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Data Mining TC

Name

This organization is known as the Data Mining Technical Committee (DMTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Purpose and Scope

The goals of the DMTC are to: (1) promote the research, development, education and understanding of data mining principles and applications and (2) to help researchers whose background is primarily in computational intelligence in increasing their contributions to this area.

Officers

The DMTC Chair shall be appointed by the President of the IEEE/CIS based on the recommendations from the Committee, for a one-year term and up to a maximum of three terms. Each November, the DMTC in consultation with VP-TA shall make recommendation to the President for appointment as DMTC Chair for the following year.

Membership

The DMTC is open to all members of the IEEE, as well as to other technical professionals as affiliates. There are three grades of members: core, regular, and affiliate. Core members are those who regularly participate in DMTC activities and meetings and shall be eligible to vote on matters before the committee. Regular members are those who have an interest in the Committee activities but are unable to actively participate. Regular members automatically become core members when present at an DMTC meeting. Affiliates are non-CIS members who have an interest in DMTC activities and may attend DMTC meetings as observers, but are not eligible to vote on matters before the committee.

Funding

There is no membership fee for joining the DMTC. Funding for the committee shall be provided by the CIS in the annual budget request. Once approved by the CIS AdCom, funds will be available to support the DMTC activities. The Chair shall be responsible for the appropriate use of the approved funds.

Activities

The DMTC shall engage in various activities in order to advance the goals described above, including but not limited to the following: Identify and promote new areas of research, propose special sessions to the CIS-sponsored conference organizers, publicize success stories on solving real data mining problems, participate in paper review and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences and publications, recommend candidates/papers for awards and collaborate on production of tutorials and book series with the Multimedia Committee. The DMTC will also assist in soliciting proposals for focused workshops or special sessions and actively work with the organizers of CIS-sponsored conferences to ensure their technical excellence.

Meetings

Meetings will be called by the Chair once or twice a year, usually in conjunction with the CIS AdCom meetings, or as requested by the DMTC members. Sufficient advance notice of the meetings will be given to the members, as well as to other interested parties. The Chair shall prepare an agenda before the meeting, and shall prepare minutes for distribution after the meeting.

Working Groups

The purpose of working groups (WG) is to build an active and healthy infrastructure to promote specific well-focused topical areas within DM to ensure continuing growth and vitality of the CIS. The Chair of each WG is recruited by the Chair of DMTC and serves for one-year term. The WG chair position is renewable.

Anyone in the Data Mining community may propose the formation of a WG. The WG proposal must be submitted in writing to the DMTC chair and shall contain the purpose of the WG, the anticipated interest in the topic area, proposed activities, and an initial membership list. WG membership may include individuals who do not hold membership in the CIS. The WG is established if a majority of the DMTC members vote for approval. WGs shall remain in existence until dissolved by a majority vote of the DMTC members.

Each WG shall submit an annual activity report to the DMTC chair. The report must be submitted not less than 30 days prior to the annual DMTC meeting.

The WG chair must be a CIS member.

Task Forces

A task force (TF) is formed to investigate a specific topic of interest and provide recommendations to the TC Chair. TF membership may include individuals who do not hold membership in the CIS. Any DMTC member can recommend formation of a TF. The TC Chair shall appoint the TF Chair and specify the TF's role and duration (which is expected to be a short term). The TF is dissolved upon submitting its report to the TC Chair.

The TF chair must be a CIS member.

Charter Establishment

The charter becomes approved upon receiving an affirmative vote from at least 2/3 of the DMTC members at the 2006 annual meeting. The TC chair submits the approved charter to the VP-TA for CIS validation. The charter becomes official upon receiving the CIS AdCom ratification.

Amendments

This Charter becomes official after at least 2/3 core members present at The Committee Meeting approve it. Subsequent changes and amendments also require 2/3 majority vote.

Members

Alessandro Sperduti, Chair (2010) Pure and Applied Mathematics University of Padua Via Trieste 63 Padua 35121, Italy phone: +39 049 8271355 fax: +39 049 8271499 email: sperduti .a_t. math.unipd.it www: www.math.unipd.it/~sperduti

Nitesh Chawla, Vice Chair Computer Science & Engineering University of Notre Dame 353 Fitzpatrick Hall Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA phone: 574-631-8716 fax: 574-631-9260 email: nchawla .a_t. nd.edu www: www.nd.edu/~nchawla

Irwin King, Vice Chair Department of Computer Science & Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT Hong Kong, China phone: (852) 2609-8398 fax: (852) 2603-5024 email: king .a_t. cse.cuhk.edu.hk www: wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/

Wil van der Aalst Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Computer Science Den Dolech 2 Eindhoven 5600 MB, Netherlands phone: +31 402474295 fax: +31 40 2463992 email: w.m.p.v.d.aalst .a_t. tue.nl www: www.vdaalst.com

Hussein A. Abbass School of Engineering and Information Technology University of New South Wales Buildings 15 - 21 Canberra, New South Wales ACT 2600, Australia phone: (+61 2) 6268 8158 fax: (+61 2) 6268 8581 email: h.abbass .a_t. adfa.edu.au www: www.seit.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/

Seungjin Choi Department of Computer Science Pohang University of Science and Technology San 31 Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu Pohang 790-784, Korea phone: +82-54-279-2259 fax: +82-54-279-2299 email: seungjin .a_t. postech.ac.kr www: www.postech.ac.kr/~seungjin

Sven F. Crone Centre for Forecasting Lancaster University Management School Bailrigg Campus Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 4YX, UK phone: +44 1524 5-92991 fax: +44 1524 844885 email: s.crone .a_t. lancaster.ac.uk www: www.sven-crone.com

Carlotta Domeniconi Department of Computer Science George Mason University 4400 University Drive, MS 4A5 Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA phone: 001-703-993-1697 fax: 001-703-993-1710 email: carlotta .a_t. cs.gmu.edu www: www.cs.gmu.edu/~carlotta

Nelson Ebecken COPPE Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Centro de Tecnologia, B 100 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21945970, Brazil phone: 5521 25627389 fax: 5521 25627392 email: nelson .a_t. ntt.ufrj.br www: www.ntt.eng.br

Mark Embrechts Department of Industrial Engineering RPI CII 5129 Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-4009 fax: 518-276-8227 email: embrem .a_t. rpi.edu www: www.drugmining.com

Floriana Esposito Department of Computer Science University of Bari “Aldo Moro” v. Orabona 4 Bari, Italy 70125, Italy phone: +390805443264 fax: +390805443196 email: esposito .a_t. di.uniba.it www: lacam.di.uniba.it:8000/people/FlorianaEsposito.html

Joydeep Ghosh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C0803 Austin, TX 78712-0240, USA phone: (+1 512) 471 8980 fax: (+1 512) 471 2893 email: ghosh .a_t. ece.utexas.edu www: www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/~ghosh

Barbara Hammer Department of Computer Science Clausthal University of Technology Julius Albert Strabe 4 D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, Germany phone: +495323727186 fax: +495323727149 email: hammer .a_t. in.tu-clausthal.de www: www2.in.tu-clausthal.de/~hammer/

Mehmed Kantardzic Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA phone: 502-852-3703 fax: 502-852-4713 email: Mmkant01 .a_t. louisville.edu www: cecs.louisville.edu/datamining/

Nikola Kasabov Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology Level 7, 350 Queen Street Auckland 1010, New Zealand phone: +64 9 921 9506 fax: +64 9 921 9543 email: nkasabov .a_t. aut.ac.nz www: www.kedri.info

Tamara Kolda Informatics and Decision Sciences Sandia National Laboratories 7011 East Ave. Livermore, California 94551, USA phone: 925-294-4769 fax: 925-294-2234 email: tgkolda .a_t. sandia.gov www: csmr.ca.sandia.gov/~tgkolda/

Paulo Lisboa Department of Mathematics and Statistics Liverpool John Moores University Byrom Street Liverpool, Merseyside CH64 4EA, UK phone: +44 151 231 2225 fax: +44 151 207 4594 email: p.j.lisboa .a_t. ljmu.ac.uk www: www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/staff/

Francesco Masulli DISI _Dept. Computer and Information Sciences University of Genova Via Dodecaneso 35 Genoa 16146, ITALY phone: +39 010 353 6604 fax: +39 010 353 6699 email: masulli .a_t. disi.unige.it www: www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF/

Sankar K. Pal Indian Statistical Institute 203 B. T. Road Kolkata, West Bengal 700108, India phone: +91 33 2577 3084 fax: +91 33 2577 6925 email: sankar .a_t. isical.ac.in www: www.isical.ac.in/~sankar

Kate Smith-Miles School of Mathematical Sciences Monash University Wellington Road Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia phone: +61399053170 fax: +61399055020 email: Kate.smith-miles .a_t. sci.monash.edu.au www: users.monash.edu.au/~ksmiles

Lipo Wang School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798, Singapore phone: (+656) 790 6372 fax: (+656) 793 3318 email: elpwang .a_t. ntu.edu.sg www: www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elpwang

Yanqing Zhang Dept. of Computer Science Georgia State University 34 Peachtree Street, Suite 1450 Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA phone: (404) 413-5733 fax: (404) 413-5717 email: yzhang .a_t. cs.gsu.edu www: www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscyqz/

Zhi-Hua Zhou National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology Nanjing University 22 Hankou Road Nanjing 210093, China phone: +86-25-8368-6268 fax: +86-25-8368-6268 email: zhouzh .a_t. nju.edu.cn www: cs.nju.edu.cn/zhouzh/

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