European Project Presentation Day

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KDNet European Knowledge Discovery Network of
Excellence

• European Project Presentation Day
• PKDD Helsinki, 20.08.2002

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KDNet at a Glance

• KDNet is the European Knowledge Discovery
  Network of Excellence
• the largest European Network for Data Mining and
  Knowledge Discovery
• including 60 partners from industry, the public
  sector, universities and research organizations
• lasting from January 2002 June 2004
• funded by the European Commission under contract
  number IST-33086
• with a budget of 888,000
• started on February 2002
• further information www.kdnet.org

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KDNet Objective 1
To identify and anticipate new emergent
technologies and trends in KDD

• A roadmap on knowledge discovery research and
  technology
• Application and vendor guides for industry and
  public sector
• Identifying and supporting emerging research
  areas by organizing or supporting workshops

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KDNet Objective 2
To provide a forum for academic, industry and
public sector to establish collaborations and to
transfer knowledge from research to industry

• KDNet Online Information Service www.kdnet.org
• Access to information training material
• Workshops targeting the industry and the public
  sector

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KDNet Objective 3
Avoiding fragmentation of Data Mining research in
the IST program 

• Organizing forum for European funded Data Mining
  research (e.g. at PKDD)
• Providing virtual project exhibition at OIS
• Expression of Interest for European Commissionss
  6th Framework Programme

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KDNet Objective 4
Interdisciplinary integration  

• Adapting training materials to the need of
  neighboring disciplines, e.g.
• bioinformatics and medicine,
• economics,
• (multimedia) information retrieval and CL
• geographic information systems (GIS)
• cognitive sciences
• pattern recognition
• Organizing joint workshops

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KDNet - Activities
Passed Activities

• 20.03.02 Re-using experience workshop, Vienna
• 23.04.02 STT project presentation Rotterdam
• 26-28.06.02 Data Mining Cup, Chemnitz
• 15.06.02 Summer school SAMO, Venice

Upcoming Activities 2002

• 20.08.02(PKDD) EU Project Presentation Day
• 20.08.02(PKDD) Mining Official Data
• 20.08.02(PKDD) Semantic Web Mining SP
  ? KDNet Web Mining Forum
• 20.08.02(PKDD) Discovery Challenge
• PKDD Best Paper award SP
• 22/23.10.02 Knowledge Discovery Meets Drug
  Discovery, Leuven, Belgium

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V. KDNet Activities 2003
Workshops (an extract)

1. Information Mining for Intelligent Transportation
   Systems Workshop (Automotives), DaimlerChrysler
2. KD meets Drug Discovery (Bioinformatics),
   PharmaDM
3. Statistics Workshop (Uni. Bari, EUROSTAT, )
4. KD from Spatial Databases, AIS
5. Multi-media and Web Intelligence (AIS, JSI, Web
   Minig Forum

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KDNet How to join ?

• Basic requirements
• To actively contribute to one of the work
  packages, e.g.
• chairing/co-chairing a forum, interest group,
  etc,
• contributing to scientific, technology, industry
  roadmap
• providing information for Online Information
  Services
• offering courses or training material
• organizing workshops, conferences
• participating in project clustering activities
• KDNet funding
• Personnel costs for work package chairs
• Travel costs on a case by case basis
• Other costs (workshop organization, newsletter,
  solution guides)

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Web Mining Forum Founding Members

• Chair Myra Spiliopoulou Leipzig Graduate School
  of Management, Germany
• Gerd Stumme, Andreas HothoUniversity of
  Karlsruhe (AIFB), Germany
• Bettina BerendtHumboldt University of Berlin,
  Germany
• Dunja Mladenic, Marko GrobelnikJosef Stephan
  Institute, Lubljana, Slovenia
• Knowledge Discovery Team (Michael May)Fraunhofer
  Institute for Autonomous Intelligent
  SystemsSankt Augustin, Germany

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Contact

• KDNet Office
• Michael May (project responsible)
• michael.may_at_ais.fraunhofer.de
• Codrina Lauth (coordination)
• codrina.lauth_at_ais.fraunhofer.de

KDNet website unter http//www.kdnet.org