Sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Data Mining and Analytics.

This conference is held in cooperation with the American Statistical Association.

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Announcements

Best Research Paper Award
Efficient Search of the Best Warping Window for Dynamic Time Warping
Authors: Chang Wei Tan, Monash University, Australia; Matthieu Herrmann, Monash University, Australia; Germain Forestier, University of Haute Alsace, France; Geoff Webb, Monash University, Australia; Francois Petitjean, Monash University, Australia

Best Applied Data Science Paper Award
Brain EEG Time Series Selection: A Novel Graph-based Approach for Classification
Authors: Chenglong Dai, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China; Jia Wu, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Dechang Pi, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China;  Lin Cui, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Doctoral Forum Awards
Best Poster Award
Exploration and Mining of Temporal Data
Author: Ramoza Ahsan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Best Poster Runner-Up Award
Tracking the Human Brain: Modeling Nonstationarity in Human Electroencephalogram
Author: Sheng-Hsiou Hsu, University of California, San Diego, USA

 

Doctoral Student Forum Applications for participation in the doctoral forum are due February 12, 2018. Click here for the Call for Doctoral Student Forum Participants.

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Organizing Committee

Steering Committee Co-Chairs
Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA

Steering Committee
Chid Apte, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joydeep Ghosh, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Haesun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA
Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, USA
Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Conference Co-Chairs
Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of Athens, Greece

Program Co-Chairs
Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy

Workshops Co-Chairs
Joao Gama, University of Porto-LIAAD, Portugal
Jing Gao, SUNY Buffalo, USA

Tutorials Chair
Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA

Doctoral Forum Chair
Julian McAuley, University of California, San Diego, USA

Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Matteo Riondato, TwoSigma, USA
Jiliang Tang, Michigan State University, USA

Panels Chair
Francesca Spezzano, Boise State University, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs
Zhenhui Li, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Awards Chair
Zoran Obradavic, Temple University, USA

Senior Program and Program Committee

 

Description

Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data – the core of modern Data Science. It has enormous applications in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, data scientists and application developers from different disciplines, as well as usable by stakeholders.

SDM has established itself as a leading conference in the field of data mining and provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. SDM emphasizes principled methods with solid mathematical foundation, is known for its high-quality and high-impact technical papers, and offers a strong workshop and tutorial program (which are included in the conference registration). The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form, and are also made available on the SIAM web site.

 

Funding Agencies

SIAM and the Conference Organizing Committee wish to extend their thanks and appreciation to the U.S. National Science Foundation and DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research for their support of this conference.

 

Themes

Methods and Algorithms

• Classification
• Clustering
• Frequent Pattern Mining
• Probabilistic & Statistical Methods
• Graphical Models
• Spatial & Temporal Mining
• Data Stream Mining
• Anomaly & Outlier Detection
• Feature Extraction, Selection and Dimension Reduction
• Mining with Constraints
• Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
• Computational Learning Theory
• Multi-Task Learning
• Online Algorithms
• Big Data, Scalable & High-Performance Computing Techniques
• Mining with Data Clouds
• Mining Graphs
• Mining Semi Structured Data
• Mining Image Data
• Mining on Emerging Architectures
• Text & Web Mining
• Optimization Methods
• Other Novel Methods

Applications

• Astronomy & Astrophysics
• High Energy Physics
• Recommender Systems
• Climate / Ecological / Environmental  Science
• Risk Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Finance
• Genomics & Bioinformatics
• Drug Discovery
• Healthcare Management
• Automation & Process Control
• Logistics Management
• Intrusion & Fraud detection
• Bio-surveillance 
• Sensor Network Applications
• Social Network Analysis
• Intelligence Analysis
• Other Novel Applications & Case Studies

Human Factors and Social Issues

• Ethics of Data Mining
• Intellectual Ownership
• Privacy Models
• Privacy Preserving Data Mining & Data Publishing
• Risk Analysis
• User Interfaces
• Interestingness & Relevance
• Data & Result Visualization
• Other Human Factors and Social Issues

 

Important Deadlines

SUBMISSION DEADLINES
October 6, 2017 11:59PM (US Pacific Time): Abstract Submission
October 6, 2017 11:59PM (US Pacific Time): Workshop Proposals
October 6, 2017 11:59PM (US Pacific Time): Tutorial Proposals
October 13, 2017 11:59PM (US Pacific Time): Paper Submission

TRAVEL FUND APPLICATION DEADLINE
January 26, 2018: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications

PRE-REGISTRATION RATE DEADLINE
April 3, 2018: Disconnect time is midnight EDT

HOTEL RESERVATION DEADLINE
April 3, 2018