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TUCS GP Hongyan Liu's Travel Report from ICDM 2012
- Full name of the event: 12th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2012
- Place and date: Berlin, Germany, July 13th–21st 2012
- Type of event: Conference
- My article:
- Title of paper: Electricity Consumption Time Series Profiling: a Data Mining Application in Energy Industry
- Authors: Hongyan Liu, Zhiyuan Yao, Tomas Eklund, Barbro Back
- The scientific profile of the event: The theme of this event is focused on the frontiers in intelligent data and signal analysis. It includes 12th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012); 7th International Conference on Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals with Applications in Medicine, r/g/b Biotechnology, Food Industries and Dietetics, Biometry and Security, and Agriculture (MDA 2012); and 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2012). It also combined with workshops and tutorials on Data Mining and Case-based Reasoning. Therefore, it provides a sound platform to share the advancement in research regarding improved algorithms, novel applications, and evaluation models.
- Opinion on the best paper and its topic: Prof. Xiaoqing Ding from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China gave an invited talk on Face Recognition. Her team is acknowledged as the world No. 1 in this research field, and their achievement is very impressive.
- Number of participants: About 120 participants from 42 countries
- Social events: banquet at a restaurant near Reichstag.
- Touristic impressions: I guess everyone would agree that Berlin is one of the most vibrant capitals in the world.