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.

› Information Extraction
› 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
› High Performance Implementations
› Privacy Protection and Ethics
› Software Development
› Business Intelligence Applications

› Edwin Diday, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, France
› Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings of KDIR 2009 and KDIR 2010 will be indexed by DBLP. Indexation of KDIR 2009 and KDIR 2010 proceedings by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and EI is awaiting confirmation.

› Conference date: 25-28 October, 2010

› Regular Paper Submission: June 04, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): July 09, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 27, 2010

› Position Paper Submission: June 28, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (position papers): July 20, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: July 30, 2010

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/

The conference will be held at the Hotel Sidi Saler, Valencia, Spain.
The Hotel is situated right next to the beach, near the Albufera Nature Park and Lake. It is surrounded by pine forests and offers a unique environment in which you can relax, walk, jog or enjoy bicycle riding.
The Sidi Saler is located just 21 km from the airport and 15 km from Valencia, a modern and dynamic city with a beautiful historic centre.

Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal

Luigi Pontieri, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Muhammad Abulaish, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), India
Shawkat Ali, Central Queensland University, Australia
Adel Mohamed Alimi, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Kar Ann Toh, Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of
Maria Jose Aramburu Cabo, University Jaume I, Spain
Eva Armengol, IIIA CSIC, Spain
Pedro Ballester, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy
Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, United States
Florian Boudin, University of Montréal, Canada
Marc Boullé, Orange Labs, France
Keith C. C. Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Rui Camacho, Faculdade de Engenharian da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, United States
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Jerome Darmont, Universite de Lyon, France
Luis M. de Campos, University of Granada, Spain
Beatriz de la Iglesia, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Spiros Denaxas, University College London, United Kingdom
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, United States
Antoine Doucet, University of Caen, France
Floriana Esposito, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Juan M. Fernández-luna, University of Granada, Spain
Daan Fierens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal
Gautam Garai, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India
Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, United States
Marcos Gonçalves Quiles, Federal University of Sao Paulo - UNIFESP, Brazil
Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria, Italy
José Hernández-Orallo, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Koh Hian Chye, SIM University (UniSIM), Singapore
Estevam Hruschka Jr., Federal UNiversity of São Carlos, Brazil
Kaizhu Huang, Institute of AutomationChinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Chun Hung Li, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Norbert Jankowski, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
Szymon Jaroszewicz, National Institute of Telecommunications Warsaw, Poland
Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Liu Jing, Xidian University, China, China
Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College, India
Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anne Laurent, Lirmm, Univ Montpellier 2, France
Carson K. Leung, The University of Manitoba, Canada
Changqing Li, Duke University, United States
Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada
Wenyuan Li, University of Southern California, United States
Xia Lin, Drexel University, United States
Berenike Litz, University of Bremen, Germany
Jun Liu, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Devignes Marie-Dominique, LORIA, CNRS, France
Ben Markines, ListenLogic, United States
Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Rosa Meo, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Janjao Mongkolnavin, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Stefania Montani, Piemonte Orientale University, Italy
Eduardo F. Morales, INAOE, Mexico
Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, University of Technology of Compiegne, France
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Amy Neustein, Linguistic Technology Systems, United States
Chen-Sen Ouyang, I-Shou University, Taiwan
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, United States
Ari Pirkola, University of Tampere, Finland
Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM, France
Ronaldo Prati, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Ronald R. Yager, Machine Intelligence Institute, Iona College, United States
Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, United States
Jan Rauch, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Arun Ross, West Virginia University, United States
Leander Schietgat, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Filippo Sciarrone, Open Informatica srl, Italy
Dou Shen, Microsoft Adcenter Labs, United States
Fabricio Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Dominik Slezak, Infobright, Poland
Amanda Spink, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
M. M. Sufyan Beg, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
Marcin Sydow, PJIIT and ICS PAS, Warsaw, Poland
Kosuke Takano, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
James Tan, SIM University, Singapore
Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of
Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany
Dian Tjondronegoro, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Christos Tjortjis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, United States
Yannick Toussaint, INRIA, France
Volker Tresp, Siemens, Germany
Joaquin Vanschoren, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, United States
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Huiyong Xiao, University of Illinois, United States
Qing Xu, Microsoft, United States
Kiduk Yang, Indiana University, United States
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Xiao-Jun Zeng, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Justin Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
Dengsheng Zhang, Monash University, Australia
Jing Zhou, Microsoft, United States

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