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Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

SIGKDD, representing the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, hosts an influential annual conference.

4489 papers were published at ACM SIGKDD conference over in the years 1994–2015 (inclusive).

These 4489 papers had received 112570 citations in total across 3033 venues.

56% of these 3033 venues are recognized as top 25 venues in the field.

KDD-Cup[edit]

SIGKDD sponsors the KDD Cup[18] data mining competition every year in conjunction with the annual conference. It is aimed at members of the industry and academia, particularly students, interested in KDD.

Charu Aggarwal (since 2014)

(2010-2013)

Bart Goethals

(2008–2010)

Osmar R. Zaiane

[21] (2006–2007)

Ramakrishnan Srikant

(2003–2006)

Sunita Sarawagi

(Founding Editor-in-Chief) (1999–2002)

Usama Fayyad

SIGKDD has also published a biannual academic journal titled SIGKDD Explorations[19] since June 1999[20] when Usama Fayyad took on role of Founding Editor-inChief as ACM SIGKDD was formed. Editors in Chief:

Won Kim, President, Cyber Database Solutions, SIGKDD Chair

Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden, SIGKDD Secretary/Treasurer

Microsoft Research, SIGKDD Director and Editor-in-Chief of SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter

Usama Fayyad

Knowledge Stream Partners, SIGKDD Director

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

Daryl Pregibon, AT&T Labs, SIGKDD Director

Padhraic Smyth, U. of California Irvine, SIGKDD Director

The original founding Board of Directors of SIGKDD in 1998 consist of:


Current Chair:


Former Chairpersons:


Former Executive Committee (2009–2013)


Information Directors:

ACM SIGAI

ACM SIGMOD

ICML

NIPS

ICDM

IEEE

WWW

Official website

ACM SIGKDD Explorations