<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:2pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(76,51,229);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CALL FOR WORKSHOPS</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is one of the longest established and leading international conferences 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, artificial intelligence, databases, statistics, knowledge engineering, visualization, decision-making systems, and the emerging applications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PAKDD 2020 seeks workshop proposals on foundational and emerging topics in areas related to data mining. The PAKDD workshops provide an informal and vibrant opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research positions, original research results and practical development experiences on specific challenges and emerging issues. Each workshop should be focused on a cohesive theme so that participants can benefit from interaction with each other.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A list of topics (non-exhaustive) includes:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Foundational topics in data mining</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Big data mining/platform</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data mining on specialized data types: graphs, structured/unstructured/semi-structured data, streaming data, time series, spatial-temporal data, text, multimedia, social networks, etc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data mining in specific disciplines or interdisciplinary topics: biology, ecology, e-government, environmental sciences, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, social sciences, etc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data mining on cloud computing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data mining and privacy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data mining and security</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data analysis and mining for new applications: smart devices, smart grids, smart homes, etc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data analytical processing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emerging topics such as fairness-aware data mining, massive open online courses, data mining for sustainability, social informatics, etc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The organizers and chairs of the workshop shall have full control on the call for papers, formation of program committees, reviewing and selection of papers as well as planning the workshop program. HOWEVER, the program committee chairs are not allowed to submit papers to the workshops to ensure a fair review process.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IN ADDITION, the chairs must include the following statement in the workshop CFP:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submitting a paper to the workshop means that the authors agree that at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper, if the paper is accepted. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The registration fees for workshops will be determined by the conference (not the workshop itself). The fees will be paid to the conference, and the conference will provide workshop facilities including working notes printing, meeting room, coffee break, lunch, proceedings, etc.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Each workshop will have a right to include its outstanding papers in a LNCS/LNAI post Proceedings of PAKDD Workshops published by Springer. Under the program, the workshop chair must organize a review committee to select the outstanding papers from the papers presented in the workshop. Based on the reviews, each selected paper should be further improved for the camera ready version. A detailed schedule of due dates for the paper selection and the collection of the camera ready versions will be announced immediately after the workshop announcement. Prospective workshop organizers should send a proposal (maximum three pages) with the following sections to </span><a href="mailto:pakdd-2020-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">pakdd-2020-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:7pt;margin-bottom:7pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Title of the workshop</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Names and contacts of key organizers and a tentative list of members of the program committee, along with links to their webpages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Expected number of papers, attendees, and preliminary workshop format</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshops will have either a full day or a half day format. Prior discussion of candidate workshop organizers with the workshop co-chairs is strongly encouraged.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop proposal due: October 14, 2019 [23:59 PST]</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">●</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:PMingLiu;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop notification: October 21, 2019</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verd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