The 8th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2012) will take place in Nanjing, China, 15th-18th December 2012. It builds on the success of the series of seven previous events from 2005 to 2011 in Wuhan (2005), Xi'an (2006), Harbin (2007), Chengdu (2008), Beijing (2009 & 2011) and Chongqing (2010). In these events many members of the practitioner and research communities valued the rich exchange of ideas made possible by the shared plenary sessions. ADMA 2012 will promote the same close interaction among practitioners and researchers. Published papers will go through a full peer review process.
The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Authors of high-quality papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in a special issue on Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), indexed by SCI.

We call for papers on any topics of advanced data mining and applications, including but not limited to:

* Advanced Data Mining Techniques
- Scalable data preprocessing and cleaning techniques
- Social network mining
- Social search and analysis
- Collective intelligence in the social Web
- Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
- Mining on data streams
- Graph and subgraph mining
- Methodologies on large-scale data mining
- Text, video, multimedia data mining
- Web mining
- High performance data mining algorithms
- Modeling complex social systems
- Evolution of social communities and social media
- Collaborative filtering in social networks
- Data mining visualization
- Security and privacy issues
- Competitive analysis of mining algorithms

* Advanced Data Mining Applications
- Data mining systems in finance, sciences, retail, e-commerce
- Emerging applications of large-scale data mining
- Empirical study of data mining algorithms
- Parallel data mining applications
- DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, genomics, and biometrics
- E-commerce and Web services
- Medical informatics
- Disaster prediction
- Financial market analysis
- Intelligent system
- Application of data mining in education

Submissions and Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadline: July 10, 2012
- Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 17, 2012
- Notification of Acceptance: September 16, 2012
- Camera Ready Submission Due: September 30, 2012

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Leslie Valiant (Winner of 2010 Turing Award, Harvard University, USA) Prof. Bo Zhang (Academician of CAS, Tsinghua University, China) Prof. David Bell (Queens University of Belfast, UK) Prof. Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Prof. Ester Martin (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Organizing Committee
Honorary Chair:
Prof. Ruqian Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

General Co-Chairs:
Prof. Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Prof. Zhi-hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)

Program Co-Chairs:
Prof. Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Prof.Songmao Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Prof. George Karypis (University of Minnesota, USA)

Organizing Co-Chairs:
Prof. Jie Cao (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China)
Dr. Ruibo Yao (Focus Technologies Ltd, Nanjing)

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Hong Cheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Jianyong Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Zhexu Huang (Chineses Academy of Science, China)
Xingquan Zhu (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Bin Wang (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China)

International Steering Committees:
Prof. Xue Li, Chair (University of Queensland, Australia)
Prof. Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, Korea)
Prof. Chengqi Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Prof. Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta, Canada)
Prof. Qiang Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China)
A/Prof. Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China)

Web Management and Conference Secretary:
Dr. Zhiang Wu (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China)
Email: ADMA2012.njue@gmail.com
Tel: +86-25-8349-3900