1. WebKDD 2000 Web Mining for E-Commerce

2. Welcome to WebKDD 2000 Program Co-chairs Ronny Kohavi, Blue Martini Myra Spiliopoulou, Humboldt U. Jaideep Srivastava, Yodlee & Univ. of Minnesota Workshop Arrangements Brij Masand, Redwood Investments

3. Program Committee Paul Alpar, U of Marburg Jonathan Becher, Accrue Michael Berry, Data Miners Alan Broder, Woti Alex Buechner, MineIt Robert Cooley, GroupFire Usama Fayyad, digiMine Anant Jhingran, IBM Vipin Kumar, U. of Minnesota Brian Lent, Amazon.com Brij Masand, Redwood Investments Llew Mason, Blue Martini Jesus Mena, WebMiner Brad Miller, NetPerceptions Anne Milley, SAS Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul U Guenter Mueller, U of Freiberg Maurice Mulvenna, MineIt John Roddick, Filners U. Alex Tuzhilin, NYU Maria Zemankova, NSF Zijian Zheng, Blue Martini

4. Paper Review 31 submissions Each reviewed by at least 2 PC members 7 accepted as long papers (25 minutes) 6 accepted as short papers (15 minutes)

5. WEBKDD 2000: Program Sunday, August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA 8:45 Arrival of Attendees 9:00 Opening & Welcome 9:15 Session I: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems 9:15 Discovery of Aggregate Usage Profiles for Web Personalization, Bamshad Mobasher, Honghua Dai, Tao Luo, Miki Nakagawa, Yuqing Sun, Jim Wiltshire 9:40 A Regression-Based Approach for Scaling-Up Personalized Recommender Systems in E-Commerce, Slobodan Vucetic and Zoran Obradovic 10:05 Coffee Break 10:30 Session I: Continued 10:30 Application of Dimensionality Reduction in Recommender System - A Case Study, Badrul M. Sarwar, George Karypis, Joseph A. Konstan, John T. Riedl 10:55 Collaborative Recommendation via Adaptive Association Rule Mining, Weiyang Lin, Sergio A. Alvarez, Carolina Ruiz 11:10 A Synthesized Learning Approach for Web-Based CRM, Wei-Lun Chang, Soe-Tsyr Yuan 11:25 Lunch Break

6. 12:30 Session II: Mining Frameworks and Case-Studies 12:30 Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining: Architecture and Challenges, Suhail Ansari, Ron Kohavi, Llew Mason, and Zijian Zheng 12:55 Analyzing the footsteps of your customers, A case study by ASK|net and SAS Institute GmbH, Christiane Theusinger, Klaus-Peter Huber 1:20 The Marriage of Market Basket Analysis to Predictive Modeling: The Essential Challenge in Exploiting Web-Log Files for Prediction, Sanford Gayle 1:35 A Framework for Self Adaptive Websites: Tactical versus Strategic Changes, Filip Coenen, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets 1:50 Break 2:00 Session III: Navigation Analysis 2:00 Web usage mining, site semantics, and the support of navigation, Bettina Berendt 2:25 Navigation Analysis Tool based on the Correlation between Contents Distribution and Access Patterns, Hiroki Kato, Takehiro Nakayama, Yohei Yamane 2:50 Mining web navigation path fragments, Wolfgang Gaul, Lars Schmidt-Thieme 3:05 Modeling of Web Robot Navigational Patterns, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar 3:20 Closing Discussion Summary, Open discussions, Future of WebKDD community 4:00 End WEBKDD 2000: Program Sunday, August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA