Workshop on Link Discovery, Aug 21 2005 in Chicago

Per a recent post to SOCNET, the following workshop of interest to MeshForum will be held later this summer in Chicago.

The Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications (LinkKDD-2005), to be held August 21, 2005 - Chicago, IL, USA in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD-2005,

has extended its paper submission deadline to June 20th.

For more info, please see http://www.isi.edu/LinkKDD-05/Content/cfp.htm

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Particular topics of interest for the workshop include but are not
limited to:

* Theoretical advances to link discovery and group detection
* Practical applications of link discovery to real world databases
* Link-analysis and graph mining
* Social network analysis and community finding
* Graph theory, scale-free networks and small world phenomenon
* Web-mining and text-mining applied to link discovery
* Link discovery for data streams and scalability of developed
approaches
* Record linkage, alias detection and object consolidation
* Visualization of link structures
* Performance evaluation measures
* Innovative applications in areas such as medical informatics,
insurance, laws enforcements and web communities
* Link discovery and other theoretical fields such as natural
language processing, agent theory, complex systems, trust models and
dynamic pricing models
* Survey and analysis of deployed link discovery integrated systems,
commercial products, educational and commercial packages

Please consider submitting a paper to this workshop.