During the last decades, the disciplines of Data Mining and Operations Research have been working mostly independent of each other. The increasing complexity of today’s applications in areas such as business, medicine and science requires more and more interaction between both disciplines. On the one hand, several data mining algorithms are based on optimization methods. On the other hand, in several applications the pure KDD process is not sufficient since it does not take explicitly into account the entire decision process.

The first workshop on Business Analytics and Optimization, BAO 2010 is aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners from both fields, to present recent developments, and to identify future challenges in this novel combination of research areas.

From January 11 to 13, 2010, the workshop BAO 2010 will be held in the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics from the Universidad de Chile. We invite researchers and practitioners to send their original contributions on these topics, whose significance and quality will be reviewed. Submitted papers as well as presentations at the workshop must be performed in English or Spanish.

Topics at this conference include, but are not limited to:

Core Data Mining Topics:

Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Extraction, and Feature Selection
Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Methods
Statistical Learning Theory and Neural Network Research
Online Learning, Data Stream Mining, and Dynamic Data Mining
Graph Mining and Semi-Structured Data
Spatial and Temporal Data Mining
Uncertainty Modeling in Data Mining

Business Analytics and Optimization Applications:

Credit Scoring, Financial Modeling, and Forecasting
Crime Modeling, Security, and Privacy Applications
Web Intelligence and Information Retrieval
Marketing and e-Commerce Applications
Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems
Revenue Management
Game Theory and Experimental Economics
Industrial Applications of Business Analytics and Optimization