KDIR 2013

Knowledge Discovery is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and meaningful patterns from data, often based on underlying large data sets. A major aspect of Knowledge Discovery is data mining, i.e. applying data analysis and discovery algorithms that produce a particular enumeration of patterns (or models) over the data. Knowledge Discovery also includes the evaluation of patterns and identification of which add to knowledge. This has proven to be a promising approach for enhancing the intelligence of software systems and services. The ongoing rapid growth of online data due to the Internet and the widespread use of large databases have created an important need for knowledge discovery methodologies. The challenge of extracting knowledge from data draws upon research in a large number of disciplines including statistics, databases, pattern recognition, machine learning, data visualization, optimization, and high-performance computing, to deliver advanced business intelligence and web discovery solutions. Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with gathering relevant information from unstructured and semantically fuzzy data in texts and other media, searching for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the Web. Automation of information retrieval enables the reduction of what has been called "information overload". Information retrieval can be combined with knowledge discovery to create software tools that empower users of decision support systems to better understand and use the knowledge underlying large data sets. The primary focus of KDIR is to provide a major forum for the scientific and technical advancement of knowledge discovery and information retrieval.

Conference Topics Web mining Machine Learning Foundations of knowledge discovery in databases Data Analytics Data mining in electronic commerce Interactive and online data mining Process mining Integration of data warehousing and data mining Data reduction and quality assessment Mining high-dimensional data Mining text and semi-structured data Mining multimedia data Structured data analysis and statistical methods BioInformatics & pattern discovery Clustering and classification methods Pre-processing and post-processing for data mining Visual data mining and data visualization Software development Business intelligence applications Information extraction Concept Mining Context Discovery Optimization Information Extraction from Emails User Profiling and Recommender Systems Collaborative Filtering

IC3K Conference Chair: Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

Program Chair: Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal Program Committee: http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

Important Dates: Conference Date: 19 - 22 September, 2013 Regular Papers Paper Submission: March 12, 2013 Authors Notification: May 13, 2013 Final Paper Submission and Registration: June 4, 2013

KDIR Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8639 e-mail: kdir.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/