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Preis - Best Demo Award (First Runner Up) at DASFAA 2012
P. Kranen, H. Kremer, T. Jansen, T. Seidl from RWTH Aachen and A. Bifet, G. Holmes, B. Pfahringer, J. Read from Waikato U, New Zealand, received the Best Demo Award (First Runner-Up) for their joint demo paper entitled Stream Data Mining Using the MOA Framework at the DASFAA International Conference on Database Systems for Advance Applications, Busan, 2012.
Preis - NRW Young Scientist Award 2011 for Steffen Kirchhoff
Dipl.-Inform. Steffen Kirchhoff, member of the B-IT research school, receives a NRW Young Scientist Award 2011 for his publication on "Modeling Image Similarity by Gaussian Mixture Models and the Signature Quadratic Form Distance", coauthored with Christian Beecks, Anca Ivanescu and Thomas Seidl. The paper was presented at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011), the leading venue in the field, held in Barcelona this year. At the time the paper was submitted Steffen Kirchhoff prepared his Diplomarbeit (Master Thesis) on the topic in our group. More details are available from http://idw-online.de/de/news452152.
Preis - ECML PKDD 2011 Best Paper Award in Data Mining
Stephan Günnemann, Brigitte Boden, and Thomas Seidl received the ECML PKDD 2011 Best Paper Award in Data Mining for the paper DB-CSC: A density-based approach for subspace clustering in graphs with feature vectors presented in the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2011), held September 5-9, 2011 in Athens, Greece.
MultiClust 2011 Workshop at ECML PKDD 2011
The 2nd Workshop on Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings (MultiClust 2011) was held on September 5, 2011, in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2011) in Athens, Greece. Some 40+ attendants listened two invited talks given by Prof. Michael Houle, NII Tokyo, Japan, and by Prof. Bart Goethals, U Antwerp, Belgium, and could enjoy seven very inspiring scientific talks carefully selected by a peer review process.
