CALL FOR PAPERS

 

International Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining

 - Interfacing Machine Learning and Statistics

 

in conjunction with 2005 SIAM Data Mining Conference, April 23, 2005 Newport Beach, California

NOTE: The workshop email account fsdm@shanghai.eas.asu.edu experienced some difficulty to receive email submission. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused to the authors. If you submitted your work and have not received any acknowledgment from us, please kindly resubmit your work to huan.liu@asu.edu

The submission due date is extended to January 21, 2005.

The workshop website: http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/workshop

 

Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is a multidisciplinary effort to mine nuggets of knowledge from data. The increasingly large data sets from many application domains have posed unprecedented challenges to KDD; in the meantime, new types of data are evolving such as Web, text, and microarray data. Research in computer science, engineering, and statistics confront similar issues in feature selection, and we see a pressing need for the interdisciplinary exchange and discussion of ideas. We anticipate that our collaborations will shed new lights on research directions and approaches, and lead to breakthroughs.

 

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines and further the collaborative research in feature selection. Feature selection is an essential step in successful data mining applications. Feature selection has practical significance in many areas such as statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining (including Web, text, image, and microarrays). The objectives of feature selection include: building simpler and more comprehensible models, improving data mining performance, and helping to prepare, clean, and understand data. Some representative workshop topics and associated research issues are, but not limited to, the following.

 

Feature ranking

Subset selection

Dimensionality reduction

Feature construction

Improving data mining performance

Issues with data types and sizes

Selection for labeled and unlabeled data

Modeling variable and feature selection

Evaluation measures

Search methods

Selection bias

Sampling methods

Model selection

Case studies and applications

Streaming data reduction

Comparative studies

Integration with data mining algorithms

Emerging challenges

 

Workshop Chairs

 

Huan Liu

Computer Science & Engineering          

Arizona State University                             

Tempe, AZ 85287-8809

Tel: 480-727-7349

Fax: 480-965-2751

Email: hliu@asu.edu

Robert Stine

Statistic Department

The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA  19104-6340

Tel: 215.898.3114

Fax: 215.898.1280

Email:stine@wharton.upenn.edu

Leonardo Auslender

SAS Institute

1430 Rt. 206 N

Bedminster, NJ 07921

Tel: 908 470 0080 x 8217

Email:leonardo.auslender@sas.com

 

 

 

Proceedings Chair and Web Master: Lei Yu (leiyu@asu.edu)

 

Program Committee

Please refer to the workshop website.

 

Paper Format, Important Dates, and Submission

  • A paper (maximum 10pages in single column, no smaller than 11 pt) should be submitted in PDF or WORD format
  • Submissions should be emailed to huan.liu@asu.edu
  • Quality short papers are also welcome
  • The deadline for submission: January 21, Friday
  • The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings
  • Accepted papers will be considered for a special issue in a prestigious journal

 

More information can be found at the workshop website http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/workshop.