Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining

We welcome you to the Fourteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'08) being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on August 24 - 27, 2008. We are pleased to present the proceedings of the conference as its published record. As the flagship conference in the field, KDD provides a highly competitive forum for reporting the latest and the best developments in the research and application of data mining and knowledge discovery worldwide. KDD'08 received a record number of 693 total submissions. The Research Track received 510 submissions from 30 different countries and the Industrial Track received 83 submissions from 10 different countries. For the Research Track, the…