-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 15 April 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)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Kurosh Madani, Images, Signals and Intelligence Systems Laboratory (LISSI / EA 3956)
PARIS XII University, Senart-Fontainebleau Institute of Technology, France

* 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 (2nd call): 15 April 2009
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 6 May 2009
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 20 May 2009
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 20 May 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@datamining-conf.org
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