SDM'18: THE EIGHTEENTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING

May 3 - May 5, 2018
San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
San Diego, California, USA
http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm18/

------------ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ------------

Abstract Submission: October 6, 2017, 11:59pm (PDT)
Full Paper Submission: October 13, 2017, 11:59pm (PDT)
Workshop Proposals: October 6, 2017, 11:59pm (PDT)
Tutorial Proposals: October 6, 2017, 11:59pm (PDT)


DESCRIPTION
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Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data. It has enormous application in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, which are based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for
performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user
interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to
researchers, analysts, and application developers from different disciplines.

The SDM 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 is 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.


THEMES AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Methods and Algorithms
- Classification
- Clustering
- Frequent Pattern Mining
- Probabilistic & Statistical Methods
- Graphical Models
- Deep Neural Networks
- Spatial & Temporal Mining
- Data Stream Mining
- Anomaly & Outlier Detection
- Feature Extraction, Selection and Dimension Reduction
- Mining with Constraints
- Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
- Computational Learning Theory
- Multi-Task Learning
- Online Algorithms
- Big Data, Scalable & High-Performance Computing Techniques
- Mining with Data Clouds
- Mining Graphs
- Mining Semi-Structured Data
- Mining Image Data
- Mining on Emerging Architectures
- Text & Web Mining
- Optimization Methods
- Other Novel Methods

Applications
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- High Energy Physics
- Recommender Systems
- Climate / Ecological / Environmental 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
- Educational Data Mining
- 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
- Other Human Factors and Social Issues


WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
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The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics.
Please see the SDM 2018 website for submission requirements. Examples of
workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2017 website at
http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm17/


FOLLOW SDM
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https://twitter.com/SIAMDataMining
Twitter hashtag:
#SIAMSDM18
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA
Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of Athens, Greece
Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Joao Gama, University of Porto-LIAAD, Portugal
Jing Gao, SUNY Buffalo, USA

TUTORIAL CHAIR
Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA

DOCTORAL FORUM CHAIR
Julian McAuley, University of California, San Diego, USA

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Zhenhui Li, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia

SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS
Matteo Riondato, TwoSigma, USA
Jiliang Tang, Michigan State University, USA