Submissions

You are invited to contribute a presentation for this conference in one of the formats listed below, under “Submission Formats.”

Abstract and Paper Submission Instructions

Paper Submission Instructions

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 27, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time (abstract required to submit a full paper)

Full Paper Submission Deadline: October 4, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time

Decision Notification: Late December 2024

Dual Submission Policy
Submissions that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that have been submitted in parallel to this or other conferences or journals, are not allowed and violate our dual submission policy. Papers that have been submitted to archival repositories such as arXiv may be submitted to SDM 2025.

Paper Format
All research papers should have a maximum length of eight (8) pages, including all text and figures. References and appendices are unlimited and may not be reviewed. Authors should use U.S. Letter (8.5" x 11") paper size.

Papers must be prepared in LaTeX2e, and formatted using SIAM’s double column macro. The macro is available here. Make sure you use the SIAM macro; papers prepared using other macros will not be accepted.

Review will be triple blind: submissions must be anonymized. Violations of the blind policy will result in rejection without review. Having papers on arXiv is allowed per the dual submission policy outlined below.

Conflict of Interest Guidelines for Submissions
As part of the submission procedure authors are asked to mark conflicts of interest with Program Committee members.

A paper author has a conflict of interest with a Program Committee member if any of the following hold:

1. The Program Committee member is an advisee or adviser of any one of the authors. This applies to current and former advisees and advisers.
2. The Program Committee member is a collaborator or co-author within the last two years of one of the authors. Collaborations include things like joint papers published or in submission as well as joint projects either in progress or within the last two years.
3. The Program Committee member is a relative or close personal friend of one of the authors.
4. The Program Committee member is part of the same organization or has been a part of the same organization as one of the authors within the last two years.

Inaccurate representation of conflicts of interest can result in the paper being rejected without review at the discretion of the program chairs.

Authorial Integrity in Scientific Publication
SIAM Policies and Procedures on Authorial Integrity
Policy on Large Language Models like ChatGPT
Authors are not prohibited from using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to edit or polish the authors’ written text. However, the authors are responsible for ensuring the originality and correctness of the entire content of the paper. If the proposed research method involves the use of LLMs or comparison against existing LLMs, the paper needs to provide sufficient details on the methodology and implementation to ensure transparency and reproducibility (e.g., adding a paragraph on “use of large language model”). Authors will be required to disclose the use of LLMs in the paper submission form.

Submission Instructions
Visit the submission system to register your abstract and upload your manuscript.

Submission Deadlines
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 27, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time
Paper Submission Deadline: October 4, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time

All questions regarding paper submissions must be sent via email to the Program Co-Chairs: Tim Weninger and Elena Zheleva

Blue Sky Track Idea Paper Submission Instructions

Important Dates
Blue Sky Idea Paper Submission Deadline: October 25, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time
Decision Notification: Late December 2024

The goal of the Blue Sky Idea Track is to invite leaders of our research community to present position papers that may help inform or shape new directions of research. These are not typical conference research papers, rather they are expected to be visionary papers that set a direction.

The Blue Sky Ideas should be bold in their vision, tackle a wicked problem or present new algorithmic / methodological opportunities or challenge existing assumptions behind methods or approaches. It is expected that the Blue Sky Ideas will help foster new directions or innovations through the collective initiative of our community in subsequent SDM’s and beyond. Ideally, the Blue Sky Ideas become a topical focus and our community submits research papers in response to it. There will be a special track dedicated to Blue Sky Ideas during the SDM’25 Conference.

The Blue Sky Ideas are not supposed to be incremental or have preliminary results. Rather, the Blue Sky Ideas present a bold vision, accompanied by the following five required elements:

1. What is the Blue Sky Idea?
2. Why is it a Blue Sky Idea? Why should the community ponder over it? Why now?
3. Does the Blue Sky Idea push the frontier or does it challenge our current set of assumptions or does it take a bold approach to solve a wicked problem?
4. What are the challenges?
5. What will success look like?

Submission Instructions
The Blue Sky Idea papers should be no more than 4 pages using the Paper Format outlined below and submitted through the submission system. 
The papers will be reviewed by a specially convened program committee of experts in our field. It is expected that some papers might be desk rejected based on the fit for the track.

Paper Format
All papers should have a maximum length of four pages (single-spaced, two column, 10-point font, and at least 1" margin on each side). Authors should use U.S. Letter (8.5" x 11") paper size. Papers must be prepared in LaTeX2e, and formatted using SIAM’s double column macro. The macro is available here. All submissions should clearly present the author information including the names of the authors, the affiliations and the emails. These elements, as well as the abstract, technical details, empirical results, and bibliography, are included in the four-page limit.

All questions regarding paper submissions must be sent via email to the Blue Sky Chair Wei Ding, wei.ding@umb.edu University of Massachusetts, U.S. (email subject: SDM 2025 Blue Sky)

Tutorial Submission Instructions

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: October 11, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time
Decision Notification: Mid-November 2024

The Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. Tutorials are an effective way to educate and/or provide the necessary background to the intended audience enabling them to understand technical advances. They will typically cover state-of-the-art research, development and tools in a specific data mining related area, and stimulate and facilitate future work.

We are seeking proposals for tutorials on all topics related to data mining. A tutorial may be a theme-oriented comprehensive survey, discuss novel data mining techniques or focus on a successful and timely application of data mining in important areas (e.g., public health, medicine, security, urban computing, the web, scientific data analysis, finance). Tutorials on interdisciplinary research topics, novel and fast-growing directions, and innovative applications are highly encouraged. We also encourage tutorials in areas that are different from the usual SDM mainstream, but still related to the objectives of discovering valuable knowledge from data. As examples of typical SIAM tutorials, see the set of accepted tutorials at previous Data Mining (SDM) conferences:

• SDM23
• SDM24

Tutorials are open to all conference attendees without any extra fees. The typical tutorial will be 2 hours long (longer tutorials will be considered). Previous SDM conferences attracted up to 100 attendees in a tutorial.

Proposal Format

Proposals should include the following:

1. Basic information: Title, brief description (up to 300 words), length of the proposed tutorial. If the intended tutorial is expected to take longer than 2 hours a rationale is expected.
2. Target Audience: Proposals must clearly identify the intended audience for the tutorial (e.g., novice, intermediate, expert).
   1. What background will be required of the audience?
   2. Why is this topic important/interesting to the SIAM data mining community?
   3. What is the benefit to participants?
   4. Provide some informal evidence that people would attend (e.g., related workshops).
3. Tutors: Name, affiliation, email address per tutor
4. Tutors’ Bios: Provide brief biographical information on each tutor, including qualifications with respect to the tutorial's topic.

   List of in-person presenters (i.e., the tutors who will attend)
   List of contributors (i.e., the tutors who will only help prepare the tutorial material)

5. Outline and References: Enough material should be included to provide a sense of both the scope of material to be covered and the depth to which they will be covered. The more details that can be provided, the better (up to and including links to the actual slides). Note that the tutors should not focus mainly on their own research results. If, for certain parts of the tutorial, the material comes directly from the tutors' own research or product, please indicate this clearly in the proposal.
6. Similar Tutorials: Identify any other venues in which the tutorial, or a similar/highly related tutorial by the same authors, has been or will be presented, and highlight the similarity/difference between those and the one proposed (up to 100 words for each entry).
7. Optional: Video snippet of you teaching a tutorial or giving a talk.

Submission Instructions
Tutorial proposals must be submitted in PDF format to the Tutorials Chair as described below. Please use the Subject Line: SDM25 Tutorial Proposal Submission.

Submission Deadline
October 11, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time

Submissions and questions must be sent directly via email to the Tutorials Chair:
Stefan Neumann, TU Wien, Austria

Workshop and Workshop Mini-symposia Submission Instructions

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: October 11, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time
Decision Notification: Mid-November 2024

The organizing committee invites proposals for workshops and workshop mini-symposia to be held in conjunction with the conference. The purpose is to provide participants with the opportunity to discuss research ideas on active and emerging topics of knowledge discovery and data mining. Ideally a workshop should foster interactions between different communities within the scope of SDM (e.g. statisticians, computer scientists, industry, academia etc.). A mini-symposium can consist of invited talks. It should encourage the presentation of novel ideas, even if they are in an early stage of development, contact between different points of view, and active exchanges between participants. As examples of typical SIAM mini-symposia, see the set of accepted mini-symposia at previous SIAM conferences:

• SDM23
• SDM24

The responsibilities of the workshop organizers include:

• Preparing the call for papers and publicizing it.
• Maintaining the workshop web site.
• Deciding the workshop program content; this may optionally include inviting speakers, inviting reviewers, selecting the papers through a peer review process.
• Delivering the final workshop program to the workshop chair in time.

Proposal Format
A workshop proposal should include the following information:

1. Workshop title.
2. Full contact information of the organizers.
3. Description of the workshop including objectives, content, topics of interest.
4. Description of the format (e.g. invited talks, round table, accepted presentations, etc.) should be included. Please indicate your preference regarding the length of the workshop: Half-day or full-day. If you are only interested in hosting a full day workshop, please indicate so.
5. A short description of the target audience. List of potential participants. This could include potential program committee members, authors, and invited speakers.
6. A summary of previous editions of the workshop (if it was run before), with an emphasis on number of attendees and paper submissions.
7. A short biography of each organizer. (Please include your experience on organizing workshops and conferences).

The organizing committee also invites proposals for workshop mini-symposia. A mini-symposium is a session of several coordinated (invited) presentations of substantial interest and importance in the areas covered by SDM. It is expected that a mini-symposium targets a broad research area and at the same time focuses on a few specific and emerging subjects within the area. In conducting the mini-symposium, the session organizer(s) should provide an overview of the mini-symposium, introduce the speakers, and provide an opportunity for discussion among the speakers and the audience. The organizer(s) themselves may also be one of the speakers. Organizer(s) will select the topics to be addressed, invite speakers for those topics, decide with the speakers on the title of their presentation, and provide other information as needed. A mini-symposium proposal should follow the same guidelines given for workshops above.

Proposals will be judged by a sub-committee of the organizing committee based on the above information.

Particular preference will be given to proposals that demonstrate the ability to foster interactions among multiple communities, as noted above. We prefer workshops and mini-symposia in which there is participation of diverse people who may not have worked with one another in the past, or which bridge between traditional SDM topics and communities and other fields. External sources of funding or sponsorship for special events held along with the workshop (e.g. invited talks, poster session) can be optionally included in the proposal submission.

Submission Instructions
Proposals must be prepared as a website. Send the workshop or mini-symposium URL via email to the co-chairs listed below. Please use the Subject Line: SDM25 Workshop Proposal Submission

Submission Deadline
October 11, 2024, 11:59 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time

Questions and workshop submissions must be sent directly to the Workshop Co-chairs:
Qi Li, Iowa State University, U.S. 
Hua Wei, Arizona State University, U.S.