MDM/KDD2002 - Deadline extension to June 6, 2002

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Due to a number of requests the deadline for paper submission has
been extended to June 6
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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MDM/KDD2002 - The Third International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining

in conjunction with

8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on  Knowledge Discovery & Data
Mining July 23 - 26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

For more information
Workshop Website: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~simeon/mdm_kdd2002/
Workshop contact: [email protected]
Workshop Date:    23 July, 2002

Workshop chairs:
Simeon J. Simoff ([email protected]) and Chabane Djeraba
([email protected])

Local chair:
Osmar R. Zaiane ([email protected])

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

- theoretical frameworks for multimedia data mining;
- multimedia data mining methods and algorithms;
- multimedia data sampling and preprocessing;
- data sonification and visualization;
- representation and reuse of discovered knowledge;
- multimedia data descriptions languages and formats;
- evaluation of 'interestingness', 'novelty' and validity of results;
- topic and event detection in multimedia data (including video);
- extracting semantics from multimedia databases;
- integrated data mining of text and image data;
- integrated mining of medical multimedia data;
- mining scientific multimedia data
- integrated data mining in multimedia information systems
- discovering patterns in musical and architectural data
- knowledge discovery in facial data
- man-machine interfaces for multimedia data mining;
- complexity, efficiency and scalability of multimedia data mining
algorithms;
- data mining virtual communities and virtual worlds;
- data mining in collaborative virtual environments and virtual reality
systems;
- visual and audio support for multimedia mining;
- visual data mining of multimedia data;
- multiagent environments for concurrent mining of heterogeneous data;
- real-time multimedia data mining systems;
- mining digital video, audio and other multimedia components.

We also encourage submissions, which present early stages of research
work,
software applications and solutions.

Extended and revised versions of selected submissions, together with
selections from the previous workshops, will be published in a book in
the
Massive Computing series published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.