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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 30 January 2009 --

IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2009
Algarve, Portugal, 18 to 20 June 2009
(http://www.datamining-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2009)
Algarve, Portugal, 17 to 23 June 2009
(http://www.mccsis.org)


* Conference background and goals
The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM'09) is aimed to gather
researchers and application developers from a wide range of data
mining related areas such as statistics, computational intelligence,
pattern recognition, databases and visualization. ECDM'09 is aimed to
advance the state of the art in data mining field and its various
real world applications. ECDM'09 will provide opportunities for
technical collaboration among data mining and machine learning
researchers around the globe.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the
IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS
International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems -
ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to Data Mining are of interest. These include, but
are not limited to the following areas:
- Core Data Mining Topics (Main area)
- Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
- Data streams mining
- Graph mining
- Spatial data mining
- Text video, multimedia data mining
- Web mining
- Pre-processing techniques
- Visualization
- Security and information hiding in data mining
- Data Mining Applications (Main area)
- Databases
- Bioinformatics
- Biometrics
- Image analysis
- Financial modeling
- Forecasting
- Classification
- Clustering

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 30 January 2009
- Notification to Authors: 6 March 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 6 April
2009
- Late Registration: After 6 April 2009
- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 18 to 20 June 2009


* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2009
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@...
Web site: http://www.datamining-conf.org/

* Program Committee
European Conference on Data Mining 2009 Program Chair
Ajith P. Abraham, School of Computer Science, Chung-Ang University,
South Korea

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.datamining-
conf.org/committees.asp