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.
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[edit] Conferences
SIGKDD has hosted an annual conference - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - since 1995[1]. Conference papers of each Proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are published through ACM[2]
In 2012, KDD will take place in Beijing, China.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Awards
The group also annually recognizes members of the KDD community with its Innovation Award and Service Award.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Current Executive Committee
Chair
- Usama Fayyad[3] (2009-)
Treasurer
- Osmar R. Zaiane (2009-)
Directors
- Johannes Gehrke
- Robert Grossman
- David D. Jensen[4]
- Raghu Ramakrishnan
- Sunita Sarawagi[5]
- Ramakrishnan Srikant[6]
Former Chairpersons
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro[7] (2005-2008)
- Won Kim (1998-2004)
[edit] Information Directors
- Ankur Teredesai (2011-)
- Gabor Melli[8] (2004-2011)
- Ramakrishnan Srikant (1998-2003)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- ACM SIGKDD Homepage
- ACM SIGKDD Explorations Homepage
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