The Data Mining Case Studies Workshop and Practice Prize was established in 2005 to showcase the very best in data mining case deployments. Data Mining Case Studies continues into the fifth workshop and prize competition with ICDM-2013. Data Mining Case Studies will highlight data mining implementations that have been responsible for a significant and measurable improvement in business operations, or an equally important scientific discovery, or some other benefit to humanity.

Examples of Data Mining Case Studies from previous years have included: (a) a medical application that has save hundreds of lives by mining through hundreds of thousands of patient records to identify patients who have show all the signs for heart disease, yet have not been prescribed heart medication, (b) a system which has uncovered hundreds of millions in sheltered tax evasion rings, (c) a system which has raised revenue by improved cross-selling of computer peripherals and equipment.

Data Mining Case Studies will allow papers greater latitude in (a) range of topics - authors may touch upon areas such as optimization, operations research, inventory control, and so on, (b) page length - longer submissions are allowed, (c) scope - more complete context, problem and solution descriptions will be encouraged, (d) prior publication - if the paper was published in part elsewhere, it may still be considered if the new article is substantially more detailed, (e) novelty – the use of established techniques to achieve successful implementations will be given partial allowance.

Unsuccessful data mining systems that describe lessons learned and “war stories” will also be assessed.