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Special Issue of the International Journal of Computers,
Systems and Signals (http://www.cer.co.za/ijcss/)

Knowledge Discovery from Structured and Unstructured Data
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Guest Editor: Dr AP Engelbrecht

Discovery of knowledge from data has received much attention from
researchers and industry. The discovery of features and patterns
embedded within data provide extremely important information to
industries regarding their application domains. Utilization of these
hidden knowledge helps industry to remain on the competitive
edge.

This special issue will be devoted to the discovery of knowledge
from both structured and unstructured data. Currently, structured
data in the form of relational databases has received the most
attention. Recently, research in the mining of unstructured data
(text, audio and video) has gained momentum. Original papers are
solicited on the following aspects (not excluding other related
knowledge discovery topics) of mining structured and unstructured
data:

1. New knowledge discovery techniques for both structured and
   unstructured data
2. Refinement and comparison studies of existing techniques
3. Managing extremely large data sets
4. Visualization techniques for knowledge discovery
5. Real-time translation of audio data into text
6. Techniques to enforce structure on unstructured data

Send electronic submissions in postscript or pdf to the guest
editor using the e-mail address engel@driesie.cs.up.ac.za. Postal
submissions (4 copies) should be send to Dr AP Engelbrecht,
Department of Computer Science, School of Information Technology,
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.

The following deadlines are applicable:
   Submission of papers: 15 September 2000
   Notification of acceptance: 1 November 2000
   Submission of final paper: 14 November 2000
   Publication of special issue: December 2000

Accepted papers must be prepared according to the guidelines
for the IJCSS journal.

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Dr Andries P Engelbrecht
		Department Of Computer Science
		School of Information Technology
		University of Pretoria
		Pretoria 0002
		South Africa
Tel: +27 12 420 3578
Fax: +27 12 362 5188
http: www.cs.up.ac.za/~engel
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