8 May 2002
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:56:11 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: CCR/DIMACS Workshop/Tutorial on Mining Massive Data Sets and
Streams: Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Homeland
Defense
CCR/DIMACS Workshop/Tutorial on Mining Massive Data Sets and Streams:
Mathematical Methods and Algorithms for Homeland Defense
Dates of Tutorial: June 17-19, 2002
Dates of Workshop: June 20-22, 2002
Location: Center for Communications Research (CCR), Princeton, NJ
Organizers:
Bob Grossman, chair,
University of Illinois and Two Cultures Group,
grossman@uic.edu
Paul Kantor,
Rutgers University, kantorp@cs.rutgers.edu
Muthu Muthukrishnan,
AT&T Labs - Research and Rutgers University,
muthu@cs.rutgers.edu
Workshop Coordinator:
Dolores Koch, DJK@idaccr.org
Co-sponsored by the Center for Communications Research (CCR) and DIMACS.
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The amount of data relevant to home land defense is massive,
distributed and growing rapidly through the addition of high volume
data streams and feeds. This presents fundamentally new mathematical
challenges. These relate to: 1) the real time and near real time
detection of significant events in high volume data streams; 2) the
forensic analysis of massive amounts of archived data to uncover
patterns and events of interest; and 3) the mining of distributed
data, which for a variety of reasons will never be centrally
warehoused. To complicate matters further, homeland defense must
concern itself with a variety of different data types, including,
signals, text, images, transaction data, streaming media, web data,
and computer to computer traffic.
The event will bring together researchers from a variety of fields for
tutorials and specialized talks about these challenges. The tutorial,
which runs from Monday to Wednesday, will present to non-experts or
those wanting a coherent introduction to the field a variety of tools
that are relevant to the topics described. The workshop, which runs
from Thursday through Saturday, will contain more specialized
talks. It is possible to register for the tutorial alone, the workshop
alone, or both.
There will be tutorials on text mining, parallel data mining,
algorithmic issues in processing data streams, database support for
data mining, on-line learning, forensic ring analysis, and data
fusion, as well as a number of survey talks.
The workshop will include talks on algorithmic issues in processing
streaming data, text mining & classification, anomaly detection,
outlier analysis, forensic data analysis, on-line learning, real-time
data mining, parallel data mining, visualization and data mining, and
mining graphical data.
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Confirmed speakers include:
James Abello, ATT
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University
Allen Gorin, ATT
Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Kantor, Rutgers University
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Dave Lewis, Independent Consultant
Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon
S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers
Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Daryl Pregibon, ATT
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin
Robert Schapire, ATT
Additional speakers will be added. Please visit the DIMACS web pages for
updated information.
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Tutorial Registration Fees
Regular rate
$150
DIMACS partner institution employees**
$50
Postdocs and Grad Students
$50
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Workshop Registration Fees
(Preregistration deadline: June 10, 2002)
Regular rate
$120/day (before preregistration deadline)
$140/day (after preregistration deadline)
Reduced rate*
$60/day (before preregistration deadline)
$70/day (after preregistration deadline)
Postdocs
$10/day (before preregistration deadline)
$15/day (after preregistration deadline)
DIMACS Postdocs
$0
Non-Local Graduate & Undergraduate students
$5/day (before preregistration deadline)
$10/day (after preregistration deadline)
Local Graduate & Undergraduate students (Rutgers & Princeton)
$0
DIMACS partner institution employees**
$0
DIMACS long-term visitors***
$0
******* Registration fee deposits required: ********
We anticipate that this event will reach full capacity. Therefore we
are requiring a deposit on registration fees to be received one week
before the event to hold your spot. Deposits can be made by sending a
check or by emailing or phoning your credit card information to the
Coordinator. The balance due will be collected on site, cash, check,
Visa or Mastercard only.
Amount of deposit required: 100% of registration fees due or $50,
whichever is less.
Checks should be made payable to: Center for Communications Research
Mail to:
Center for Communications Research
805 Bunn Drive
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Attn: Dolores Koch
Registration fee deposits by credit card (Mastercard or Visa only):
Email or telephone the following to Dolores Koch
(DJK@idaccr.org, 609-924-4600):
Type of credit card (Mastercard/Visa)
Credit card number
Expiration Date
Zip code of billing address
(foreign nationals please indicate country of residence)
Refund policy: Full refund of deposit if cancellation is received by
the coordinator on or before June 10. Please email cancellations to
Dolores Koch, DJK@idaccr.org.
Our funding agencies require that we charge a registration fee during
the course of the workshop. Registration fees include participation in
the workshop, all workshop materials, breakfast, lunch, breaks and any
scheduled social events (if applicable).
* College/University faculty and employees of non-profit
organizations will automatically receive the reduced rate. Other
participants may apply for a reduction of fees. They should email
their request for the reduced fee to the Workshop Coordinator at
workshop@dimacs.rutgers.edu. Include your name, the Institution you
work for, your job title and a brief explanation of your
situtation. All requests for reduced rates must be received before the
preregistration deadline. You will promptly be notified as to the
decision about it.
** Fees for employees of DIMACS partner institutions are
waived. DIMACS partner institutions are: Rutgers University, Princeton
University, AT&T Labs - Research, Avaya, Bell Labs, NEC Research
Institute and Telcordia Technologies.
***DIMACS long-term visitors who are in residence at DIMACS for
two or more weeks inclusive of dates of workshop.
Application for financial support: Limited financial support is
expected to be available. How much we offer will depend on the number
of applications received and might have to be limited to waiver of
registration fees for some of the participants. Application deadline:
May 6, 2002. Notifications of support will be sent on or before May
20, 2002. Application instructions are available on the web pages
noted below.
For complete information on registration, participation, travel
and accommodations please see:
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Homeland/