Special Track on Data Mining

at FLAIRS 23

In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

May 19^th-21^st, 2010

Paper submission deadline: November 23^rd, 2009. 
Notifications: January 22^nd, 2010.

Camera ready version due: February 22, 2010

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI.

Call for Papers

What is Data Mining and the GOAL of this track?

Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. As more data is gathered, data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information. It is commonly used in a wide range of profiling services, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection and scientific discovery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining). This special track will be devoted to data mining with the aim of presenting new and important contributions.

What kind of studies will be of interest?

Papers and contributions are encourages for any work relating to Data Mining. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way limited to):

1. Applications such as Intelligence analysis, medical and health applications, text, video, and multi-media mining, E-commerce and web data, financial data analysis, intrusion detection, remote sensing, earth sciences, and astronomy.

2. Modeling algorithms such as hidden Markov, decision trees, neural networks, statistical methods, or probabilistic methods; case studies in areas of application, or over different algorithms and approaches.

3. Feature extraction and selection.

4. Post-processing techniques such as visualization, summarization, or trending.

5. Preprocessing and data reduction.

6. Data engineering or warehousing.

Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted, in submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the reviewing process).

Other tracks at FLAIRS that may be on interest to those submitting to this track include Learning in Intelligent Systems, in a total of 13 special tracks that accompany the main conference.

Submission Guidelines for the DM track

Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts by November 22, 2009. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages (approx. 4000 words) in length, including figures. Anonymous author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers, to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as a PDF through the EasyChair conference system. (Note: Do not use an anonymous name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers.) Papers should be formatted according to AAAI Guidelines. Submission instructions can be found at the FLAIRS-2010 website given above. Notification of acceptance will be mailed around January, 2010. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit the final camera-ready copies of their full papers by February, 2010 for publication in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press.

Special Tracks

Call for Special Tracks

Special tracks, held in parallel with the general conference, are an integral part of the conference. They provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to meet and present their work, and offer a forum for interaction among the broader community of artificial intelligence researchers. Their papers are required to meet the same standards and are published in the conference proceedings.

Topics of interest are in all areas related to artificial intelligence. For example, last year's special tracks included: AI Education; AI Planning and Scheduling; Applied Natural Language Processing; Case-Based Reasoning; Data Mining; Design, Evaluation, and Refinement of Intelligent Systems (DERIS); Games and Entertainment; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Semantics, Ontologies, and Computational Linguistics; and Uncertain Reasoning.

We encourage proposals for topics that have run previously. Even special tracks that have run for a number of years may need or benefit from new leadership support and perspective, so please do not hesitate to indicate interest in an area, or to contact the Special Tracks Coordinator if you have questions about proposing on a particular topic. We are also particularly interested in fresh tracks in areas such as Machine Learning or AI in English as a Second Language, but all proposals for tracks are very much encouraged.

Submission of proposals for special tracks is now invited. Proposals must be submitted via the EasyChair conference management site for FLAIRS-23. Special track chairs may submit to their own tracks. Those papers will be reviewed by two members of the special track's program committee and two members of the general conference program committee, and acceptance decisions will be made by the conference program co-chairs. Proposals must include the following information:

1. Title of the special track.
2. Anticipated numbers of submissions and accepted papers. A track may have up to 4 sessions, with 3 papers per session. Special tracks that fail to attract sufficient papers will be merged into the general conference.
3. Names and contact information for the special track chair(s) and those who have agreed to serve on the special track's program committee. The program committee should be large enough for each paper to be reviewed by 4 reviewers.
4. Promotional plans and materials, including a draft call for papers, specific plans for publicizing the special track, and the names of any speakers you are considering inviting. (FLAIRS cannot guarantee any form of financial support for special track invited speakers at this stage.)
5. Summary of any special tracks you have organized for FLAIRS over the last two years. In particular, what track(s) have you organized, how many submissions were received, and how many papers were accepted?

Organizers

Please, check the website http://www.flairs-23.info/ for invited speakers and conference details.

Track Invited Speakers

Jorge Ramirez, PhD Apple Computer

Organizing Committee

David Bisant, The Laboratory for Physical Sciences, bisant@umbc.edu

William Eberle, Tennessee Technological University, weberle@tntech.edu

Current Program Committee

• Rafal Angryk Montana State University, USA

• Jesus Gonzalez NIAOE, Mexico

• Nitesh Chawla University of Notre Dame, USA

• Diane Cook Washington State University, USA

• Olac Fuentes University of Texas, El Paso, USA

• Slawomir Zadrozny Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

• Hyoil Han Drexel University, USA

• Lawrence Holder Washington State University, USA

• Jorge Ramirez Apple Computer, USA

• SeungJin Lim Utah State University, USA

• Eduardo Morales NIAOE, Mexico

• Douglas Talbert Tennessee Technological University, USA

• Martin Atzmueller University of Wuerzburg, Germany

• Reza Tayebnejad Verizon Business Solutions, USA

• Jacek Kukluk Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA

• Georgios Anagnostopoulos Florida Institute of Technology, USA

• Roberto Santana University of Basque Country, Spain

• Jeff Pittges Radford University, USA

• Jim Austin University of York, UK

•Serge Dolenko  D.V.Skobeltsyn Nuclear Physics Inst, Russia
•Mike James  Infomax Group, UK
•Luis Marti  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
•Sergio Roa  German Research center for AI (DFKI), Germany
 

Conference Web Sites

FLAIRS-2010 conference web page: http://www.flairs-23.info/
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com