General Information

The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007) is a leading international conference in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery. It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition and automatic scientific discovery, data visualization, causal induction and knowledge-based systems.

The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial track papers reporting real data mining applications and system development experience. The conference also solicits proposals focusing on specific new challenges and emergency issues of knowledge discovery and data mining, and calls for tutorials proposals focusing on crucial technologies of knowledge discovery and data mining.

Nanjing

Located in southwest Jiangsu, Nanjing lies on the southern bank of the Yangzi River, surrounded on 3 sides by a range of hills known as the Purple and Gold Mountain. Spanning approximately 6,500 sq km in area, and with more than 4.5 million population, it is the region's largest city and its capital. The city's wide streets lined with beautiful plane trees and a bunch of historic and cultural sites, which make it one of the most popular tourism destinations in the region. From the 3rd to the 14th centuries the city acted as the regional capital, and in 1368, under the first Ming emperor Hongwu, Nanjing became capital of a united China. During his reign, emperor Hongwu constructed a 130 sq km city including a magnificent palace and massive city wall with 13 gates.

Nanjing University

Nanjing University, one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in China, is located in Nanjing, a beautiful city known for being China's capital of six ancient dynasties and having a rich cultural heritage.

Nanjing University is one of the top universities of mainland China (usually ranked as the third-best). The University dates back to 1902 when Sanjiang Normal School was founded. The School then evolved as Liangjiang Normal School, Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeast University, National Fourth Zhongshan University, and National Central University. In August 1949, it was named National Nanjing University. Today's Nanjing University is formed mainly on the basis of the merging of the arts and sciences schools of National Nanjing University and the University of Nanking (a well-known university founded in 1888) during the nationwide institutional and departmental restructuring in 1952. In implementing the "Project 211", Nanjing University is building itself by the early 21st century into an internationally influential, multi-disciplinary socialist university with characteristics of its own, one among the best in the world in teaching, research, management and resources.

For more information, please refer to PAKDD 2007.