RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference (RCOMM 2010)

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi,

today, we can make a great new announcement to our community members and all users of RapidMiner:

Rapid-I hosts the first RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference (RCOMM 2010)!



As RapidMiner has once again proved to be the most-used open source data mining tool among the community of data analysts world-wide in a recent poll, it is now the time to give a face to that community. Therefore, Rapid-I hosts the first RapidMiner Community Meeting And Conference (RCOMM 2010) and invites users and developers of RapidMiner to take part and share their RapidMiner experiences with other members of the community. The RCOMM 2010 intends to intensify the community life and strengthen the RapidMiner network by bringing together users and developers of RapidMiner from all backgrounds, may they be scientific or commercial, from the whole variety of applications and from all grades of knowledge. A vital exchange of ideas, application reports, and scientific results will help beginners to advance and will inspire the already advanced leading them to professionalism. Users will profit from in-depth knowledge of developers, who in turn will gain from picking up requirements and ideas for further development.

The RCOMM 2010 encompasses conference talks, in which invited lecturers will discuss aspects of state-of-the-art data mining with RapidMiner. A Call-for-Papers will be issued for those who would like to present their work in that scope. Workshops will be held to give participants a hands-on experience concerning several topics regarding RapidMiner usage. Additionally, attendees of the RCOMM 2010 will also have the option to participate in several courses given by professional RapidMiner consultants in the surrounding of the user meeting.

Call for Papers

We ask all reasearchers and practitioners to submit a paper in PDF format up to six pages, for example about the design of data analysis processes with RapidMiner, text and web mining, sentiment analysis, data mining applications (production, finance...), novel algorithms, or new extensions. More information can be found on the RCOMM 2010 web site.

More Information and Registration

More information about the  RCOMM 2010 as well as the possibility to register online can be found at

www.rcomm2010.org

Hope to see you there! Cheers,
Ingo

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hello there,

just a reminder that today is the deadline for the paper submission to the RCOMM 2010! We already got a lot of great papers and I am totally excited about the amount of submissions and registrations so far. Personally I am convinced that this will be a great community meeting and I am looking forward to meet you in Dortmund in September!

By the way: We added a new section giving some information about the invited talks on the RCOMM web site:

• Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik, one of the masterminds behind RapidMiner, is giving a talk about "Data Mining under Resource Constraints" and
• Thomas Ott, who many of you know as RapidMiner evangelist from Neural Market Trends, is giving a talk about "Forecasting Historical Volatility for Option Trading" with RapidMiner

Read more on the RCOMM 2010 web site at

http://www.rcomm2010.org

and register online in order to take part in our meeting. I am looking forward to meet you there!

Cheers,
Ingo

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi all,

and here is another reminder about the RCOMM 2010 together with the information that the schedule is online now:

http://www.rcomm2010.org

At the menu point schedule you will find all talks and workshops which will take place. In addition to the invited talks discussed before we have

• the amazing number of 16 talks from people from all over the world!
• 3 workshops including one about the new Extension for the integration of R which will be presented for the first time at the RCOMM 2010
• 6 trainings surrounding the conference for visitors who want to intensify or refresh their knowledge
• 1 game show: "Who want's to be a Data Miner?" where you can watch the gurus creating processes against the clock and where you can even participate and battle for a price yourself!

I am really excited about the program and the quality of the submissions and looking forward to meeting you in Dortmund. If you don't have registered yet: visit

http://www.rcomm2010.org

and fill out the online registration form!

See you there,
Ingo

[wessel]

Does each talk have a paper to read for good preparation?

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi,

yes. All papers will be made available to the participants as printed proceedings at the beginning of the conference as it is usual for conferences in general.  We are currently still checking options how we will make them available to a wider public after the RCOMM, either as online proceedings or even as printed book.

Cheers,
Ingo

[wessel]

I will not be there at Monday.
Can I download them on-line in advance?

I would especially like to read:
Forecasting Historical Volatility for Option Trading, a Rapidminer Approach (Invited Talk)
Thomas N. Ott; Neural Market Trends

AND

Application of Short Term Load Forecasting using Support Vector Machines in RapidMiner 5.0
Marin Matijas, Tomislav Lipic; HEP Opskrba, Institut Ruder Boskovic

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi,

no problem: you will get the proceedings during your registration after arrival. The papers will probably not be online before the event, sorry, but we might be able to manage that and we will notify you then.

Cheers,
Ingo

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi everybody,

the registration for the first RCOMM is closed now. In total, more than 60 people will attend the conference. We are looking forward meeting many of you next week in Dortmund.

Have a safe trip! Cheers,
Ingo

[Marin]

And it finally started! For all of you who still didn't arrive, well... you still have 20 hours to go!
To everyone who is arriving tonight and wants to network with other data-miner wannabees, let me know. We are going in the city tonight
Cheerz,

Marin

PS: wessel, please ping me here/on mail, to send you the doc if you don't have it yet.
I am excited about discussing load forecasting approaches with you.

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi Marin and the rest of you,

the first RapidMiner Community Meeting and Conference RCOMM 2010 is over, the final trainings take place right now. It was a great pleasure to meet so many of you at the RCOMM and I took a lot of great ideas with me. For those of you traveling back right now I hope that everything is going well and that you have a safe journey.


I have written some notes about the two conference days including some pictures at

http://rapid-i.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,RCOMM-2010-Day-1.html/Itemid,172/

and

http://rapid-i.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,RCOMM-2010-Day-2.html/Itemid,172/


Thomas Ott from http://www.neuralmarkettrends.com made an awesome talk about modeling the markets and published some notes as well:

http://www.neuralmarkettrends.com/2010/09/14/rcomm-2010-having-a-blast/


I hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and I hope that I will meet many of you again in the future - maybe at the RCOMM 2011 which is coming for sure!

All the best,
Ingo

[Milan Vukicevic]

Hi everyone,

It was really great conference and I think that publishing of proceedings could be real beneficial data mining community in general.

So maybe we should provide extended papers (e.g. up to 20 pages) in some standardized format (of some journal or conference) and maybe to announce additional call for papers.

Of course there would be a lot of work but, maybe, conference participants could help in a review process.

I would really like to see all those papers published in one place because they are complementary and follow the emerging trends in data mining.

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi Milan,

thanks for your kind words 

I also think the quality of papers as well as the quality of the talks was really great and far above the averabge. Hence. the publications should be made available to a broader audience as soon as possible. One thing we will do is to put everything together as one downloadable proceedings PDF which we will publish probably at the end of this week. This way, we at least have the online proceedings of the conference (as it become more and more usual for other conferences as well) which can then be referenced to in other publications.

If we want to publish the proceedings as a special issue of a journal or as a book published by Springer, Kluwer... there is an important issue beside the layouting questions: the legal one. All journals and publishers I am aware of would need you to assign the exclusive rights of the work to them. This is nothing we asked for before the conference. What do the other authors think? Would this be an option we should follow in addition / instead of the online proceedings we have planned to do so far? Please be aware that online proceedings would make the papers available to everybody while a journal would restrict the access to the readers of the journal.

However, we have learned something out of this and also of the high number of submitted high-quality papers. Next year, we will definitely provide a common LaTeX style for all papers and get in contact with a publisher way before the conference in order to come up with a better solution than "mere" online proceedings.

Please let me know what you think, especially if we should try to contact a journal or a book publisher for a collection of extended versions of the papers.

Cheers,
Ingo

[Preko]

Hi,

I think the free online proceedings should be published, so everyone can read the papers and get the contact of the authors.
But additionally a journal special issue would be nice to have with revised and extended papers as we had a lot of discussions at the conference and I'm quite sure that most of us are eager to include the suggestions in an extended paper.

Best,
Zoltan Prekopcsak

[Ingo Mierswa]

Hi,

personally I agree - although we have to check if a journal special issue or a published book will be a more realistic approach for the extended version. Anybody else?

Cheers,
Ingo

[Milan Vukicevic]

Hi everyone,
I think that the best solution for everyone would be to publish online proceedings as you planed, and in addition to publish extended versions of papers (and maybe some new ones) as a special issue of some journal. This is a common solution utilized on many conferences.

For authors it would be great, because they would have an official contribution to their projects (they should be asked first, but I think that everybody have an interest in this). So I think that subscriptions of exclusive rights to journal won’t be a problem for authors.
Problem of access to papers would be also solved: everybody would have access to original papers, and would have an option to purchase extended articles (but most academic institutions already have subscriptions to large number of journals, so the need for paying won’t be an obstacle).
 
Additionally readers of journal would have a better insight in RapidMiner possibilities and when they do, I’m sure that number of community members would be enlarged.

So, me and my team would gladly provide an extended paper, but could also provide additional help if needed to make this happen.