What are Industrial Case Studies and why are they required? I searched on the internet about this but found no convincing answer. I have to submit a paper to a conference where they are also asking for an Industrial Case Study. I contacted the conference chair about this, they replied:


  If there is a pragmatic solution to a problem or there is an innovative application developed then an Industrial Case Study is required. For more details you may search for case study submissions for similar conferences.


The domain is KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases). I did search but did not find any good stuff.

Could anyone help me out with this?
I could not find a specific definition; however, I found a few Industrial Case Study examples from your and similar fields that may be useful analogs for you to model your case study off:

"An Industrial Case Study of Immediate Benefits of
Requirements Engineering Process Improvement at
the Australian Center for Unisys Software" (Damian et al. 2004).

"http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA446147" (Cook and Wolf)

"Process Monitoring using a Combination of Data driven Techniques
and Model based Data Validation" (Duchesne et al. 2007)

"Signed Directed Graph Based Modeling and its Validation from Process Knowledge and Process Data" (Yang et al. 2012)