Meetings

A workshop entitled "Application of Multiple-Valued Logic to ArtificialIntelligence and to Data Mining" will be held at Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland) on Friday and Saturday 27 and 28 April 2001.

Among presentations are:

- Kenneth Adams, Informatics, University of Ulster. - David Bell, Informatics, University of Ulster. - Geoff M. Downs, Barnard Chemical Information Ltd., Sheffield. "Clustering in chemistry". - Elena Dubrova, Electronic System Design Lab, KTH Stockholm. "Optimization". - Alex Gammerman, Computer Learning Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London. "Universal Transduction: confidence measures based on algorithmic theory of randomness". - Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck College, University of London. "A method of conjunctive description of subsets in continouous-valued feature spaces". - Claudio Moraga, Computer Science, University of Dortmund. "Decision diagrams." "Evolutionary design of MVL circuits." - John McGregor, Informatics, University of Ulster. - Fionn Murtagh, Queen's University Belfast. "Clustering of massive data sets." - Bernhard von Stengel, Mathematics, London School of Economics. "Decomposition trees for multiple-valued functions".

Participation by young researchers and PhD students is particularly encouraged. Some funding is available for the support of such participants. Please contact the organisers for further details.

Web address: http://www.qub.ac.uk/ivs/mvl

Organisers: Ken Adams, kenadams53@hotmail.com, and Fionn Murtagh, f.murtagh@qub.ac.uk

This workshop is financially supported by the MathFIT programme (Mathematics for Information Technology, supported by EPSRC and London Mathematical Society). The workshop is also supported by the British Classification Society and the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society.