ACM SIGKDD Explorations Editor-in-chief: Sunita Sarawagi Associate Editors: Usama Fayyad Bing Liu Osmar R. Zaiane

About SIGKDD Explorations Official newsletter of the SIGKDD community Two issues a year Each issue has a special theme, mostly guest edited Thirteen (13) issues out since June All issues available online Members get hard copy

Recent issues Web Content Mining (Dec 2004) Web Content Mining Bing Liu, Kevin Chang – 8 articles on the special issue topic (76 pages) – 2 position papers (18 pages) – subspace clustering, and multi-objective optimization in data mining – 20 reports: KDD Cup (8), panel (1), workshops (11). Natural Language Processing and Text Mining (June 2005) Anne Kao, Steve Poteet Natural Language Processing and Text Mining – 9 articles on the special issue topic (75 pages) – 1 contributed paper - generalized naïve Bayes Upcoming issue (Dec 2005): Link Mining Lise Getoor and Chris Diehl

We invite … Proposals for special issues of 2006! Reports on competitions, panels, workshops: we will contact you soon! Technical articles on the special issue Position papers on controversial issues Articles with industry and application focus Commentaries/notes requiring quick dissemination Book reviews, Advertisements

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