The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) has established itself as the world s premier research conference in data mining It provides an international forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge based systems, and high performance computing By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state of the art in data mining