MLDM 2007: A brief overview

Here is the last post about the MLDM 2007 conference in Leipzig. As mentioned in an earlier post, several different topics were covered in this meeting. In my opinion, there were no trendy topics such as SVM, ANN, GA, etc. that flood other methods. Below, you can find a list of interesting papers.

• "Kernel MDL to Determine the Number of Clusters" by Kyrgyzov et al. where they combine Minimum Description Length (MDL) with Kernel K-means to estimate the number of clusters.
  
  
• "A Case-Based Approach to Anomaly Intrusion Detection" by Micarelli et al., a work that combines Case Based Reasoning (CBR) and clustering for intrusion detection.
  
  
• "Comparing state-of-the-art collaborative filtering systems" by Candillier et al. (selected for best paper award) presents different collaborative filtering methods to point out their advantages/drawbacks and propose some basic options to consider when using a particular technique.
  

The title of the best paper award was: "Affine Feature Extraction: A Generalization of the Fukunaga-Koontz Transformation", written by Wenbo Cao and Robert Haralick. To be noted that R. Haralick gave an additional (very strange) presentation about data mining and religion. Of course, as you can imagine, this presentation was subject to a lot of discussion and controversy. Maybe some risky subjects should not be presented...

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MLDM 2007: Clustering in Leipzig

I recently came back from the Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM) conference in Leipzig, Germany. This was an interesting meeting with various subjects. Out of the usual subjects such as classification (SVM, etc.), feature selection and clustering, a lot of papers were dedicated to applications of data mining.

Examples of application domains are:

• Intrusion detection
  
• Marketing data
  
• Image mining
  
• Medical and biological data mining
  
• Text and document mining
  
• Spam, Newsgroup, blog

A unique session was organized during three days. In comparison to huge conferences with parallel sessions, here the advantage is that more people are attending your presentation. I was personally there to present my work on cluster validity. The most interesting presentation, in my opinion, was the invited talk given by Anil K. Jain about data clustering (certainly because I'm myself involved in clustering). In the next post, I will point out some of his conclusions and recommendations for clustering.

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Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM'2007)

Every two years, since 1999, the IBAI institute in Germany, is organizing the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2007). Well, even in Europe we have data mining related conferences :-) A lot of subjects are covered and applications papers are also encouraged in fields such as multimedia, biomedical and webmining.


I will go to MLDM this year to present an article about cluster validity. I hope to see some of you there. One of the keynote speaker is Anil K. Jain, a pioneer in the field of clustering. He is giving a presentation entitled "Data Clustering: User’s Dilemma". I'm sure this will be very interesting and I will give you some feedback after the conference.

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Data mining conferences (cont.)

To continue an older post, here are three websites containing conferences somehow related to data mining or machine learning:

• KDnuggets
  
• Kmining
  
• Guoliang webpage

I think the three most important in the field of data mining are the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) and the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).

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Data mining conferences

You're looking for a conference related to data mining?
Here is a very complete (even if not exhaustive) website containing events somehow related to data mining:

http://www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/

Hope this helps!

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