The Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-2000) will provide an international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different KDD related areas such as machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, soft computing, and high performance computing. It will follow the success of PAKDD-97 held in Singapore in 1997, PAKDD-98 held in Australia in 1998, and PAKDD-99 held in China in 1999 by bringing together participants from universities, industry and government.

Papers on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining are welcome. Both research and applications papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance to KDD, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

Selected number of PAKDD-2000 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in major Japanese and/or international journals. Candidates include "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag (http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/). PAKDD Best Paper Award will be conferred on the authors of the best paper at the conference. The winner will be honored US$500 and free registration.