SDM'12: THE TWELFTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING (Deadline Extension)

Due to several requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to October 16th, 2011 23:59 PDT.

Anaheim, California, USA
Apr 26 - 28, 2012
URL: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm12/

IMPORTANT DATES
September 30, 2011 11:59 PM PDT: Workshop/Tutorial Proposals
October 16, 2011 11:59 PM PDT: Paper Submission (Extended)
December 21, 2011 11:59 PM PST: Author Notification
January 25, 2012: Camera Ready Papers Due

DESCRIPTION
Data mining is an important tool in science, engineering, industrial processes, healthcare, business, and medicine. The datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge requires the use of sophisticated, high performance and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations that are carefully tuned for performance; powerful visualization technologies; interface systems that are usable by scientists, engineers, and physicians as well as researchers; and infrastructures that support them.

This conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops are also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form, and are also made available on the SIAM web site.

Update: At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work.

THEMES
Methods and Algorithms
- Classification
- Clustering
- Frequent Pattern Mining
- Probabilistic & Statistical Methods
- Spatial & Temporal Mining
- Data Stream Mining
- Abnormality & Outlier Detection
- Feature Selection/ Feature Extraction
- Dimension Reduction
- Data Reduction
- Mining with Constraints
- Data Cleaning & Noise Reduction
- Computational Learning Theory
- Multi-Task Learning
- Adaptive Algorithms
- Scalable & High-Performance Mining
- Mining Graphs
- Mining Semi structured Data
- Mining Complex Datasets
- Mining on Emerging Architectures
- Text & Web Mining
- Other Novel Methods

Applications
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- High Energy Physics
- Collaborative Filtering
- Earth Science
- Risk Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Finance
- Genomics & Bioinformatics
- Drug Discovery
- Healthcare Management
- Automation & Process Control
- Logistics Management
- Intrusion & Fraud detection
- Bio-surveillance
- Sensor Network Applications
- Social Network Analysis
- Intelligence Analysis
- Other Novel Applications & Case Studies

Human Factors and Social Issues
- Ethics of Data Mining
- Intellectual Ownership
- Privacy Models
- Privacy Preserving Data Mining & Data Publishing
- Risk Analysis
- User Interfaces
- Interestingness & Relevance
- Data & Result Visualization

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics. Please see the SDM 2012 website for submission requirements. Examples of workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2011 website, http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm11/


CONFIRMED KEYNOTES (as of September 28, 2011)

1. Dr. R. Bharat Rao
Director of Knowledge Solutions
Health Services Division
Siemens Healthcare.
Talk on Data Mining for Healthcare.

2. Professor Noshir Contractor
http://sonic.northwestern.edu/people/noshir-contractor/
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group
Northwestern University
Talk on analysis of large social networks. More details at: http://nosh.northwestern.edu/cv/keynote-addresses-and-distinguished-lectures/.

3. Professor Qiang Yang
http://www.cs.ust.hk/~qyang/
Professor and Associate Head (PG and Research)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
HKUST
Talk on Transfer Learning.

4. Dr. Susan Dumais
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sdumais/
Principal Researcher
Context, Learning and User Experience for Search (CLUES) Group, http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/
Microsoft Research
Talk on dynamic/temporal information retrieval.

Details will be made available on http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm12/invited.php.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Steering Committee Chair
Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Conference Chairs
Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas - Austin, USA
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA

Program Chairs
Ian Davidson, University of California - Davis, USA
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA

Workshop Chairs
Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota, USA
Chandan Reddy, Wayne State University, USA

Tutorial Chair
Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA

Publicity Chairs
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Sponsorship Chairs
Jennifer Dy, Northwestern University, USA
Jimeng Sun, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Local Chair
Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA