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December 2008, Volume 10, Issue 2

Editor-In-Chief Associate Editor
Osmar R. Zaiane
University of Alberta, Canada

 Charu Aggarwal
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  Bart Goethals
University of Antwerp

Letter from the editor-in-chief
1
Osmar R. Zaiane

Contributed Articles

On Exploiting the Power of Time in Data Mining
3
Mirko Boettcher, Frank Hoeppner, Myra Spiliopoulou
A Brief Survey on Anonymization Techniques for Privacy Preserving Publishing of Social Network Data
12
Bin Zhou, Jian Pei, Wo-Shun Luk

Book Reviews

Book Review: Web Data Mining - Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data
23
Olfa Nasraoui

PhD Dissertation Abstracts

Scalable Mining and Link Analysis Across Multiple Database Relations
26
Xiaoxin Yin
Incremental Pattern Discovery on Streams, Graphs and Tensors
28
Jimeng Sun
Building Acceptable Classification Models for Financial Engineering Applications
30
David Martens
Approximate inference, structure learning and feature estimation in Markov Random Fields
32
Pradeep Ravikumar

KDD 2008 Reports: KDD Cup and Workshops

KDD Cup 2008 and the Workshop on Mining Medical Data
34
R. Bharat Rao, Oksana Yakhnenko, Balaji Krishnapuram
Breast Cancer Identification: KDD CUP Winner's Report
39
Claudia Perlich, Prem Melville, Yan Liu, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Richard Lawrence, Saharon Rosset
Learning to Improve Area-Under-FROC for Imbalanced Medical Data Classification Using an Ensemble Method
43
Hung-Yi Lo, Chun-Min Chang, Tsung-Hsien Chiang, Cho-Yi Hsiao, Anta Huang, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Wei-Chi Lai, Ming-Han Yang, Jung-Jung Yeh, Chun-Chao Yen, Shou-De Lin
Report on the Second KDD Workshop on Data Mining for Advertising
47
Dou Shen, Arun C. Surendran, Ying Li
BIOKDD 2008: A Workshop Report on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
51
Jake Y. Chen, Mohammed Zaki, Stefano Lonardi
KDD2008 Workshop Report DMMT.08: Data Mining Using Matrices and Tensors
54
Chris Ding, Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu
Algorithmic and Statistical Challenges in Modern LargeScale Data Analysis are the Focus of MMDS 2008
57
Michael W. Mahoney, Lek-Heng Lim, Gunnar E. Carlsson
MMIS07, 08: Mining Multiple Information Sources Workshop Report
61
Xingquan Zhu, Ruoming Jin, Yuri Breitbart, Gagan Agrawal
PinKDD'08: Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD PostWorkshop Report
66
Francesco Bonchi, Elena Ferrari, Wei Jiang, Bradley Malin
Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (SensorKDD)
68
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Joao Gama, Nitesh V. Chawla, Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Auroop R. Ganguly
SNAKDD 2008 Social Network Mining and Analysis PostWorkshop Report
74
Haizheng Zhang, Marc Smith, C. Lee Giles and John Yen, Henry Foley
WebKDD 2008: 10 years of Knowledge Discovery on the Web Post-Workshop report
78
Olfa Nasraoui, Myra Spiliopoulou, Osmar R. Zaiane, Jaideep Srivastava, Bamshad Mobasher

Selected Articles from KDD08 Workshops

Retail Sales Prediction and Item Recommendations Using Customer Demographics at Store Level
84
Michael Giering
Learning Preferences of New Users in Recommender Systems: An Information Theoretic Approach
90
Al Mamunur Rashid, George Karypis, John Riedl

Various Calls

WSDM 2009 Call for Participation
101
June 2009 Special Issue Call For Papers
102
SIGKDD 2009 Call for Exhibits
103