Final Call for Book Chapters on Computational Methods of Feature Selection

Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is a multidisciplinary effort to extract nuggets of information from data. Massive data sets have become common in many applications and pose novel challenges for KDD. Along with changes in size, the context of these data runs from the loose structure of text and images to designs of microarray experiments. Research in computer science, engineering, and statistics confront similar issues in feature selection, and we see a pressing need for and benefits in the interdisciplinary exchange and discussion of ideas. We anticipate that our collaborations will shed light on research directions and provide the stimulus for creative breakthroughs. The two recent feature selection workshops have demonstrated solid progress (FSDM 2005 http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/workshop/ and FSDM 206 http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/workshop/2006/).

Feature selection is an essential step in successful data mining applications. Feature selection has practical significance in many areas such as statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. The objectives of feature selection include: building simpler and more comprehensible models, improving data mining performance, and helping to prepare, clean, and understand data.

We welcome submissions featuring both the theory behind feature selection as well as novel applications to data. The following is a non-inclusive list of sample topics.

Feature ranking and selection	Ensemble methods
Feature extraction or construction	Selection bias
Stream data reduction	Selection with small samples
Selection for labeled and unlabeled data	Selection for text, Web, Bioinformatics
Novel data structures	Emerging challenges
Quality measures and evaluation	Real-world applications

The book will be published by Chapman and Hall/CRC Press in 2007, and edited by Huan Liu and Hiroshi Motoda.

Important Dates

· Submission deadline, December 31, 2006

· Review and selection completed, February 28, 2007

· Decisions out March 10, 2007 (Due to the late return of some reviews, decisions will be out around March 20, 2007. Sorry about the delay.)

· Camera ready with index word lists, April 20, 2007

· Compilation, correction, proofread, May 25, 2007

Submission

The format and preparation instructions can be found in the instructions file.

Please submit a pdf file of your work to featureselection@gmail.com and cc to motoda@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Updates can be found at http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/Book2007/CFC.htm