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CIDU 2012

CIDU 2012 The 2012 Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (CIDU 2012) is organized under the theme of “Bringing Data and Models Together” and will attract top researchers and practitioners in the field of data mining focusing on applications to Earth & Environmental Systems, Space Science, and Aerospace & Engineering Systems. The Organizing Committee is soliciting theme-oriented papers… Read More »

IEEE ICDM Data Mining Competition

Call for Proposals ICDM 2011 Data Mining Contest We invite proposals for organizers of the ICDM 2011 Data Mining Contest. The Data Mining Contest is an integral part of the ICDM conference and provides an opportunity for teams of scientists and domain experts to compete in order to develop data mining techniques for real-world applications.… Read More »

Leading Edge TV Show

The Leading Edge TV Show went very well.  Many thanks to Jeff Hamlett, Director of Safety at Southwest Airlines.  Here is the video on youtube.  Here is Jeff’s blog posting regarding the show.

IEEE ICDM Top 10 Data Mining Case Study

The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining has awarded our work in Discovering Precursors to Aviation Safety Incidents and Accidents as a Top 10 Data Mining Case Study in the world.   This citation represents work that comprises both novel algorithms for anomaly detection and predictive modeling as well as applications in the aviation domain.

Studying Pilot Fatigue with Data Mining Technologies

Here is an article that recently appeared in Flight International about some novel data mining and machine learning techniques that we are developing to potentially detect pilot fatigue.  We are using anomaly detection techniques as well as predictive methods to look for objective indicators of fatigue.  This is ongoing work between a number of groups… Read More »

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2010

The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-2010 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition. KDD-2010 will run between from July… Read More »

Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets

The Workshops on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS) will address algorithmic, mathematical, and statistical challenges in modern large-scale data analysis. The goals of this series of workshops are to explore novel techniques for modeling and analyzing massive, high-dimensional, and nonlinearly-structured scientific and internet data sets, and to bring together computer scientists, statisticians, mathematicians,… Read More »

Next Generation Data Mining

The world is facing a number of critical challenges. Finding the next generation of solutions for energy supply, reducing greenhouse emissions, 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… Read More »