KDD Review

ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, is usually organized by different countries well established Data Mining labs / research groups such as in USA, China, Canada, France. But most of the time it is held in USA. Here is KDD – Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Review.

Submission Date / Deadline: The deadline to submit research papers is usually January/February each year. The decision is conveyed to submitters in 30-50 Days. The conference is usually hold in July/August every year.

My Feelings:

1)      Very Well organized and the level is comparable to WWW, ICML, ICDE and is an A level conference in the field of Data Mining.

2)      Very focused presentation time and question answering time.

3)      The conference was full of simple and complicated but innovative ideas. Solutions of most of the problems were detailed and intuitive and very much complete and clear.

4)      Most of the famous guys presented their papers that are well known people of Data Mining field. One can say the presenters are among the top 100 people of this field or from the Labs of the top 100 people of this field.

5)      Critical and innovative questions were asked during the presentations which were very helpful for improving work or working in another new direction.

6)      Useful discussion about Ideas, famous research personality, collaborations and research funding agencies related things during tea and meal.

7)      Authors were from all over the world. Does seem to be world level as if there are usually 100 presenters then there will be about 500 or plus researchers attending the conference due to high quality of work published in it.

Acceptance Rate: KDD is highly competitive conference in the field of Databases and Data Mining. It is usually ranked as A level or Top conference by the scientific communities. Only less than 14-18 % submissions are usually accepted for publication. It is very difficult to be accepted by this conference. One must have to work on really novel idea with its detailed and clear effectiveness to be accepted by this conference. It is place of top 100 people/labs of this field in my point of view.

Registration Fee: There is discount registration fee for the SIGKDD, AAAI, ACM members. There is special discount for student registration. The registration details for year 2014 are provided below.

Full registration includes tutorials, workshops, keynotes, and the main conference, from Aug 24 to 27.

Full Conference
registration type		 Early
Until July 15		 Late
July 16- Aug  15		 On-site
Aug 16 to Onsite
SIGKDD Members $750 $900 $1,050
SIGMOD/ AAAI/ ACM Members $800 $950 $1,100
Non-ACM/SIG Members $850 $1,000 $1,150
Student $400 $500 $600

Accommodation: The hotels of very good quality near the conference venue were available usually. But as conference is hold in USA mostly so per night charges are about 150-200 USD which is a bit high as compared to other countries.

Keynote Speeches: Top people in the field of Data Mining are usually keynote speakers.

Paper Publications: The proceedings of KDD are published by ACM. Paper length is usually restricted to 10 pages of ACM Proceedings Template.

Structure: The main conference and several affiliated workshops of related areas.

By ALI DAUD