The 7th edition of the Data Mining 2013 (ECDM) European Conference was hosted in Prague, Czech Republic, during 22 to 24 July, 2013 and was co-organised by The University of Economics in Prague (VŠE), Czech Republic. This conference was part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2013, 22 - 26 July.

This ECDM Conference aims to gather researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, computational intelligence, pattern recognition, databases and visualization. ECDM'12 aims to advance the state of the art in data mining field and its various real world applications. ECDM'12 will provide opportunities for technical collaboration among data mining and machine learning researchers around the globe.

Submissions were accepted under the following areas and topics:

Core Data Mining Topics
- Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
- Data streams mining
- Graph mining
- Spatial data mining
- Text video, multimedia data mining
- Web mining
- Pre-processing techniques
- Visualization
- Security and information hiding in data mining

Data Mining Applications
- Databases
- Bioinformatics
- Biometrics
- Image analysis
- Financial modeling
- Forecasting
- Classification
- Clustering
- Social Networks
- Educational data mining

The ECDM 2013 Conference had 42 submissions from more than 19 countries. Each submission has been anonymously reviewed by an average of four independent reviewers, to guarantee the final high standard of the accepted submissions. Consequently only 6 full papers were approved which corresponds to an acceptance rate of 14 %. A few more papers were accepted as short papers, reflection paper and poster demonstration.

The Conference Program featured an opening and closing sessions, 2 parallel paper sessions, 1 Keynote Presentation and a Poster Session.

The keynote presentation was given by Professor Jaroslav Pokorný, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Praha, Czech Republic.

Extended versions of the best papers were selected to be published as extended versions in the the IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (ISSN: 1646-3692) and/or in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected journals, including journals from Inderscience. Some of the best papers will be eligible to be extended and enhanced as book chapters for inclusion in a book to be published by IGI Global.

Keynote presentation

"NEW DATABASE ARCHITECTURES: STEPS TOWARDS BIG DATA PROCESSING''
by Professor Jaroslav Pokorný,

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Praha, Czech Republic

Abstract

Both research and practice indicate that traditional universal DBMS architecture hardly satisfies new trends in data processing, particularly in the context of cloud computing and Big Data problems. New database architectures and their basic features will be described, particularly their horizontal scalability and concurrency model, which is mostly weaker than ACID transactions in relational SQL-like database systems. We focus on so called NoSQL databases which support solving, at least partially, Big Data problems. Some features of NoSQL databases like data models and querying capabilities are presented in more detail. We will also mention an overview of some their representatives. Finally, we point out on actual problems associated with current database research at all.

The Data Mining 2013 was published in Book (ISBN: 78-972-8939-93-9).

Program Committee Members:
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Alessia Visconti, University Of Turin , Italy
Anastasios Dimou, Informatics And Telematics Institute, Greece
Andreas König, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Anirban Kundu, West Bengal University Of Technology, India
Annalisa Appice, Università Degli Studi Di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Archil Maysuradze, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Bo Dai, Purdue University, Usa
Boris Kovalerchuk, Central Washington University, USA
Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Christoph Schommer, University Of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Christos Makris, University Of Patras, Greece
Corrado Loglisci, University Of Bari, Italy
Dan Wu, University Of Windsor, Canada
Daniel Pop, University Of The West Timisoara, Romania
Daniela Zaharie, Uvt, Romania
Domenico Talia, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Dora Souliou, National Technical University Of Athens, Greece
Evangelos Kotsifakos, University Of Piraeus, Greece
Evangelos Theodoridis, University Of Patras, Greece
Feng Yan, Facebook, USA
Francesco Folino, University Of Calabria, Italy
Franco Turini, University Of Pisa, Italy
Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR, Italy
George Tambouratzis, Institute For Language And Speech Processing, Greece
Gerhard Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Gianni Costa, Icar-cnr, Italy
Hidenao Abe, Bunkyo University, Japan
Hui Xue, Southeast University, China
I-hsien Ting, Kaohsiung University, Taiwan
Ingrid Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Ioannis Kopanakis, Technological Educational Institute Of Crete, Greece
Jan Platos, Vsb - Technical University Of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Jason Wang, New Jersey Institute Of Technology, USA
Justin Dauwels, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Katia Kermanidis, Ionian University, Greece
Khalid Saeed, Agh University Of Science, Poland
Ki Chan, Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology, Hong Kong
Lei Chang, EMC, China
Longlong Ma, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, China
Luca Cagliero, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy
Luis Otavio Alvares, INE/UFSC, Brazil
Mario Koeppen, Kyutech, Japan
Martin Drlik, Constantine The Philosopher University In Nitra, Slovakia
Michael Hahsler, Southern Methodist University, USA
Michael Vassilakopoulos, University Of Central Greece, Greece
Mihai Cosmin Lintean, University Of Memphis, Usa
Ming Li, Nanjing University, China
Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia
P.k. Mahanti, University Of New Brunswick, Canada
Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Qi Zhang, Fudan University, China
Ranieri Baraglia, Italian National Research Council (cnr), Italy
Riccardo Ortale, Icar-cnr, Italy
Roberto Esposito, Università Di Torino, Italy
Santiago Gonzalez, Universidad Politécnica De Madrid, Spain
Sebsibe Hailemariam, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Stella Sofianopoulou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Tatiana Tambouratzis, University Of Piraeus, Greece
Tianming Hu, Dongguan University Of Technology, China
Tibebe Beshah, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Tomonobu Ozaki, Nihon University, Japan
Tsuyoshi Ide, IBM Research, Japan
Vaclav Snasel, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Vadim Strijov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Computing Centre, Russia
Vassilios Verykios, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Victor Robles, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Vladimir Ryazanov, Russian Akademy of Sciences , Russia
Wai-keung Fung, University Of Manitoba, Canada
Wei Peng, Xerox Research, Usa
Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com, Australia
Yang Xiang, The Ohio State University, USA
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Yunyun Wang, Nanjing University Of Posts And Telecommunications, China
Zahid Akhtar, University Of Cagliari, Italy
Zeev Volkovich, Ort Braude College, Israel
Zhenxing Qin, University Of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Zhihui Wang, Fudan University, China