--
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery community,
focusing on the latest research and applications.
Contributions are most welcome and should be emailed,
with a DESCRIPTIVE subject line (and a URL, when available) to (kdd@gte.com).
E-mail add/delete requests to (kdd-request@gte.com).
Nuggets frequency is approximately weekly.
Back issues of Nuggets, a catalog of S*i*ftware (data mining tools),
and a wealth of other information on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
is available at Knowledge Discovery Mine site, URL http://info.gte.com/~kdd.
-- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (moderator)
********************* Official disclaimer ***********************************
* All opinions expressed herein are those of the writers (or the moderator) *
* and not necessarily of their respective employers (or GTE Laboratories) *
*****************************************************************************
~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quotable Quote ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beware of geeks bearing gifts,
A. Dickson at VLDB summit in Chicago, describing interaction
with vendors
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Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 09:12:51 -0400
From: tanand@winhitc.atlantaga.attgis.com
(Tej Anand)
Subject: Demonstrations of Research and Commercial Systems at KDD-96
In conjunction with the Second International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-96), to be held August 2-4, 1996 in
Portland, Oregon we are inviting demonstrations of Knowledge Discovery
Systems and Applications. This is an excellent opportunity to
demonstrate to a large number of active researchers, developers and
users in the field of Knowledge Discovery.
At KDD-96 we are hoping to accommodate demonstrations by commercial
vendors of Knowledge Discovery systems and applications. However no
display of company logos or banners will be allowed.
To help us optimally use the available time, space and budget for the
demonstrations please send in the following information by June 3,
1996 via e-mail to tej.anand@atlantaga.ncr.com.
Please also copy
kdd96@almaden.ibm.com.
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Name of Demonstration:
Title of Paper: (If this demonstration is in conjunction with a
paper/poster at KDD-96)
Development Team:
Affiliations of Development Team Members:
Contact Telephone#:
Description of Demonstration: (A short description of approximately
200 words)
What is unique about your system or application?: (No more than 50
words)
Status: Research Prototype/Commercially available product/Fielded
application
Hardware Required: (Please state any special memory or disk
requirements)
Operating System: (Please state specific version number)
WAN Connection Required: Yes/No (If Yes, please state any special
modem requirements)
Will you bring your own hardware?: Yes/No
Any other requirements:
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Return-Path: (atuzhili@square1.stern.nyu.edu)
Date: Fri, 10 May 96 17:42:33 EDT
From: atuzhili@square1.stern.nyu.edu
(Alex Tuzhilin)
To: gps0%eureka@gte.com
Subject: CFP for the DSS Journal
Second Call For Papers
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS JOURNAL
Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and Its Applications to
Business Decision Making
Over the past two decades, corporations have collected massive volumes
of data about their day-to-day operations, their customers,
competitors, employees, and other useful data. In addition to the
explosive increase in volume, the structure and complexity of the data
in many applications, such as market research, financial, and
telecommunication applications, has grown at an incredible rate as
well. Instead of working with one or two data sets, these new
applications require dozens of different data sets, some of them
having over a hundred variables with complex relationships among them.
This data, if managed and ``harvested'' properly, can be an extremely
valuable asset to organizations. Unfortunately, the explosive growth
of data has often resulted in frustrating situations when
organizations were unable to understand well what information the data
contained and thus could not leverage the data. To address this
problem, the field of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (also referred
to as Data Mining) was formed and attracted considerable attention of
statisticians, machine learning and database researchers, and
practitioners in industry.
SCOPE
To address the growing interest in the knowledge discovery field, the
DSS Journal is planning a special issue on Knowledge Discovery in
Databases, scheduled to appear in June 1997 with the focus on business
applications and on the relationship between knowledge discovery and
business decision making. High quality original research papers are
solicited on all aspects of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, as long
as they can demonstrate applicability of their results to solving
practical business problems. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to
* Business Applications of Knowledge Discovery -- Successes and Failures;
Lessons Learned from These Applications
* Relationship Between Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support Systems
* Methodologies and Frameworks of Knowledge Discovery
* Knowledge Discovery Tools and Techniques and Their Applications in Business
Of particular interest are the papers that will not only contribute to
the academic arena, but will also benefit the business community in
the foreseeable future and that would encourage a dialog between
researchers and practitioners. Prospective authors are encouraged to
submit both practical and theoretical papers. However, the authors of
practical papers are encouraged to describe the lessons learned from
the applications they developed and indicate how their methods can be
extended to other types of applications. Similarly, the authors of
theoretical papers are encouraged to demonstrate how their theoretical
developments can be applied in business to solve practical problems.
THE JOURNAL
Decision Support Systems (DSS) is a journal published by Elsevier
Science Publishers (North-Holland) since 1985. It publishes articles
covering various technical aspects of DSS, including concepts and
operational basis for DSSs, techniques for implementing and evaluating
DSSs, DSS experiences, and related studies. Articles published in the
journal delve into, draw-on, or expand such diverse areas as
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer supported
cooperative work, database management, decision theory, economics,
linguistics, management science, psychology, user interface management
systems, and others. The common thread of articles published in the
journal is their relevance to technical issues of DSS.
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW CRITERIA
Four (4) copies of a manuscript and a single title page should be
submitted by MAY 31, 1996 to the Guest Editor
Alex Tuzhilin
Information Systems Department
Stern School of Business
New York University
44 West 4th Street, Rm. 9-78
New York, N.Y. 10012
E-mail: atuzhili@stern.nyu.edu
Tel: 212-998-0832
FAX: 212-995-4228
The length of the paper should not exceed 25 double-spaced,
single-sided, 12-point-type pages (including figures and references).
The title page should contain the title of the paper, the name(s) and
institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s), an abstract of no more
than 200 words, a list of keywords, and the name, address, telephone
number, and e-mail address of the contact author.
The papers will be refereed in accordance with the usual procedure of
the DSS Journal (see ``Instructions to Authors'' at the end of any
issue of the journal for further details about the submission format)
and will be judged based on their relevance to the KDD field,
originality, information content, validity, and readability.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: Friday, May 31, 1996
Acceptance notification: Friday, September 13, 1996 (!)
Final manuscript due: Friday, November 15, 1996
Publication date of issue: June 1997
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From: Liu Huan (liuh@iscs.nus.sg)
Subject: Call for Papers for PAKDD97
To: kdd@gte.com
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:08:04 +0800 (GMT-8)
FIRST PACIFIC-ASIA CONFERENCE on
KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY and DATA MINING (PAKDD97)
Singapore, 23-24 February, 1997
(Co-located with 2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Expert Systems/
3rd Singapore International Conference on Intelligent Systems)
The first Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD97) will be held in Singapore. As the range of computer applications
is broadening, more and more data is captured and/or generated. In order to
overcome the situation of ``data rich and knowledge poor'', knowledge discovery
and data mining (KDD) is becoming the focus of many fields from Intelligent
Databases, Machine Learning to Statistics. The aims of the conference are to
cover all aspects of KDD, to bring together researchers and practitioners from
basic and applied research and information industries, and to push forward the
state-of-art of KDD. The conference technical programme will include paper
presentations, posters, invited talks, and tutorials in a two-day event.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Knowledge Representation and Acquisition in KDD
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Data Cleaning, Preprocessing and Postprocessing
Data and Dimensionality Reduction
Knowledge Reuse and Role of Domain Knowledge
Data Mining Tools
KDD Framework and Process
Security and Privacy Issues in KDD
Mining in-the-Large vs Mining in-the-Small
Management Issues in KDD
Machine Learning, Statistical and Visualization Aspects of KDD
Successful/Innovative Applications in Science, Government, Business and Industry
The proceedings will be published by an international publisher and will be
available at the conference.
PAKDD is Organized by
Information Technology Institute & National University of Singapore
in Cooperation with
National Computer Board, Singapore
Singapore Computer Society AI Chapter
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Korea Expert Systems Society
Submission Information:
Tutorial proposal comprising summary, course outline and a brief biography
of the speaker(s);
4 copies of full paper (3000-5000 words)
4 copies of applications paper (about 3000 words)
Submission Address:
Dr. Hongjun Lu
Department of ISCS
National University of Singapore
Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260
Important Dates:
1 Aug., 1996 for submission of papers and proposals
15 Oct., 1996 for notification of acceptance
15 Dec., 1996 for receipt of camera-ready manuscripts
--------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER-------
Conference General Chair:
Hing-Yan Lee, Japan-Singapore AI Centre (JSAIC), Information Technology Institute
Organizing Committee:
Lynica Foo, JSAIC, Kwok-Leong Hui, JSAIC
Bing Liu, National U. of S'pore (NUS) Hwee-Leng Ong, JSAIC
Angeline Pang, JSAIC
Publicity Chair:
Huan Liu, NUS
Programme Co-Chairs:
Hongjun Lu Hiroshi Motoda
Dept of Info. Sys. & Comp. Sci. Institute of Sci. & Indus. Research
National University of Singapore Osaka University, Japan
Programme Committee:
Arbee L. Chen, National Tsing Hua U., Taiwan
David Cheung, Hong Kong U.
Roger Hsiang-Li Chiang, Nanyang Technological U., S'pore
Son Dao, Hughes Research Lab., USA
David Dowe, Monash U., Australia
Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser U., Canada
Se Jung Hong, T.J. Watson IBM Lab., USA
Steven H. Kim, KAIST, Korea
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan
Jae-Kyu Lee, KAIST, Korea
Bing Liu, NUS, S'pore
Huan Liu, NUS, S'pore
Peter Milne, CSIRO, Australia
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka U., Japan
Shinichi Morishita, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
Raymond Ng, UBC, Canada
Anne Ngu, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Shojiro Nishio, Osaka U., Japan
Hwee-Leng Ong, JSAIC
S. Seshadri, IIT Bombay, India
Rudy Setiono, NUS, S'pore
John Shafer, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Pengfei Shi, Shanghai Jiaotong U., China
Atsuhiro Takasu, NCSIS, Japan
Takao Terano, The University of Tsukuba, Japan
Robert Veranas, NUS, S'pore
Xindong Wu, Monash U., Australia
Beat Wuthrich, HKUST, Hong Kong
Suk-Chung Yoon, Wildener University, USA
Philip Yu, T.J. Watson IBM Lab., USA
Bo Zhang, Tsinghua U., China
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Subject: IDA97 announcement
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 15:05:53 +0200
From: Michael Berthold (berthold@ira.uka.de)
Announcing IDA-97:
Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
Birkbeck College, London
4th-6th August 1997
Objective
=========
For many years the intersection of computing and data analysis contained
menu-based statistics packages and not much else. Recently, statisticians
have embraced computing, computer scientists are using statistical theories
and methods, and researchers in all corners are inventing algorithms to find
structure in vast online datasets. Data analysts now have access to tools
for exploratory data analysis, decision tree induction, causal induction,
function finding, constructing customised reference distributions, and
visualisation. There are prototype intelligent assistants to advise on
matters of design and analysis. There are tools for traditional, relatively
small samples and for enormous datasets.
The focus of IDA-97 will be 'Reasoning About Data'. We are interested in
intelligent systems that reason about how to analyze data, perhaps as human
analysts do. Analysts often bring exogenous knowledge about data to bear
when they decide how to analyze it; they use intermediate results to decide
how to proceed; they reason about how much analysis the data will actually
support; they consider which methods will be most informative; they decide
which aspects of a model are most uncertain and focus attention there; they
sometimes have the luxury of collecting more data, and plan to do so
efficiently. In short, there is a strategic aspect to data analysis, beyond
the tactical choice of this or that test, visualisation or variable.
IDA-95, the First International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, was
organised to provide an international forum for the discussion of such
issues. The symposium took place in Germany and attracted participants from
20 countries in four continents. A survey after the event supported the idea
of making IDA a regular, biennial conference. IDA-97 will be a major
international, high-quality meeting that brings together a broad spectrum of
work.
Topics
======
The following topics are of particular interest to IDA-97:
- Analysis of IDA algorithms
- applications (e.g., commerce, engineering, finance, legal, manufacturing,
medicine, public policy, science)
- assistants, intelligent agents for data analysis
- Bayesian inference and influence diagrams
- bias
- bootstrap, randomization, computer-intensive methods
- causal modeling
- censored data
- classification
- clustering
- data mining
- data visualisation
- data cleaning, pre-processing and post-processing
- decision analysis
- evaluation of IDA systems
- exploratory data analysis
- experiment design
- fuzzy logic
- graphical models
- human-computer interaction in IDA
- information extraction, information retrieval, textual systems
- knowledge-based systems
- machine learning and statistics
- model specification, selection, estimation
- neural/evolutionary approaches
- reasoning under uncertainty
- representation of statistical knowledge
- search
- statistical pattern recognition
- statistical strategy
- time series and temporal data
- uncertainty and noise in data
- visualization
Submissions
===========
We are still working on the submission details and we shall make them
available in the next call for papers and on the IDA-97 WWW pages.
Review
======
All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality,
significance, soundness and clarity. At least two referees will review
each submission independently and final decisions will be made by program
chairs, in consultation with relevant reviewers.
Publications
============
Papers which are accepted and presented at the conference will appear in
the IDA-97 proceedings. Authors of the best papers will be invited to
extend their papers for inclusion in a special issue of 'Intelligent Data
Analysis: An International Journal'.
Location
========
IDA-97 will be held in the newly-furnished conference halls at Birkbeck
College, University of London. The college is ranked among the leading
UK university institutions for its levels of national and international
excellence in research in the humanities, natural sciences and social
sciences. It is situated in central London, surrounded by many of the
well-known museums, theatres, restaurants, and shops. It is directly
reachable from Heathrow airport, in about 50 minutes by London
Underground.
Exhibitions
===========
IDA-97 welcomes demonstrations of software and publications related to
intelligent data analysis.
Sponsorship
===========
IDA-97 welcomes those organisations who may wish to partly sponsor the
conference. Sponsorship of an international conference in an important
emerging field such as IDA-97 will ensure high visibility for the
benefactor, both through the appearance of the organisation logo on
promotional literature and in references to the conference in all media
exposure prior to and after the event.
IDA-97 Organisation
===================
General Chair: Xiaohui Liu
Program Chairs: Paul Cohen, Xiaohui Liu
Steering Comm. Chair: Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA
Exhibition Chair: Richard Weber, MIT GmbH, Aachen, Germany
Finance Chair: Sylvie Jami, Birkbeck College, UK
Local Arrangements Chair: Trevor Fenner, Birkbeck College, UK
Public. and Proc. Chair: Michael Berthold, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Sponsorship Chair: Mihaela Ulieru, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Steering Committee
Michael Berthold University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Fazel Famili National Research Council, Canada
Doug Fisher Vanderbilt University, USA
Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway London, UK
David Hand Open University, UK
Wenling Hsu AT&T Research, USA
Xiaohui Liu Birkbeck College, UK
Daryl Pregibon AT&T Research, USA
Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden Research, USA
Program Committee
Eric Backer Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Riccardo Bellazzi University of Pavia, Italy
Michael Berthold University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Carla Brodley Purdue University, USA
Gongxian Cheng Birkbeck College, UK
Fazel Famili National Research Council, Canada
Julian Faraway University of Michigan, USA
Thomas Feuring WWU Muenster, Germany
Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway London, UK
David Hand Open University, UK
Rainer Holve Forwiss Erlangen, Germany
Wenling Hsu AT&T Consumer Lab, USA
Larry Hunter National Library of Medicine, USA
David Jensen University of Massachusetts, USA
Frank Klawonn University of Braunschweig, Germany
David Lubinsky University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
Sylvia Miksch Stanford University, USA
Rob Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd, UK
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh Daimler-Benz Forschung und Technik, Germany
Claire Nedellec Universite Paris-Sud, France
Erkki Oja Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Henri Prade University Paul Sabatier, France
Daryl Pregibon AT&T Research, USA
Peter Ross University of Edinburgh, UK
Steven Roth Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Lorenza Saitta University of Torino, Italy
Peter Selfridge AT&T Research, USA
Rosaria Silipo University of Florence, Italy
Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden Research, USA
Derek Sleeman University of Aberdeen, UK
Paul Snow Consultant, USA
Rob St. Amant North Carolina State University, USA
Lionel Tarassenko Oxford University, UK
John Taylor King's College London, UK
Loren Terveen AT&T Research, USA
Hans-Juergen Zimmermann RWTH Aachen, Germany
Enquiries
=========
General: Xiaohui Liu
Department of Computer Science
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX, UK
E-mail: hui@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Tel: (+44) 171 631 6711
Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727
Technical Program: Paul Cohen
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-4610
USA
E-mail: cohen@cs.umass.edu
Tel: (+1) 413 545 3638
Fax: (+1) 413 545 1249
Exhibition: Richard Weber
MIT GmbH
Promenade 9
52076 Aachen
Germany
E-mail: rw@mitgmbh.de
Tel: (+49) 2408 94580
Fax: (+49) 2408 94582
Finance: Sylvie Jami
Department of Computer Science
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX, UK
E-mail: s.jami@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Tel: (+44) 171 631 6726
Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727
Local Arrangements: Trevor Fenner
Department of Computer Science
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX, UK
E-mail: hui@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Tel: (+44) 171 631 6704
Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727
THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
ROUGH SETS AND SOFT COMPUTING (RSSC'97)
Honorary Chair: Zdzislaw Pawlak
in
************************************************************
* Third Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS'97) *
* HONORARY CONFERENCE CHAIRS *
* Lotfi A. Zadeh & Azriel Rosenfeld *
************************************************************
Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
March 1, 1997 (Tutorials)
March 2 - 5, 1997 (Conferences)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Rough sets and fuzzy sets are complementary generalizations of classical
sets. Fuzzy sets allow partial set memberships to handle vagueness, while
rough sets allow multiple set memberships to deal with indiscernibility.
These two approaches to generalized sets form a beginning of a 'soft
mathematics' and provide a basis for 'soft computing', which includes, along
with rough sets, at least fuzzy logic, neural networks, probabilistic
reasoning, belief networks, learning, connectionist computing, genetic
algorithms, and chaos theory.
This workshop will allow researchers to exchange their differing views of
soft computing and the application of soft mathematics to the handling of
uncertainty. This exchange should lead to mutually beneficial co-operation.
RSSC'97 (CO-)SPONSORS
Amdahl Corproration
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Computer Society,
Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers
International Rough Set Society
Internet Research Institute for Rough Set Study
Inter. Assoc. for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
San Jose State University
ORGANIZATION
Program Chair: T. Y. Lin
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
San Jose State University
San Jose, California 95192, USA
e-mail: tylin@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU,
Tel: 408-924-5121
Program Co-Chair: Akira Nakamura
Department of Computer Science,
Meiji University
1-1-1, Higashi-mita, Tama-ku
Kawasaki 214, Japan
e-mail: nakamura@cs.meiji.ac.jp,
Tel: +81 44 934 7469
Secretary: Mike Hadjimichael,
Naval Research Laboratory - Monterey
7 Grace Hopper Ave., Monterey, CA 93940, USA
e-mail: hadjimic@nrlmry.navy.mil,
Tel: 408-656-6010
Organizing Chair: Anita Wasilewska
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
email: anita@cs.sunysb.edu,
Tel: 516-632-8458
Finance Chair: E. Hamann
Publicity: Y. Y. Yao (Chair), yyao@thunder.lakeheadu.ca
A. Lotfi, lotfia@marg.ntu.ac.uk
J. Stefanowski, Jerzy.Stefanowski@cs.put.poznan.pl
T. Yokomori, yokomori@cs.uec.ac.jp,
tyokomori@daisy.uwaterloo.ca
STEERING COMMITTEE
Z. Pawlak, T.Y. Lin, A. Nakamura, R. Slowinski, W. Ziarko,
J. Grzymala-Busse, T. Munakata, Z. Ras, A. Skowron, M. Wong, J. Zytkow
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Anuradha M. Annaswamy, MIT, USA
Peter Anderson, Rochester Institute of Technology. U.S.A
Morteza Anvari, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A
James Bezdek, University of West Florida, U.S.A.
Zeungnam Bien, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea
Nick Cercone, University of Regina, Canada
Rayne Chen, Amdahl Corporation, U.S.A
Bruce D'Ambrosio, Oregon State University, U.S.A.
Didier Dubois, Universite Paul-Sabatier CNRS, France
Ken Ford, University of West Florida, U.S.A.
Brian Gaines, University of Calgary, Canada
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, U.S.A.
Michael Hadjimichael, Naval Research Laboratory, U.S.A
Michail Ignatiev, St Petersburg State Aerospace Academy, Russia
Waldemar Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada
Satoshi Kobayashi, The University of Electro-Communication, Japan
T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, U.S.A.
Pawan Lingras, Algoma University College, Canada
Quing Liu, NanCgang University, China
Teresa Lunt, ARPA, U.S.A.
Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Donald G. Marks, Department of Defence, U.S.A
Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University, U.S.A.
Toshinori Munakata, Cleveland State University, U.S.A
Akira Nakamura, Meiji University, Japan
Charles Nguyen, Catholic University of America, U.S.A.
Ewa Orlowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Zdzislaw Pawlak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Fred Petry, Tulane University, U.S.A.
Henri Prade, Universite Paul-Sabatier CNRS, France
K. Venkatesh Prasad, Ricoh Corporation, U.S.A.
V. Vijay Raghavan, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, U.S.A.
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Krzysztof Slowinski, K. Marcinkowi University of Medical Science, Poland
Roman Slowinski, Technical University of Poznan, Poland
Jerzy Stefanowski, Technical University of Poznan, Poland
Roman W. Swiniarski, San Diego State University. U.S.A
H. Tanaka, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mitre, U.S.A
S. Tsumoto, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
H. Chris Tseng, Hong Kong Productivity Council, HK
Anita Wasilewska, State University of New York, U.S.A.
A. Martin Wildberger, Electric Power Research Institute, U.S.A.
Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada
Trong Wu, Southern Illinois University, U.S.A
Yiyu Yao, Lakehead University, Canada
Eugene Yeh, NATEA, U.S.A
W. Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada
Xiaoling Zuo, Shanghai Jiao Tung University, China
Jan Zytkow, Wichita State University, U.S.A.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
*Hardcopy submissions should be sent to:
(Electronic submission is encouraged)
T. Y. Lin,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
San Jose State University,
San Jose, California 95192-0103
USA
e-mail: tylin@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU
tylin@CALSTATE.BITNET
Tel: 408-924-5121
Fax: 408-924-5080
*Electronic submissions (Postscript) should be sent to:
M. Hadjimichael
NRL-Monterey, 7 Grace Hopper Ave
Monterey, CA 93943-5502, USA
408-656-6010 / fax 408-656-4769
EMAIL: hadjimic@nrlmry.navy.mil
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* IMPORTANT JCIS'97 DEADLINES TO REMEMBER *
*******************************************
(1) Deadline for summaries submission: RSSC'97: October 6. 1996
JCIS: December 6, 1996.
(2) Proposal for organized sessions: any time up to December 20, 1996.
(3) Paper acceptance or rejection: January 1, 1997.
(4) Program (Electronic Version): January 1, 1997.
(5) Absolute deadline for conference fee deposit: January 15, 1997.
(6) Official program available: February 1, 1997.
(5) Deadline for full length paper: March 4, 1997.
5th ANNUAL LOTFI A. ZADEH BEST PAPER AWARD COMPETITION
Open to all JCIS'97 attendees, certificate, $2,000 prize and
Hotel accommodations attending the next JCIS
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JCIS'97 Information (excerpts from CFP)
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TIME SCHEDULE AND VENUE
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| SPONSORS: |
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| Information Science Journals - Sections A, B & C |
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| Elsevier Science Publishing Inc. |
| New York, N.Y. |
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| Machine Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic Laboratory |
| Duke University |
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Up to 1/1/97 After 1/1/97
Full Registration $320.00 $440.00
Student Registration $120.00 $180.00
Tutorial(per Mini-Course) $120.00 $160.00
Exhibit Boot Fee $300.00 $400.00
One Day Fee(no pre-reg. discount) $195.00
$ 95.00 (Student)
Above fees applicable to all three conferences & three workshops
FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Includes admission to all sessions, exhibit
area, coffee, tea and soda. A copy of conference proceedings (summary) at
conference. In addition, the right to purchase the hard-cover deluxe books
at 1/2 price, and the proceedings of companion conferences, workshops of
JCIS'97, also, at half price. Award Banquet on March 3, 1997 and lunches on
March 2, 3 & 4 are also included through Full Registration. One day
registration does not include banquet, but it does include one lunch on the
day registered. Tutorials are not included.
STUDENT CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: ( For full-time students only. A letter from
your department is required. You must present a current student ID with
picture.) Includes a copy of conference proceedings (summary), admission to
all sessions, exhibit area, coffee, tea and soda, the right to purchase the
hard-cover deluxe books at 1/2 price, and companion proceedings at 1/2 price.
Single student author must pay $150 in addition.
TUTORIALS REGISTRATION: Any person can register for the Tutorials. A copy of
lecture notes for the course registered is included. Coffee, tea and soda are
included. The right to purchase the hard-cover deluxe books and all companion
JCIS'97 proceedings are included.
PUBLICATIONS
The Joint Conferences publishes three or four proceedings on summaries
which consists of all papers accepted by all respective program committees.
The JCIS Proceedings will be made available on March 1, 1997, for all three
conferences & three workshops depending upon the total number of pages for
each conference or workshop.
A summary shall not exceed 4 pages of 10-point font, double-column,
single-spaced text, (1 page minimum) with figures and tables included. Any
summary exceeding 4 pages will be charged $50 per additional page. Three
copies of the summary are required by Dec. 15, 1996. A deposit of $150 check
must be included to guarantee the publication of your 4 pages summary in the
Proceedings. The absolute deadline for the deposit is Jan. 15, 1997. For
multiple papers author, the following deposit schedule will be observed: one
paper, $150; two papers, $200; three papers, $250; etc., with $50 increment
thereafter. The $150 deposit (one paper) can be deducted from registration fee
later. There is no deduction for student registration. It is very important
to mark FT & T'97, or CS & I'97, or CI & N'97, or RSSC'97, or SCS'97, or GA'97
on your manuscript (only one of six can be chosen). The conference will make
the choice for you if you forget to do so. Final version of the full length
paper must be reviewed for possible publication in one of the three
INFORMATION SCIENCE JOURNALS or deluxe professional hard cover books. Several
special issues will be published in the journal. The number of the special
issues will depend upon the quality of papers submitted, the availability of
guest editors, the interest of research community in a particular topic and
the budget of the publishers. Four (4) copies of the full length paper shall
be prepared according to the ``information for Authors'' appearing at the back
cover of Information Sciences, an International Journal (Elsevier Publishing
Co.). A full paper shall not exceed 20 pages including figures and tables. All
full length papers will be reviewed by experts in their respective fields.
All fully registered conference attendees will receive a copy of proceeding
(summary) of his/her chosen conference or workshop on March 1, 1997. Lastly,
attendees will have the opportunity to purchase any or all of Vol.I, Vol.II
and Vol.III of ``Advances in Fuzzy Theory & Technology'' as well as Vol. IV
``Advances in Information Sciences''. These are hard-covered, deluxe,
professional books at 1/2 price.
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