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Call for Papers
2012 Workshop on Declarative Data Mining
December 10, 2012, Brussels, Belgium
http://liris.cnrs.fr/wdpm2012

Held in conjunction with ICDM 2012
The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
http://icdm2012.ua.ac.be
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State-of-the-art systems for data mining contain highly efficient
algorithms, however, the tasks supported are often limited. More
specifically, they often lack support for solving enumeration problems
other than the pre-defined ones.
Their main weakness is at the language level, making it hard or
impossible to:
* add (or remove) constraints, or,
* support slight modifications of the problem statement.
This lack of flexibility and genericity is problematic and limits the
potential of existing data mining systems.

An emerging research trend is the combination of declarative modeling
languages with generic and efficient solving techniques. These
"declarative pattern mining" approaches are often inspired by
successful methodologies from other research fields, such as databases
and A.I.

This workshop aims to stimulate the cross-fertilization between data
mining, artificial intelligence, combinatorial algorithmic and
databases, to bring original solutions to fundamental data mining
problems.

The topics covered include (but are not limited to):
* High-level declarative languages (logical or algebraic) for
expressing pattern mining problems
* Complexity results and algorithms for pattern enumeration problems
* Constraint-based mining
* Mining complex patterns using constraint (logic) programming,
Satisfiability (modulo theory), Integer Linear programming, ...
* Modeling complex pattern problems using itemsets
* Classification of complex pattern mining problems
* Use cases of complex pattern mining
* Coupling database and pattern mining systems


PAPER SUBMISSION

All submissions will be handled electronically via CyberChair. Paper
submissions should be from 6 to 8 pages long in the IEEE 2-column
format. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee on the
basis of technical quality, relevance to the workshop topics,
originality, significance, and clarity. Papers that do not comply with
the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review.

For paper submission, please visit the website of the workshop: http://liris.cnrs.fr/wdpm2012/


IMPORTANT DATES
* August 10, 2012: Due date for full workshop papers
* October 1, 2012: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
* October 15, 2012: Camera-ready of accepted papers
* December 10, 2012: Workshop date

ORGANIZERS
* Emmanuel Coquery (Universit� Claude Bernard Lyon 1/Universit� de Lyon, France)
* Tias Guns (KU Leuven, Belgium)
* Lhouari Nourine (Universit� Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
* Takeaki Uno (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)