Data Mining Technical Committee (DMTC) Chair: Barbara Hammer Vice-Chairs: Carlotta Domeniconi Zhi-Hua Zhou TC Report for the 2013 June AdCom Meeting (June 18, 2013)

DMTC Members 2012 Jun AdCom2013 Jun AdCom 38 Members41 Members North America: 14 North America: 13 Latin America: 1 Latin America: 2 Europe: 11 Europe: 12 Africa: 0 Asia: 7 Asia: 9 Oceania: 5 Male: 29, Female: 9Male: 34, Female: 7 Industry or equivalent: 7 New Members: 3New Members: 15

DMTC Main Conference Statistics YearLocation Accepted /Submitted OralPoster Special Sessions Work- shops Tutorials/ plenaries 09 SSCI: Nashville 65/123 (53%) SSCI: Paris53/111 (48%) SSCI: Singapore 46/80 (57%) SSCI: Orlando 15SSCI 16 Comp: Competitions CIDM: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining

1. Competitions, Chair: Sven F. Crone 2. Medical Data Analysis, Chair: Paulo Lisboa, Vice Chairs: Alfredo Vellido, Leif Peterson 3. Process Mining, Chair: Wil van der Aalst 4. Data Visualization and Data Analysis, Chair: Barbara Hammer, Vice Chairs: Laurens van der Maaten, Daniel Keim 5. Educational Data Mining, Chair: Longbing Cao, Vice Chair: Jinyan Li 6. Evaluation and quality issues in data mining, Chair: Philippe Lenca, Vice Chair: Stephane Lallich 7. Big Data Sets, Chair: Nitesh Chawla, Vice Chair: Paulo Lisboa 8. New: Data mining in industrial applications, Chair: Yi Lu Murphey, Co-chairs: Thomas A. Montgomery, Mahmoud Abou-Nasr (proposal approved) DMTC Task Forces

Activities at SSCI 2013 Symposium co-chairs: 1. Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE) (Robi Polikar) 2. Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) (B. Hammer, L.Wang, Z. Zhou, N.Chawla) Special Sessions at CIDM: 1.Interpretable systems in machine learning, data analysis, and visualization 2.Process Mining 3.Data Mining in Industrial Applications Plenaries: Paolo Lisboa, CIBCB

Activities at conferences in 2012/2013 (apart from TF activities) Tutorials: 1.Tutorial at The Sixth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'13) entitled "Models and Algorithms for Social Influence Analysis." 2.Tutorial at WWW'13 entitled "mining data semantics Chair: 1.IEEE ICDM-2012 co-chair of tenth International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF 2013) in Genoa (Italy) 2.General Chair WSOM 2012, Santiago, Chile 3.Co-chair conference Data mining for Business Intelligence, Bridging the Gap, 2013, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 4.Program Co-Chair 4th MultiClust Workshop on Multiple Clusterings, Multi-view Data, and Multi-source Knowledge-driven Clustering in conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 5.Special Session Chair" for The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), September Chair PAKDD13, Special sessions: 1.Special Session on Machine Learning Methods for Processing and Analysis of Hyperspectral Data at ESANN 2013, Andreas Backhaus, Marika Kästner, Udo Seiffert, and Thomas Villmann 2.Special session on Parallel hardware architectures at ESANN12 3.Special session on Recent Advances in Clustering at ESANN12

Activities for CIS related/other journals (apart from TF activities) Special issues: 1.Special issue ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) entitled "knowledge graph and semantic computing 2.Machine Learning journal special issue on Learning from multi-label data, 2012, vol.88, no.1-2, guest editor 3.ACM Trans. Intelligent Systems and Technology special issue on Distance metric learning in intelligent systems, 2012, vol.3, no.3, guest editor 4.Guest editor WSOM Special Issue of Neurocomputing (under way) 5.Guest editor, Special Issue on Neural Networks for Remotely Sensed Data Interpretation, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 6.Guest editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing about "Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Data Processing (under way) 7.Guest editor New Challenges in Neural Computation, Neurocomputing (under way) 8.Guest editor, Recent advances in Neural Computation, KI Editor: 1.Regional Editor Neural Computing & Applications 2.EIC journal DAMI 3.Editorial board of diverse relevant journals including IEEETNNLS, Neurocomputing, NPL,...

Books related to data mining 1.Z.-H. Zhou. Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, (ISBN ) 2.Book: Imbalanced Learning: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications, H. He and Y. Ma, Editors, Wiley-IEEE, 2013, in press. 3.Computational Intelligent Data Analysis for Sustainable Development, Chapman and Hall, 2013, Ting Yu; Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA; Simeon Simoff 4.P.Estevez, J Principe, P Zegers, Advances in Self-organizing Maps, AISC 198, Springer 2013

Discussions in the 2013 DMTC meeting at SSCI13, Singapore 1.status memberships CIDM (possibilities to raise members from Africa, female members) 2.status of CIDM (number of contributions, publicity, handling of posters, acceptance criteria) 3.status of task forces (relations in between task forces, how can DMTC support task forces) 4.IEEE journals, in particular journal on big data 5.feasibility/reasonability to organize a symposium on big data at SSCI14

New Symposium on Big Data at SSCI14 1.Discussions among SSCI main chair (Haibo He), DMTC chairs (Barbara Hammer, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Carlotta Domeniconi), chair of task force on big data (Nitesh Chawla), potential chairs of CIBD Symposium (Yaochu Jin, Yonghong Peng) 2.CIBD: There will be a separate symposium on big data, co-organized by Yaochu Jin, Yonghong Peng, Nitesh Chawla, Marios Polycarpou at SSCI14 under the umbrella of DMTC (Yaochu Jin, Nitesh Chawla being DMTC members)

DMTC chairs plan for 2013/14 1.Encourage TC members and TF Chairs to propose tutorials, workshops, panels, competitions for SSCI 2014 and WCCI Encourage TC members and TF Chairs to propose special issues on CIS sponsored journals. 3.Foster task force Big Data, foster dedicated symposium CIBD 4.Foster cross-links of TFs 5.Foster balance of DMTC, TF members as regards geographic regions 6.Encourage members to think about new task forces

Task Force Report for 2012/2013 Meeting DMTC - TF on Competitions (1/2) Chair: Sven F. Crone (UK) Members: Isabelle Guyon (USA) Gavin Cawley (UK) Richard Weber (Chile) Amaury Lendasse (Finland) Stefan Lessmann (Germany) Aim: establish standards for competitions in the area of DM facilitate competitions by providing infrastructure / publicity

Task Force Report for 2012/2013 Meeting DMTC - TF on Competitions (2/2) Activities in 2012/2013: 1.Competition IJCNN 2013 (3 competitions running!) 1.Sourcing of Competitions & Marketing 2.Coordination of special sessions and workshops on competitions for IJCNN 2. liaison to coordinate activities with Standards TC Planned Activities in 2013: 1. Maintaining webpage on NN Forecasting Competitions (since 2008)

Task Force Report for 2013 April at IEEE-SSCI Task Force on Medical Data Analysis (1/2) Chair: Paulo Lisboa (UK) Vice-Chair(s): Leif Peterson (USA), Alfredo Vellido (Spain) Members: Adam Gaweda (USA), Jose Martin (Spain), Azzam Taktak (UK) Aim: foster applications of data mining in medical applications identify specific demands (such as interpretability, big data, …)

Activities in : 1.CIBCB13 keynote Interpretability in Computational Intelligence 2.Proposed special session on Interpretable models for bioinformatics and biosignals at CIBCB13 3.IEEE Summer School proposal on Interpretable Methods in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence 4.Programme Chair: Advances in Medical Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP 2012), Liverpool. 5.Special session on Sparsity for interpretation and visualization in inference models at ESANN 2013, Bruges. Planned activities for : 6. Planning special sessions at WCCI14 and CIDM Potential link with the Task Force on Big Data. Task Force Report for 2013 April at IEEE-SSCI Task Force on Medical Data Analysis (2/2)

TF on Process Mining (1/4) Chair: Wil van der Aalst (The Netherlands) Members: See for full list and affiliations.

TF on Process Mining (2/4) Chair: Wil van der Aalst (The Netherlands) Members : Accorsi, Rafael Baier, Thomas Blickle, Tobias Brand, Peter van den Brandtjen, Ronald Burattin, Andrea Carmona, Josep Castellanos, Malu Claes, Jan Cook, Jonathan Costantini, Nicola Curbera, Francisco Depaire, Benoît Dongen, Boudewijn van Duftler, Matthew Dumas, Marlon Ferreira, Diogo Geffen, Frank van Goel, Sukriti Günther, Christian Guzzo, Antonella Harmon, Paul Hofstede, Arthur ter Hoogland, John Ingvaldsen, Jon Espen Jung, Jae-Yoon Kato, Koki Khalaf, Rania Kuhn, Rudolf Kumar, Akhil Lakshmanan, Geetika Lehto, Teemu Malerba, Donato Manuel, Alberto McCreesh, Martin Mello, Paola Mendling, Jan Motahari Nezhad, Hamid Reza Muehlen, Michael zur Mukhi, Nirmal Munoz-Gama, Jorge Muthusamy, Vinod Omokpo, Amos Passova, Sofia Reason, Johnathan Rembert, Aubrey J Rozinat, Anne Rozsnyai, Szabolcs Seguel Pérez, Hugo Seguel Pérez, Ricardo Sepúlveda, Marcos Sinur, Jim Slominski, Aleksander Soffer, Pnina Song, Minseok Sperduti, Alessandro Stoel, Casper Swenson, Keith Talamo, Maurizio Turner, Chris Vanderhaeghen, Dominik Vanthienen, Jan Varvaressos, George Verbeek, Eric Verdonk, Marc Vigo, Roberto Wang, Jianmin Weber, Barbara Webster, Charles Weffers, Harold Weijters, Ton Wynn, Moe See for full list and affiliations.

TF on Process Mining (3/4) Web: Aim - promotion of Process Mining, i.e. data mining techniques for (business) processes - providing infrastructure and software - establishing standards - fostering research

TF on Process Mining (4/4) Activities - Promotion of Process Mining and the Task Force based on the manifesto: IEEE Computer, Communications of the ACM, Informatica, Informatik Spektrum, Information Systems, Mondo Digitale, Communication of China Computer Federation, Institute for Internal Auditors, Computing Now, Computable, BPTrends, Automatiseringsgids, KDD, etc. etc. - Various publications and presentations of group members (list is endless). - Promotional videos, e.g.,: Special Session on Process Mining at 2012 IEEE World Congress On Computational Intelligence (June 10-15, Brisbane, Australia), Moe Wynn, Jan Vanthienen, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Adam Ghandar. - 8th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence 2012 (Boudewijn van Dongen, Diogo R. Ferreira, Barbara Weber). - Second International Business Process Intelligence Challenge (BPIC12) (Boudewijn van Dongen, Diogo R. Ferreira, Barbara Weber). - Process Mining Camp ( Fluxicon, Anne Rozinat, Christian W. Günther, June 4th Dagstuhl Seminar "Unleashing Operational Process Mining" in 2013 (Rafael Accorsi, Malu Castellanos, Ernesto Damiani, Wil van der Aalst). - Special issue on Business Process Intelligence/Process Mining of ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems - Special session on Process Mining at CIDM 2013, Singapore (Andrea Burattin and Fabrizio Maggi). - BPI 2013 and BPIC 2013 are being organized. - XES was adopted as the Task Force's standard at the 2010 annual meeting, see standard.org. Started a formal IEEE standardization process to become a "real" IEEE standard; working groups has been formed (driven by Eric Verbeek).

Task Force Report Task Force on Data Visualization and Data Analysis (1/4) Chair: Barbara Hammer Vice-Chairs:Laurens van der Maaten, Daniel Keim Web: Members: Michael Aupetit, CEA LIST Michael Biehl, RU Groningen Alexander Hinneburg, University Halle Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham Samuel Kaski, Aalto University Marc E. Latoschik, Univ. of Wuerzburg Guy Lebanon, Georgia Tech John A. Lee, Universite Louvain Erzsebet Merenyi, Rice University Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville Tim Nattkemper, Bielefeld University Fabrice Rossi, Telecom Paris Tech Fei Sha, University of Southern California Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University Holger Theisel, University of Magdeburg Peter Tino, University of Birmingham Michel Verleysen, Universite Louvain Thomas Villmann, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida Axel Wismueller, University of Rochester Stefan Wrobel, Fraunhofer IAIS Gabriel Zachmann, University Bremen

Task Force Report Task Force on Data Visualization and Data Analysis (2/4) Aim: foster research in data visualization, inference of human accessible models, interpretability of models bridge the gap of machine learning and information visualization address problems as occur in interactive systems (evaluation, real time models, big data)

Task Force Report Task Force on Data Visualization and Data Analysis (3/4) Activities 2012/2013: special session at CIDM13: Interpretable systems in machine learning, data analysis, and visualization (Michael Biehl, Fabrice Rossi) workshop: New challenges in neural computation with special focus topic High dimensional data analysis and visualization at DAGM12 (Barbara Hammer, Thomas Villmann) Dagstuhl seminar Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning in 2012 (Daniel Keim, Fabrice Rossi, Thomas Seidl, Michel Verleysen, Stefan Wrobel) special issue Intelligent Interactive Data Analysis at DAMI (Barbara Hammer, Daniel Keim, Guy Lebanon, Neil Lawrence) completed invited talk at WSOM12 on Visualization of large data sets

Task Force Report Task Force on Data Visualization and Data Analysis (4/4) Planned Activities: workshop New challenges in neural computation with special focus topic Interpretable Models at GCPR13 (Barbara Hammer, Thomas Martinetz, Thomas Villmann) follow-up of Dagstuhl seminar Information Visualization, Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning (Fabrice Rossi, Michel Verleysen, proposal in preparation) Visual Analytics using Multidimensional Projections Workshop co-located with EuroVis 2013 (Michael Aupetit, Laurens van der Maaten,...) Workshop VR/AR of GI in Würzburg, subsequent special issue of the journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (M. Latoschik) Summer School in Interactive Intelligent Spaces (M. Latoschik) Workshop on High dimensional data mining at IEEE ICDM (Ata Kaban) WSOM14 (Thomas Villmann) Special issue on Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Data Processing in IEEE Appl.Earth Obs. Rem. Sens. (E.Merenyi) we are envisioning special sessions at WCCI14 or CIDM14

DMTC-TF on Educational Data Mining (1/2) Chair: Longbing Cao Vice-Chair(s): Jinyan Li Web: Members: Yiling Zeng, Advanced Analytics Institute, UTS,Martin Hanlon, Planning and Quality Unit, UTS, Brett Smout, Student Services Unit, UTS,Patrick Player, Student Systems, UTS, Kieran McPherson, Application Services, UTS,Michael Rothery, Planning and Quality Unit, UTS, Siu-Kui Ho, Planning and Quality Unit, UTS,Paul Kennedy, School of Software, UTS, Gordon Lingard, School of Software, UTS,Andrew Litchfield, School of Software, UTS, Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University,Charles Ling, The University of Western Ontario, Lizhen Liu, Capital Normal University,Xia Cui, Chinese Acedemy of Sciences, Yaodong Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Wensheng Zhang, Institute of Automation, CAS, Jeffrey Xu Yu, City University of Hong Kong,Huaiqing Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Jinyan Li, National University of SingaporeXueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

DMTC-TF on Educational Data Mining (2/2) Aim: EDM is concerned with the analyzis of data from educational settings, including interactive learning systems, intelligent tutoring systems and institutional administration data. The primary goals of EDM is to uncover scientific evidence or patterns that are useful to gain insights and explain educational phenomenons. Activities: 1. workshop educational data mining Sydney several systems demonstrated at big data forum - Canberra EDM systems demonstrated at big data summit - Sydney 2013 Planned: special issue in an IEEE journal activities at CIS events

Task Force Report Task Force on Evaluation and Quality (1/2) Chair: Philippe Lenca Vice-Chair:Stéphane Lallich Members: Aim: define standards how to evaluate ML tools define quality measures provide discussion forum and infrastructure KomateAmphawan NiteshChawla JeanDiatta Thanh-NghiDo FedjaHadzic MichaelHahsler MartinHolena WilliamKlement Stéphane Lallich Jean-CharlesLamirel PhilippeLenca Ming Li JanRauch Izabela Szczech Kitsana Waiyamai GuangfeiYang RasZbyszek

Task Force Report Task Force on Evaluation and Quality (2/2) Activities 2012/2013: workshop: the third Quality issues, measures of interestingness and evaluation of data mining models workshop (QIMIE'13) organized with PAKDD 2013 member meeting at PAKDD special issue in the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (launched) group will be soon open Planned Activities: web site attract new members start discussions about 'hot topics' and advanced evaluation topics for young researchers we are envisioning special sessions, to be discussed with TF members

DMTC-TF on Big Data (1/1) Chair: Nitesh Chawla Vice-Chair(s): Paulo Lisboa Members: Zhi-Hua Zhou, Lipo Wang, Ata Kaban, Philip Kegelmeyer, Ashok Srivastava, Haibo He, Paulo Lisboa Aim: foster research in the emerging area of big data connect diverse research from TFs, different comunities Planned Activities: 1. Special Issue on Big Data 2. Tutorial/Special Sessions on Big Data at CIS conferences 3. Web page 4. Symposium on Big Data at SSCI14