KDD Nugget 94:19, e-mailed 94-10-31 Contents: * D. Page, Results of Inductive Learning Competition * P. Brazdil, Challenge for ML * G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, What is New in KD Mine * M. Ozsoyoglu, WWW page for ACM SIGMOD/PODS'95 * njm@cupido.inesc.pt, CFP:7th Portuguese conf on AI and workshops * M. Jeusfeld, Proceedings of AI&Databases workshop available The KDD Nuggets is a moderated list for the exchange of information relevant to Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD, also known as Data Mining), e.g. application descriptions, conference announcements, tool reviews, information requests, interesting ideas, clever opinions, etc. It has been coming out about every two-three weeks, depending on the quantity and urgency of submissions. 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[SJM, 10/11/94, 4A via THE COMPUTISTS' COMMUNIQUE of Ken Laws] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 21:29:19 BST From: David.Page@comlab.ox.ac.uk (via ML list) Subject: Results of Inductive Learning Competition RESULTS OF THE NEW EAST-WEST CHALLENGE Donald Michie, Stephen Muggleton David Page and Ashwin Srinivasan Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK. The results now are in for the 3 Inductive Learning Competitions announced here 2 months ago. They are available in a compressed tar file, results.tar.Z, or in ordinary text files (copy all the files with a .txt extension) at the following FTP site ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk in the directory pub/Packages/ILP Many thanks to all those who entered. Two files with further discussion will be added on Mon., Oct 10, both as .txt files and as additions to the file results.tar.Z. URL = ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/pub/Packages/ILP/results.tar.Z FTP site = ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk FTP file = pub/Packages/ILP/results.tar.Z -------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 10:08:34 GMT From: Pavel Brazdil Subject: Challenge for ML We would like to present the ML community with the following challenge: 1. Can you beat the existing classification algorithms? ------------------------------------------------------ The first problem is concerned with the problem of trying your (or your favourite) classification algorithm on some datasets that were used in exhaustive comparative trials conducted under the European Project StatLog. We would be particularly interested to know if you could achieved better results than the ones known to us! Tests conducted under StatLog included 22 different classification algorithms which could be divided into three groups. The first one includes various decision tree and rule learning algorithms. The second one various statistical classification algorithms. This group includes both classical ones and more modern methods. The third group includes various neural networks classifiers. The description of all classification algorithms appears in [D. Michie et al., 1994]. The StatLog tests were conducted on 23 datasets of industrial interest. Ten of these are available (from ftp.ncc.up.pt, directory /pub/statlog/datasets). The doc file associated with each dataset shows a table of results achieved so far, and also gives details about how the test was conducted. If you managed to obtain rather good results overall, we could extend this information and include also some post-StatLog results. This could no doubt be of interest to potential future users! 2. Interested in characterizing the applicability of different classification algorithm? ---------------------------------------------------------------- The other prolem involves characterizing applicability of different classification algorithms tested under StatLog on the basis of exiting test results and certain dataset characteristics. We would be particularly interested to obtain readable results (e.g. rules or equations) that would have significantly better predictive power than the ones reported in [Brazdil et at, 1994], or the ones we are currently evaluating. If you were interested in learning about learning, you could obtain the dataset containing the exiting test results and certain dataset characteristics from us (ftp.ncc.up.pt, directory /pub/statlog/meta-data). This dataset contains 506 cases (learning examples). Each case is related to one test associated with one particular classification algorithms and one particular dataset. The data is arranged in the form of a vector. The first 18 values describe various dataset characteristics. The last value represents normalized error rate of the classification algorithm which could be considered as a (continuous) class value. If you have any queries, you could of course come to us. With best regards P.B.Brazdil and J.Gama Tel.: +351 600 1672 LIACC, University of Porto Fax.: +351 600 3654 Rua Campo Alegre 823 Email: statlog-adm@ncc.up.pt 4100 Porto, Portugal References: D.Michie, D.Spiegelhalter, C.C.Taylor: Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification, Ellis Horwood, 1994. P.Brazdil, J.Gama and B.Henery: Characterizing the applicability of classification algorithms using meta-level learning, in Machine Learning - ECML-94, F.Bergadano et al. (eds), Springer Verlag, 1994. -------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 94 From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro Subject: What is New in KD Mine =======October 20, 1994 In 4Thought, a neural net based tool to make predictions in financial and marketing environments. Intended for data-knowledgeable users, who know little or nothing about neural nets. added info on PEBLS, a nearest-neighbor learning system designed for applications where the instances have symbolic feature values. PEBLS has been applied to the prediction of protein secondary structure and to the identification of DNA promoter sequences. A technical description appears in the article by Cost and Salzberg, Machine Learning journal 10:1 (1993). =======September 20, 1994 In UUDMIG - Database Mining Interest Group at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland WEKA - Machine Learning Group at the University of Waikato, New Zealand In Clementine ========August 11, 1994 In VLDB (Very Large Database Conference) documents intended to better inform the community of VLDB's operation, conference proposals, code of regulations, meetings, and on-going activities, including VLDB conferences and the VLDB Jounral. -------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 17:07:16 EDT From: Meral Ozsoyoglu Subject: [DBWORLD:529] WWW page for ACM SIGMOD/PODS'95 X-Comment: Messages of interest to the research db community, eg. conference announcements Dear Colleagues, A World Wide Web page is available for ACM SIGMOD/PODS'95 on URL http://prozac.cwru.edu/sigmod/sigmod-pods95.html which currently contains the CFP. This page will be kept updated as other conference information on ACM/PODS'95 become available. Sincerely, Meral Ozsoyoglu -------------------------------------------- Subject: EPIA'95 - Conference CFP Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 11:05:37 +0000 From: njm@cupido.inesc.pt EPIA'95 - CALL FOR PAPERS SEVENTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal October 3-6, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, on October 3-6, 1995. As in previous issues ('89, '91, and '93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international conference, English being the official language. The scientific program encompasses tutorials, invited lectures, demonstrations, and paper presentations. Five well known researchers will present invited lectures. The conference is devoted to all areas of Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and foundational issues and applications as well. Parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of A.I. to Robotics and Vision Systems will run simultaneously (see below). INVITED LECTURERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following researchers have already confirmed their participation, as guest speakers: Marvin Minsky, MIT (USA) Manuela Veloso, CMU (USA) Luis Borges de Almeida, IST (Portugal) Rodney Brooks, MIT (USA) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors must submit five (5) complete printed copies of their papers to the "EPIA'95 submission address". Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Submissions must be printed on A4 or 8 1/2"x11" paper using 12 point type. Each page must have a maximum of 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12 point). Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged. The body of submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, including title, abstract, figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding the title page and bibliography. ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In addition to submitting the paper copies, authors should send to epia95-abstracts@inesc.pt a short (200 words) electronic abstract of their paper to aid the reviewing process. The electronic abstract must be in plain ASCII text (no LaTeX)) in the following format: TITLE: FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name> EMAIL: <email of the first author> FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address> COAUTHORS: <their names, if any> KEYWORDS: <keywords separated by commas> ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract> Authors are requested to select 1-3 appropriate keywords from the list below. Authors are welcome to add additional keywords descriptors as needed. Applications, agent-oriented programming, automated reasoning, belief revision, case-based reasoning, common sense reasoning, constraint satisfaction, distributed AI, expert systems, genetic algorithms, knowledge representation, logic programming, machine learning, natural language understanding, nonmonotonic reasoning, planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, robotics, spatial reasoning, theorem proving, theory of computation, tutoring systems. REVIEW OF PAPERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions will be judged on significance, originality, quality and clarity. Reviewing will be blind to the identities of the authors. This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves in their papers. Each copy of the paper must have a title page, separated from the body of the paper, including the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a list of content areas (see above) and any acknowledgments. The second page should include the same title, a short abstract of less than 200 words, and the exact same contents areas, but not the names nor affiliations of the authors. This page may include text of the paper. The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, but should not include unpublished works of the authors. When referring to one's own work, use the third person. For example, say "previously, Peter [17] has shown that ...". Try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. Please do not staple the title page to the body of the paper. Submitted papers must be unpublished. PUBLICATION ~~~~~~~~~~~ The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (lecture notes in A.I. series). Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to Springer-Verlag. ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the framework of the conference three workshops will be organized: Applications of Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in Engineering, and Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Robotics and Vision Systems. Real world applications, running systems, and demos are welcome. CONFERENCE & PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Pinto-Ferreira Nuno Mamede Instituto Superior Tecnico Instituto Superior Tecnico ISR, Av. Rovisco Pais INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa, Portugal 1000 Lisboa, Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 8475105 Voice: +351 (1) 310-0234 Fax: +351 (1) 3523014 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 Email: cpf@kappa.ist.utl.pt Email: njm@inesc.pt PROGRAM COMMITTEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Antonio Porto (Portugal) Lauiri Carlson (Finland) Benjamin Kuipers (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Bernhard Nebel (Germany) Luigia Aiello (Italy) David Makinson (Germany) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal) Erik Sandewall (Sweden) Luis Monteiro (Portugal) Ernesto Costa (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Maria Cravo (Portugal) Joao Martins (Portugal) Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal) John Self (UK) Yoav Shoham (USA) Jose Carmo (Portugal) Yves Kodratoff (France) DEADLINES ~~~~~~~~~ Papers Submission: ................. March 20, 1995 Notification of acceptance: ........ May 15, 1995 Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... June 12, 1995 SUBMISSION & INQUIRIES ADDRESS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EPIA95 INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa, Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 Email: epia95@inesc.pt SUPPORTERS ~~~~~~~~~~ Banco Nacional Ultramarino Governo Regional da Madeira Instituto Superior Tecnico INESC CITMA IBM TAPair Portugal PLANNING TO ATTEND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the conference or attend a workshop are asked to complete and return the following form (by fax or email) to the inquiries address standing their intention. It will help the conference organizers to estimate the facilities needed for the conference and will enable all interested people to receive updated information. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | REGISTRATION OF INTEREST | | | | Title . . . . . Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . | | Email address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to submit a paper (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to participate only (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I will travel with ... guests | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------- Return-Path: <njm@cupido.inesc.pt> To: kdd@gte.com Subject: EPIA'95 - Fuzzy Logic & Neural Nets Worksop CFP Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 11:05:42 +0000 From: njm@cupido.inesc.pt X-Mts: smtp -------------------------------------------------------- EPIA'95 WORKSHOPS - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FUZZY LOGIC AND NEURAL NETWORKS IN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP -------------------------------------------------------- Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal October 3-6, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, between October 3-6, 1995. As in previous cases ('89, '91, and '93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international conference, English being the official language. The scientific program includes tutorials, invited lectures, demonstrations, and paper presentations. The Conference will include three parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of A.I. to Robotics and Vision Systems. These workshops will run simultaneously (see below) and consist of invited talks, panels, paper presentations and poster sessions. Fuzzy Logic And Neural Networks In Engineering workshop may last for either 1, 2 or 3 days, depending on the quantity and quality of submissions. FUZZY LOGIC AND NEURAL NETWORKS IN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The search for systems simulating human reasoning in what regards uncertainty has created a strong research community. In particular, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks have been a source of synergies among researchers of both areas, aiming at developing theoretical approaches and applications towards the characterization and experimentation of such kinds of reasoning. The workshop is intended to promote the exchange of ideas and approaches in those areas, through paper presentations, open discussions, and the corresponding exhibition of running systems, demonstrations or simulations. The organization committee invites you to participate, submitting papers together with videos, demonstrations or running systems, to illustrate relevant issues and applications. EXHIBITIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~ In order to illustrate and to support theoretical presentations the organization will provide adequate conditions (space and facilities) for exhibitions regarding the three workshops mentioned. These exhibitions can include software running systems (several platforms are available), video presentations (PAL-G VHS system), robotics systems (such as robotics insects, and autonomous robots), and posters. On the one hand, this space will allow the presentation of results and real-world applications of the research developed by our community and, on the other it will serve as a source of motivation to students and young researchers. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors are asked to submit five (5) copies of their papers to the submissions address by May 2, 95. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first (or designated) author on June 5, 95, and camera ready copies for inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be due on July 3, 95. Each copy of submitted papers should include a separate title page giving the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses (where available) of all authors, and a list of keywords identifying the subject area of the paper. Papers should be a maximum of 16 pages and printed on A4 paper in 12 point type with a maximum of 38 lines per page and 75 characters per line ( corresponding to LaTeX article style, 12 pt). Double sided submissions are preferred. Electronic or faxed submissions will not be accepted. Further inquiries should be addressed to the inquiries address. ATTENDANCE ~~~~~~~~~~ Each workshop will be limited to at most fifty people. In addition to presenters of papers and posters, there will be space for a limited number of other participants chosen on the basis of a one- to two-page research summary which should include a list of relevant publications, along with an electronic mail address if possible. A set of working notes will be available prior to the commencement of the workshops. Registration information will be available in June 1995. Please write for registration information to the inquiries address. DEADLINES ~~~~~~~~~ Papers submission: ................. May 2, 1995 Notification of acceptance: ........ June 5, 1995 Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... July 3, 1995 PROGRAM-CHAIR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jose Tome (IST, Portugal) ORGANIZING-CHAIR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luis Custodio (IST, Portugal) SUBMISSION AND INQUIRIES ADDRESS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EPIA'95 Fuzzy Logic & Neural Networks Workshop INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 Email: epia95-FLNNWorkshop@inesc.pt PLANNING TO ATTEND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the workshop are asked to complete and return the following form (by fax or email) to the inquiries address standing their intention. It will help the workshop organizer to estimate the facilities needed and will enable all interested people to receive updated information. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | REGISTRATION OF INTEREST | | (Fuzzy Logic & Neural Networks Workshop) | | | | Title . . . . . Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . | | Email address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to submit a paper (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to participate only (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I will travel with ... guests | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ -------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 08:04:19 -0500 Reply-To: jeusfeld@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Originator: dbworld@fyvie.cs.wisc.edu Sender: dbworld@cs.wisc.edu From: "Manfred A. Jeusfeld" <jeusfeld@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> To: Multiple recipients of list <dbworld@cs.wisc.edu> Subject: [DBWORLD:548] Proceedings of workshop KRDB'94 In September '94 we organized a workshop on the intersection between AI and DB. The proceedings are now available as technical report F. Baader, M. Buchheit, M.A. Jeusfeld, W. Nutt (eds.): "Reasoning about structured objects - knowledge representation meets databases". Working notes of the KI'94 Workshop KRDB'94 Saarbr\"ucken, Sept. 20-22, 1994, DFKI-Report No. D-94-11. from DFKI Bibliothek, Postfach 2080 D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany. A short summary of the workshop is accessible as WWW document http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mjf/krdb94-overview.txt This document also contains instructions to obtain electronic copies of the papers presented at the workshop. Best regards! .-- Manfred Jeusfeld ...................................................................... .Manfred A. Jeusfeld..........Net : jeusfeld@informatik.rwth-aachen.de .RWTH Aachen - Informatik V...Tel : +49-241-80.21.510 .Ahornstr. 55.................Fax : +49-241-88.88.321 .52056 Aachen / Germany.......Home: +32-87-85.29.34 ...................................................................... .<A href="http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mjf/mjf.html">MJf</A>