KDD Nugget 94:15, e-mailed 94-08-09 Contents: * W. Buntine, A guide to the literature on learning graphical models * D. Jensen, OTA Study on KDD and Financial Crime * M. Yoshifumi, CFP: DB Systems for Advanced Applications * R. Zicari, CFP: OBJECT WORLD GERMANY `94 TO BE BIGGER THAN EVER * P. Smyth, CFP: Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conf. * G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, New in KD Mine 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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Author unknown.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 18:14:33 PDT From: Wray Buntine Subject: A guide to the literature on learning graphical models A guide to the literature on learning graphical models ====================================================== Wray L. Buntine RIACS at NASA Ames Research Center wray@kronos.arc.nasa.gov This literature review discusses different methods under the general rubric of learning probabilistic graphical models from data. Because many problems in artificial intelligence, statistics and neural networks can be represented as a probabilistic graphical model, this area provides an unifying perspective on learning. There are probably sections of the literature I have missed out. Apologies to those concerned. The literature review, compiled August 1994, contains 75 references. It is available via FTP from: FTP site: ack.arc.nasa.gov FTP file: /pub/buntine/graphbib.ps.Z or can be viewed from World Wide Web (WWW) using URL: ftp://ack.arc.nasa.gov/pub/buntine/graphbib.ps.Z ----------------------------- From: David Jensen Subject: OTA Study on KDD and Financial Crime Date: Mon, 08 Aug 94 17:13:00 PDT The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) has a project underway to assess the potential of information technologies (particularly those associated with data mining) to detect evidence of financial crime. OTA is an analytical support agency of the U.S. Congress that conducts 1-2 year studies on science and technology issues. The project brief, Congressional letter of request, advisory panel listing, and short biographies of the project staff can all be found on OTA's Internet server (ftp://otabbs.ota.gov/pub/money.laundering/). The short biographies include e-mail addresses. After reading the project material, please feel free to contact us if you have questions, suggestions, or comments. David Jensen djensen@ota.gov ----------------------------- From: Masunaga Yoshifumi Subject: [DBWORLD:350] DASFAA'95 CFP CALL FOR PAPERS DASFAA '95 4th International Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications April 11-14, 1995, National University of Singapore, Singapore AIMS OF THE SYMPOSIUM --------------------- This symposium provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers, and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development on advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. Papers for implemented systems from academia's prototypes and advanced industry projects are strongly solicited. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Original papers concerned with both theory and practice are solicited. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Data Modelling and Database Design Parallel and Distributed Databases Object-Oriented and Interoperable Databases Temporal, Active, and Deductive Databases Spatial Databases Statistical and Scientific Databases Multimedia Databases Engineering Databases Security and Integrity Techniques Query Languages and Query Optimization Database Design Tools Database for CASE, CAI Machine Learning/Knowledge Discovery Intelligent User Interfaces PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Authors are invited to submit five copies of an original paper on topics including, but not limited to those listed above, to one of the two program committee co-chairs. Manuscripts must be in English, typed in double spaced format in 12 point font, and not more than 5000 words. Tok Wang LING Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email: lingtw@iscs.nus.sg Yoshifumi MASUNAGA University of Library and Information Science 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305, Japan fax: (81) 298 52 4326 email: masunaga@ulis.ac.jp PANEL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS ---------------------------- Each panel or tutorial proposal should include a one-page description of the subject matter, the name of the organizer, and for panels, a list of proposed panelists. Submissions should be sent to the Panel or Tutorial Chair: Hongjun LU, Panel Chair Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email: luhj@iscs.nus.sg Beng Chin OOI, Tutorial Chair Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email: ooibc@iscs.nus.sg IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submissions due: September 17, 1994 Panel & Tutorial proposals due: October 8, 1994 Notification of acceptance: December 10, 1994 Camera-ready copies due: January 14, 1995 VENUE ----- The symposium will be held at the National University of Singapore. Singapore is an exciting, clean and modern garden city offering excellent food, shopping and accommodation. English is spoken everywhere and is the common business language of all. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------- For further information, please contact the conference secretary. Ms Sew Kiok TOH Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email:tohsk@iscs.nus.sg ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Conference Chair: Chung Kwong YUEN, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Steering Committee Chair: Hideko KUNII, Ricoh, Japan America Co-ordinator: Stanley Y W SU, University of Florida, USA Europe Co-ordinator: Stefano SPACCAPIETRA, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Program Committee Co-chairs: Tok Wang LING, NUS, Singapore Yoshifumi MASUNAGA, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Panel Chair: Hongjun LU, NUS, Singapore Tutorial Chair: Beng Chin OOI, NUS, Singapore Publicity/Publication Chair: Yong Meng TEO, NUS, Singapore Local Arrangement Chair: Kwok Kee WEI, NUS, Singapore Exhibition Chair: Gary Soon Huat TAN, NUS, Singapore Registration: Sam Yuan SUNG, NUS, Singapore Treasurer: Mong Li LEE, NUS, Singapore Conference Secretary: Ms Sew Kiok TOH, NUS, Singapore PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- D.J. Abel CSIRO, Australia E. Bertino University of Genova, Italy C.C. Chang National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan Arbee Chen National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan S.K. Dao Hughes Research Laboratories, USA A. Deshpande Persistent System Pte Ltd, India D.W. Embley Brigham Young University, USA J. Grant Towson State University, USA Angela E.S. Goh Nanyang Technological University, Singapore J. Han Simon Fraser University, Canada E.K. Hong Seoul City University, Korea H. Ikeda Ritsumeikan University, Japan U. Inoue NTT, Japan H. Ishikawa Fujitsu Lab., Japan H.F. Korth Matsushita Information Tech. Lab., USA Y. Kambayashi Kyoto University, Japan L.V.S. Lakshmanan Concordia University, Canada S.Y. Lee National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Q. Li Hong Kong University of Science & Tech. S.Y. Ling National Computer Board, Singapore F.H. Lochovsky Hong Kong University of Science & Tech. H.J. Lu National University of Singapore Vincent Lum Chinese University of Hong Kong A. Makinouchi Kyushu University, Japan R. Manthey University of Bonn, Germany T.H. Merrett McGill University, Canada S. Miranda Univ. of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France S.C. Moon KAIST, Korea D. Narasimhalu Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Peter A Ng New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA M. Norrie ETH, Switzerland K.L. Ong MCC, USA B.C. Ooi National University of Singapore M. Orlowska University of Queensland, Australia K. Ramamohanarao University of Melbourne, Australia K.H. Ryu Chungbuk National University, Korea Ron Sacks-Davis RMIT, University of Melbourne, Australia H. Samet University of Maryland, USA N.L. Sarda IIT (Bombay), India Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA S. Spaccapietra Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Stanley Y.W. Su University of Florida, USA K.P. Tan National University of Singapore K. Tanaka Kobe University, Japan A. Min Tjoa University of Vienna, Austria Frank W. Tompa University of Waterloo, Canada K.F. Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong K. Wang National University of Singapore K.Y. Whang KAIST, Korea M. Yoshikawa NAIST, Japan L. Zhou Tsinghua University, China R. Zicari University of Frankfurt, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organised by : Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore In-cooperation with : ACM SIGMOD IEEE Computer Society Sponsored by : Information Processing Society of Japan Singapore Federation of Computer Industry (under consideration) With the support of : IEEE Singapore - Computer Chapter Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Information Technology Institute, Singapore Korea Information Science Society Singapore Computer Society Official Publication: IT Asia Official Airline : Singapore Airlines (under consideration) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 94 12:06:23 PDT From: pjs@bvd.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Padhraic Smyth) Subject: Database Management Program ============================= A D V A N C E P R O G R A M ============================= 7th International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management Charlottesville, Virginia, USA September 28-30, 1994 Sponsored in part by the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering and the International Association for Statistical Computing. Tuesday, Sept. 27: 18:00 - 21:30 Registration and welcome reception Wednesday, Sept. 28: 8:00 - 17:00 REGISTRATION 8:15 - 8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:30 - 9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Multimedia Information Visualization: Data Infrastructure Requirements J. J. Thomas Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory SESSION 1: INTERFACES AND LANGUAGES 9:30 - 10:00 The SANDBOX: A Virtual Reality Interface to Scientific Databases A. Johnson, F. Fotouhi (USA) Wayne State University 10:00 - 10:30 A Graphical Language for Temporal Data A. Oberweis, V. Sanger (Germany) University of Karlsruhe 10:30 - 11:00 BREAK 11:00 - 11:30 A Design Methodology for Databases with Uncertain Data N. A. Chaudhry, J. R. Moyne, E. A. Rundensteiner (USA) University of Michigan 11:30 - 12:00 Comparative Multivariate Visualization Across Conceptually Different Graphics Displays C. Schmid, H. Hinterberger (Switzerland) ETH Zurich 12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH SESSION 2: STATISTICAL DATABASES I 13:30 - 14:00 Supporting Statistical Operations in Extensible Databases: A Case Study A. Segev, A. Chatterjee (USA) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 14:00 - 14:30 Statistical vs. Relational Join Dependencies F.M. Malvestuto (Italy) University of L'Aquila 14:30 - 15:00 Routine Multiple Imputation in Statistical Databases S. van Buuren, E.M. van Mulligen, J.P.L. Brand (Netherlands) TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden and Erasmus University, Rotterdam 15:00 - 15:30 BREAK SESSION 3: STATISTICAL DATABASES II 15:30 - 16:00 Integration of Statistical Information Systems - Theory and Practice E. Malmborg, B. Sundgren (Sweden) Statistics Sweden 16:00 - 16:30 A General Model for the Answer-Perturbation Techniques D. Stamate, H. Luchian (Romania) "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi 16:30 - 17:00 A Physical Storage for Efficient Statistical Query Processing W. K. Ng, C. V. Ravishankar (USA) University of Michigan SESSION 4: SCIENTIFIC DATA MANAGEMENT 17:00 - 17:30 INVITED PAPER SEQUOIA 2000: A retrospection on the first 3 years M. Stonebraker (USA) University of California, Berkeley 17:30 - 19:30 POSTER SESSION: PRACTICAL ISSUES IN DATA MANAGEMENT with Reception Thursday, Sept. 29: SESSION 5: SCIENTIFIC DATABASE MANAGEMENT -- DOMAIN SCIENCES 8:00 - 8:30 A Federated DBMS-Based Integrated Environment for Molecular Biology B. Rieche, K. Dittrich (Switzerland) University of Zurich 8:30 - 9:00 Physical Map Assembler: An Active Object-Oriented Database for Human Genome Applications A. J. Lee, E. A. Rundensteiner, S. Thomas (USA) University of Michigan 9:00 - 9:30 A Scientific Database System for Polymers and Materials Engineering Needs G. Ozsoyoglu, Z. M. Ozsoyoglu, K. Vadaparty (USA) Case Western Reserve University 9:30 - 10:00 Modeling Complex Astrophysics Data A. Farris (USA) Space Telescope Science Institute 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK SESSION 6: METADATA 10:30 - 11:00 The Conceptual Schema and External Schemata of Metadatabases H.J. Lenz (Germany) Free University of Berlin 11:00 - 12:00 INVITED PAPER Metadata: A User's View F. Bretherton and P. Singley (USA) University of Wisconsin and Oak Ridge National Laboratory 12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH 13:30 - 14:30 KEYNOTE II Bambi Meets Godzilla: Object Databases for Scientific Computing D. Maier and D. Hansen (USA) Oregon Graduate Institute 14:30 - 15:00 DISCUSSION 15:00 - 15:30 BREAK SESSION 7: OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNIQUES 15:30 - 16:00 An Object-Oriented Data Model for a Time Series Management System W. Dreyer, A.K. Dittrich, D. Schmidt (Switzerland) Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich 16:00 - 16:30 Computational Proxies: Modeling Scientific Applications in Object Databases J. B. Cushing, D. Maier, M. Rao, D. Abel, D. M. DeVaney, D. Feller (USA) Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology 16:30 - 17:00 Long-Term Database Support for EXPRESS Data A. Herbst (Germany) IBM Heidelberg Scientific Center and University of Kaiserslautern 18:30 - 21:30 CONFERENCE BANQUET Friday, Sept. 30: SESSION 8: MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA 8:30 - 9:00 Physical Schemas for Large Multidimensional Arrays in Scientific Computing Applications K. E. Seamons, M. Winslett (USA) University of Illinois 9:00 - 9:30 Spatial Data Reallocation Based on Multidimensional Range Queries A Contribution to Data Management for the Earth Sciences H. Hinterberger, K. A. Meier, H. Gilgen (Switzerland) ETH Zurich 9:30 - 10:00 High Performance Access to Radio Astronomy Data: A Case Study J. F. Karpovich, J. C. French, A. S. Grimshaw (USA) University of Virginia 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK SESSION 9: CONTENT RETRIEVAL FROM IMAGE DATABASES 10:30 - 11:00 CANDID: Comparison Algorithm for Navigating Digital Image Databases P. M. Kelly, T. M. Cannon (USA) Los Alamos National Laboratory 11:00 - 11:30 A Framework for Feature-Based Indexing for Spatial Databases N. Yazdani, M. Ozsoyoglu, G. Ozsoyoglu (USA) Case Western Reserve University 11:30 - 12:00 DISCUSSION 12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH 13:30 - 14:00 CLOSING SESSION Program Committee ------- --------- R.A. Becker (USA), R. Cubitt (Luxembourg), D.M.Y. Defays (Luxembourg), K.R. Dittrich (Switzerland), J.C. French (USA), H. Gilgen (Switzerland), P. Golder (UK), D.J. Hand (UK), H. Hinterberger (Switzerland), J. Klensin (USA), K. Kuespert (Germany), F. M. Malvestuto (Italy), M. McLeish (Canada), Z. Michalewicz (USA), G. Ozsoyoglu (USA), J.L. Pfaltz (USA), M. Rafanelli (Italy), S. Ram (USA), D. Rotem (USA), A. Shoshani (USA), B. Sundgren (Sweden), P. Svensson (Sweden), J.L.A. Van Rijckevorsel (Nether- lands), A. Westlake (UK), M. Zemankova (USA). =================== Summary Information =================== 7SSDBM Omni Charlottesville Hotel and the University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA The University will host the Seventh International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, September 28-30, 1994. The meeting will be held at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel on the downtown mall in the historic district. The registration fee will include continental breakfasts, morning and afternoon breaks, and daily lunches during the workshop. Participants will also be guests at evening receptions at the Hotel on Tuesday and Wednesday and cocktails and a dinner banquet in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia on Thursday evening. A softbound copy of the proceedings will be provided. 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Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 22901 1-800-THE-OMNI (1-800-843-6664), 1-804-971-5500, or Fax 1-804-979-4456. For special rate of $80 single, $95 double, please tell them you will be attending the "7SSDBM" conference. A limited number of government rates are also available. Reservations must be guaranteed by August 26, 1994. Call Enterprise Travel 1-800-759-9437 (or fax 1-703-433-4068) and identify the "7SSDBM" conference for travel arrangements and discounted airfares that are not available elsewhere, to Washington, DC or Charlottesville. Enterprise agents will also be available to handle your travel needs during the conference. MAIL THIS FORM TO: 7SSDBM Conference Sandra Sullivan University of Virginia Engineering Academic Outreach Thornton Hall Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442 OR EMAIL THE FORM TO: sandra@virginia.edu If you have any further questions regarding registration, please contact sandra@virginia.edu. ----------------------------- From: zicari@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 22:59:19 +0200 (MESZ) News Release For Immediate Release Contact: Burghardt Tenderich LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH +49-6173-2852 OBJECT WORLD GERMANY `94 TO BE BIGGER THAN EVER IN FRANKFURT Object World Germany returns to Frankfurt at the Intercontinental Hotel on September 27-29, 1994, with a much-expanded program in its third year as a leading industry forum for all system vendors, IT managers, and software developers. More comprehensive than ever, this year's program features 12 full-day and half-day tutorials, 40 conference sessions, three panels, a number of free vendor seminars, and a free exhibition. The exhibition portion of OW Germany is expected to grow from last year's total of more than 30 exhibitors to around 50 this time out. Conference sessions, also expanded, will this year be divided into four separate tracks: Management, Databases, Tools & Languages, and Applications. Each track will explore key industry themes from a different perspective. Four Top Keynotes As a highlight, this year's OW Germany will feature not two but four separate keynote addresses by industry leaders. Philippe Kahn, President of Borland International, will open with a discussion of the strategical and practical impact of using OT for application development. Hans Breidler, Director of Systems Strategy at Siemens Nixdorf, will deliver the second address, focusing on Open System Architectures. Bertrand Meyer, President of Interactive Software Engineering, will then present "The New Software Culture: Object-Orientation and Its Impact on the Corporation." Finally, attendees will learn about the World Cup USA `94 Soccer Championship's Advanced Information Systems Project, as presented by Juan Jose Vidal, Vice President of Technology for World Cup USA. First-Ever CORBA Showcase A special CORBA Showcase will be on offer for the first time in Germany at the OW show. The showcase will include a full-day tutorial on OMG CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL); two presentations by OMG's Technical Director Richard Soley focusing on "Interoperability Using Objects: OMG Status and Goals" and "CORBA and COSS: Building Object-Based Distributed Applications"; and presentations from representatives of Digital and IBM, who will share their experiences in implementing CORBA. In addition, the CORBA Showcase will include a special series of presentations entitled "Trending Towards Objects, " open to all attendees, and hosted by John Slitz, Vice President Marketing of OMG. New-User Case Studies In accordance with this year's heightened emphasis on end-users, a new conference stream will be dedicated exclusively to user case studies. Among the speakers are representatives from Deutsche Aerospace, Dresdner Bank, Lufthansa and Telenorma. Computerwoche Object Application Awards This year, Object World Germany makes its recognition of real-world user applications from OT leaders official with the launch of the first Computerwoche Object Application Awards. Computerwoche, sister publication to IDG Communications' American COMPUTERWORLD, will grant awards in five catagories to honor the best end-user applications utilizing OT. User Group Meetings Also new this year is OW Germany's hosting of six OT user group meetings, ranging from C++ to Smalltalk to Telecommunication and Multimedia. Object World Germany is a joint project between IDG WEC, OMG and LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH. For more information about Object World Germany, please contact Roberto Zicari at LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH, Tel: +49-6173-2852, or Fax: +49-6173-940420, or Email: roberto_zicari@omg.org. LogOn is the official representative of OMG for Central Europe (Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy , Switzerland). ----------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 94 18:14:33 PDT From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (gps@gte.com) Subject: New in KD Mine August 9, 1994 =============== In Data Mariner
  • added info for INSPECT -- a neural network + visualization tool
  • added info for PQ->R -- rule discovery tool
  • added info for two genetic algorithm tools: GAAF and FUGA. July 26, 1994 ============== In CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository, contains more than a gigabyte of public domain and freely distributable software, publications, and other materials of interest to AI researchers, educators, students, and practitioners. A portion of the repository is also published (as 2 CD-ROMs and a book) as Prime Time Freeware for AI. July 22, 1994 ============== In Siftware section, added a section on Dependency Derivation, containing the TETRAD II system.
    Updated description of IDIS, with information provided by the vendor, IntelligenceWare. In AI resources.
    Also, This ftp.gmd.de site contains Machine learning publications, data, and software, related to the Machine Learning Toolbox (MLT), Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), the European Network of Excellence in Machine Learning (MLnet), and other projects. For more information, send mail to Marcus Luebbe . In COSMIC's Program Catalog (Cybernetics Section) -- Programs developed by NASA. Contains pointers to many useful systems, including AUTOCLASS III (Automatic class discovery from data), COBWEB/3 (an algorithm for data clustering and incremental concept formation), and IND (a decision tree package). SIGART (ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence) information is available on-line. The site also has a nice list of other AI related resources .