Samira-- The future work section of research papers published in the conference often lists interesting research problems. You should also think about what you want to do. Best of luck! Cecily Heiner, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science Southern Utah University ----- Original Message ----- From: samira kolaylat To: edm-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 1:37 PM Subject: [edm-discuss] help please Hello, I am a lebanese phd student interested in datamining. I am looking for a subject for my thesis in datamining.Its a wide area, after research I got interested in datamining for higher education as well as recommender systems. I would request your advice in these topics, may you list some ideas that I can work on, I am still can't define the problem I want to work on very clearly. thanks