 31, 2002
Some words about the SIGKDD newsletter:
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SIGKDD Explorations is a bi-annual newsletter dedicated to serve the
SIGKDD membership and community. Our goal is to make SIGKDD
Explorations a very informative, rapid publication, and interesting
forum for communicating with SIGKDD community.
For more information on SIGKDD visit http://www.acm.org/sigkdd and for
more information on the SIGKDD Explorations newsletter, please visit
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm
Roberto Bayardo, Guest Editor
bayardo@almaden.ibm.com
Usama Fayyad, Editor-in-Chief
fayyad@acm.org
Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Editor
sunita@cs.berkeley.edu
Paul Bradley, Associate Editor
bradley@microsoft.com
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