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Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues,
Approaches and Applications (LinkKDD-2005)
The LinkKDD-2005 workshop aims to bring together a diverse
group of researchers and industry practitioners to advance the
state of the art in link discovery. Recently, there has been
increasing interest in developing information technology for
Link Discovery. LD research studies and develops data mining
techniques for extracting valuable patterns linking together
seemingly unrelated items. LD, rooted in fields such as discreet
mathematics, graph theory, social science, pattern analysis,
link analysis and spatial databases, is relevant to a wide range
of research topics that have been developed in past decades.
Successful LD systems will discover the hidden structure of
organizations, relate groups, identify fraudulent behavior,
model group activity and provide early detection of emerging
threats. The broader context of this workshop invites both
theoretical and applied contributions to LD spanning techniques
from Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval,
Natural Language Processing, Social Networks Analysis, and
general Graph Theory.Workshop Topics
Specific topics of interest for the workshop include but are not
limited to:
- Theoretical advances to link discovery and group detection
- Practical applications of link discovery to real world
databases
- Link-analysis and graph mining
- Social network analysis and community finding
- Graph theory, scale-free networks and small world phenomenon
- Web-mining and text-mining applied to link discovery
- Link discovery for data streams and scalability of
developed approaches
- Record linkage, alias detection and object consolidation
- Visualization of link structures
- Performance evaluation measures
- Innovative applications in areas such as medical
informatics, insurance, laws enforcements and web
communities
- Link discovery and other theoretical fields such as
natural language processing, agent theory, complex systems,
trust models and dynamic pricing models
- Survey and analysis of deployed link discovery integrated
systems, commercial products, educational and commercial
packages
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