KDD Nuggets 95:13, e-mailed 95-06-09 Contents: * P. Smyth, KDD-95 call for participation -- reminder KDD successes recognized: * M. Baudin, Cassiopee wins innovation prize at XPS '95 * U. Fayyad, SKICAT Makes New Discoveries in Astronomy * GPS, Key Findings Reporter wins GTE's highest technical award * GPS, ComputerWorld: Customer 'data mining' pays off --- * B. Julien, IJCAI-95 wrk on ML in Engineering - Call for Participation * M. Bramer, Research Studentship in Machine Learning/AI * I Flockhart, Re: Significance levels for patterns * EBRSC, Workshop on Rough Set Theory (RST'95), CFP 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. 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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull: "Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Tue, 30 May 95 09:41:07 PDT From: kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (KDD-95 Account) Subject: KDD-95 call for participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING (KDD-95) Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Cosponsored by AT&T Global Information Solutions and GTE, and In Cooperation with IJCAI, Inc; collocated with IJCAI-95. August 20-21, 1995: Montreal, Canada. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the KDD-95 WWW page at http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95 for registration, list of accepted papers, local arrangements, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, demo and poster sessions, and panel discussions. 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 Conference Questions: send email to kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov Knowledge Discovery Mine: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/.index.html Program Committee ================= Rakesh Agrawal (IBM) Tej Anand (AT&T GIS) Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs) Wray Buntine (NASA Ames) Nick Cercone (Univ. of Regina) Peter Cheeseman (NASA AMES) Greg Cooper (Univ. of Pittsburgh) Brian Gaines (Univ. of Calgary) Clark Glymour (CMU) David Hand (Open University, UK) David Heckerman (Microsoft) Se June Hong (IBM Watson) Larry Jackel (AT&T Bell Labs) Larry Kerschberg (GMU) Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) David Madigan (Univ. of Washington) Chris Matheus (GTE Labs) Heikki Mannila (Univ. of Helsinki) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Labs) Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Bell Labs) Arno Siebes (CWI, Netherlands) Evangelos Simoudis (Lockheed) Andrzej Skowron (Univ. of Warsaw) Padhraic Smyth (JPL) Alex Tuzhilin (NYU Stern School) Xindong Wu (Monash Univ, Australia) Wojciech Ziarko (Univ. of Regina) Jan Zytkow (Wichita State Univ.) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Wed, 31 May 95 04:56:43 PDT From: "Michel Baudin" Subject: Re: To: "KDD Nuggets Moderator" X-Mailer: VersaTerm Link v1.1.3 Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1045 Cassiopee wins innovation prize at XPS '95 ========================================== AcknoSoft's Cassiopee system, which diagnoses CFM56-3 jet engines, received the first prize for innovative software applications at the XPS trade show in Kaiserslautern, Germany on March 2, 1995. Cassiopee was developed by AcknoSoft on top of its KATE-tools for CFM International, a 50/50 joint venture between GE and SNECMA. It is used in on-line maintenance for the CFM56-3 engines that power Boeing 737s. The database contains over 23,000 cases described by up to 50 slots, 70% of which are used for diagnosis. Case retrieval time is under 1 second on a 486DX2/66 PC. The jury that awarded the prize was made up of 21 representatives from academia and industry, including such firms as DaimlerBenz, BSR and IBM. They chose Cassiopee for its strengths in the following areas: o CBR diagnosis. o Return on investment for the user. o Multimedia user interface. o Integration with technical documentation. Michel Baudin Tel:(415)856-8928 FAX:(415)858-1873 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 21:04:07 PDT From: fayyad@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (Usama Fayyad) Subject: please announce in KDD nuggets NEW DISCOVERIES IN ASTRONOMY ENABLED BY JPL-CALTECH DATA MINING SYSTEM: SKICAT SKICAT (Sky Image Cataloging and Analysis Tool), a data mining system developed by Usama Fayyad and his team at JPL in collaboration with Prof. George Djorgovski of Caltech, is being used to automatically analyze and catalog the 2nd Palomar Sky Survey of the Northern sky. The sky survey catalog will eventually hold an estimated 2 billion entries. A group of astronomers at Caltech have recently conducted a systematic search for new quasars using SKICAT. This is one of the many science applications the system was designed to support. The automated search procedures in SKICAT, produce queries to the underlying DBMS (Sybase) and filter the results to produce candidates which were then followed by observations at Palomar Observatory. The team, led by Djorgovski, have discovered 9 new quasars at z > 4 (high-redshift). The discovery (of the first 5) has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. According to Djorgovski, the previous search for high-z quasars at Palomar by Schmidt et al. took about 3 years before a similar number of z > 4 quasars was found; with SKICAT, Caltech astronomers performed the same feat in less than 6 months, using at least an order of magnitude less observing time than the Schmidt team. Observation is both expensive and takes up a great deal of time. This shows the great efficacy and accuracy of the approach based on the automated recognition and analysis algorithms in SKICAT. Quasars are useful for a variety of cosmological studies, including the origin of galaxies and quasars themselves, as probes of the intergalactic medium in the early universe, and possibly as probes of the earliest large-scale structure of the universe. The relevant aspect of SKICAT from a data mining perspective, is that the system was trained on limited sets of high resolution images to identify faint sky objects in low resolution survey plates. Thus SKICAT can correctly classify objects that are too faint for humans or traditional computational approaches. Its accuracy is well above 90% on this difficult and scientifically important problem. It is this accuracy that enables the astronomers to narrow down their search to a small set of likely quasars (very faint stars in the suvey, clustering in a special part of the measurement space). For more information on SKICAT, see KDD-94 proceedings, also a chapter in the upcoming volume ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY and DATA MINING, U. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, and R. Uthurusamy (Eds.), AAAI/MIT Press, to be available in August 95 at the KDD-95/IJCAI-95 conferences. ________________________________________________________________ Usama Fayyad | Fayyad@aig.jpl.nasa.gov Machine Learning Systems Group | Jet Propulsion Lab M/S 525-3660 | (818) 306-6197 office California Institute of Technology | (818) 306-6912 FAX 4800 Oak Grove Drive | Pasadena, CA 91109 | _____________________________________|__________________________ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 From: gps@gte.com (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro) Subject: Key Findings Reporter (KEFIR) wins GTE's highest technical award Chris Matheus, Dwight McNeill, and Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro have received the 1995 Leslie H. Warner Technical Achievement Award -- GTE's highest award for a technical accomplishment -- for Innovations in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and the KEFIR application to GTE Healthcare Data. About 100 people and 21 other projects have received the award on June 1, 1995, presented personally by Chuck Lee, GTE's chairman. KEFIR is an intelligent system for generating consultant-quality reports from low-level data, is being applied to the analysis of GTE's large healthcare database. KEFIR's reports are more comprehensive, generated in less time, and significantly cheaper than comparable medical consultant reports. The core KEFIR technology also has great potential in other strategic areas. KEFIR was described in C. J. Matheus, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, and D. McNeill, An Application of KEFIR to the Analysis of Healthcare Information, in Proceedings of AAAI-94 KDD Workshop, eds. U. Fayyad and R. Uthurusamy, AAAI Press Technical Report, 1994. C. J. Matheus, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, and D. McNeill, Selecting and Reporting What is Interesting: The KEFIR Application to Healthcare Data, in ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING, U. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, and R. Uthurusamy (Eds.), AAAI/MIT Press, 1995 (forthcoming). >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 From: gps@gte.com (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro) Subject: ComputerWorld: Customer "data mining" pays off May 15, 1995 ComputerWorld has the first page article, entitled Customer "data mining" pays off. It describes the successes of Capital One Financial Corp. had in analyzing its customer database. The oldest continuously operating credit-card provider in the US (41 years), Capital One has risen from 18 to 11th place among credit card companies in the past seven years. Last year alone the company grew 60%. The credit-card business is not in the banking business -- it is really the information business, said Richard Fairbank, CEO of Capital One. At the foundation of the information strategy, are the records of current and potential customers, which are "mined" using computer models that predict individual risk and credit-card use patterns. How the computer models work is a closely held secret, but they allow Capital One to identify and target very small segments of its customer base. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 14:25:08 EDT From: julien@crim.ca (Benoit Julien) To: mlss94@lri.fr, ai-stats@watstat.uwaterloo.ca, kdd@gte.com, ml@ics.uci.edu, mlnet@csd.abdn.ac.uk Subject: Re: ML in Engineering - 2nd Call for Participation Cc: julien@magnum.crim.ca Content-Type: text Content-Length: 578 *** IJCAI-95 Workshop on Machine Learning in Engineering *** Montreal, Canada Monday August 21, 1995 The workshop notes of the IJCAI-95 workshop are now available via anonymous ftp at "crim.ca", directory "gsbc/ijcai95-wk" or via the WEB at http://www.crim.ca:80/Domaines_Services/GSBC/index-english.html You can register for the IJCAI-95 conference (IJCAI-95 390$, IAAI-95 390$ before June 21, 450$ after June 21) and the workshop ($50.00) by sending e-mail to IJCAI/AAAI at ijcai@aaai.org or via the WEB at http:://ijcai.org/ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: bramerma@cv.port.ac.uk Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 21:40:36 GMT To: kdd@gte.com Subject: Research Studentship in Machine Learning/AI X-Vms-To: KDDLIST Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1414 UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Applications are invited for an Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Quota Research Studentship in Artificial Intelligence. The post is available from October 1995 for up to three years in the department's Artificial Intelligence Research Group, which is led by the Head of Department, Professor Max Bramer. Preference will be given to those with research interests in machine learning (particularly inductive learning, neural networks, case-based reasoning or genetic algorithms) but other areas of research in AI/Knowledge-Based Systems will be considered. Applicants should have (or expect soon to receive) at least an upper second class honours degree or the equivalent in computer science, artificial intelligence or other relevant subject. EPSRC nationality restrictions apply. Applicants should send a brief CV plus details of the proposed project (on paper not by email) as soon as possible to: Professor M.A.Bramer, Department of Information Science, University of Portsmouth, Locksway Road, Milton, Southsea PO4 8JF. For an informal discussion prior to application, contact Professor Bramer either by telephone (01705-844444) or by electronic mail (bramerma@csovax.portsmouth.ac.uk). >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: I Flockhart Date: Tue, 30 May 95 13:57:43 BST To: kdd@gte.com Subject: [Re: Significance levels for patterns] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 4675 Dear Gregory, Further to my previous post earlier today, I am now informed that David Jensen has placed the papers metioned in his reply on the Web. I have therefore included a modified summary of responses below: > From: "Jensen, David" > To: 'I Flockhart' > Subject: Significance levels for patterns > Date: Mon, 08 May 95 10:04:00 PDT > Encoding: 45 TEXT > X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 > > In the latest issue of KDD Nuggets, I saw your query about attaching > significance levels to patterns discovered by data mining systems. My > doctoral research was on this topic, and I continue to work in this area. > As you correctly identify, the problem is that data mining systems test > multiple correlated models. This violates the assumptions of both > conventional statistical tests and Bonferroni adjustments. > > I've published my work in two rather inaccessible locations. > > - KDD-91 > Jensen, D., "Knowledge discovery through induction with randomization > testing," Proceedings of the 1991 Knowledge Discovery in Databases Workshop, > G. Piatetsky-Shapiro (Ed.), AAAI, 1991, 148-159. > The paper described IRT (Induction with Randomization Testing), a system > that accurately tests the statistical significance of rules discovered with > extensive search. Unfortunately, the KDD-91 proceedings were not widely > disseminated (although my paper was cited in: G. Piatetsky-Shapiro et al., > "KDD-93: Progress and Challenges in Knowledge Discovery in Databases," AI > Magazine, Fall 1994, 15(3): 77-82.). > > - My dissertation > Jensen, D., Induction with Randomization Testing: Decision-oriented Analysis > of Large Data Sets," Doctoral dissertation, Washington University, St. > Louis, Missouri, May 1992. > A more complete description and testing of IRT. > > If you are interested, I'd be happy to send you copies of KDD paper and my > dissertation. I also have a draft paper on which I am working for future > publication. > > In addition, you may wish to look at: > > Feelders, A. and W. Verkooijen, "Which method learns the most from data? > Methodological issues in the analysis of comparative studies" Preliminary > papers of the Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and > Statistics, January 4-7, 1995, 219-225. > > Gascuel O., Caraux G., "Statistical significance in inductive learning", > ECAI 1992 (Vienna), Wiley, pp. 435-439. > > Hope this helps. > > David Jensen > djensen@ota.gov > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: "Jensen, David" > To: I Flockhart > Subject: Re: Significance levels for patterns > Date: Tue, 30 May 95 08:38:00 PDT > Encoding: 24 TEXT > X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 > > I finally have my papers available on the Internet. Sorry it took so long; > I had some problems getting the account set up. My personal Web page can be > found at: > > http://www.universe.digex.net/~djensen/ > > From there, you can get PostScript versions of my dissertation and two > papers relevant to significance testing in knowledge discovery. You can > access them by selecting "Papers and Presentations" from the main page. > Alternatively, the URLs are: > > http://www.universe.digex.net/~djensen/papers/dissertation.html > http://www.universe.digex.net/~djensen/papers/kdd91.html > http://www.universe.digex.net/~djensen/papers/maicss90.html > > These pages contain direct links to the PostScript versions. > > Given the way the account is set up, you can only get at the papers through > HTTP, not FTP. Let me know if this is a problem. Also, please let me know > if you have any trouble printing the PostScript. Hope these papers help! > > David Jensen > djensen@ota.gov Regards, .----------------------------------------------------------------------. | Ian Flockhart email: ianf@epcc.ed.ac.uk | | Applications Scientist Phone: +44 (0)31 650 5022 | | Fax: +44 (0)31 650 6555 | | | | e|p Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre e|p | | c|c University of Edinburgh c|c | | James Clerk Maxwell Building | | The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, | | Edinburgh EH8 3JZ. | `----------------------------------------------------------------------' >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 14:33:59 -0600 From: EBRSC ********************************* * Call For Papers * ********************************* Workshop on Rough Set Theory (RST'95) in Second Annual Joint Conference on Information Sciences Rough Seters are invited to join Fuzzy Seters to celebrate "30 years Anniversary of Fuzzy". Please submit your hardcopy paper to Akira Nakamura T.Y. Lin (Tsau Young Lin) Department of Computer Science Department of Mathematics Mejei University OR and Computer Science Kawasaki, 214, Japan San Jose State University, nakamura@cs.meiji.ac.jp San Jose, CA 95192, USA FAX: +81 44 934 7912. 408-924-5121(Voice) 408-924-5080(Fax) tylin@cs.sjsu.edu OR electronically to rst95@cs.sjsu.edu In addition to your submission of papers, please also send an e-mail to the same address in which you should include the title of the paper, the name of authors (and the contact author), affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, phone, and fax. You are encouraged to submit electronically in Plain Latex or Microsoft Word (binary), and their PS-files. Please back up your submission with hardcopy. The following important date are adopted from the Fourth Annual Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology: (1) Deadline for summaries submission: June 25, 1995. (2) Reviewing: June 25 - Aug. 1, 1995. (3) Decision & notification date: August 5, 1995. (4) Absolute deadline for summaries: August 25, 1995. (5) Deadline for full length paper: October 1, 1995. The abstracts of accepted papers will be published in the JCIS (Second Annual Joint Conference on Information Sciences) Proceedings. Accepted full papers will appear in the hard-covered proceeding (book) to be published by a publisher or Information Sciences Journal. For more details, please read the PUBLICATIONS section of the call for papers of JCIS. Workshop Organization Honorary Chair Zdzislaw Pawlak Chairs T. Y. Lin and Akira Nakamura Program Committee: Anuradha Annaswamy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Morteza Anvari, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A Nick Cercone, University of Regina, Canada, Jitender Deogun, Univ. of Nebraska, USA, Didier Dubois, Universite Paul-Sabtier, France Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, USA, Ray Hashemi, Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA, Michail B. Ignatiev, St Petersburg State Aerospace Instruments Academy, Russia, Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA, Toshinori Munakata, Cleveland State University, USA Akira Nakamura, Meiji University, Japan, Ewa Orlowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Zdzislaw Pawlak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, Henri Prade, Universite Paul-Sabtier, France Vijay Raghavan, University of Southwestern Louisiana,USA, Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA, Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland, Roman Slowinski, Technical University of Poznan, Poland, Hiroshi Tanaka, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan Shusaku Tsumoto, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, K. Venkatesh Prasad, Ricoh Corporation, U.S.A. Anita Wasilewska, State University of New York, U.S.A. Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada, Yiyu Yao, Lakehead University, Canada (Publicity), Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada, Jan Zytkow, Wichita State University, USA ---------------------------------------------------------- Second Annual Joint Conference on Information Sciences September 28 - October 1, 1995 HONORARY CONFERENCE CHAIRS Lotfi A. Zadeh & Azriel Rosenfeld Fourth Annual Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology Chair: Paul P. Wang Second Annual Conference on Computer Theory & Informatics Chair: Erol Gelenbe First Annual Conference on Computational Intelligence & Neurosciences Co-Chairs: Subhash C. Kak & Jeffrey P. Sutton ADVISORY BOARD Jim Anderson Earl Dowell Erol Gelenbe Kaoru Hirota George Klir Teuvo Kohonen Gregory Lockhead Zdzislaw Pawlak C. V. Ramamoorthy Herb Rauch John E. R. Staddon Masaki Togai Victor Van Beuren Max Woodbury Stephen S. Yau Lotfi A. Zadeh H. Zimmerman PROGRAM COMMITTEES Fourth Annual Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology Dev Garg I. R. Goodman Silvia Guiasu David B. Hertz Abdollah Homaifar Janusz Kacprzyk S. C. Kak Abe Kandel George Klir L. J. Kohout N. Kuroki T. Y. Lin Davender Malik John Mordeson James Murrell Akira Nakamura Zdzislaw Pawlak Arthur Ramer Sujeet Shenoi Frank S. Shih M. Sturzenbecker L. M. Sztandera Mark Timmerman I. B. Turksen Guo Jun Wang Paul P. Wang Thomas Whalen Edward K. Wong Ron Yager Second Annual Conference on Computer Theory & Informations R. Alonso Suguru Arimoto Michael Bushnell James Coggins Eliseo Clementini Christopher Deschenes E. M. Ehlers Ahmed Elmagarmid Erol Gelenbe George Georgiou Mohamed Gouda J. Guerrero Subhash C. Kak Abe Kandel A. A. Kadenski Devendra Kumar Tosiyasu L. Kunii Jason Lin Mi Lu Sridhar Narayan C. V. Ramamoorthy A. A. Radenski Srinivasan Padmini Edward W. Page George D. Stetten Frank S. Shih Stanley Y.W. Su Jeffrey Sutton Gene Tagliarini Pramod Varshney Benjamin Wah Z. A. Wahab Patrick P.S. Wang Edward K. Wong Lotfi A. Zadeh First Annual Conference on Computational Intelligence & Neurosciences Robert Erickson George Georgiou David Hislop Michael Huerta Subhash C. Kak Stephen Koslow Sridhar Narayan Slater E. Newman Gregory Lockhead Richard Palmer David C. Rubin Nestor Schmajuk David W. Smith John Staddon Jeffrey P. Sutton Harold Szu L.E.H. Trainor Abraham Waksman Paul Werbos M. L. Wolbarsht Max Woodbury TIME SCHEDULE & VENUE September 28 to October 1, 1995. The beautiful ``Shell Island'' Hotels of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, USA. Tel: 800-689-6765 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, PLENARY SPEAKERS The following distinguished, leading researchers have already accepted our invitation: Jim Anderson Zdzislaw Pawlak Azriel Rosenfeld L. E. H. Trainor Lotfi A. Zadeh The other leading researchers including: Stephen Grossbery, John Holland, John Staddon, Michio Sugeno, etc, are considering our invitations. ****************** * PUBLICATIONS * ****************** The joint conference publishes one Proceedings on Summaries which consist of all papers accepted by all three program committees. The JCIS Proceedings will be made available on Sept. 28, 1995. A summary shall not exceed 4 pages of 10-point font, double-column, single-spaced text, (1 page minimum) with figures and tables included. Any summary exceeding 4 pages will be charged $100 per additional page. Three copies of the summary are required by June 25,1995. A deposit of $150 check must be included to guarantee the publication of your 4 pages summary in the Proceedings. $150 can be deducted from registration fee later. It is very important to mark ``plan A'' or ``plan B'' or ``plan C'' on your manuscript. The conference will make the choice for you if you forget to do so. Final version of the full length paper must be submitted by October 1, 1995. Four (4) copies of the full length paper shall be prepared according to the ``information for Authors'' appearing at the back cover of Information Sciences, an International Journal (Elsevier Publishing Co.). A full paper shall not exceed 20 pages including figures and tables. All full length papers will be reviewed by experts in their respective fields. Revised papers will be due on April 15, 1996. Accepted papers will appear in the hard-covered proceeding (book) to be published by a publisher or Information Sciences Journal (INS journal now has three publications: Informatics and Computer Sciences, Intelligent Systems, Applications). All fully registered conference attendees will receive a copy of proceeding (summary) on September 28, 1995; a free one-year subscription (paid by this conference) of Information Sciences Journal - Applications. Lastly, the right to purchase either or all of Vol.I, Vol.II, Vol.III of Advances in FT & T hard-covered, deluxe, professional books at 1/2 price. The Title of the books are ``Advances in Fuzzy Theory & Technology, Volume I or II or III''. (1) Deadline for summaries submission: June 25, 1995. (2) Reviewing: June 25 - Aug. 1, 1995. (3) Decision & notification date: August 5, 1995. (4) Absolute deadline for summaries: August 25, 1995. (5) Deadline for full length paper: October 1, 1995. -------------------------------------- | ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS | -------------------------------------- General Information The Joint Conference on Information Sciences consists of three international conferences. All interested attendees including researchers, organizers, speakers, exhibitors, students and other participants should register either in Plan A: Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology or Plan B: Second International Conference on Computer Theory & Informatics and Plan C: First International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Neurosciences. *************************************************** * PLEASE NOTE: All Attendees must choose either * * Participation Plan A or * * Participation Plan B or * * Participation Plan C. * *************************************************** Any participants can attend all the keynote speeches, plenary sessions, all parallel sessions and exhibits. The only difference is that all authors registered in Plan A will automatically participate in Lotfi A. Zadeh Best Paper Competition. Both Plan B and Plan C will have no best paper competition. All technical papers submitted to FT & T, 1995 (Plan A) are automatically qualified as candidates for this award. The prize for this award is $2,500 plus hotel accommodations (traveling expenses excluded) at FT & T, 1996. The date for announcement of the best paper is May 30, 1996. Oral presentation in person at FT & T, 1996, is required and an acceptance speech at FT & T, 1996 is also required. The evaluation committee for FT & T, 1995 consists of the following 12 members: Bernadette Bouchon I. R. Goodman Janusz Kacprzyk George Klir John Mordeson Akira Nakamura Sujeet Shenoi H. Chris Tseng I. B. Turksen Thomas Whalen Edward K. Wong Ron Yager The selection of the top ten best papers will be decided by conference attendees and session chairs jointly. PARTICIPATION PLAN A: Fourth Annual Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on topics of critical interest and the direction of future research. For contributory sessions, full papers are being solicited. We welcome you to organize sessions. Example topics include, but are not limited to the following: Topics: 4th Annual Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology * Fuzzy Mathematics & Fuzzy Set Theory * Basic Principles and Foundations of Fuzzy Logic * Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Modeling * Hardware Implementations of Fuzzy Logic Algorithms * Design, Analysis, and Synthesis of Fuzzy Logic Controllers * Learning and Acquisition of Approximate Models * Fuzzy Expert Systems * Fuzzy Neural Systems * Efficiency/Robustness Comparisons with Other Direct Search Algorithms * Integration of Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Computing * Fuzzy Pattern Recognition * Implementations (electronic, Optical, Biochips) * Intelligent Control & Fuzzy Control Applications of the topics: * Hybrid Systems * Image Processing * Image Understanding * Pattern Recognition * Robotics, Automation & Manufacturing * Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems * Virtual Reality * Tactile Sensors * Machine Vision * Motion Analysis * Neuro Biology * Sensation and Perception * Sensorimotor Systems * Speec, Hearing and Language * Signal Processing * Time Series Analysis * Prediction * System Identification * System Control * Intelligent Information Systems * Case-Based Reasoning * Decision Analysis * Databases and Information Retrieval * Dynamic Systems Modeling & Diagnosis * Electrical & Nuclear Power Systems All above application areas are applicable to Plan B and Plan C. Highlight of Plan A: (1) Workshop on Rough Set Theory: The Rough Set Theory is another approach to vagueness and uncertainty. It is related to fuzzy sets and evidence theory. A set is rough if its lower and upper approximations are different; otherwise the set is crisp. This workshop will be organized by T. Y. Lin (tylin@jupiter.SJSU.EDU) and Akira Nakamura (nakamura@cs.meiji.ac.jp) or (FAX: +81 44 934 7912). At least four sessions are planned. (2) 30th Anniversary of Fuzzy Mathematics: The celebration will include the honoring of Professor Azriel Rosenfeld, Director of Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Rosenfeld is the father of several branches in the mathematical sciences, most notably fuzzy abstract algebra. Professor Rosenfeld will be present at the conference to speak about fuzzy mathematics. Please help Professors Wang and Mordeson plan the celebration by sending me your suggestions. Your suggestions may deal with the organization of a session or an exhibit with photographs and items of historical value, or even the publication of a book concerning fuzzy mathematics in general and fuzzy abstract algebra in particular. John N. Mordeson, Director Center for Research in Fuzzy Mathematics and Computer Science Creighton University OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68178 USA Telephone: 402 280 2478 Fax: 402 280 5758 E-mail: mordes@bluejay.creighton.edu *************** * TUTORIALS * *************** Several mini-courses are scheduled for sign-up. Please take note that any one of them may be cancelled or combined with other mini-courses due to the lack of attendance. Cost of each mini-course is $120 up to 7/15/95 & $160 after 7/15/95, the same cost for all mini-course. No. Name of Mini-Course Instructor Time ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Languages and Compilers for J. Ramanujan 6:30 pm - 9 pm Distributed Memory Machine Sept. 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- B Pattern Recognition Theory H. D. Cheng 6:30 pm - 9 pm Sept. 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- C Fuzzy Set Theory George Klir 2:00pm - 4:30pm Sept. 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- D Neural Network Theory Richard Palmer 2:00pm - 4:30pm Sept. 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- E Fuzzy Expert Systems I. B. Turksen 6:30 pm - 9 pm Sept. 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- F Intelligent Control Systems Chris Tseng 6:30 pm - 9 pm Sept. 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- G Neural Network Applications Subhash Kak 2:00pm - 4:30pm Sept. 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- H Pattern Recognition Applications Edward K. Wong 2:00pm - 4:30pm Sept. 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Fuzzy Logic & NN Integration Marcus Thint 9:30am - 12:00 Oct. 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- J Rough Set Theory Tsau Young Lin 9:30am - 12:00 Oct. 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************** * EXHIBITIONS * ***************** Once again, Intelligent Machines, Inc. will demonstrate their highly successful new software ``O'inca''-a FL-NN, Fuzzy-Neuro Design Framework. Elsevier Publishing Co. will lead major publishers for another successful exhibits. Dr. Hua Li of Texas Tech. Univ. will exhibit his hardware & software research results. In addition, we plan to celebrate 30th Anniversary of Fuzzy Theory & Technology through a special exhibit of historical aluable. This exhibition does not represent any society, it does represent, however, some personal collections. Any person has some interesting or collectibles to share ith the conference, please contact Paul P. Wang (ppw@ee.duke.edu). Interested Vendors should contact: Dr. Rhett George Department of Electrical Engineering Duke University Durham, NC 27708 Telephone: 919 660 5242 FAX: 919 660 5293 rtg@ee.duke.edu ******************************************** * JCIS'95 REGISTRATION FEES & INFORMATION * ******************************************** Up to 7/15/95 After 7/15/95 Full Registration $275.00 $395.00 Student Registration $100.00 $160.00 Tutorial(per Mini-Course) $120.00 $160.00 Exhibit Booth Fee $300.00 $400.00 One Day Fee(no pre-reg. discount) $195.00 $ 85.00 (Student) Above fees applicable to both Plan A & Plan B & Plan C FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Includes admission to all sessions, exhibit area, coffee, tea and soda. 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