Call for Participation
	                BIOKDD 2003  
   3rd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
    		      in conjunction with
   9th ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
                August 27, 2002,  Washington, DC                 

      	      http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD03/

HIGHLIGHTS:
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Keynote talks by
STEVEN SALZBERG, Senior Director of Bioinformatics, 
                 The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

SORIN ISTRAIL, Senior Director, Informatics Research, 
               Celera Genomics/Applied Biosystems

9 contributed papers selected from 24 submissions

REGISTRATION:
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Registration is included in the ACM SIGKDD Conference
Registration. For additional details see
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003/
Early registration deadline is 23rd July!

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
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8:50 - 9:00 Opening Remarks

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Talk:
Genome Paleontology: Discoveries from Complete Genomes,
STEVEN L. SALZBERG, Senior Director of Bioinformatics, 
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session I

Effectiveness of information extraction, multi-relational, and
multi-view learning for prediction gene deletion experiments,
M. Krogel, T. Scheffer, Humboldt U, Germany

Mean-entropy discretized features are effective for classifying
high-dimensional biomedical data, J. Li, H. Liu, L. Wong, Inst for
Infocomm Research, Singapore

Evidence combination in biomedical natural-language processing,
M. Skounakis, M. Craven, U. Wisconsin

Extracting information from text and images for location
proteomics, Z. Kou, W. Cohen, R. Murphy, CMU

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Keynote Talk 
The Minimum Informative Subset Problem,
SORIN ISTRAIL, Senior Director, Informatics Research, 
Celera Genomics/Applied Biosystems

2:30 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 5:00 Session II

Distance-enhanced association rules for gene expression, A. Icev,
C. Ruiz, E. Ryder, WPI.

A highly-usable projected clustering algorithm for gene expression
profiles, K. Yip, W. Cheung, M. Ng, U. Hong Kong.

Enhanced visualization of time series through higher fourier
harmonics, L. Zhang, A. Zhang, M. Ramanathan, U Buffalo

Reducing large diagonals in kernel matrices through semidefinite
programming, H-M Lu, S. Gupta, Y. Dai, U Illinois Chicago

Interactive Analysis of Gene Interactions Using
Graphical gaussian model, X. Wu, Y. Ye, K. Subramanian, L. Zhang,
UNC Charlotte.

5:00-5:30 Discussion Session

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
* Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(zaki.AT.cs.rpi.edu)
* Jason T.L. Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
(wang.AT.njit.edu)
* Hannu T.T. Toivonen, University of Helsinki
(htoivone.AT.cs.Helsinki.FI)

   
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University
* Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine
* Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin
* Hasan Jamil, Mississippi State University
* George Karypis, University of Minnesota
* Ross D. King, University of Wales, UK
* Stefan Kramer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
* Simon M. Lin, Duke University
* Zoran Obradovic, Temple University
* Srini Parthasarathy, Ohio State University
* Luc De Raedt, Albert-Ludwigs University, Germany
* Tobias Scheffer,Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
* Mona Singh, Princeton University
* Shin-Mu Vincent Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
* Alfonso Valencia, National Center for Biotechnology, Spain
* Limsoon Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
* Jiong Yang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign