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 Data visualization deals with the effective portrayal of data with a goal towards insight about the data. Typically, the data is of high volume, multidimensional in nature, and does not lend itself to easy display. The data is also often non-spatial and temporal in nature. Data visualization software systems are very popular with end-user domain scientists who require visual tools to explore and analyze their data. These visual tools however are used strictly as output of the exploration process and have received much attention whereas the input issues to the exploration process still have not. The KDD community is concerned with two aspects of visualization techniques: 1. its use at the "back-end" of the exploration process to help understand models extracted by data mining algorithms, and 2. scalability issues in visualization: how do we make it efficient in presence context of large databases where data access is expensive. The visualization community looks at KDD and analytic methods also as applications to generate displays. However visualization can be used as input to KDD and analytic tools; it can also be used to support computational steering. An effective visualization front-end can guide a data mining algorithm in its search and may result in much better and more easily acceptable solutions. This workshop will continue the discussions started at the first two workshops and focus on these and other issues that make a case for integrating KDD and visualization technologies. |
 The Workshop will be held at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Tennis Club, Newport Beach, California, Sunday, August 17, 1997, from 8.30am to 5.00pm. The last day of the conference (August 17) will consist entirely of the Workshop. |
 The 1997 Workshop on Issues in the Integration of Data Mining and Data Visualization is sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). |
 Two previous workshops (Siggraph '90 and Visualization '91) have dealt with areas such as high-level requirements for data structures and access software, and data visualization environments. The first and second workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization were held in 1993 and 1995 and explored the fundamental issues. A number of experimental, prototype, and research systems were presented. The second workshop also saw a beginning interest with data mining and visualization integration. This trend, so significant in the commercial sector today, is in its infancy and is in need of much research attention. |
 Position statements and papers are welcome on the following issues as they relate to KDD and data visualization integration. We would like to keep discussions focused on the end result, which is improving the integration of data mining and knowledge discovery systems with visualization: Requirements Visualization places on Knowledge Discovery Systems Data Models and Access Structures Modeling the User - Tasks, Processes, Support Issues Advanced User Interfaces for Data Mining Visual Languages for Data Mining System Integration Issues Computational Steering for Data Mining Scalability to Large Databases Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Set Issues - Data and Computation Sharing Examples of Integrated Systems Applications of Integrated Systems |
 Papers (and position papers to be expanded for final publication) are solicited that present research results in the integration of data mining and visualization. The deadline for submission is June 15, 1997. Papers should be limited to 5,000 words and may be accompanied by NTSC video. These should describe some original research on the particular subject, and how it fits in with the overall theme of the workshop. Proper references should be cited. |
 Registration forms will be sent to the accepted participants. There is a single registration fee of US $100 which covers the workshop sessions, preprints, and coffee breaks. |
 Georges Grinstein Institute for Visualization and Perception Research University of Massachusetts at Lowell Lowell, MA 01854, USA Email: grinstein@cs.uml.edu Fax: +1-508-934-3551 Phone: +1-508-934-3627 Andreas Wierse Institute for Computer Applications Dep. Computersimulation and Visualization Pfaffenwaldring 27 D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany Email: wierse@rus.uni-stuttgart.de Fax: +49(0)711-682357 Phone: +49-711-685-5796 Usama Fayyad Microsoft Research Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA Email: fayyad@microsoft.com Fax: +1-206-936-7329 Phone +1-206-703-1528 |
 More details are available at http://www.cs.uml.edu/~grinstei/kddvis-workshop.html |
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