Meetings

 SmDM-2000: Statistical Modelling for Data Mining Conference
 October 25th - 26th, 2000 -  Pavia, Italy
http://www.baystat.it/pv2000en/indice.htm

Data mining has gained recognition as an important tool for business
and industry. The added value of information, albeit uncertain,gleaned
from huge databases of past transactions allows more focussed decision
making. In particular, this wealth of information allows customer
relationship management to be specifically targetted to individuals.
The standard procedures, embodied in state-of-the-art data mining
softwares, have drawn heavily from statistical methods and routines
including regression, classification, clustering, data reduction,
neural nets. But, this approach, while a preliminary necessity to an
exploration of the data, is limited.

Stochastic models and statistical inference have an important role to
play in data mining. This workshop elucidates the contributions,actual
and potential, coming from a more formal treatment of data analysis.

The workshop consists of tutorial talks by leading international
experts, in the morning, and discussion of case studies presented by
qualified italian companies.

For more information about the conference, please visit
http://www.baystat.it/pv2000en/indice.htm

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| SmDM-2000 Conference Highlights |
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The conference features Paper presentations; Case studies; Tutorials and
Discussions; Roundtables.

Int'l academic experts come from University of Pavia (sponsor),Baystat
(sponsor), Imperial College of London, University of Lancaster,
University of Calabria, Utrecht University,University of Naples,
University of Munich,Italian Statistical Society.

Int'l company experts also come from Microsoft Research (sponsor),Nunatac
(sponsor), SAS (sponsor), AT&T, IBM, Oracle, Rand Corp., Siemens AG.

Italian companies experts come from Banca Commerciale Italiana, Banca
Popolare di Milano, FIAT Targa.

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Alessandro ZANASI,
IBM e-business Solutions
Bologna KDD Center
http://open.cineca.it/datamining
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