12th Francophone International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management EGC 2012, January 31 – February 3 2012, Bordeaux, France http://egc2012.labri.fr/ Honorary President Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, USA Invited Speakers Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow, UK Michel Tenenhaus, HEC, France Program Committee Chair Yves Lechevallier, INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt, France Organizing co-Chairs Guy Melançon/Bruno Pinaud, Université Bordeaux 1, France The 12th Francophone International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Management (EGC 2012) wll take place in Bordeaux from January 31 till February 3, 2012. EGC aims at gathering researchers in neighbor scientific areas (learning, statistics, data analysis, information systems and databases, knowledge engineering), as well as actors of the industry. The conference is a unique forum to communicate on recent research results, exchange ideas and report on industrial initiatives. EGC 2012 welcomes contributions in various formats: tutorials, focused workshops, paper presentations, posters and software demonstrations. The EGC 2012 proceedings are published as a RNTI journal special issue. An (English) extended version of high quality papers will subsequently be submitted for an international audience journal. Papers (6 or 12 pages) can be submitted in French or English. The 2012 edition welcomes three types of papers: academic, applied or industrial research, junior researchers (details on who may apply to this latter category will soon be published). The best contributions in each of these categories will be awarded prizes. Papers will be reviewed following a double blind process. Submissions shall be uploaded through the conference website Important dates. All dates are hard dealines. All papers (6 or 12 pages) must comply with the LaTeX RNTI style) Paper abstract submission: October 7, 2011 Full paper submission: 14 octobre 2011 Author notification and rebuttal: November 11--17, 2011 Final notification: November 21, 2011 Paper final version: December 9, 2011 Software deminstration (new this year: 4 pages) Demo submission: November 25, 2011 Final notification: December 2, 2011 Demo paper final version: December 9, 2011 Workshops (please follow format specification posted on the conference website) Workshop proposal expected on: October 14, 2011 Workshop acceptance notification: October 21, 2011 -- Guy Melançon INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Campus Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la libération 33405 Talence Cedex France Tel. +33 540 008 881 Fax +33 540 006 669 Bureau 308