CFP

2001 International Workshop on
Concept Lattice-based theory, methods and tools for
Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Stanford University, California, USA
July 30, 2001
in cooperation with the Intl Conf on Conceptual Structures ( ICCS-2001 )

WORKSHOP CONTEXT

Throughout the last decade, Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) has
become an increasingly important topic in research as well as in
industrial applications, up to being now a well-established
interdisciplinary research area, benefiting yet from diverse
influences such as: Databases, Data Analysis and Machine Learning
Technology. Among those communities, there are several sub-areas of
research that can be unified by their common interest in "concept
lattice structures" which, as a consequence, start to play an
important role in Data Mining.

Over the last two decades, several trends of works have demonstrated
how concept lattices formalize conceptual structures by coding any
kind of dualities, and can be used to address a variety of problems in
Databases, Data Analysis and Machine Learning. These include :

- association rules or data dependencies in Databases, searching
frequent item sets, indexing documents for information retrieval...;

- exploring attributes in Data Analysis for binary as well as more
complex symbolic data structures...;

- designing concept lattices-based machine Learning Systems for
conceptual clustering and classifications...

These studies have generated diverse methods and specific tools along
their developments, which are now well implemented, commonly used and
have shown the usefulness of this structural approach for each domain.
Consequently, it may be the right time to exchange and share the
researchers' experiences of these areas, in order to increase
lattice-based contributions to Knowledge Discovery in Databases.

WORKSHOP GOALS

The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together the members of
the Databases, Data Analysis and Machine Learning communities that are
working on such concept lattice structures, for considering the
current state of art and identifying the strengths -and the potential
weaknesses- of these approaches.  The workshop will address the
general methodologies and principles that are appropriate in the
development of concept lattice based Data Mining methods and tools.

Submissions: all submissions must be sent to the primary workshop contact,
Engelbert MephuNguifo, at the address below.

IMPORTANT DATES

 8 May  2001       Submission of technical and position papers
 8 June 2001       Notification of acceptance
 1 July 2001       Camera-ready papers

WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITEE

Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (Co-Chair / Primary Contact)
Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL)
Universit� d'Artois - IUT de Lens
Rue de l'universit� SP 16
62307 Lens cedex
France
Email: mephu@cril.univ-artois.fr
Phone: +33 3 21 79 32 {53, 73}
Fax:   +33 3 21 79 32 72
webpage: http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/~mephu

Workshop websites: http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/clkdd2001/
or http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/wk-clkdd2001/

ICCS-2001 web site: http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/iccs2001/