FINAL CFP: NEXT GENERATION DATA MINING SUMMIT

NEXT GENERATION DATA MINING SUMMIT: DEALING WITH THE ENERGY CRISIS, GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS, AND TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES Location: Columbia, Maryland Date: October 1--3, 2009 Workshop Web Site: http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM09/ Primary Sponsors: UNITED STATES NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION and KD2U CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The world is facing a number of critical challenges. Finding the next generation of solutions for energy supply, reducing greenhouse emission, and transportation problems is critical to sustain the world and our civilization. Energy crisis is a major challenge that needs to be addressed for sustaining and further developing the world. Greenhouse emissions is widely believed to be connected with energy consumption. Transportation system has significant effect on the energy consumption and on greenhouse emission. Many problems related to greenhouse emissions and transportation industry are critically connected to the consumption and supply of energy. Information processing and advanced data analysis techniques are likely to play important roles in solving these problems for the next generation. Efficient production, distribution, and consumption of existing and alternate energy would require supporting information processing networks in order to adaptively control and protect the underlying physical systems. Understanding the effects of greenhouse emissions requires advanced data analysis techniques for understanding remotely sensed data. Reducing the carbon footprints of buildings, vehicles, and airplanes would require continuous monitoring of sensors and detecting deviation from desired behavior. Designing the next generation of transportation network becomes particularly challenging in the context of increasing demand for energy supplies and reducing greenhouse emission. Sensor networks for highways and vehicles equipped with diagnostic data bus along with the availability of machine-to-machine wireless communication networks are going to make the role of advanced data mining techniques very important in the transportation industry. Computing in itself is under scrutiny from the perspective of its effect on greenhouse emissions and pollution. We need to pay close attention to the environmental impacts of computing and the supporting infrastructure. Overall, we need to explore technology for sustainable computing and computing technology for a sustainable world. The Next Generation Data Mining (NGDM09) Summit will bring together data mining researchers, scientists and engineers from a diverse background along with domain experts. NGDM'09 will focus on the following areas: 1) Energy crisis, information processing, and data mining 2) Greenhouse emissions, climate changes, and data mining 3) Transportation, emissions, and data mining The summit will generate a report based on the presentations and discussions of the participants. The summit will also produce an edited volume. Extended versions of the selected papers will be included in the collection. For more details please visit the NGDM'09 website. INVITED SPEAKERS NGDM'09 will have many invited speakers. The list includes: 1. Chandra Bhat, Professor, University of Texas at Austin http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/home.html) 2. Kirk Borne, Professor, George Mason University (http://classweb.gmu.edu/kborne/) 3. Alok Choudhary, Professor, Northwestern University (http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~choudhar) 4. Umesh Dayal, Fellow, HP Labs (http://www.hpl.hp.com/about/honors/HPfellows/dayal.html) 5. Wei Fan, Scientist, IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory (http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~wfan/) 6. Douglas Fisher, Scientist, National Science Foundation (http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~dfisher/) 7. Auroop Ganguly, Oak ridge National Laboratory (http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/bios/bio_ganguly.html) 8. Johannes Gehrke, Professor, Cornell University (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/johannes) 9. Carla Gomes, Professor, Cornell University (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gomes/) 10. Vipin Kumar, Professor, University of Minnesota (http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/) 11. Rich Lechner, Vice President, IBM (http://www-05.ibm.com/hu/soasummit/cv_lechner.html) 12. Edward Maibach, Professor, George Mason University (http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/edward_maibach.cfm) 13. Mark McGranaghan, Director, Electric Power Research Inst. (http://my.epri.com) 14. Paul Melby, Scientist, MITRE Corporation (http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM09/pmelby.txt) 15. Vince Mow, Mactec Federal Programs 16. Robert Neff, Professor, UMBC (http://www.umbc.edu/ges/people/neff.htm) 17. Dino Pedreschi, Professor, Univ. of Pisa & Northeastern University (http://www.di.unipi.it/~pedre/) 18. Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University (http://mse.iastate.edu/who-we-are/people/faculty/krishna-rajan.html) 19. Shashi Shekhar, Professor, University of Minnesota (http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~shekhar/) 20. Ashok Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Center (https://dashlink.arc.nasa.gov/member/ashok/) 21. Chris Stock, Verizon 22. Eugene Tierney, US Env. Protection Agency 23. Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors (Ret.) (http://www.kd2u.org/NGDM09/samy.txt) 24. Brian Worley, Director CSED, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/directory/brian-worley) 25. Philip Yu, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.cs.uic.edu/~psyu/) GENERAL CHAIR Hillol Kargupta Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County & Agnik Web: www.cs.umbc.edu/~hillol E-mail: info@kd2u.org STEERING COMMITTEE Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University Carla Gomes, Cornell University Hillol Kargupta, Univ. of Maryland, Balt. County Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago Ashok Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Lab. REPORTS CHAIR Chris Giannella, New Mexico State University PUBLICITY CHAIR Codrina Lauth, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany NGDM09 ADVISORY COMMITTEE Budhedra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Alok Chowdhary, Northwestern University Wei Fan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University Dino Pedreschi, Università di Pisa, Italy IMPORTANT DATES Paper/Poster/Demo-proposal Submission deadline: August 15, 2009 Notification: August 31, 2009 Camera-ready due: September 15, 2009 Pre-Registration Deadline: September 8, 2009 Summit: October 1-October 3, 2009