May 1, 2010, Workshop on Machine learning and Data Mining for Sustainable Development
(http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~tingyu/MLDMSD2010.htm)
The Columbus, A Renaissance Hotel, Columbus, Ohio

to be Held in Conjunction with the
2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2010)
(http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm10/)

In order to handle and manage the complex nature of environmental information, special technologies, methods and systems must be developed. The objective of this workshop is to present the recent work or research in the field of machine learning and data mining for the economic and environmental data processing. The topic of the workshop involves cutting-edge machine learning and data mining algorithms and tools, and the application of machine learning and data mining techniques in sustainability development. The workshop includes, but is not limited to the following techniques and real case studies from spatial environmental problems, natural hazards, natural and renewable resources, socio-economic data and other fields of application:

Machine Learning
Artificial Neural Networks
Optimization
Knowledge discovery
Data mining, spatial and temporal data mining
Spatial analysis and spatial statistical models
Geographic Information Systems
Data visualization


Important Dates
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Papers Due: January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: February 5, 2010
Camera ready: Final Papers due to workshop: February 12, 2010
Workshop: May 1, 2010

Organizers
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Program Committee

Chairs: Ting Yu, University of Sydney and Manfred Lenzen, University of Sydney

Ghazi Al-Naymat, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Jin Fan, Jiangsu Administration Institute, P.R.China
Aditya Ghose, Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative and School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia
Carla P. Gomes, Institute for Computational Sustainability, Cornell University, USA
Simeon Simoff, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Toby Walsh, NICTA and The University of New South Wales, Australia
Volker Wohlgemuth, Industrial Environmental Computing, HTW Berlin, German
Xin Zhou, The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan

For additional information consult http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~tingyu/MLDMSD2010.htm.