bianca zadrozny bousddicuffbr extended submission deadline june 26 second kdd2006 workshop utilitybased data mining august 20 2006 philadelphia pennsylvania conjunction acm sigkdd international conference knowledge discovery data mining sigkdd06 workshop website httpwwwicuffbrbiancaubdmkdd06html papers accepted workshop included cd proceedings together acm kdd papers also included acm digital library selected papers workshop invited submitted special issue utilitybased data mining international journal data mining knowledge discovery please visit special issue web site httpstormcisfordhamedugweissdmkdcfphtml important dates june 26 2006 deadline electronic submission full papers july 5 2006 notification accepted papers july 14 2006 camera ready copies august 20 2006 ubdm workshop workshop topics algorithms approaches information acquisition data preprocessing mining knowledge application incorporate relevant utility factors includes work active learningsampling costsensitive learning approaches adapting predictive descriptive data mining tasks predictive modeling clustering link analysis incorporate utility factors interaction utility factors throughout data mining process work towards comprehensive framework incorporating utility factors benefit entire data mining process includes techniques take account dependencies different phases process maximize utility single phase example methods acquiring training data take account costs errors addition cost data methods extraction predictive patterns take account cost test features necessary prediction time applications case studies data mining applications taken utility factors account case studies address relevant utility factors given application determined measured methods employed take utility factors consideration throughout data mining process utility factors methods dealing vary according specific problem addressed eg industry types utility factors data mining utility factors arise context data mining assessment metrics used response utility factors use utility factors help address previously studied problems data mining problems learning rare classes learning skewed distributions submission guidelines submissions submitted electronically submission deadline june 26 2006 workshop contact bianca zadrozny please send following email address biancaicuffbr submissions made pdf postscript format submissions maximum 10 pages use acm sig proceedings templates note addition technical papers encourage submission position papers generally 6 pages submitted papers reviewed members program committee accepted papers presented workshop published workshop proceedings acm digital library authors notified acceptance rejection paper july 5 2006 cameraready version papers due july 14 2006 please hesitate email workshop contact questions workshop cochairs bianca zadrozny federal fluminense university brazil maytal saartsechansky university texas austin gary weiss fordham university bronx new york getting message think interested ubdm subject prefer removed mailing list please reply message let us know thu 07 aug 2008 033619 0300 uai reminder second ubdm2006 workshop submission deadline one week