ICDM Call for Tutorials

ICDM '03: The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
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Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
 
Melbourne, Florida, USA 
November 19 - 22, 2003 
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html 
 
Call for Tutorials  
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As an important part of the conference, the tutorial program of The
2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '03) will
cover emerging data mining technologies and the state-of-the-art of
data mining developments.

Examples of good tutorials include: 

- End-to-end descriptions of the practical application of data mining
  technology (with lessons learnt that would generalize to problems
  faced by the conference attendees) in novel data mining application
  areas such as electronic commerce, bioinformatics, computer
  security, Web intelligence or healthcare.  
- Surveys of new and emerging data mining methods (e.g., mining text
  and web data, mining biological data or novel paradigms such as
  support vector machines and inductive logic programming).
- Short courses on relevant areas of machine learning, databases, or
  statistics that may be "old hat" to specialists in that discipline,
  but are new to a majority of the conference attendees. (e.g., an
  introduction to Hidden Markov Models).

A description of the recent tutorials held at ICDM '01 and ICDM '02
can be obtained at

   http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm/tutorials-01.shtml and
   http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02/tutorials.html.

The tutorial topics should match the topics of interest of the ICDM
'03 Call for Papers (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html). The
length of the tutorials will be half day (3 hours) or full day (6
hours).

SUBMISSION DETAILS 
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Tutorial proposals should include the following information: 
  - Title and abstract of the tutorial; 
  - Short biographies of the presenters and contact information for
    each tutor;
  - Intended audience and expected benefit. Include prerequisite
    knowledge required of the attendees, and the expected benefit for
    the audience (e.g., a tutorial on statistics for people applying
    data mining tools vs. a tutorial on statistics for people building
    data mining tools);
  - Contents: Include appropriate material to provide a sense of both
    the scope of material and the depth to which it will be
    covered. Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be
    included if available. Providing such materials will show depth
    and maturity of the tutorial. Note that an ICDM tutorial should
    not primarily advertise the tutor's research or product.

Please send a soft copy (preferred) of your proposal to
ester-9wO+Al6KV0X3fQ9qLvQP4Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or a hard copy to:

     Prof. Martin Ester (Tutorials Chair ICDM '03)
     School of Computing Science
     Simon Fraser University
     Burnaby BC
     Canada V5A 1S6

NOTICE 
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ICDM '03 will provide an honorarium of $1,000 for a full day tutorial
and $500 for a half-day tutorial.  It is possible that the conference
can provide travel expenses, meal expenses, and one night's hotel
expenses for tutorial speakers. Please provide an estimate for these
expenses in your proposal if you are expecting the conference to cover
these expenses for you. We will assume that the tutorial speakers will
be able to cover these expenses from their own sources if no estimate
is included in their proposals.

IMPORTANT DATES 
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  June 10, 2003                 Tutorial submissions.
  June 30, 2003                 Acceptance notices.
  September 10, 2003    Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts.
  November 19, 2003             ICDM '03 tutorials.
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