Professional Activities

• Editorial Board
  • Associate Editor: SIGKDD Explorations, Newsletter of the ACM SIGKDD, 2004 - .
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2001 - 2005.
  • Editorial Board: Intelligent Data Analysis: An international journal, 2002 - .
  • Editorial Board: Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An international journal, 2002 - .
• Guest editor (with Soumen Chakrabarti): IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Special issue on Mining and Searching the Web, January 2004, Vol 16, Number 1.
• Guest editor (with Kevin C. Chang): SIGKDD Explorations - newsletter of ACM SIGKDD
  • Special issue on Web Content Mining, December 2004, Vol 6, Issue 2.
• Guest editor (with Chengqi Zhang and Qiang Yang): IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Special issue on Intelligent Data Preparation, Submission deadline: Nov 20, 2004.
• Web Content Mining tutorial at WWW-05 and WISE-05.
• NSF panels: March 2003 and June 2003.
• Council Member
• IDA conference series: International conference on intelligent data analysis, 2001-2005.
• Program Committee Chair, Vice Chair, Workshop Chairs
• Program Co-chair: KDD-2008 - The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Aug 24-27, 2008, Las Vegas, USA.
• Chair: KDD Cup and Workshop 2007, to be held at KDD-2007, Aug 12-15, San Jose, California, 2007.
• Program Chair: SDM-07 - SIAM Conference on Data Mining, April 26-28, 2007. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Program Chair (knowledge management track): CIKM-06 - ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov 6-11, 2006, Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arilington, VA, USA.
• Co-organiser: CRM-2005 - International Workshop on Customer Relationship Management: data mining meets marketing. New York University, Nov 18-19 2005, New York City.
• Deputy Vice Chair (data mining track): WWW-05 - The 14th International World Wide Web conference, May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan.
• Workshop Co-Chair: SDM-05 - Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Newport Beach, April 20-23, 2005
• Co-Chair: DMKD-04 - 9th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France. 13, June, 2004.
• Co-Chair: SIGKDD-04 Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis, August 22, 2004, Seattle, Washington.
• Workshop Co-Chair: PAKDD-04 - Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sydney, Australia, May 2004.
• Co-chair - The Fifth WEBKDD Workshop (WEBKDD-03): Web Mining as a Premise to Effective and Intelligent Web Applications, to be held with KDD-03, August 24-27, 2003 - Washington, DC, USA.
• Programme Vice Chair: ICDM-2002: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, December 9 - 12, 2002.
• Programme Co-chair: PAKDD-2002- Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. May, 2002, Taiwan. (Chair: Ming-Syan Chen, Co-chairs: Philip Yu, Bing Liu)
• Chair: PRICAI-98 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (Nov 27-31, 1998)
  • Workshop Home Page
• Chair: Asian'96 Post-Conference Workshop on Constraints and Constraint Programming
  • Workshop Papers
• Program Committee Memberships
  1. COLING-2008, August 18-22, 2008, Manchester, U.K.
  2. ACL-2008, June 15-20, 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
  3. WSDM-2008: First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, February 11-12, 2008, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
  4. WWW-2008: 17th International World Wide Web Conference, April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China.
  5. ICDE-2008: The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, April 7-12, 2008, Canccun, Mexico.
  6. EMNLP-2007: 2007 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Prague, Czech, June 28-30, 2006.
  7. KDD-2007 (Senior PC): the Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Jose, California, USA, August 12-15, 2007.
  8. AAAI-2007 (Nectar): Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 22.26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  9. AAAI-2007 (AI & the Web Track): Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 22.26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  10. WWW-2007: The 16th International World Wide Web conference (Data Mining Track), May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
  11. WWW-2007: The 16th International World Wide Web conference (Workshop and tutorial program), May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
  12. ICDE-2007: The 23th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2007.
  13. EMNLP-2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, 22-23 July 2006, 2006.
  14. COLING/ACL-06, Sydney, Australia, 17-21 July 2006, 2006.
  15. HLT-NAACL-06: Joint Human Language Technology Conference/Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, June 4-9, 2006.
  16. AAAI-2006 Nectar: Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 16-20, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts.
  17. ECML-PKDD 2006: European Conference on Machine Learning / European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases , September 18th to 22nd in Berlin, Germany.
  18. KDD-2006: the Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Philadelphia, USA, August 23-26, 2006.
  19. WWW-2006: The 15th International World Wide Web conference, May 22-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  20. IIWEB-2006: WWW-06 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, May 23 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  21. PAKDD-2006: The Tenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 9-12 April, 2004, Singapore.
  22. SDM-2006: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 20-22, 2006, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  23. ICML-2005: The 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, August 7-11, 2005.
  24. KDD-2005: Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining , Chicago, Illinois, August 21-24, 2005.
  25. WWW-2005: The 14th International World Wide Web conference, May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan. (also as deputy vice chair of Data Mining Track)
  26. VLDB-2005: International Conference on Very Large Databases, August 30 - Sept 2, 2005, Trondheim, Norway.
  27. WI-2005: The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence, September 19-22, 2005, Compiegne University of Technology, France.
  28. AAAI-2005: Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence , July 24-28, 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
  29. ICDM-2005: The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 26-30, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
  30. SAC'2005: The 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing -- (Track: Web Technologies and Applications), Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 13 -17, 2005
  31. PAKDD-2005: The Ninth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 18-20 May, 2004, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  32. KDD-2004: the Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, Washington on August 22-25, 2004.
  33. WWW-2004: Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, May 17-22, 2004, New York, USA (Data Mining Track).
  34. AAAI-2004 Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization, July 25-26, 2004, San Jose, California, USA.
  35. ECML-2004 Workshop on Web mining, ECML/PKDD 2004, Sept 20-24, Pisa, Italy.
  36. ER-2004 Workshop on Conceptual Model-directed Web Information Integration and Mining (CoMWIM), held at the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2004).
  37. ICDM-2004: The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 01 - 04, 2004, Brighton, UK.
  38. ICDE-2004: The 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, March 30 - April 2, 2004, Boston, USA.
  39. WI-2004: 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Sept 20-24, Beijing, China.
  40. IJCNLP-2004: The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, March 22-24, 2004, Hainan, China.
  41. APWeb'04: The Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference, Hangzhou, China, 14-17 April, 2004
  42. SAC'2004: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Track: Web Technologies and Applications), Cyprus in March, 2004.
  43. PAKDD-2004: Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 26-28 May, 2004, Calton Crest Hotel, Sydney, Australia.
  44. DASFAA-2004: International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Jeju island, Korea, from Febuary 24 to Febuary 27, 2004.
  45. ICML-03 Workshop: The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning & Data Mining, Washington, DC, August 21-24 2003 (ICML-03).
  46. WWW-2003 (poster program): The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, 20-24 May 2003, Budapest, HUNGARY.
  47. AM-03: Second International Workshop on Active Mining, October 28, 2003 Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan.
  48. WWW/Internet-03: IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve, Portugal, 5-8 Nov 2003
  49. DMKD-2003: SIGMOD-2003 Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 13th June 2003, San Diego, California, 2003.
  50. ICDM-2003: The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 19 - 22, 2003, in Melbourne, Florida, USA.
  51. DaWaK-2003: International Conference on Data Warehousing and knowledge discovery, Praha (Czech Republic), September 1-5, 2003
  52. PAKDD-2003: Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seoul, Korea, April 30-May 2, 2003.
  53. WI-2003: IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, October 13-17 in Beijing, China.
  54. IDEAL-2003: Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, 21-23, March 2003, Hong Kong.
  55. DASFAA-2003: 8th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 26-28 March, 2003.
  56. IDA-2003: Fifth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Aug 26-29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.
  57. SDM-2003: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, May 1-3, 2003, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  58. CIKM-2002: 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Nov. 4-9, 2002 in McClean, Virginia.
  59. KDD-2002: The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, July 23-26th, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  60. MEWS-2002: First International Workshop on Mining for Enhanced Web Search, Singapore Dec. 12th, 2002. (In conjunction with WISE-2002).
  61. SDM-2002: The Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 11-13, 2002, Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Arlington, VA, USA.
  62. ICDE-2002: The 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, February 26-March 1, 2002, San Jose, California.
  63. WECWIS-2002: The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems, June 2002, Newport Beach, California, USA.
  64. DS2002: The Fifth International Conference on Discovery Science, November 24-26, 2002, Luebeck, Germany.
  65. DaWaK-2002: International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge discovery, Aix-en-Province, France (near Marseille), September 2-6, 2002
  66. MICAI-2002: The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Yucatan, Mexico, April 22 - April 26, 2002.
  67. ICIIT-02: International Conference on Intelligent Information Technology, September 22-25, 2002, Beijing, China
  68. RBDM-01: The first international workshop on rule based data mining, Oct 20-22, 2001, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  69. KDD-2001: The Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Francisco, CA; Aug 26-29, 2001.
  70. DMKD-2001: SIGMOD-2001 Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Santa Barbara, California, May 20, 2001.
  71. SDM-2001: The First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 5-6, 2001, Chicago, USA.
  72. ICDM-2001: 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 29 - December 2, 2001, Silicon Valley, California.
  73. ICII-2001: International Conferences on Info-tech & Info-net, Beijing, China, Oct.29 - Nov.1, 2001
  74. IDA-2001: Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Sept 13th - 15th, 2001, Lisbon, Portugal
  75. IJCAI-2001: (Review committee for Search, Scheduling and Constraint Satisfaction) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intellgience, August 4th - 10th, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  76. DaWaK-2001, International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, September 3-7, 2001, Munich, Germany.
  77. PAKDD-2001: Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Hong Kong, 2001.
  78. WI-2001: First Asia Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, 2001.
  79. Asian Computing Science Conference, 2000.
  80. The 10th International Conference on Computing and Information, 2000.
  81. PAKDD-2000: Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2000, Kyoto, Japan.
  82. RSFDGrC'99: The Seventh International Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing (RSFDGrC'99), 1999, Yamaguchi, Japan.
  83. IDA-99: International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, 1999, Amstemdan, Holland.
  84. PAKDD-99: Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 1999, Beijing, China.
  85. PAKDD-98: Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1998, Singapore.
• Invited Speaker: Mining and Summarizing Opinions on the Web. Invited talk at ACL-06 Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text. July 22, 2006, Sydney, Australia.
• Invited Speaker: Searching Opinions in User-Generated Contents. Invited talk at the Sixth Annual Emerging Information Technology Conference (EITC-06), Aug 10-12, 2006, Dallas, Texas.
• Invited Participant: Dagstuhl Seminar 04292: Data Mining: The Next Generation, July 11-16, 2004, Organized by: R. Agrawal (IBM Almaden Center, US), J. C. Freytag (HU Berlin, DE), R. Ramakrishnan (Univ. Wisconsin - Madison, US)
• Invited Lecturer: University of Siena, Italy, Mar 23-27, 2004.
  • Introduction to data mining
• Invited Speaker: VLDB summer school in Delhi and Bangalore, India, June 3- 9, 2004
  • Classification: from full supervision to partial supervision
  • Intorduction to data mining
• Guest Editors (Wynne Hsu and Bing Liu): Computer-Aided Design Journal
  • Special Issue on Conceptual design: Issues and Challenges, Vol 32, No 14, December 2000.
• Invited speaker: DIMACS Workshop on Data Quality, Data Cleaning and Treatment of Noisy Data November 3 - 4, 2003 DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
• Invited Keynote Speaker and Participant: Dagstuhl Seminar 00331: Intelligent Data Analysis, Aug 13-18, 2000, SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND RESEARCH CENTER FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE, Germany. Organized by M. Berthold (Berkeley), R. Kruse (Magdeburg), X. Liu (London), H. Szczerbicka (Bremen).
I will give the following two talks (tentative titles):
• General talk: Mining and using association rules
• Research talk: Post-processing of mining results: mining after mining
• Invited Speaker and Participant: Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets, July 20-21 2000, Army High Performance Computing Research Centre, University of Minnesota, organized by Robert Grossman, Chandrika Kamath, Vipin Kumar and Raju Namburu.
• Talk: Clustering through decision tree construction (Slides)
• Invited Panelist: "Data mining and web information systems"
• The 24th IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac-2000), Oct 25-27 2000, Taipei.
• Invited Speaker: Database Marketing Conference, 8-9 January 2001, Singapore.
  • Talk: Database marketing using data mining techniques
• Invited Speaker: Applications of Fuzzy Sets (July 22, 1999)
  • Third Country Training Programme in "Intelligent Systems for Management Information Systems Managers" (TCTP'99).
• Invited Speaker: Data Mining for Marketing (June 29, 1999)
  • Symposium on Trend in Knowledge Discovery from Databases
• Invited Speaker: Data Management Conference, Oct 2-3 2002, Singapore.
  • Talk: Data and Web Mining.
• Invited Speaker: Mining useful knowledge from databases (June 26, 2001).
  • Technology talk to general public in Singapore
• WWW-2005 Tutorial on Web Content Mining, May 10-14, Chiba, Japan, 2005.
  • Bing Liu
• PRICAI-98 Tutorial on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Nov 27-31, 1998)
  • Liu Bing and Liu Huan
• Research Visit (joint research): Visisted IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, New York, Jan 28-Mar 30, 2000.
• Research Visit (joint research): Visisted IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, New York, Mar 25-May 4, 2001.
• Research Visit (joint research): Visisted IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, New York, June 9 - June 30, 2003.