Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Fifteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'09). This year is special in that it marks the first time that KDD is held in Europe, and where better to host it than beautiful Paris! As the flagship conference in the field, KDD continues to provide 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'09 received a record number of 659 submissions, more than 10% up from last year. The Research Track received 537 submissions and the Industrial and Government Applications Track received 122 submissions (an increase…