Topics of Interest
Data mining foundations
- Novel data mining algorithms in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, pattern discovery, and association analysis)
- Models and algorithms for new, structured, data types, such as arising in chemistry, biology, environment, and other scientific domains
- Developing a unifying theory of data mining
- Mining sequences and sequential data
- Mining spatial and temporal datasets
- Mining textual and unstructured datasets
- Distributed data mining
- High performance implementations of data mining algorithms
- Privacy and anonymity-preserving data analysis
Mining in emerging domains
- Stream Data Mining
- Mining moving object data, RFID data, and data from sensor networks
- Ubiquitous knowledge discovery
- Mining multi-agent data and agent-based data mining
- Mining and link analysis in networked settings: web, social and computer networks, and online communities
- Mining the semantic web
- Data mining in electronic commerce, such as recommendation, sponsored web search, advertising, and marketing tasks
Methodological aspects and the KDD process
- Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection, and feature transformation
- Quality assessment, interestingness analysis, and post-processing
- Statistical foundations for robust and scalable data mining
- Handling imbalanced data
- Automating the mining process and other process related issues
- Dealing with cost sensitive data and loss models
- Human-machine interaction and visual data mining
- Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
- Data mining query languages
- Security and data integrity
Integrated KDD applications, systems, and experiences
- Bioinformatics, computational chemistry, ecoinformatics
- Computational finance, online trading, and analysis of markets
- Intrusion detection, fraud prevention, and surveillance
- Healthcare, epidemic modeling, and clinical research
- Customer relationship management
- Telecommunications, network and systems management
- Sustainable mobility and intelligent transportation systems
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