Proceedings of the 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
Message from the Conference Co-Chairs
The Seventh SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2007) continues
a series of
conferences whose focus is the theory and application of data mining to complex
datasets
in science, engineering, biomedicine, and the social sciences. These datasets
challenge our
abilities to analyze them because they are large and often noisy. Sophisticated,
highperformance,
and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, based on sound statistical
foundations, are required. Visualization is often critically important; tuning
for performance is
a significant challenge; and the appropriate levels of abstraction to allow
end-users to exploit
sophisticated techniques and understand clearly both the constraints and interpretation
of
results are still something of an open question.
The centerpiece of the conference is our four keynote speakers: Tom Mitchell
from Carnegie
Mellon University, Jerome Friedman from Stanford, Corinna Cortes from Google,
and Ajay
Royyuru from the IBM Computational Biology Center. The conference also has
an extremely
varied program; apart from our strong technical program of contributed papers,
there will be
a set of interesting tutorials which are an integrated part of the program;
and there will be
workshops that allow an even deeper focus on areas that are of interest to
a subset of the
conference participants. This year we have introduced several new features:
the poster session
will be enhanced with a plenary session in which authors will be able to make
a short
presentation introducing their posters; and there will be a panel session where
some keynote
speakers and others will discuss future directions for this area. As part of
our ongoing
collaboration with the American Statistical Association, we will also have
a special session on
statistics and data mining, organized by Joe Verducci.
We would like to thank the entire organizing committee for the excellent job
they have done
putting together a strong technical program: Srinivasan Parthasarathy and Bing
Liu for recruiting
the program committee, guiding the submitted papers through the review process,
and making
the final decisions, and area chairs Charu Aggarwal, Lise Getoor, Thomas Hofmann,
George
Karypis, Jian Pei, Myra Spiliopolou, Andrew Tomkins, Anthony Tung, Geoff Webb,
and
Mohammed Zaki for working with reviewers to find the highest quality submissions
and mediating among them when differences of opinion arose. We also thank Hui
Xiong, the publicity chair,
and Aristides Gionis and Sanjay Chawla, the regional publicity chairs; Huan
Liu, who worked with
SIAM to create the Proceedings; and Jaideep Srivastava, who found sponsors
to support the
event.
This conference is being cosponsored by the American Statistical Association,
continuing a trend
toward greater collaboration between our two communities.
Finally, we thank the authors and the participants who are the primary reason
for the success
of the conference. We hope you all enjoy our time together in Minneapolis!
Chid Apte and David Skillicorn, Conference Co-Chairs
Vipin Kumar, Steering Committee Chair
