Important Dates

Abstract Submission Due 23 September 2007 (Sun)*

Paper Submission Due 30 September 2007 (Sun)*

Author Notification 20 December 2007 (Thu)

Camera Ready Due 27 January 2008 (Sun)

Workshop Proposal Due 21 October 2007 (Sun)

Workshop Notification 2 November 2007 (Fri)

Tutorial Proposal Due 27 November 2007 (Tue)

Tutorial Notification 10 December 2007 (Mon)

Conference 20-23 May 2008 (Tue-Fri)

*[23:59:59 Pacific Standard Time]


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Conference Scope

The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is a leading international conference in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery. It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition, automatic scientific discovery, data visualization, causal induction and knowledge-based systems.

The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial papers reporting real data mining applications and system development experience. The conference will confer the Best Paper Award to the best full paper. The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI series.

The venue of the conference is Hotel Seagull located in beautiful Osaka bay area which is less than 15 minutes by subway from the center of Osaka city. Many amusement places including internationally famous Osaka Aquarium "Kaiyukan", a museum and a market place are within 5 minutes walk. Universal Studios Japan is reachable by 10 minutes cruise. Accommodations for student participants will be provided in reasonable prices (around 50USD/night/person).