Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues
and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (extension): 5 May
2008 --

IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008
(http://www.datamining-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Václav Snášel, Vice - Dean for Research and Science,
University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Professor Juan M. Corchado, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de
Salamanca, Spain

* Conference background and goals
The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM'08) 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'08 is aimed to advance the state of the art in
data mining field and its various real world applications. ECDM'08
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 (http://www.iadis.net/dl).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions
of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692).

* 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 (extension): 5 May 2008
- Notification to Authors: 26 May 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 16 June
2008
- Late Registration: After 16 June 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 to 26 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING 2008
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 2008 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