Workshop on

Data Mining Standards, Services and Platforms

August 21, 2005

Held in conjunction with
The 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2005)

August 21-24, 2005, Chicago, Illinois

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Workshop Submission Deadline: June 21, 2005

DM-SSP '05 is the fifth KDD workshop focusing on standards, services, and platforms for data mining.   Motivating this workshop are a number of trends, including:

1. An increasing demand by industrial users of data mining technology to manage and govern both the output of the modeling process as well as the production use of models. External regulation, from organizations such as the Federal Reserve, is forcing some users of data mining to manage the process from ideation to production scoring. Standards to enable interoperability, as well as services such as model management and automated deployment, will be included in the workshop.
2. Maturation of standards, including PMML, SQL/MM Part 6 for Data Mining, JDM, CRISP, and OMG CWM for Data Mining.
3. Emerging standards such as web services, that will enable standards-based data mining services for scoring, modeling, and exploration of data. 
4. Work in related fields, including data grids, data webs, and semantic webs. This workshop will also provide an opportunity for work on data mining standards and services in these areas to be included.

If you are using standards and services to build production data mining and scoring systems, we encourage you to submit a paper or abstract to DM-SSP 05.   To encourage presentations from industry, we will accept abstracts for presentations, as well as papers, for consideration.

The workshop will cover a wide variety of areas, including:

Standards Based Data Mining Services:

• Model management & governance services
• Scoring services
• Analysis services
• Data exploration services
• Statistical modeling services

Maturing Standards:

• Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML)
• XML for Analysis and OLE DB for Data Mining
• SQL/MM Part 6: Data Mining
• Java Data Mining (JDM) - Java Specification Request 73 (JSR-73)
• CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM)
• OMG Common Warehouse Metadata (CWM) for Data Mining

Related Standards:

• Web services (SOAP/XML, WSRF, etc)
• Grid services (OGSA, OGSA/DAI, etc.)
• Semantic Web Standards (RDF, OWL, etc.)

Emerging Standards:

• Standards for KDD workflow
• Standards for process workflow
• Standards for data transformations
• Standards for real time data mining
• Standards for data webs

Standards Based Open Source Efforts:

• R
• Weka
• GNU Octave

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit your paper or presentation abstract electronically via email to dmssp05@thearling.com by June 21, 2005.    

The program committee will review all submissions and accepted presentations will be made during the workshop on August 21.  Papers and/or presentations (e.g., PowerPoint) will be published in the workshop proceedings.   The program committee will notify authors of their acceptance or rejection by July 10, and cameral ready versions of the papers/presentations will be due on July 20.

We would also like to encourage position papers and panel session suggestions.   Given the non-academic nature of this workshop, we are looking for quality presentations even if they don't fall into the form of a traditional conference paper.

If you have any questions, please contact dmssp05@thearling.com.

Important Dates:

Organizing Committee:

• Kurt Thearling, Capital One
• Dave Selinger, Overstock.com
• Robert Grossman, Open Data Partners and University of Illinois at Chicago
• Rick Pechter, MicroStrategy
• Stefan Raspl, IBM