The 2009 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Competition (KDD Cup 2009): Challenges in Machine Learning

This volume gathers together the definitive collection of papers describing the 2009 KDD Cup competition, a challenge task designed for the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining held in Paris on June 28, 2009. The collection includes a paper summarizing the results of the challenge and contributions from the top ranking entrants. The book is complemented by a web site from which the datasets can be downloaded and at which post-challenge submissions can be made to benchmark new algorithms.