Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2011)
The University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia,
1-2 December 2011

Data mining, the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually
large) data sets for meaningful (and previously unknown) insights, is
now being actively applied in industries including defence, medicine,
science, financial services, customer analytics, government,
insurance,
telecommunications, retail and distribution, transportation, and
utilities.

The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the
premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in
data mining. Since AusDM*02 the conference has showcased research in
data mining, providing a forum for presenting and discussing the
latest
research and developments. Since 2006, all proceedings have been
printed
as volumes in the CRPIT series.

This year*s conference, AusDM*11 builds on this tradition of
facilitating the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, experience and
potential research directions. Specifically, the conference seeks to
showcase: Industry Case Studies; Research Prototypes; Practical
Analytics Technology; and Research Student Projects. AusDM*11 will
be
a meeting place for pushing forward the frontiers of data mining in
industry and academia.

Scope of the Conference
We are calling for papers, both research and applications, and from
both academia and industry, for presentation at the conference. All
papers will go through double-blind, peer-review by a panel of
international experts. Accepted papers will be published in an
up-coming
volume (Data Mining and Analytics 2011) of the Conferences in Research
and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series by the
Australian
Computer Society which is also held in full-text on the ACM Digital
Library and will also be distributed at the conference. For more
details
on CRPIT please see http://www.crpit.com. Please note that we require
that at least one author for each accepted paper will register for the
conference and present their work.

AusDM invites contributions addressing current research in data mining
and knowledge discovery as well as experiences, novel applications and
future challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted
to:
* Applications and Case Studies - Lessons and Experiences
* Business Analytics
* Computational Aspects of Data Mining
* Data Integration, Matching and Linkage
* Data Mining Education
* Data Preparation, Cleaning and Preprocessing
* Embedded Data Mining Technologies
* Evaluation of Results and their Communication
* Implementations of Data Mining in Industry
* Infrastructure for Data Mining
* Integrating Domain Knowledge
* Mathematical Optimisation in Data Mining
* New Data Mining Algorithms
* Link, Graph, Network and Process Mining
* Professional Challenges in Data Mining
* Variable Selection and Generation
* Visual Analytics
* New Directions in Data Mining, including but not limited to
Biomedical and Health Data Mining; Data Mining in Security
and Surveillance; Financial Data Mining; Data Stream Mining;
Multimedia
Data Mining; Privacy-preserving Data Mining;
Spatial and Temporal Data Mining; Text Mining; and Web Mining

Submission of papers for review
The length of the submissions is not restricted. We encourage
submissions of up to 8-12 pages. We will use a double-blinded review
process, i.e. paper submissions must NOT include authors* names or
affiliations (and also not acknowledgements referring to funding
bodies). Self-citing references should also be removed from the
submitted papers (they can be added on after the review) for the
double
blind reviewing purpose.

Paper submissions are required to follow the general format specified
for papers in the CRPIT series by the Australian Computer Society.
Details are available from http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html.
LaTeX styles and Word templates may be found on this site. LaTeX is
the
suggested typesetting package. Electronic submissions should be in PDF
and made through the
EasyChair page at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ausdm11.

Important Dates
Submission of abstracts: Friday June 24, 2011
Submission of full papers Monday 22 Aug 2011 10am AEST
Notification of authors Monday 3 October 2011
Submission of camera ready version Monday 17 October 2011
Early bird registration Monday 24 October 2011
Conference Thursday 1st- Friday 2nd December 2011

Organising Committee
Program Chairs
KokLeong Ong, Deakin University, Victoria
Paul Kennedy, University of Technology, Sydney
Peter Christen, Australian National University, Canberra
Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Ballarat

Conference Chairs
John Yearwood, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Adelaide

Other Conference Committee Members
David Yost, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Peter Vamplew, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Long Jia, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Richard Dazeley, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Shamsul Huda, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Sally Firmin, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Sunam Pradhan, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Zari Dzalilov, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
Subhasis Mukharjee, Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), Melbourne

Steering Committee Chairs
Simeon Simoff, University of Western Sydney
Graham Williams, Australian Taxation Office

Other Steering Committee Members
Peter Christen, Australian National University, Canberra
Paul Kennedy, University of Technology, Sydney
Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Victoria
John Roddick, Flinders University, Adelaide