For the past twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2006 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, and is hosted by the Bourgogne University, Dijon, France.
The rapid growth in information science and technology in general and the complexity and volume of data in particular have introduced new challenges for the research community. Databases are growing incessantly and Many sources produce data continuously. In many cases, we need to extract some sort of knowledge from this continuous stream of data. Examples include customer click streams, telephone records, large sets of web pages, multimedia data, and sets of retail chain transactions. These sources are called data streams. If the process is not strictly stationary (as most of real world applications), the target concept could gradually change over time. This is an incremental task that requires incremental learning algorithms that take drift into account. The goal of this workshop is to convene researchers who deal with decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques, etc. from data streams and related themes.
We are looking for all possible contributions related to incremental learning algorithms on data streams. Topics include (but are not restricted to):
Clustering on Data Streams
Classification on Data Streams
Association Rules on Data Streams
Feature Selection on Data Streams
Visualization Techniques for Data Streams
Temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal Data Mining
On-Line, Real-Time Applications
Submission Deadline Sept. 3, 2005
Acceptance Notification Oct. 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Copy Nov. 5, 2005
Data Streams Track is co-chaired by
Dr. Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz, Department of Computer Science, University of Seville, Spain
Francisco J. Ferrer-Troyano, Department of Computer Science, University of Seville, Spain
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dr. Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US
Dr. Philip S. Yu, IBM Watson Research Center, US
Dr. Daniel Barbará, George Mason University, ISE Dept., US
Dr. Jiong Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US
Dr. Jian Pei, State University of New York at Buffalo, US
Dr. Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US
Dr. Minos Garofalakis, Bell Labs, US
Dr. X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, US
Dr. Usama Fayyad, DigiMine, US
Dr. Min Wang, IBM Watson Research Center, US
Dr. Luis Torgo, LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal
Dr. Jeffrey S. Vitter, Purdue University, US
Dr. Rosa Meo, University of Torino, Italy
Dr. Josep Roure i Alcobe, Polytechnic of Catalunya, Spain
Dr. Venkatesh Ganti, Microsoft Research, US
Dr. Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs, Lucent, US
Dr. Geoff Hulten, University of Washington/Microsoft, US
Dr. Nick Koudas, AT&T Research, US
Dr. Dimitrios Gunopulos, University of California, Riverside, US
Dr. Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal
The preferred file format is PDF, in which papers' final version must be submitted. Do not compress files in any way. Submit two files:
Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Hence, all accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The maximum number of pages allowed for the final papers is 5 pages (about 4000 words), with the option (at additional expense) to add three (3) more pages.
There is a set of templates to support the required paper format for a number of document preparation systems at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Accepted
papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings by ACM and in the
Digital Library, and also in DBLP.
Please submit papers electronically by e-mail to the track co-chair: ferrer@lsi.us.es
(subject: SAC_06-DS_Track).
Poster
Publication of Selected Papers:
A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be
accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in
the symposium proceedings.