Message from Program Co-chairs

The ICDM conference is truly an international forum. During its twelve-year history, the conference has been held in nine countries around the world. This year´s conference continues this global trend: our organizing and program committee members represent 31 countries and authors submitted papers from 54 different countries. This year´s conference was extremely competitive. A total of 756 papers were submitted for review. Each paper was reviewed by at least three program committee members and the selection was made on the basis of discussion among the reviewers, a vice chair, and the program co-chairs. This year, 81 regular papers and 70 short papers were accepted for presentation, representing an acceptance rate of 19.97%. In keeping with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in data mining, paper topics span numerous active and emerging topic areas including feature analysis, classification, privacy, anomaly detection, semi-supervised learning, clustering, recommendations, time series mining, sparse representations, data summarization, and mining data found in graphs, video, images, and text.