1. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Editor-in-chief: Sunita Sarawagi Associate Editors: Usama Fayyad Bing Liu Osmar R. Zaiane http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/

2. 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 1999. All issues available online http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/ http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/ Members get hard copy

3. 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

6. 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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