OSDM 2009

The first Open Source in Data Mining workshop (OSDM'09)

Monday 27th April 2009

Bangkok, Thailand

Workshop Website: http://osdm09.togaware.com

To be held at the 13th

Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'09) (http://www.pakdd2009.org)

Submissions due: Monday 22 December 2008

Open source software is becoming increasingly accepted in public and private sector organisations in many countries. There is a variety of open source data mining tools available to both researchers and practitioners, some being simple research prototypes while others are fully developed software tools in daily use in industry.

This workshop aims to bring together data mining software developers, practitioners, researchers and educators, with the objectives to present open source data mining tools, discuss experiences and lessons learned developing and using such tools, and exchange ideas on how to promote the use of open source tools in the field of data mining.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers:    22    December  2008 Notification of Authors: 23    January   2009 Camera-ready version:     9    February  2009 OSDM'09 workshop:        27    April     2009 PAKDD'09 conference:     28-30 April     2009

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

The OSDM'09 workshop is aimed at data mining researchers, educators and practitioners, and it will include a mix of both peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as software demonstrations. We plan to have:

* An invited keynote presentation by one of the developers of the Weka data mining tool.

* A session with peer-reviewed papers on topics such as: - Open source in data mining research. - Open source in data mining education. - Open source for data mining in government. - Open source for data mining in industry and business. - Data mining using open source - Experiences. - Impact of open source in data mining. - Open source methodologies in data mining.

* A more practically oriented session that will include: - Demonstrations of open source data mining tools. - Tutorials and how-to's, for example how to set-up and manage open source data mining tools; how-to choose an open source license suitable for data mining, selecting a software repository suitable for open source data mining tools, etc.

* A panel session with prominent data mining open source developers. Possible topics: - Why open source for data mining research and education? - Why publish your data mining tool as open source software?

SUBMISSION

Important notice: Submitting a paper to the OSDM'09 workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author must attend the workshop to present the paper. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.

All submitted papers must be formatted according to Springer's manuscript submission guidelines as available at

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

For the initial submission, paper must NOT include author's names, affiliations and email addresses (left as a blank) --- the review process will be double-blind. Do not include any acknowledgements referring to funding bodies. Self-citing references should be removed from the submitted papers (they can be added after review).

We encourage submissions of two types of papers:

1) Regular papers, up-to 12 pages long in single-spaced pages   with font size at least 11 points (i.e. following the Springer LNCS style). These papers will be fully reviewed by at least three   members of the OSDM'09 program committee.

2) Short papers, aimed for the demonstration, tutorial and how-to   session. These papers can be up-to 6 pages long, also in Springer    LNCS style). These papers will be reviewed by at least one member of the OSDM'09 program committee as well as the OSDM'09 organisers.

Papers submitted to OSDM'09 must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere.

The electronic submissions must be in PDF and made through the OSDM'09 Submission Page, accessible from:

http://osdm09.togaware.com/

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

- Dr Graham Williams   Togaware / The Australian Taxation Office - Dr Peter Christen    The Australian National University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Dr Rohan Baxter                The Australian Taxation Office, Australia - Prof Michael Berthold          University of Konstanz, Germany - Dr Christian Borgelt           European Center for Soft Computing, Spain - Dr Tim Churches                NSW Department of Health, Australia - Assist Prof Janez Demsar       University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Assoc Prof Eibe Frank          University of Waikato, New Zealand - Dr Mark Hall                   Pentaho, New Zealand - Prof Joshua Huang              The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Assoc Prof Bernhard Pfahringer University of Waikato, New Zealand - Assoc Prof Blaz Zupan          University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Dr Yunming Ye                  Harbin Institute of Technology, China This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP