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Last Call for Participation

The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Las Vegas, August 24-27, 2008
http://kdd2008.com/

Registration and Hotel Reservation ****

The online registration service (http://kdd2008.com/registration.html) is open now. On site registration will be available during the conference.

The Loews Lake Las Vegas is sold out for Saturday and Sunday night, August 23rd and 24th. Please see http://kdd2008.com/travel.html for other hotel options. Specifically, shuttles are available from the MonteLago Village Resort and the Ritz Carlton to the Loews Lake Las Vegas, the conference hotel.

The complete program is available at http://kdd2008.com/program.html

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The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-08 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition.

5 Invited talks
  Trevor Hastie (Stanford University), "Regularization Paths and
Coordinate Descent"
  Michael Schwarz (Yahoo! Research), "Internet Advertising and Optimal Auction Design"
  Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley), "The Future of Image Search"
  Thore Graepel (Microsoft Research), "Large Scale Data Analysis and
Modeling in Online Services and Advertising"
  Udo Miletzki (Siemens AG), "The Genesis of Postal OCR and Beyond"

Panel
  Social Networks: Looking Ahead
      Chair: Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research
      Panelists: Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University), David Jensen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Jure Leskovec (Carnegie Mellon University), Gueorgi Kossinets (Cornell University)

7 Tutorials
  J. Han, J. Lee, H. Gonzalez, X. Li, "Mining Massive RFID, Trajectory, and Traffic Data Sets"
  J. Neville, F. Provost, "Predictive Modeling with Social Networks"
  J. Pei, M. Hua, Y. Tao, X. Lin, "Mining Uncertain and Probabilistic Data: problems, Challenges, Methods, and Applications"
  H. Kriegel, P. Kroger, A. Zimek, "Detecting Clusters in Moderate-to-High Dimensional Data: Subspace Clustering, Pattern-based Clustering, and Correlation Clustering"
  H. Liu, N. Agarwal, "Blogosphere: Research Issues, Applications, and Tools"
  X. Yan, K. Borgwardt, "Graph Mining and Graph Kernels"
  R. Feldman, L. Ungar, "Applied Text Mining"

6 Full-day workshops
  The 2nd International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising (ADKDD'08)
  The 9th Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
  WEBKDD'08: 10 Years of Knowledge Discovery on the Web
  The 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD, 2008)
  The 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD'08)
  The 2nd SNA-KDD Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis

7 Half-day workshops
  The 2nd International Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources
  The 2nd KDD Workshop on Large Scale Recommenders Systems and the Netflix Prize
  Data Mining with Constraints
  Data Mining using Matrices and Tensors
  The 8th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD08)
  Data Mining for Business Applications
  KDD Cup and Workshop on Mining Medical Data

96 Research papers and 23 Industry papers (details at http://kdd2008.com/papers.html)

The KDD08 Organizing Committee