KDD Nugget 94:8, e-mailed 94-05-06 Contents: * G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, Knowledge Discovery Mine at http://info.gte.com/~kdd/ * A.N.Pryke, The Data Mine at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~anp/TheDataMine.html * T. Finin, CFP: Conf. on Info. and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94) The KDD Nuggets is a moderated list for the exchange of information relevant to Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), e.g. application descriptions, conference announcements, tool reviews, information requests, interesting ideas, clever opinions, etc. +++ new * new * new * new +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Back issues, FAQ, and other KDD-related information are now available via Mosaic, URL http://info.gte.com/~kdd/, or by anonymous ftp to ftp.gte.com, cd /pub/kdd, get README +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you have something relevant to KDD, send it to kdd@gte.com ; Add/delete requests to kdd-request@gte.com -- 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) * ***************************************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quote of the Week ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nerdvana -- the blissful state in which your tie and slacks match your Windows wallpaper and color scheme. Computerworld, April 18, 1994 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Fri, 6 May 94 From: gps@gte.com (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro) Subject: Knowledge Discovery Mine -- A repository of information on KDD you can now access KDD information, including back issues of KDD Nuggets via Mosaic, URL http://info.gte.com/~kdd/ Most of this information is also available by anonymous ftp to ftp.gte.com, cd /pub/kdd, get README KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY MINE This server has a variety of information on Knowledge Discovery in Database, also known as data mining, knowledge extraction, information harvesting, etc. Some of this is very preliminary, so please send constructive suggestions (no flames) to gps@gte.com. Contents: * KDD Frequently Asked Questions, with pointers to relevant publications. * S*I*FTWARE: a catalog of commercial and public-domain tools for knowledge discovery in data, with some additional hyperlinks. * A list of AI resources relevant to KDD, collected by Chris Matheus. * The KDD Nuggets archive * KDD-93: Progress and Challenges in Knowledge Discovery in Databases, a report on AAAI-93 KDD Workshop, in LaTeX format, submitted for publication also there are pointers to other relevant information sources on the Internet, such as the server described in the next message. --------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 16:43:02 BST From: A.N.Pryke@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk Subject: WWW accessable Data Mining (KDD) info available Hi, I'm a 1st year research student in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham, England. My research concerns "Computer Aided Data Mining". I've been collecting information on Data Mining / Knowledge Discovery in Databases, which I've now made available through the WWW at the following address:- http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~anp/TheDataMine.html I'd be grateful for any comments or suggestions, particularly if you know of any internet-accessible information on KDD, Data Mining, Machine Learning etc. Andy. P.S. I'll be adding a KDD bibliography to this page soon... --- Andy Pryke, Research Student, Computer Science, Birmingham University Data Mining Information --------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 18:26:48 -0400 From: Timothy Finin Subject: item for KDD Nuggets C a l l F o r P a p e r s ------------------------------ C I K M ' 9 4 Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94) November 29 - December 2, 1994 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR, in cooperation with: AAAI, NIST, UMBC, NSF, Purdue University, and Rutgers University. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CIKM provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the con ference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the conference is the Workshops program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives. Focus ~~~~~ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: o Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling o Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases o Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text) o Object-oriented DBMS o Optimization techniques o Transaction management o High performance OLTP systems o Security techniques o Performance evaluation o Hypermedia o Unconventional applications o Parallel database systems o Physical and logical database design o Data and knowledge sharing o Interchange and interoperability o Cooperation in heterogeneous systems o Domain modeling and ontology-building o Knowledge discovery in databases o Information storage and retrieval and interface technology o Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing o Digital Libraries o Multimedia Databases. Paper and Workshop Submission ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors are invited to submit papers and workshop proposals to the Program Chair at the following address: Nabil R. Adam, Professor and Chair Dept. of MS/CIS GSM - Rutgers University 180 University Ave. Newark, NJ 07102 E-mail: cikm94@adam.rutgers.edu Tel: (201) 648-5239 All papers and workshop proposals should reach the program chair by May 1, 94. Authors must send eight (8) DOUBLE-SIDED copies of each paper, not exceeding 5,000 words, accompanied by a cover let ter containing a list of all authors, their affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and fax numbers. All submissions will be reviewed and judged with respect to quality and relevance. Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers & Workshop Submission: ................. May 1, 1994. Notification of acceptance: ................... July 1, 1994. Camera Ready Copies Due: ...................... September 1, 1994. More Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More information on CIKM-94 can be obtained in a variety of ways. For an automatic reply with general information send email to cikm-info@cs.umbc.edu. A variety of documents on CIKM-94 and earlier CIKM conferences is available via the gopher server at gopher.cs.umbc.edu, through WWW via the URL http://gopher.cs.umbc.edu/cikm.html, and via ftp from ftp.cs.umbc.edu in pub/cikm. Steering Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bruce Blum Tim Finin David Jefferson Keith Humenik Charles Nicholas E. K. Park Yelena Yesha General Co-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University Yelena Yesha, UMBC Program Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University Program Vice-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R. Ashany, NSF T. Finin, UMBC E. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic S. Hurwitz, NIST C. Kulikowski, Rutgers University K. Makki, UNLV S. Naqvi, Bellcore E. K. Park, U.S. Naval Academy N. Pissinou, SW Luisiana U.niversity M. Singhal, Ohio State University P. Sokolove, UMBC S. Spaccapietra, EPFL Lausanne M. Stonebraker, UC-Berkeley B. Wah, University of Illinois, UC Publicity Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. Helal, University of Texas at Arlington Local Arrangements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E. Fong, NIST European Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ G. Schlageter, Fern University Workshop Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ G. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU Exhibit Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M. Masulo, IBM Watson Research Center Program Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. El Abbadi, UC-Santa Barbara Y. Arens, USC/ISI R. Alonso, MITL B. Badrinath, Rutgers University E. Bertino, University of Genoa G. Belford, UIUC M. Brodie, GTE Labs A. Buchmann, Tech. Hochschule Dramstadt W. Chu, UCLA J. Clifford, NYU S. Davidson, University of Pennsylvania K. Dittrich, Universitat Zurich R. Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington S. Gadia, Iowa Satate University N. Gehani, At&T Bell Labs. J. Geller, NJIT J. Gowens, Army Research Lab M. Halem, NASA D. Harman, NIST K. Humenik, Indiana University P. Kanellakis, Brown University M. Kohli, Bellcore D. Lewis, At&T Bell Labs R. MacGregor, USC/ISI R. Martin, NIST D. McKay, Unisys J. Mylopoulos, University of Toronto S. Navathe, Georgia Tech. E. Neuhold, GMD P. Ng, NJIT T. Nguyen, IBM Watson Research Center C. Nicholas, UMBC C. Overton, University of Pennsylvania M. Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University M. Papazoglou, Queensland University of Technology R. Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsen-Madison S. Ray, NIST P. Scheurmann, Northwestern University T. Seidman, UMBC I. Song, Drexel University K. Sycara, RI/CMU P. Vassallo, NIST L. Welch, NIST W. Wong, DISA X. Wu, James Cook University V. Zwass, FDU