KDD Nuggets 95:10, e-mailed 95-05-05 Contents: * P. Smyth, KDD-95 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * R. Uthurusamy, list of accepted papers for KDD-95 * P. Smyth, new KDD-95 page http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95 * GPS, Useful backprop articles * A. Chatterjee, Siftware: Parallel Visual Explorer (PVE) http://www.ibm.com/News/950203/pve-01.html * A. Mueller, Question: Retail Data sets ? * I Flockhart, Question: significance levels for patterns ? The KDD Nuggets is a moderated mailing list for news and information relevant to Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), also known as Data Mining, Knowledge Extraction, etc. Relevant items include tool announcements and reviews, summaries of publications, information requests, interesting ideas, clever opinions, etc. Please include a descriptive subject line in your submission. Nuggets frequency is approximately bi-weekly. Back issues of Nuggets, a catalog of S*i*ftware (data mining tools), references, FAQ, and other KDD-related information are available at Knowledge Discovery Mine, URL http://info.gte.com/~kdd/ or by anonymous ftp to ftp.gte.com, cd /pub/kdd, get README E-mail add/delete requests to kdd-request@gte.com E-mail contributions to kdd@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) * ***************************************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quotable Quote ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 15:36:31 PDT From: pjs@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (Padhraic J. Smyth) Subject: KDD95 registration info KDD-95 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Montreal, August 20-21st 1995 Sponsored by AAAI and AT&T Global Information Solutions and in Cooperation with IJCAI, Inc: co-located with IJCAI 1995. ========================================================================= Please join us for the First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95). With the advances in data acquisition and storage technologies, the problem of how to turn raw data into useful information becomes a significant one. Having reached sizes that defy even partial examination by humans, modern databases and collections of data sets are literally swamping users. This data firehose phenomenon appears in many fields including science data analysis, medical and healthcare, corporate and marketing, and financial markets. Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) and Data Mining are areas of common interest to researchers in machine learning, machine discovery, statistics, intelligent databases, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, high performance computing, and expert systems. Due to strong demand for participation and the growing demand for formal proceedings, it has become necessary to change the format of the previous KDD workshops to a conference with open attendance. This conference will continue in the tradition of the 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1994 KDD workshops by bringing together researchers and application developers from different areas, and focusing on unifying themes such as the use of domain knowledge, managing uncertainty, interactive (human-oriented) presentation, and applications. The KDD conference also includes invited talks, a demo and poster session, and panel discussions. A complete list of papers and presentations will be available in early May, see the KDD95 home page (http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95) for details or keep an eye out for the KDD Nuggets mailing list. We look forward to seeing you in Montreal! Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, KDD-95 Program Cochair Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Research, KDD-95 Program Cochair General information on the First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95) and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95) is available on the KDD95 home page (http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95), the AAAI World-Wide Web home page (http://www.aaai.org) and the IJCAI home page (http://ijcai.org). For additional information, please feel free to contact AAAI at 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA, 415-328-3123 (phone), 415-321-4457 (fax), or by email at ijcai@aaai.org or kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov. **************************************************************************** REGISTRATION INFORMATION & FEES: KDD-95 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION EARLY REGISTRATION LATE REGISTRATION (postmarked by June 21) (postmarked by July 26) Regular Student Regular Student US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ $200 $280 $ 75 $105 $200 $280 $ 75 $105 KDD-95 Conference Registration: Your KDD-95 conference registration includes admission to the KDD sessions, invited talks, IJCAI-95 Exhibition, the KDD-95 opening reception, and the KDD-95 Conference Proceedings. REGISTRATION PROCEDURES Advance Registration - See the end of this message for registration forms: online versions of the registration forms are available via: email: ijcai@aaai.org world-wide-web: http://ijcai.org or http://www.aaai.org gopher: gopher://ijcai.org FTP: ftp://ijcai.org/pub/ijcai email: mail to info@ijcai.org will be answered automatically with instructions on how to use the email server. Questions about the electronic information services can be directed at the IJCAI Electronic Information Director, Chris Welty at weltyc@ijcai.org. Payment and Registration Information - Prepayment of registration fees is required. Checks, international money orders, bank transfers and traveler's checks must be in US or Canadian dollars. American Express, VISA, Mastercard, and government purchase orders are also accepted. Registration postmarked after the July 26 deadline will be subject to on-site registration fees. The deadline for refund requests is August 2, 1995. All refund requests must be in writing. A US$75.00/CAN$100.00 processing fee will be assessed for all refunds. All refunds will be made at the conclusion of the Conference. Note: In case of Conference cancellation for reasons beyond the control of the IJCAI-95 organizers, the liability of the IJCAI-95 organization is limited to the fees already paid by the registrants and especially it will not be responsible for any personal inconveniences which may arise. Student registrations must be accompanied by proof of full-time student status. Registration forms and inquiries should be directed to: IJCAI-95 AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA 415/328-3123, Fax: 415/321-4457 email: ijcai@aaai.org. Onsite Registration - Onsite registration will be located in the Exhibition Hall 100B on the first floor of the Palais de Congres de Montreal, 201 Viger Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Registration hours will be Saturday, August 19-Monday, August 21 from 7:30am-6:00pm, and Tuesday, August 22 through, Friday, August 25 from 8:00am - 6:00pm. (Registration hours are subject to modification). All attendees must pick up their registration packets for admittance to programs. Early registration must be postmarked by June 21, 1995. Late registration must be postmarked by July 26, 1995. =======================IJCAI REGISTRATION INFORMATION======================== IJCAI-95 Technical Program Registration: August 21-25, 1995 Your IJCAI-95 program registration includes admission to all technical paper sessions, invited talks and panels, the IJCAI-95 Exhibition, the IJCAI-95 Opening Ceremony and Reception, and the IJCAI-95 Conference Proceedings. Technical Program Fees US$$ CAN$$ Early Regular $390 $550 Early Student $125 $175 Late Regular $450 $635 Late Student $160 $225 Onsite Regular $510 $720 Onsite Student $195 $275 Accompanying persons are entitled to: Attend the Official Opening Ceremony, the Opening Reception, and visit the IJCAI-95 Exhibition. The registration fee for accompanying persons is US$45/CAN$63 ***************************************************************************** ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION Hotels IJCAI-95 has reserved a block of rooms in Montreal properties at reduced conference rates. To qualify for these rates, housing reservations must be made with the Greater Montreal Convention and Tourism Bureau. The deadline for reservations is July 17, 1995. After this date convention rates may not apply and the IJCAI-95 Housing Bureau will be working on an availability basis. To make housing reservations telephone, fax the IJCAI-95 Housing Application Form to: IJCAI-95 Housing Bureau 1555 Peel Street, Suite 600 Montreal Quebec, Canada H3A 1X6 Phone: 514-844-0848 Fax: 514-844-6771. (Housing forms may be requested from AAAI at 415-328-3123 (phone); 415-321-4457 (fax); ijcai@aaai.org (email). Rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The IJCAI-95 Housing Bureau reserves the right to assign a hotel if your first choice is sold out and other choices are not included. All rooms are subject to a 7% federal and a 6.5% provincial tax. All changes and cancellations should be made directly with the IJCAI-95 Housing Bureau. Changes and cancellations must be made in writing to the Housing Bureau. Confirmation of your reservation will be sent directly by the hotel. Include a first night deposit in CAN or US funds with your request. A check or credit card number is acceptable. All major credit cards are accepted. 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Headquarters Hotel: The Queen Elizabeth (1) 900 Rene-Levesque Blvd, West Montreal, Quebec Canada H3B 4A5 Single/double room CAN$120.00 Concierge level CAN$180.00 Distance to Center: Approximately seven blocks Other Hotels: Le Chateau Champlain (2) 1 Place du Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 4C9 Single/double room CAN$110.00 Distance to Center: Approximately eight blocks Hotel Inter-Continental (3) 360 rue St-Antoine Ouest Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Y 3X4 Single/double room CAN$130.00 Distance to Center: Two blocks Holiday Inn Centre-Ville (4) 99 avenue Viger ouest Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Z 1E9 Single room CAN$109.00 Double room CAN$119.00 Triple room CAN$129.00 Distance to Center: One block Hotel rooms are priced as singles (1 person, 1 bed), doubles (2 persons, 2 beds), triples (3 persons, 2 beds). Student Housing (5) IJCAI-95 has reserved a block of dormitory rooms at McGill University for student housing during the conference. Accommodations are single rooms with shared male or female washrooms. Linen and towels are provided upon arrival. The location of the McGill's Coed Residences is 3935 University Street, Montreal. Buses from the corner of Pine Avenue and University Street run every 15 minutes to the metro station for transfer to the Palais de Congres. The ride from the dorms to the Palais de Congres takes approximately 15 minutes. Single room rate per person and night: CAN$28.00 (proof of full time student status must be included with the housing reservation form.) Reservations must be made by July 18, 1995. A reservation form may be requested from AAAI at 415-328-3123 (phone); 415-321-4457 (fax); ijcai@aaai.org (email). Reservations are confirmed upon receipt of a CAN$28.00 deposit per person, applicable towards the residence fee. Checks, money orders drawn on a Canadian bank, and VISA and Mastercard are accepted. If checks are made out in US funds, please use the exchange rate of the day. This deposit is nonrefundable should you cancel. Please make checks payable to McGill University. Reservations should be sent to: Summer Accommodations, McGill University Residences, File AAAI400, 3935 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4 Fax: 514-398-6770 Email: reserve@residences.ian.mcgill.ca. Parking is available on campus and the cost is CAN$25 per week, or CAN$10.00/day. Please ask at the registration counter for more information. ****************************************************************************** TRANSPORTATION: Airports There are two airports in Montreal: Dorval and Mirabel. Dorval serves flights from USA and Canada, and Mirabel serves all flights other than North America. Dorval is located 14 miles/22 km from downtown Montreal, and Mirabel is 34 miles/55 km from downtown. It takes 25 minutes to get from Dorval to downtown, and 45 minutes from Mirabel to downtown. There are shuttles and taxis from both airports. Air Transportation Montreal: Get there for less! Win free travel! American Airlines and Air Canada are the official co-carriers for IJCAI-95. On American, save 5% on lowest available fares, some restrictions apply. Save 10% on lowest unrestricted coach class fares, with 7 days advance purchase. Travel between August 17-28, 1995. On Air Canada save from 15% to 50% on applicable fares. For lowest available fares on any airline, make your reservations with Conventions in America, the official travel agency for IJCAI-95, at 1-800-929-4242 or 619-678-3600 (fax: 619-678-3699) and ask for Group #428. You will automatically be entered in a drawing for two round trip tickets on American Airlines domestic route. Winner will be drawn at the convention. Plus receive free flight insurance of $100,000 and another chance to win free travel worldwide in the bi-monthly drawings. If you call direct: 1-800-433-1790 for American, ask for Index #S9272. Air Canada 1-800-361-7575, CV #950223. (Reminder: you must book through Conventions in America to be entered in the drawings). Car Rental Hertz has been designated as the official rental car company for the IJCAI-95 Conference. Save on Hertz Rent A Car with rates starting as low as $44.99/day (Canadian dollars). You can book your car through Conventions in America at the same time you book your airline ticket, or call Hertz directly at 1-800-654-2240, and give the code CV #17158. Ground Transportation and Airport Connections The following information provided is the best available at press time. Please confirm fares when making reservations. Dorval The airport transfer to downtown costs CAN$8.75. It leaves Dorval every 20 minutes from Monday to Friday, and every 30 mintes on the weekend. First departure at 7:00am - last departure 12:00 midnight (or with the last flight coming in to Dorval if a delay should occur) every day. The transfer is free of charge for children under 5 years. Mirabel The airport transfer to downtown costs CAN$14.00. The shuttle leaves the airport every 30 mintes between 12:00pm and 8:00pm. After 8:00pm until 12:00 midnight, the shuttle leaves every hour. Taxi From Dorval Airport to downtown: approximately CAN$23 + tip. From Mirabel Airport to downtown: approximately CAN$55-60 + tip. Rail Amtrak Operates from destinations in USA and VIA Rail operates from destinations in Canada. The central station is located at 935 de La Gauchetiere Street West, Montreal. Via Rail (Montreal) 514-871-1331 Amtrak (Montreal) 1-800-835-8725 Metro (subway) The metro has a well-deserved reputation for efficiency - frequent (every 3-7 minutes), fast, quiet, and except at rush hour, relatively uncrowded. Most of the major conference hotels are near a Metro entrance. The Palais de Congres de Montreal is directly accessible by subway. The system consists of 65 stations on 4 color-coded interconnecting lines covering 64 kilometers. The metro runs from 5:30 am to 1:00 am. Metro six-day passes are available for CAN$18.00. A one way ticket costs CAN$1.75 regardsless of your destination. For information call 514-280-5668, fax: 514-280-5020. Parking There is indoor and outdoor parking available at the Palais de Congrs de Montral. The weekend fee is CAN $10.00/day. During the week, the daily rate varies depending on the day, but the highest rate is CAN$ 11.50 per day. Visas Some foreign travellers require a visa for entry into Canada. Please check your eventual visa requirements with your travel agency, or with a Canadian consular officer. Make your travel plans well in advance to allow enough time for the processing of your visa application, if necessary. ***************************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION ON MONTREAL Montreal - C'est magnifique! Montreal is a thriving cosmopolitan city full of Latin ambiance and "joie de vivre" rarely found anywhere else. From its roots as a small French colony founded in 1642, Montreal first developed into a bustling trade center at the hands of British merchants. The city subsequently became a multicultural center, enriched by the dedicated work and tradition of immigrants from every continent. Montreal is one of the largest bilingual cities in the world, and the language of the majority is French. Collectively, Montrealers speak 35 different languages and practice 30 different religions. People living here have arrived from at least 80 diverse countries. English is very much in evidence as well. The downtown core lies between the St. Lawrence River and Mount Royal. Old Montreal was the earliest settled section of the city, but over time the city expanded uphill toward the mountain (Mount Royal). Today, Old Montreal is a virtual outdoor museum of historic buildings and monuments commemorating many events depicting Montreal's three-and-a half centuries of growth. In honor of the city's 350th birthday, the Old Port waterfront was renovated in the summer of 1992, giving one access to the Lachine Canal with its bicycle path, walking trails and breathtaking scenery. Montreal certainly can boast a rich and colorful history unique in its charm and in its European flavor. Climate and dress At the end of August, the weather is usually very sunny and warm with high temperatures between 70-80 degrees F (22-27 degrees C). A light sweater or jacket might be needed for evenings. Language French and English Currency The Canadian currency units are dollars and cents, with one dollar equalling 100 cents. Approximate rates of exchange in early March 1995 were: US$1.00 = CAN$1.40 100 Yen = CAN$1.47 1 German Mark = CAN$0.97 1 English # = CAN$2.26 1 French Franc = CAN$0.27 All major credit cards are accepted in all hotels, most restaurants and department stores. Banking Banks in downtown Montreal are usually open Monday-Friday from 9:00am-5:00pm. Automatic teller machines are available throughout town. Metric Conversion Canada operates on the metric system of weights and measures. Visitors will find weather temperature reports given in degrees Celsius, gasoline sold by the litre (milk and wine by millilitres and litres) grocery items in grams and kilograms, fabric lengths in metres, and road speeds posted in kilometres per hour. Taxes A federal tax (GST) of 7% is now applied to most goods and services in Canada. A Quebec provincial tax of 6,5% is added to all goods and services. Non-residents can apply for a GST rebate on most goods (there are exceptions) purchased for use outside Canada as well as on short-term accommodations. Rebates can be claimed in person at participating Canadian Duty Free Shops at border crossings or airports, or by completing and mailing the rebate form. Refunds of the 6,5% provincial taxes are also available for purchases exceeding CAN$500. Retailers have forms available. Tipping In general, a tip of 15 percent is given to waiters, waitresses, hairdressers, taxi drivers, etc. Bellhops, doormen, porters, etc., at hotels, airports and railway stations are generally paid CAN$1.00 per item of luggage. Visitor Information Infotouriste is an international tourist information center in downtown Montreal. This one-stop center provides visitors with tourist information and services such as travel planning, information on activities, and attractions. Infotouriste, 1001 Square Dorchester, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 1G2 Phone: 514-873-2015 Toll free: 1-800-363-7777 Restaurants Restaurant category Breakfast Lunch Dinner FastFood CAN$3-4 CAN$5-8 CAN$7-10 Economy CAN$5 CAN$8-12 CAN$10-20 Deluxe (hotels only CAN15-25 CAN$15-35 CAN$25-50 for breakfast) ******************************************************************************* IJCAI-95 PREREGISTRATION APPLICATION (Page 1 of 3) Name: Company/Univ: Dept/MS: Address (Specify Home or Business): City: State: Zip: Phone & FAX: Membership No: Email Address: ****************************************************************************** KDD-95 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION EARLY REGISTRATION LATE REGISTRATION (postmarked by June 21) (postmarked by July 26) Regular Student Regular Student US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ $200 $280 $ 75 $105 $200 $280 $ 75 $105 Total KDD-95 Fee: ______ ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** IJCAI-95 TECHNICAL PROGRAM EARLY REGISTRATION LATE REGISTRATION (postmarked by June 21) (postmarked by July 26) Regular Student Regular Student US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ $390 $550 $125 $175 $450 $635 $160 $225 (Students must send proof of student status to the AAAI Office.) Total Technical Program Fee: ______ ****************************************************************************** IAAI-95 CONFERENCE EARLY REGISTRATION LATE REGISTRATION (postmarked by June 21) (postmarked by July 26) Regular Student Regular Student US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ US$ CAN$ $390 $550 $125 $175 $450 $635 $160 $225 Total IAAI-95 Fee: ______ ****************************************************************************** IJCAI-95/IAAI-95 COMBINED REGISTRATION: Add US$150/CAN$210 Total IJCAI-95/IAAI-95 Combined Registration Fee: ______ ****************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************* PAYMENT (Page 2 of 2) Email and fax registrations must be accompanied by a credit card number. Total Amount Due: ______ Check one: Mastercard ___ Visa ___ American Express ___ Credit Card Account Number: Expiration Date: Name as it appears on card: Forms cannot be processed if information is incomplete. The refund request deadline is August 2, 1995. A US$75.00/CAN$100 processing fee will be assessed for refunds. Registration mailed or faxed after July 26 are subject to onsite rates. Mail completed application to ijcai@aaai.org or fax to 415-321-4457. (Please note that there are security issues involved with the transmittal of credit card information over the internet. AAAI and the co-sponsors of IJCAI-95 will not be held liable for any misuse of your credit card information during its transmittal from you to AAAI.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 19:45:40 -0500 (EST) From: "R. Uthurusamy" Subject: list of accepted papers for KDD-95 Preliminary List of Accepted Papers for KDD-95 ---------------------------------------------- Active Data Mining Agrawal, Rakesh and Psaila, Giuseppe; IBM Almaden Research Center STAR: A General Architecture for the Support of Distortion Oriented Displays Anderson, P., Smith, R., and Zhang, Z.; Monash University, Australia Learning First Order Logic Rules With A Genetic Algorithm Augier, S., Venturini, G., and Kodratoff, Y.; University De Paris-Sud, France Discovery Of Functional Dependencies By Independencies Bell, Siegfried; University Dortmund, Germany Intelligent Instruments: Discovering How To Turn Spectral Data Into Information Buntine, Wray L. and Patel, Tarang; NASA Ames Research Center Learning Arbiter And Combiner Trees From Partitioned Data For Scaling Machine Learning Chan, Philip K. and Stolfo, Salvatore J.; Columbia University Designing Neural Networks From Statistical Models: A New Approach To Data Exploration Ciampi, Antonio and Lechevallier, Y.; Mcgill University and INRIA-R, France Capacity And Complexity Control In Predicting The Spread Between Borrowing And Lending Interest Rates Cortes, C., Hoover, D., Drucker, H., and Vapnik, V.; AT&T Bell Laboratories Limits On Learning Machine Accuracy Imposed By Data Quality Cortes, C., Jackel, L.D., and Chiang, W-P.; AT&T Bell Laboratories Experience With Applying A Data Miner To Heterogeneous Schema Integration Dao, Son and Perry, Brad; Hughes Research Laboratories Exploiting Upper Approximation In The Rough Set Methodology Deogun, J.S., Raghavan, V.V., and Sever, H.; University Of Nebraska at Lincoln and University of Southwestern Louisiana Analyzing The Benefits Of Domain Knowledge In Substructure Discovery Djoko, S., Cook, D.J., and Holder, L.B.; University Of Texas at Arlington Knowledge Discovery in A Water Quality Database Dzeroski, Saso and Grbovic, J.; Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia A Statistical Perspective On Knowledge Discovery In Databases Elder, John; Rice University and Pregibon, Daryl; AT&T Bell Laboratories A Database Interface For Clustering In Large Spatial Databases Ester, M., Kriegel, H-P., and Xu, X.; University Of Munich, Germany Knowledge Discovery In Telecommunication Services Data Using Bayesian Network Models Ezawa, Kazuo J. and Norton, Steve; AT&T Bell Laboratories Data Mining For Loan Evaulation At ABN AMRO: A Case Study Feelders, A.J., le Loux, A.J.F., and van't Zand, J.W.; University Of Twente, The Netherlands and ABN AMRO Bank, The Netherlands Iterative Optimization And Simplification Of Hierarchical Clusterings Fisher, Doug; Vanderbilt University Structured And Unstructured Induction With EDAGs Gaines, Brian R. University Of Calgary, Canada Available Technology For Discovering Causal Relations, Constructing Causal Models And Building Bayes Nets: The Tetrad II Program Glymour, Clark; Carnegie Mellon University Restructuring Databases for Knowledge Discovery by Consolidation and Link Formation Goldberg, H.G. and Senator, T.E.; U.S. Department of the Treasury Are We Losing Accuracy While Gaining Confidence In Induced Rules - An Assessment Of PrIL Gur-Ali, F. Ozden and Wallace, W.A.; GE Corporate Research & Development Discriminant Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Classification Hastie, Trevor and Tibshirani, Robert; Stanford University A Perspective On Databases And Data Mining Holsheimer, M., and Kersten, M.; CWI, The Netherlands and Mannila, H., and Toivonen, H.; University of Helsinki, Finland Estimating The Robustness Of Discovered Knowledge Hsu, Chun-Nan and Knoblock, Craig A.; University Of Southern California Rough Sets Similarity-Based Learning From Databases Hu, Xiaohua and Cercone, N. University Of Regina Canada Efficient Algorithms For Attribute-Oriented Induction Hwang, Hoi-Yee and Fu, Ada Wai-Chee; Chinese University Of Hong Kong Robust Decision Trees: Removing Outliers In Databses John, George H.; Stanford University Conceptual Clustering In Structured Databases: A Practical Approach Ketterlin, A., Gancarski, P., and Korczak, J.J.; Univ. Louis Pasteur, France Anonymization Techniques For Knowledge Discovery In Databases Kloesgen, Willi; GMD, Germany Feature Subset Selection Using The Wraper Model: Overfitting And Dynamic Search Space Topology Kohavi, Ron and Sommerfield, D.; Stanford University Exploiting Visualization In Knowledge Discovery Lee, Hing-Yan, Ong, Hwee-Leng, and Quek, Lee-Hian; Info. Tech. Inst. Singapore Knowledge-Based Scientific Discovery In Geological Databases Li, Cen and Biswas, Gautam; Vanderbilt University Discovering Frequent Episodes In Sequences Mannila, H., Toivonen, H., and Verkamo, A.I.; University Of Helsinki, Finland MDL-Based Decision Tree Pruning Mehta, M., Rissanen, J., and Agrawal, R.; IBM Almaden Research Center Decision Tree Induction: How Effective Is The Greedy Heuristic? Murthy, S.K. and Salzberg, S.; Johns Hopkins University An Iterative-Improvement Approach For The Discretization Of Numeric Attributes In Bayesian Classifiers Pazzani, Michael; University of California at Irvine Using Multidimensional Projection To Discover Relations In Attribute-Based Data Perez, Eduardo and Rendell, L.A.; Beckman Institute, University Of Illinois Compression-Based Evaluation Of Partial Determinations Pfahringer, B. and Kramer, S.; Austrian Research Institute For AI, Austria Knowledge Discovery From Multiple Databases Ribeiro, J.S., Kaufman, K.A., and Kerschberg, L.; George Mason University Discovering Enrollment Knolwedge In University Databases Sanjeev, Arun and Zytkow, J.M.; Wichita State University Extracting Support Data For A Given Task Schoelkopf, B., Burges, C., and Vapnik, V.; AT&T Bell Laboratories Feature Extraction For Massive Data Mining Seshadri, V., Weiss, S.M., and Sasisekharan, R.; AT&T Bell Laboratories Using Rough Sets As Tools For Knowledge Discovery From Large Relational Databases Shan, N., Ziarko, W., Hamilton, H.J., and Cercone, N.; Univ. Of Regina, Canada Data Surveying: Foundations Of An Inductive Query Language Siebes, Arno; CWI, The Netherlands On Subjective Measures Of Interestingness In Knowledge Discovery Silberschatz, Avi; AT&T Bell Laboratories and Tuzhilin, Alexander; New York University Using Recon For Data Cleaning Simoudis, Evangelos; IBM Almaden Research Center and Livezey, Brian and Kerber, Randy; Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories Discovery Of Concurrent Data Models From Experimental Tables: A Rough Set Approach Skowron, Andrzej and Suraj, Zbigniew; Warsaw University, Poland Learning Bayesian Networks From Data Spirtes, Peter; Carnegie Mellon University Fast Spatio-Temporal Data Mining From Large Geophysical Datasets Stolorz, Paul, et al.; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. of Tech. Accelerated Quantification Of Bayesian Networks With Incomplete Data Thiesson, Bo; Aalborg University, Denmark Automated Selection Of Rule Induction Methods Based On Recursive Iteration Of Resampling Methods And Multiple Statistical Testing Tsumoto, Shusaku and Tanaka, Hiroshi; Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan Automated Discovery Of Functional Components Of Proteins From Amino-Acid Sequences Based On Rough Sets And Change Of Representation Tsumoto, Shusaku and Tanaka, Hiroshi; Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan Fuzzy Interpretation Of Induction Results Wu, Xindong and Mahlen, Petter; Monash University, Australia Resource and Knowledge Discovery in Global Information Systems: A Preliminary Design and Experiment Zaiane, Osmar R. and Han, Jiawei; Simon Fraser University, Canada Toward Multi-Strategy And Cooperative Discovery System Zhong, Ning and Ohsuga, Setsuo; The University Of Tokyo, Japan >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: gps0 (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro) To: kdd Subject: useful backprop articles Content-Type: text Content-Length: 401 Don Tveter has collected "The Backpropagator's Online Reading List and Review," a hypertext file for retrieving useful backprop articles. . Don's backprop software for UNIX and DOS (in source and 32-bit binaries) can be downloaded from there or from . A professional version is also available. [, 1/25/95.] >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Wed, 3 May 95 19:05:11 PDT From: pjs@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (Padhraic J. Smyth) Subject: New KDD95 WWW pages The URL is: http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95 Padhraic >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: Request to add product (PVE) to Siftware To: kdd@gte.com Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 21:53:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Avijit Chatterjee" Hi! Could you could please add this to your list under "Siftware". This is about a Visual Data Mining tool. Thanks Avijit Chatterjee /* Info on product - PVE */ Name: Parallel Visual Explorer (PVE) Description: Visual Data Mining tool using the methodology of Parallel Coordinates. This is the authoritative implementation, by the Original Inventors and Developers of Parallel Coordinates. It is the only known representation of multivariate datasets which preserves all the information and tranforms multivariate relations into well-defined 2-D patterns. The package includes a set of patented interactive queries which are also linked to scatter plots. These can be combined into complex queries by means of Boolean operators. Another patented query finds the best predictor variables characterizing a desirable set of data points. There are clustering algorithms, functions defining new variables (in terms of the original ones), scaling and permutation techniques and other aids. Altogether one can rapidly discover multivariate relations and associations which affect various objectives. It has been successfully used on many real datasets (one with 500 variables another with 25,000 data points) in a variety of applications; financial, manufacturing, medical, process control, aviation, marketing & distribution and many others. URL: http://www.ibm.com/News/950203/pve-01.html Platform(s): AIX 3.2.5 or above Contact: Jack Maticic, IBM Corporation, Route 134, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, 1-800-PVE-1234 or 1-914-945-2478. Status: product Updated: Avijit Chatterjee, achatter@watson.ibm.com, 1995-04-30 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >~~~ Questions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To: kdd@gte.com Subject: Retail Data for Association Mining Wanted Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:39:00 -0400 From: Andreas Mueller Dear Mr. Piatetsky-Shapiro! I am working on mining algorithms for association rules and liked to do more detailed analysis with real life data sets, preferrably retail data, the larger the better. Could you include this request in the next nuggets edition? Maybe some recipient wants his data analysed for free!? Andreas Mueller ?:) --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/mueller/ mueller@cs.umd.edu >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 1 May 95 16:24:31 BST From: I Flockhart Subject: significance levels for patterns To: kdd@gte.com Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1468 Dear KDD-nuggets readers, I'm interested in the problem of attaching a significance level to patterns discovered by data mining systems. I am aware of Bonferroni adjustments, which as I understand it, attempt to modify the significance level according to the number of independent tests carried out. However, the significance tests performed during the course of most search methods (genetic algorithms in my case) are far from independent as many tests are performed on very similar patterns, particularly later in the run when convergence occurs. I'd be grateful for any references readers may have on this subject. 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