ECML PKDD 2006 Workshop on
Practical Data Mining: Applications, Experiences and Challenges

	9:00	ECML/PKDD Invited Talk by Charu Aggarwal (IBM) On Temporal Evolution in Data Streams
	10:10	Coffee break
	10:40	Workshop Opening
	10:50	Invited talk by Stefan Wrobel (FhG IAIS) Geo Intelligence — New Business Opportunities and Research Challenges in Spatial Mining and Business Intelligence
		Session 1: Economy and Finance
	11:40	Bayesian Network Classifiers for Forecasting Country Risk E. Colla, J. Ide and F. Cozman
	11:55	Experiences from Automatic Summarization of IMF Staff Reports S. Liu and J. Lindroos
	12:10	Online Ensembles for Financial Trading J. Barbosa and L. Torgo
	12:25	Lunch break
		Session 2: Customer Relationship Management and Marketing
	13:30	Network-based marketing: Identifying likely adopters via consumer networks. S. Hill, F. Provost and C. Volinsky
	13:45	Customer churn prediction — a case study in retail banking T. Mutanen, J. Ahola and S. Nousiainen
	14:00	Sequence Mining for Customer Behaviour Predictions in Telecommunications F. Eichinger, D. Nauck and F. Klawonn
	14:15	Poster session taking place in the reception/registration area.
		list of accepted posters
	15:00	Coffee break
		Session 3: SAS session
	15:30	Invited Talk by Ulrich Reincke (SAS) Directions of Analytics, Data and Text Mining — a Software Vendor's View
	16:10	Combination of different text mining strategies to classify requests about involuntary childlessness to an internet medical expert forum W. Himmel, U. Reincke and H. Michelmann
		Session 4: Health care and public authorities
	16:25	Mining Medical Administrative Data — The PKB System A. Ceglar, R. Morrall and J. Roddick
	16:40	Onto Clustering of Criminal Careers J. de Bruin, T. Cocx, W. Kosters, J. Laros and J. Kok
	16:55	Clustering of Psychological Personality Tests of Criminal Offenders M. Breitenbach, T. Brennan, W. Dieterich and G. Grudic
		Session 5: Data Mining industry
	17:10	Predictive Marketing J. Werner (SPSS)
	17:25	Data Mining Applications for Quality Analysis in Manufacturing R. Grund (IBM)
	17:45	Wrap-up discussion
	18:00	End of workshop

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