KDD Cup 2008: Call for Proposals

KDD Cup 2008: Call for Proposals

KDD Cup is the oldest data mining competition. It is an integral part
of the annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

Information about past KDD Cups can be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kddcup/index.php or
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kddcup/index.php.

With this call, we invite proposals for KDD Cup 2008. In your
proposal, please provide the following information:

Description of the data set (e.g., availability, size, etc) and its
application domain.
Description of the competition tasks. A KDD cup competition usually
consists of 2-3 tasks and each participating team can choose to
compete in one or more tasks. Please give a description of each
proposed task and its practical significance.
Evaluation measures.
Various deadlines. Usually the competition starts in March and ends in
late June or early July. The winners will be announced at the KDD-2008
conference.
Names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and short bios
of the organizers.
Whether the competition is new or has been held before.

An ideal competition task is one that is practically useful, can be
done without extensive application domain knowledge, and can be
evaluated objectively. Of particular interests are non-traditional
tasks that may need novel solutions.

Please send your proposals to pcchairs@kdd2008.com by November 10,
2007. If you plan to submit, please send us an e-mail to alert us as
soon as possible.
Received on Thu Oct 18 07:49:43 2007