DASFAA Steering Committee Minutes of Meeting 2005

DASFAA Steering Committee
Minutes of Meeting 2005
Date: April 17, 2005
Time: 8:00 pm – 10:25pm
Venue: Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China
Present:
Tok Wang Ling - Chair
Yoshifumi Masunaga - Vice Chair
Kyu-Young Whang - Secretary
Arbee Chen
Seog Park
Shan Wang
Katsumi Tanaka
Kyhyun Um
Absent with apology:
Fred Lochovsky
Ron Sacks-Davis
Yoshihiko Imai
Krithi Ramamritham
In attendance:
Jianzhong Li
Lizhu Zhou
Beng Chin Ooi
Gillian Dobbie
1. Welcome
SC Chair called the meeting at 8pm and welcomed the steering committee members
and the invited attendees.

2. DASFAA'2004 Final Financial Report - by Kyu-Young Whang
Kyu-Young Whang reported on the DASFAA’2004 final financial report. The
conference made a profit of US$11,098, and half of the profit of amount
US$5,549 was transmitted to the SC bank account. There were total 180
participants including 16 free registrations.
3. Report from the Treasurer - by Kyu-Young Whang on behalf of
Yoshihiko Imai
Kyu-Young reported that the balance of the SC bank account to date is ¥2,068,750,
which includes ¥597,237 (US$5,549) transferred from DAFAA’2004’s profit. The
Financial Statement was distributed to SC members at the meeting.
4. Report on DASFAA'2005 - by Lizhu Zhou / Jianzhong Li
Lizhu Zhou, PC Co-chair of DASFAA 2005, gave a preliminary report on
DASFAA’2005. There were 302 paper submissions from 20 countries/regions
and these papers were reviewed by 89 PC members and 92 external reviewers.
67 full papers and 15 short papers were accepted for presentation. He also
presented the statistics on the PC members by country/region, paper
submission and acceptance by country/region and by research area. For
conference registrations, up to that night, there were total 117 registrations
including 30 from China, 20 from Singapore, and 17 from USA. The conference
financial status is about balance. Detailed financial report will be sent to SC in 3
to 6 months time.
5. Report on the organization of DASFAA'2006 - by Beng Chin Ooi / Tok
Wang Ling
Beng Chin Ooi and Tok Wang Ling reported on the status of DASFAA’2006. There are
total 94 PC members; 36 from our region, 36 from Americas, 18 from Europe, and 4
from other countries. Copies of the Preliminary DASFAA’2006 Call for Papers were
distributed at the conference. A brief report on the budget and conference hotel was
presented. PAKDD’2006 will be held in the same hotel with their last day overlaps with
DASFAA’2006.

members from the respective countries/regions.
(b) Election for new Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer
Tok Wang Ling and Yoshifumi Masunaga have served as SC chair and
Vice Chair for their 2 year term. According to the Bylaws, Tok Wang Ling
will become the Advisor for 2 years after DASFAA’2005. SC Chair
nominated the current Vice Chair, Yoshifumi Masunaga, as the new Chair,
and SC approved the nomination. Yoshifumi Masunaga then nominated
Kyu-Young Whang as the new Vice Chair, and SC approved the
nomination also. As Kyu-Young Whang is the current Secretary, so a new
Secretary is needed. Yoshifumi Masunaga nominated Katsumi Tanaka as
the new Secretary, and SC approved also. All the 3 nominees accepted
the nominations and thanked SC for the approval. The terms of the new
appointments are 2 years by the Bylaws. Yoshihiko Imai was reelected
as Treasurer.
(c) DASFAA SC memberships
Yoshifumi Masunaga presented a table listed the SC memberships of the
current and past SC members since the formation of DASFAA SC
together with their appointments in the SC executive committee and the
periods. Yoshifumi Masuanga will update the information and distribute it
to the members together with the minutes of the meeting. SC chair
thanked Yoshifumi Masunaga for his effort to collect the information on
the SC memberships since the formation of DASFAA SC.
(d) SC chair thanked Kyhyun Um for his contribution to the DASFAA as
a SC member. SC Chair also thanked Ron Sacks-Davis and Frederick H.
Lochovsky for serving as SC members for the past years.
(e) SC members thanked Tok Wang Ling for his contribution as SC
member, SC Vice Chair, and then SC Chair for the years since 1991.
There was no other issue, the meeting ended at 10:25 pm.

Recorded by: Tok Wang Ling and Kyu-Young Whang, April 2005
Attached: DASFAA Steering Committee Bylaws 04-17-2005