8 May 2002
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:56:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Christine Houck <houck@dimacs.rutgers.edu> To: publicity-list@dimacs.rutgers.edu, DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de, Theory-A@listserv.nodak.edu, sy-nextgen-global@dimacs.rutgers.edu, sy-nextgen-local@dimacs.rutgers.edu, sy-nextgen-rutgers@dimacs.rutgers.edu, sy-data-global@dimacs.rutgers.edu, sy-data-local@dimacs.rutgers.edu, sy-data-rutgers@dimacs.rutgers.edu 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. **************************************************************** 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. **************************************************************** 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. *********************************************** Tutorial Registration Fees Regular rate $150 DIMACS partner institution employees** $50 Postdocs and Grad Students $50 *********************************************** 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/