1. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Editor-In-Chief : Ramakrishnan Srikant Associate Editors :  Bing Liu  Osmar R. Zaïane http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/

2. About SIGKDD Explorations Official newsletter of the SIGKDD community. Two issues a year. All issues are available online http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/ http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/ Contains  Submitted articles (reviewed)  Reports (workshops, kdd cup, and others)  Interviews  Selected KDD workshop papers  Special issues guest edited Members get hard copy.

3. Special Issues Upcoming Issues: Visual Analytics [D. Keim, J. Schneidewind] December 2007 Open Source Data Mining Software [R. Grossman] Past Issues: Data Mining for Health Informatics [Raymond T. Ng, Jian Pei ] 06/07 Successful Real-World Data Mining Applications [G. Melli, O. R. Zaiane, B. Kitts ] 06/06 Link Mining [L. Getoor and C. P. Diehl ] 12/05 Natural Language Processing and Text Mining [Anne Kao, Steve Poteet ] 06/05 Web Content Mining [B. Liu, K. C.-C. Chang ] 12/04 Learning from Imbalanced Datasets [N. Chawla, N. Japkowicz, A. Kolcz ] 06/04 Microarray Data Mining [G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Tamayo ] 12/03 Multi Relational Data Mining [S. Dzeroski, L. De Raedt ] 06/03 Privacy and Security [J. Gehrke] 12/02 Constraints in Data Mining [R. Bayardo] 06/02 Online, Interactive, and Anytime Data Mining [M. Zaki] 01/02 Scalable Data Mining [K. Shim] 12/00 Internet Data Mining [P. Bradley] 06/00

4. We invite… Reports on competitions, panels, workshops:  Deadline: Oct 2. Proposals for 2008 special issues. Articles with industry and application focus. Technical articles on the special issue Position papers on controversial issues Commentaries/notes requiring quick dissemination Book reviews, Advertisements

5. Send us your comments and suggestions editors_sigkdd@acm.org UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Osmar R. Zaïane, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computing Science 352 Athabasca Hall Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E8 Telephone: Office +1 (780) 492 2860 Fax +1 (780) 492 1071 E-mail: zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/ As of January 2008 the Editor-in-Chief of SIGKDD Explorations will be Osmar R Zaïane