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International Workshop on Data Mining and Electronic Business: Practice and Experience (DaMeB2001)
(http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/awkng/dameb2001.htm)

in conjunction with

The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01)
(http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01/)

April 16-18, 2001

Kowloon, Hong Kong


Objectives
With features like huge amount of data in electronic form that is actionable for discovered knowledge, and measurable for return on investment, electronic business has been touted as the killer domain for data mining. To take advantage of this inherent synergy, it is well recognized that data mining must be integrated into e-business systems. An integrated solution provides users with a uniform environment and seamless access to discovered knowledge.

This workshop aims to foster interaction between researchers and practitioners in the data mining and electronic business communities. It seeks to present successful practice and experiences on integrating data mining to any or all aspects of electronic business. Research contributions in data mining/e-business as well as integration of the two with a practical-orientation will also be solicited.

There are many forums dedicated to general data mining or electronic business. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no single forum dedicated to practice and experience in integrating data mining and eletronic business. It is timely that an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners be created. We believe the workshop will be informative and educational. More research and application activities could be stimulated.

We invite papers that are relevant, but not limited to the following areas of interest:

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline   February 1, 2001
Paper Submission Deadline   February 15, 2001
Notification  March 1, 2001
Camera-ready Copy Due  March 15, 2001
Workshop Date  April 16, 2001

Program Chair
Wee-Keong Ng  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jian Pei  Simon Fraser University, Canada

Program Committee
Sourav Bhowmick  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Johannes Gehrke  Cornell University, USA
Yike Guo  Imperial College of Science, UK
Masaru Kitsuregawa  University of Tokyo, Japan
Sanday Kumar Madria  University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Vipin Kumar  University of Minnesota, USA
Ee Peng Lim  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mukesh Mohania  Western Michigan University, USA
Jignesh Patel  University of Michigan, USA
Timothy Shih  Tamkang University, Taiwan
Kyuseok Shim  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Zhaohui Tang  Microsoft, USA
Min Wang  IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Osmar R. Zaiane  University of Alberta, Canada
Zijian Zheng  Blue Martini, USA

Paper Submission
The full paper submissions should not be more than 10 pages in IEEE-styled format (see http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm for details). Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 program committee members for their technical merit, originality, significance, and relevance to the workshop. Please send abstract (no more than 250 words in ASCII text) of the paper via email including title of the paper, authors' names and 3-4 relevant keywords.

We strongly encourage electronic submissions of full paper in plain Postscript or PDF file. The title page must include the name and email address of the contact author. Alternatively, four hard-copies of your paper may be sent to the workshop organizer at the address given below.

Email and snail mail addresses:
Asst Prof Wee-Keong Ng
School of Computer Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
Email: awkng@ntu.edu.sg