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ICDM 2004 Business Meeting
Agenda
ICDM 2004 conference report
– Rajeev Rastogi
ICDM 2004 paper statistics (results of data mining)
– Shushaku Tsumoto
ICDM 2005 conference organization
– Elizabeth Diaz
ICDM 2004 Program Overview
15 Research Sessions (3 parallel tracks)
– 39 regular papers, 66 short papers
Strong technical
program!
4 Invited Talks
– data quality, object prediction, search engines
1 Panel
4 Tutorials
– data mining mistakes, data streams, data grid management
7 Workshops (2 full day, 5 half day)
– life sciences, foundations, privacy and security
Social Event: Excursion to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
ICDM 2004 Conference Organization
Conference Chair: Max Bramer
Program Chairs: Katharina Morik, Rajeev Rastogi
Tutorial Chair: Kyuseok Shim
Workshop Chair: Stan Matwin
Panel Chair: Fosca Gianotti
Publicity Chair: Ning Zhong
Local Arrangements Chair: Jianfeng Feng
Proceedings Chair: Xindong Wu
Website
Website by Katharina Morik running for 1 year
http://icdm04.cs.uni-dortmund.de
Least number of daily access was 58, the 25th January
2004
Number of daily accesses was even 280 the 31st
December 2003
Largest number of daily access was 2509, the 2nd of June
2004.
ICDM 2004 Conference Organization
10 Vice Chairs
– 6 USA, 3 Europe, 1 Asia
137 Program Committee Members
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Switzerland
France
Italy
Finland
China
Japan
Australia
UK
Germany
Canada
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USA
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Research Paper Selection
445 papers submitted to conference
39 papers accepted in regular category
– acceptance rate: ~1 out of 11
66 papers accepted in short category
– overall acceptance rate: ~1 out of 4
Stringent, multi-step review process
– initial round of reviews (most papers had 3 reviews, all papers
had at least 2 reviews)
– discussion phase: resolve conflicting review scores
– vice chairs recommend papers to accept
– program chairs, vice chairs meet (July 26) to decide on final list
of papers to accept
Best Paper Award
15 papers were considered as candidates for best paper
– average score of at least 4, or
– support from at least one reviewer for best paper
Program chairs narrowed 15 to 5 papers
Best paper selected from 5 based on voting
– committee consisting of program chairs + vice chairs
Best paper: Non-redundant data clustering
David Gondek and Thomas Hofmann
Student Travel Awards
5 travel awards of $500 each sponsored by IBM
– cover student travel to Brighton, UK
Total of 36 applications received
Criteria for selecting the final 5 student papers to receive
award
– paper accepted in regular category
– paper received an average score of at least 4
– student is primary author
3 USA, 1 Europe, 1 Australia
Participation at ICDM 2004
Truly International!
Total number of registrants: 237
Spain
Israel
Australia
France
Finland
Canada
China
Japan
Germany
UK
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USA
– conference: 142, tutorials: 27, workshops: 66
Agenda
ICDM 2004 conference report
– Rajeev Rastogi
ICDM 2004 paper statistics (results of data mining)
– Shushaku Tsumoto
ICDM 2005 conference organization
– Elizabeth Diaz