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Call for Papers

The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM’08) is aimed to gather researchers and application
developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, computational intelligence,
pattern recognition, databases and visualization. ECDM’08 is aimed to advance the state of the art in data
mining field and its various real world applications. ECDM’08 will provide opportunities for technical
collaboration among data mining and machine learning researchers around the globe.

Acceptance will be based primarily on originality, significance and quality of contribution.

Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:   

Core Data Mining Topics

 

- Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms

- Data streams mining

- Graph mining

- Spatial data mining

- Text video, multimedia data mining

- Web mining

- Pre-processing techniques

- Visualization

- Security and information hiding in data mining

Data Mining Applications  

 

- Databases,

- Bioinformatics,

- Biometrics

- Image analysis

- Financial modeling

- Forecasting

- Classification

- Clustering


The Conference will be composed of several types of contributions:

  • Full Papers – These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages at the maximum
    (5,000 words).

  • Short Papers – These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh developments and have
    4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).

  • Reflection Papers – These might review recent research literature pertaining to a particular problem or
    approach, indicate what the findings suggest, and/or provide a suggestion - with rationale and
    justification - for a different approach or perspective on that problem. Reflection papers might also
    analyze general trends or discuss important issues in topics related to the conference. These have 4
    pages at maximum (2,500 words).

  • Posters / Demonstrations – These contain implementation information or work-in-progress and have
    two pages at maximum (1,250 words) besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed
    at the conference.

  • Tutorials – Tutorials can be proposed by scholars or company representatives. A proposal of maximum
    250 words is expected.

  • Invited Talks – These will be made of contributions from well-known scholars and company
    representatives. An abstract will be included in the conference proceedings.

  • Panels – Discussions on selected topics will be held. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.

  • Doctoral Consortium - A Doctoral Consortium will discuss in group, individual projects and on going
    work of PhD students. Prospective students should send a report of their PhD projects and work so far
    with a maximum of 4 pages (2,500 words).

  • Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions – The former enables Companies to present recent developments
    and applications, inform a large and qualified audience of your future directions and showcase
    company’s noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot for companies to make their
    presentation in a room. The latter enables companies the opportunity to display its latest offerings of
    hardware, software, tools, services and books, through an exhibit booth. For further details please
    contact the publicity chair - secretariat@mccsis.org .

All submissions, except invited talks, are subject to a blind refereeing process.

Important Dates:

- Submission Deadline (last call): 30 May 2008

- Notification to Authors (last call): Until 16 june 2008

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st date): Until 21 April 2008

- Late Registration (1st date): After 21 April 2008

- Conference: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008

 

 

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