Dear Members of DBSJ, I am Prof. Rage Uday Kiran from the University of Aizu. In this email, we would like to circulate the Call for Tutorials for PAKDD 2021. ------------------ Call for Tutorials Coming to its 25th edition in 2021, the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is one of the longest established and leading international conferences in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery. It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results, and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, databases, statistics, knowledge engineering, visualization, decision-making systems, and the emerging applications. PAKDD 2021 will be held in May 11-14, 2021, Delhi, India. We invite proposals for half-day (3-4 hours) tutorials from active researchers in both academia and industry who are experienced and engaging presenters. Ideally, a tutorial will cover the state-of-the-art research, development, and applications in a specific data mining domain, to stimulate and facilitate future work. Tutorials on interdisciplinary areas, novel and fast growing directions, and significant applications are highly encouraged. A tutorial proposal should include the following and should not exceed 4 pages excluding references: - Title - Abstract - Presenters' name, affiliation, address, email, phone - A biographical sketch of the presenter(s) - Outline including a short summary of every section - Specific goals and objectives - Expected background of the audience - Audio Visual equipment needed for the presentation - A list of up to 20 most important references that will be covered in the tutorial. Paper Submission Please submit your proposals in PDF format to the link below: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pakdd2021 Proposals will be evaluated by the tutorial co-chairs based on merit and relevance. The tutorial presenters will be required to provide comprehensive tutorial notes (printable slides) prior to the event, which will be published on the PAKDD website and made available to conference attendees free of charge Tutorials will be mostly likely to be scheduled on the day before the main PAKDD conference. All presenters named in the proposal MUST attend to present the tutorial or the session may be cancelled. *For each accepted tutorial proposal the PAKDD organizing committee will provide support for attendance in the form of ONE full registration to the conference.* Tutorial Co-Chairs - B. Ravindran, IIT Madras (ravi@cse.iitm.ac.in) - Naresh Manwani, IIIT Hyderabad (naresh.manwani@iiit.ac.in). Important Dates Proposals due Feb 8, 2021 Mar 6, 2021 Tutorial notification Mar 26, 2021 Submission of tutorial notes Apr 12, 2021*All deadlines are 23:59 Pacific Standard Time (PST) -- Regards Prof. Rage Uday Kiran Associate Professor Database Systems Lab Division of Information Systems University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. Lab number: 145-A Mobile no. +81 80 4834 0999 Phone no. (Lab) +81 242 37 2541 (Ext) 3115 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When people throw stones at you, convert them into milestones.