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ICDM 2004 Business Meeting
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Agenda

• ICDM 2004 conference report
• Rajeev Rastogi
• ICDM 2004 paper statistics (results of data
  mining)
• Shushaku Tsumoto
• ICDM 2005 conference organization
• Elizabeth Diaz

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ICDM 2004 Program Overview

• 15 Research Sessions (3 parallel tracks)
• 39 regular papers, 66 short papers
• 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

Strong technical program!
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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

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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.

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ICDM 2004 Conference Organization

• 10 Vice Chairs
• 6 USA, 3 Europe, 1 Asia
• 137 Program Committee Members

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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

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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

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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

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Participation at ICDM 2004
Truly International!

• Total number of registrants 237
• conference 142, tutorials 27, workshops 66

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Agenda

• ICDM 2004 conference report
• Rajeev Rastogi
• ICDM 2004 paper statistics (results of data
  mining)
• Shushaku Tsumoto
• ICDM 2005 conference organization
• Elizabeth Diaz