SIGKDD
SIGKDD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It became an official ACM SIG in 1998. The official web page of SIGKDD can be found on www.KDD.org. The current Chairman of SIGKDD (since 2009) is Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.
Conferences
SIGKDD has hosted an annual conference - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - since 1995. KDD Conferences grew from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) workshops at AAAI conferences, which were started by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro in 1989, 1991, and 1993, and Usama Fayyad in 1994. [1] Conference papers of each Proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are published through ACM[2]
KDD-2012 took place in Beijing, China [3] and KDD-2013 will take place in Chicago, United States, Aug 11-14, 2013.
KDD-Cup
SIGKDD sponsors the KDD Cup competition every year in conjunction with the annual conference. It is aimed at members of the industry and academia, particularly students, interested in KDD.
Awards
The group also annually recognizes members of the KDD community with its Innovation Award and Service Award. Additionally, KDD presents a Best Paper Award [4] to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference.
SIGKDD Explorations
SIGKDD has also published a biannual academic journal titled SIGKDD Explorations since June, 1999. Editors in Chief
- Bart Goethals (since 2010)
- Osmar R. Zaiane (2008-2010)
- Ramakrishnan Srikant (2006-2007)
- Sunita Sarawagi (2003-2006)
- Usama Fayyad (1999-2002)
Current Executive Committee
Chair
- Usama Fayyad (2009-)
Treasurer
- Osmar R. Zaiane (2009-)
Directors
- Johannes Gehrke
- Robert Grossman
- David D. Jensen[5]
- Raghu Ramakrishnan
- Sunita Sarawagi[6]
- Ramakrishnan Srikant[7]
Former Chairpersons
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro[8] (2005-2008)
- Won Kim (1998-2004)
Information Directors
- Ankur Teredesai (2011-)
- Gabor Melli[9] (2004-2011)
- Ramakrishnan Srikant (1998-2003)
References
- ^ http://www.sigkdd.org/conferences.php
- ^ http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE329
- ^ http://kdd2012.sigkdd.org/
- ^ "KDD Conference Best Paper Awards". Retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ^ http://kdl.cs.umass.edu/people/jensen/
- ^ http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sunita/
- ^ http://www.rsrikant.com/
- ^ http://www.kdnuggets.com/gps.html
- ^ http://www.gabormeli.com/RKB
External links
- ACM SIGKDD Homepage
- ACM SIGKDD Explorations Homepage
- KDD-2013 Conference Homepage
- KDD-2012 Conference Homepage
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