ICDM Contest: Call for Proposal

[ICDM 2010]

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*Scope:*

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The ICDM Data Mining (DM) Contest offers a unique opportunity to
scientists and enterprises, to involve
teams of domain experts that will compete against each other in order
to develop and test data mining
techniques that can improve real or realistic applications.

A typical workflow of the ICDM DM Contest is as follows: Organizers
provide participants with custom
datasets, evaluation metrics (or software tools) and expected answers
to a set of predetermined tasks.
The participants are then asked to identify the best possible
solutions to the given tasks maximizing the
 given evaluation metrics.

Each competing team will work offline to implement the tasks outlined
by the contest organizers. The
results of each team will be submitted to the contest organizers along
with a short description prior the
conference date. The contest organizers will select the submissions
that will be included in the proceedings
of the conference. The awarding process will be carried out during the
conference.

In an effort to attract more participation, organizers are encouraged
to seek awards and prizes from
sponsoring entities, although the acceptance of the proposal is not
contingent upon this suggestion.

Examples of previous ICDM DM contests are available below:

2009: Pittsburgh Brain Competition
      http://pbc.lrdc.pitt.edu/

2008: Radioxenon monitoring for verification of the
      Comprehensive nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
      http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/ADA/icdm08cup/

2007: Estimating Location Using Wi-Fi
      http://www.cse.ust.hk/~qyang/ICDMDMC07/
<http://www.cse.ust.hk/%7Eqyang/ICDMDMC07/>


*Proposal Guidelines:*
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There is no specific format for the proposals, but in your
submission please include the following information:
* Contest title and abstract
* Contact information of the organizer(s)
* General description of the problem.
* Description of the dataset to be used.
* Description of the actual competition tasks.
* Evaluation metrics or Tool that will do the evaluation.
* Short biography of the organizer(s)

The proposal should include enough information to provide a clear
sense of the proposed competition.

The results of the contest will be presented in a special session
during the conference, and a description
of the challenge and articles from the winners will be included in the
ICDM'10 proceedings.

Other points that should be taken into account are as follows:
* The dataset should be interesting, available, and sufficiently large.
* There should be at least three different tasks that participants can
compete in.
* The tasks should be interesting and novel, but also accessible
without too much domain specific knowledge.
* The evaluation metrics should be clear and easy to apply.
* The proposal should adhere to the dates described below.
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Contest Proposal Important Dates*
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May 06, 2010: Contest Proposal Deadline

May 20, 2010: Notification of Acceptance

Jun 30, 2010: Contest Announcement to Participants
             (Tasks, Dataset and Metrics become available)

Sep 15, 2010: Submissions of Contest Results and submission of
              a 2-3 page report in IEEE ICDM format.

Oct 04, 2010: Submission of Camera Ready Copy and
              Copyright Release Form (by selected submissions)

Dec 13 - Dec 17, 2010: Results of the competition are announced
                       at the conference
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How to Submit*
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Please send your proposal by email to:

Demetris Zeinalipour  <dzeina (at) cs.ucy.ac.cy
<dzeina%5BAT%5Dcs%5BDOT%5Ducy%5BDOT%5Dac%5BDOT%5Dcy>>
All submissions will be acknowledged by email.
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ICDM'10 DM Contest Chair:*
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Demetris Zeinalipour
University of Cyprus
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