SIGKDD
SIGKDD is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It became an official ACM SIG in 1998.
Conferences
SIGKDD has hosted an annual conference - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - since 1995. KDD Conference grew from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) workshops at AAAI conferences, which were started by Gregory I. Piatetsky-Shapiro in 1989, 1991, and 1993, and Usama Fayyad in 1994.[1] Conference papers of each Proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are published through ACM.[2] KDD is widely considered the most influential forum for knowledge discovery and data mining research.[3][4]
KDD-2012 took place in Beijing, China,[5] KDD-2013 took place in Chicago, USA, KDD-2014 was in New York City, USA, KDD-2015 was in Sydney, Australia, KDD-2016 was in San Francisco, and KDD-2017 is held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Here is a full list of past KDD meetings.[6]
KDD-Cup
SIGKDD sponsors the KDD Cup[7] competition every year in conjunction with the annual conference. It is aimed at members of the industry and academia, particularly students, interested in KDD.
Awards
The group also annually recognizes members of the KDD community with its Innovation Award and Service Award.[8] Additionally, KDD presents a Best Paper Award[9] to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference.
SIGKDD Explorations
SIGKDD has also published a biannual academic journal titled "SIGKDD Explorations"[10] since June, 1999[11] when Usama Fayyad took on role of Founding Editor-inChief as ACM SIGKDD was formed . Editors in Chief:
- Charu Aggarwal (since 2014)
- Bart Goethals (2010-2013)
- Osmar R. Zaiane (2008-2010)
- Ramakrishnan Srikant[12] (2006-2007)
- Sunita Sarawagi[13] (2003-2006)
- Usama Fayyad (Founding Editor-in-Chief) (1999-2002)
People
The original founding Board of Directors of SIGKDD in 1998 consist of:
- Won Kim, President, Cyber Database Solutions, SIGKDD Chair
- Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden, SIGKDD Secretary/Treasurer
- Usama Fayyad, Microsoft Research, SIGKDD Director and Editor-in-Chief of SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Knowledge Stream Partners, SIGKDD Director
- Daryl Pregibon, AT&T Labs, SIGKDD Director
- Padhraic Smyth, U. of California Irvine, SIGKDD Director
Current Chair:
- Bing Liu (2013- )
Former Chairpersons:
- Usama Fayyad (2009-2013)
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (2005-2009)
- Won Kim (1998-2005)
Former Executive Committee (2009-2013)
- Johannes Gehrke
- Robert Grossman
- David D. Jensen
- Raghu Ramakrishnan
- Sunita Sarawagi
- Ramakrishnan Srikant
Information Directors:
- Ankur Teredesai (2011-)
- Gabor Melli (2004-2011)
- Ramakrishnan Srikant (1998-2003)
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.sigkdd.org/conferences.php
- ↑ "Event: KDD". acm.org.
- ↑ Conference Ranks (MSAR)
- ↑ Conference Ranks (ERA and Qualis)
- ↑ "Welcome to KDD-2012: August 12-16, 2012 Beijing, China". sigkdd.org.
- ↑ "Past KDD Conferences and Workshops". kdnuggets.com.
- ↑ http://www.kdd.org/kddcup/
- ↑ http://www.kdd.org/innovation-service-awards
- ↑ "KDD Conference Best Paper Awards". Retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ↑ SIGKDD Blog. "SIGKDD Explorations". kdd.org.
- ↑ Fayyad, Usama. "SIGKDD Explorations : June 1999, Volume 1, Issue 1". www.kdd.org. ACM. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
- ↑ "Srikant's Home Page". rsrikant.com.
- ↑ http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sunita/