Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining

It is my great honor and pleasure to welcome you to ACM SIGKDD's 17th Annual Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD2011, being held in San Diego, California, from August 21 through August 24, 2011. This year's KDD Conference continues its tradition of being the premier forum for the sharing of leading edge research results and industrial experiences of KDD theory, technology, and applications, among it's multi-disciplinary participants from academia, government, and industry. The KDD2011 organization committee has worked hard to help organize this year's conference, and to ensure that it maintains its pre-eminent position as the top worldwide conference for dissemination of cutting edge…