The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is a leading international conference in the areas of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). PAKDD 2015 will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the beautiful and active city in South East Asia.

The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial papers reporting real data mining applications and system development experience. The conference will confer Best Paper Awards to the Best full papers, the Best student papers and the Best application papers from the submissions. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI series and selected best papers will be invited for publications in special issues of high-quality journals.