Topics Areas    Top

Topic areas for the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: Methods and algorithms: Principal Component Analysis and Singular value decomposition for clustering and dimension reduction Nonnegative matrix factorization for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning Spectral graph clustering L-1 Regularization and Sparsification Sparse PCA and SVD Randomized algorithms for matrix computation Web search and ranking algorithms Canonical Decompositions (CANDECOMP/PARAFAC) Tensor analysis: Rank-1 Decomposition, PARAFAC/CANDECOMP, GLRAM/2DSVD, Tucker decompositions (e.g., the Higher-Order SVD) GSVD for classification Latent Semantic Indexing and other developments for Information Retrieval Linear, quadratic and semi-definite Programming Non-linear manifold learning and dimension reduction Computational statistics involving matrix computations Feature selection and extraction Graph-based learning (classification, semi-supervised learning and unsupervised learning) Application areas Information search and extraction from Web Text processing and information retrieval Image processing and analysis Genomics and Bioinformatics Scientific computing and computational sciences Social Networks

Important Dates    Top

June 10, 2008: Electronic submission of full papers  June 19, 2008 : Author notification  June 27, 2008: Submission of Camera-ready papers  August 24, 2008: Workshop in Las Vegas, USA

Paper Submissions    Top

The electronic submission web site for research papers is available at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmmt08. Please register at Easychair first if you did not use EasyChair before. Papers should be at most 10 pages long, single-spaced, in KDD conference format, in font size 10 or larger with 1-inch margins on all sides.

Workshop Organizers    Top

General Chair                     Hongyuan Zha,   College of Computing,  Georgia Institute of Technology Workshop Co-Chairs: Co-Chairs Affiliation Address Email Phone Chris Ding University of Texas at Arlington Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 416 Yates Street, Arlington, TX 76019, USA chqding@uta.edu (817)272-7041 Tao Li Florida International University School of Computer Science, ECS 318 Miami, FL 33199, U.S.A. taoli@cs.fiu.edu (305) 348-6036 Shenghuo Zhu NEC Laboratories America 10080 North Wolfe Road, Suite SW3-350, Cupertino, CA 95014, USA zsh@sv.nec-labs.com (408)863-6006   Note: for inquiries please send e-mail to taoli AT cs.fiu.edu.

Program Committee Members    Top

Tammy Kolda, Sandia National Labs Jesse Barlow, Penn State University Michael Berry, University of Tennessee Yun Chi, NEC Laboratories America Lars Elden, Linkping University, Sweden Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University Estratis Gallopoulos, University of Patras Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin Ming Gu, University of Califonia, Berkeley Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley Yuanqing Lin, University of Pennsylvania Huan Liu, Arizona State University Michael Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University Haesun Park, Georgia Tech Wei Peng, Xerox Research Robert Plemmons, Wake Forest Alex Pothen, Old Domino University Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fei Wang, Tsinghua University Jieping Ye, Arizona State University Kai Yu, NEC Laboratories America Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Tech Zhongyuan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science