KDD-2003
 		     The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Washington, DC, USA     August 24 - 27, 2003
HOME
Organization
Program
 For Authors
KDD-Cup
Registration
Hotel

Information for Authors

Some updates were made to this page. Please check the guidelines again before submitting your camera-ready copy.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Electronic abstracts due: February 21, 2003 (12 noon PST)
Electronic paper submissions due: February 28, 2003 (12 noon PST)
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 23, 2003
Camera-ready papers due: June 6, 2003

   

   

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • Camera ready papers and copyright forms are due by 6PM PST June 6, 2003.
  • Papers that are not received by that time will NOT appear in the proceedings.
  • The following page limits will be strictly enforced:
    • 10 page limit for full papers
    • 6 page limit for poster papers
    There are no extra pages allowed.
  • Papers must be in PDF format
  • All fonts must be embedded in PDF, no bitmapped/type 3 fonts see http://www.cs.utah.edu/support/contrib/thompson/latex/latex-fonts.html for some useful tips.
  • As specified in the templates, ACM requires Categories and Subject Descriptors, General Terms and Keywords to be provided for each paper.
    • For keywords, you may use the ones that the paper was submitted under, at the CMT web site
    • For categories, most papers should go under one of the following categories:
      H.2.8 [Database Management]: Database Applications - Data Mining
      I.2.6 [Artificial Intelligence]: Learning
      I.5.2 [Pattern Recognition]: Design Methodology - classifier design and evaluation
      H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval
    • You may leave off the general term if you like.
  • Authors will receive email confirmation that their copyright forms and papers have been received and that their papers print with no errors by June 13th, 2003.

File naming and submission

  • File naming convention:
    papernumber.first-author-lastname.pdf
    i.e. paper 222 by Jane Doe and John Smith should be 222.doe.pdf
  • Upload instructions:
    Camera-ready copies must be submitted electronically by FTP at ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/incoming/kdd03/
    Logon as: anonymous
    Password: your e-mail address
  • You may resubmit your paper if necessary by adding a numbered extension, i.e. the second submission of 222.doe.pdf should be 222.doe.pdf.1
    The submission with the highest number will be used
  • For any problem regarding uploading your paper, please contact the KDD 2003 Proceedings Chair: Lise Getoor (getoor AT cs DOT umd DOT edu).

Again, all papers must be submitted before June 6th 2003 in PDF format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submitted papers print correctly on a variety of printers. If any special fonts are used, they must be included in the submission.

COPYRIGHT FORMS

A signed copyright release form is due by the 6th of June 2003. The copyright form is accessible on-line in PDF and MS Word format. The form must be signed and sent to:
Dr. Lise Getoor (KDD Proceedings Chair)
Computer Science Dept.
AV Williams Bldg
College Park, MD 20742
USA

or faxed to: +1 301-405-6707 (Attention Dr. Lise Getoor (KDD 2003 Proceedings Chair)
IMPORTANT: We cannot publish your paper without this permission.
CAMERA-READY TEMPLATES

The templates for the SIGKDD 2003 Conference Proceedings are available for LaTeX as well as MS Word. They are based on the offical ACM Proceedings Format.
All papers need to have the copyright statement in the bottom right corner of the first page. The copyright statement should read:
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work
for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that
copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage
and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first
page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to
redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.
SIGKDD '03, August 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.
Copyright 2003 ACM 1-58113-737-0/03/0008...$5.00.

Notice that the copyright number is important and should be correct. This copyright statement is already included within the provided templates.

For paper from US gogernment agencies, the copyright statement should read:
Copyright 2003 Association for Computing Machinery.
ACM acknowledges that this contribution was authored or co-authored by a
contractor or affiliate of the U.S. Government. As such, the Government
retains a nonexclusive,royalty-free right to publish or reproduce this
article, or to allow others to do so, for Government purposes only.
SIGKDD '03, August 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.
Copyright 2003 ACM 1-58113-737-0/03/0008...$5.00.

Please check the required format, font size etc. in the templates and examples provided.
Please do not put page numbers on your camera-ready copy.

Templates for KDD 2003
MSword
LaTeX
Official ACM templates
  • ACM SIG Proceedings templates
  • Alternate ACM Author Guidelines (LaTeX2e) HTML Document V1.0

    • Summary of Required Paper Format

    Page Size and Layout: All material on each page should fit within a rectangle of 18 X 23.5 cm (7" X 9.25"), centered on the page, beginning 2.54 cm (1") from the top of the page and ending with 2.54 cm (1") from the bottom. The right and left margins should be 1.9 cm (.75"). The text should be in two 8.45 cm (3.33") columns with a .83 cm (.33") gutter.

    All body text is set in two columns. The two columns on the last page should be of (nearly) equal length.

    Normal or Body Text: The body text is set in 9-point Times Roman (cmr). Use sans serif or nonproportional fonts only for special purposes, such as distinguishing source code text. Right margins should be justified, not ragged.

    Title and Author Information: The title (Helvetica or Arial 18-point bold), authors? names (Helvetica or Arial 12point), author addresses, affiliations and phone number (Helvetica or Arial 10-point) and email address (Helvetica 12 point) run across the full width of the page. Up to three author names and information blocks may be aligned at the top of the first page; any additional author information appears in a paragraph at the end of the paper.

    References and Citations: Footnotes should be Times New Roman 9-point. The format of references is a numbered list at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically by first author, and referenced by numbers in brackets e.g. [1].

    References should be published materials accessible to the public. Internal technical reports may be cited only if they are easily accessible (i.e. you can give the address to obtain the report within your citation) and may be obtained by any reader. Proprietary information may not be cited. Private communications should be acknowledged, not referenced (e.g. "[Robertson, personal communication]").

    Do not print page numbers in your papers.

    POSTER SPECIFICATIONS

    KDD'03 will have available 4 ft x 8 ft poster boards. Each poster board will hold TWO actual posters (i.e., papers). Each poster will have an area of 3.75 ft x 3 ft available for its presentation. You are free to use a single large sheet of paper or a set of slides, as long as you restrict yourself to the above area in the board.

    Here's an example of the poster setup (from last year):

    Poster space will be pre-assigned (you will know about your location on-site) and the space will be available for setup a few hours before the poster session.

    Webmaster:     Osmar R. Zaļane
    Last updated: June 4, 2003