We describe KDD-Cup 2000, the yearly competition in data mining. For the first time the Cup included insight problems in addition to prediction problems, thus posing new challenge...
Ron Kohavi, Carla E. Brodley, Brian Frasca, Llew M...
KDD-99 was the fifth conference in the KDD series attracting over 200 high quality submissions and almost 600 attendees. Here we describe some of the highlights of the technical p...
With over 800 million pages covering most areas of human endeavor, the World-wide Web is a fertile ground for data mining research to make a di erence to the e ectiveness of infor...
This article points out some very serious misconceptions about the brain in connectionism and artificial neural networks. Some of the connectionist ideas have been shown to have l...
The goal of this article is to raise a debate on the usefulness of providing data mining models as services on the internet. These services can be provided by anyone with adequate...
Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and related kernel methods have become increasingly popular tools for data mining tasks such as classification, regression, and novelty detection. T...
This personal overview of Interface '99 is intended to communicate its meaning and relevance to SIGKDD, as well as provide valuable information on trends within the Interface...