KDD Nuggets 95:14, e-mailed 95-06-21 Contents: * Dante Assoc, full-time positions in Data Mining/Software Eng./AI * GPS, WWW Database Article Archive, http://www.lpac.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/Articles/DBArchive.html * B. Porter, White Cross Parallel Database Software * D. Sirey, Data Mining and Visualization positions -- Silicon Valley * Y. Kodratoff, Symposium on KDD at EMCSR'96 * T. Catarci, CFP: AVI'96 - Advanced Visual Interfaces 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 10:25:21 -0700 (PDT) From: DANTE ASSOCIATES Subject: Current Openings in Data Mining To: kdd%eureka@gte.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 3723 FULL TIME POSITIONS - Data Mining/Software Eng./AI We hired five people in May. Read on! Join a dynamic team developing leading-edge Data Mining software to extract patterns and other useful information from large quantities of data. The software incorporates deductive database technology, several inductive learning techniques, and data visualization. Several full-time positions are open on the team. All positions require a can-do attitude and a keen interest in data mining and related technologies. Position Number: BL1 Software Engineers (several openings) Strong UNIX and C/C++ programming skills are required for all software engineering positions. GUI development experience is a major plus. Knowledge of AI concepts is also a big plus. One position requires significant Prolog programming experience and familiarity with basic relational database issues. One position requires experience with commercial relational database management systems, either as an administrator or as a programmer. Education: BS or MS in Computer Science. Rate: $45 - $60K based upon experience. Position Number: BL2 Data Analyst (one opening) Applicants must have significant data analysis experience using a wide variety of analysis techniques and must be able to work well with customers. Knowledge of AI concepts is a big plus. Education: BS or MS in Computer Science or Mathematics. Experience: at least two years of practical data analysis. Rate: $50 - $65K based upon experience. Position Number: BL3 Software Engineer with solid statistics background (one opening) Knowledge of machine learning concepts and familiarity with several commercial statistics packages are required. Education: BS or MS in Computer Science or Mathematics. Experience: at least two years of data analysis/software development. Rate: $50 - $65K based upon experience. Position Number: BL4 Software Engineer with solid neural networks background (one opening) knowledge of other machine learning concepts and statistics required. Education: BS or MS in Computer Science or Mathematics. Experience: at least two years of neural network development/use. Rate: $50 - $65K based on experience. WHO ARE WE? The Research and Software Technology Divisions of a Fortune 20 Company are seeking bright and talented Software professionals to add to their workforce on a Full-time and on a Contract basis. We have had an influx of project work and have both junior and senior positions available. If you are a recent graduate, and interested in working in a research setting, we want to talk with you if you have several years of proven programming skills! *WHAT IS OUR WORKPLACE LIKE? We are researchers in an entrepreneurial environment. You will have flexibility to make a lot of your own goals - and work with other talented people in nice offices in Palo Alto. U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status is required for all positions. *HOW TO REACH US? For immediate consideration, fax or Email your resume to my attention. Please remember to reference the job number and let us know the best times and places to reach you. We will review your background and contact you to discuss the positions available. Send your resume via Email to: Susan Troccolo (ASCII or WinWord format) DANTE Associates DANTE@Netcom.com Via FAX on HIGH RES to: (415) 326-5969 or (415) 354-5235 No phone calls please. Principals only. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 09:24:55 -0400 From: gps@gte.com (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro) To: kdd Subject: (DBWORLD) WWW Database Article archive of papers. Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1607 WWW Database Article Archive ============================ URL: http://www.lpac.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/Articles/DBArchive.html SEL-HPC has created an archive of online papers related to all aspects of computer databases. The archive is extensible, where anyone can add their own, or anyone elses papers to the archive using a series of forms. The archive currently contains 145 articles in the following subject areas (comments and suggestions on new subject areas is greatly appreciated): [ 18 art] Relational Databases Information Retrieval: [ 24 art] Text Databases [ 8 art] Multimedia Databases [ 6 art] Geographic Information Systems [ 40 art] Object Orientated Databases [ 4 art] Data Mining [ 30 art] Databases with parallel processing [ 45 art] Miscellaneous ***Please add your own and anyone elses' papers to the archive*** *** *** *** http://www.lpac.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/Articles/DBAdd.html *** The archive also offers: o Cross referenced indexes by author, institution, conference, and journal. o The ability to modify existing entries in the archive. o Underlying BibTeX databases that are available for down-loading. o Fast searching of the archive using Perl regular expressions. o Authors the opportunity to add links to their home page. Any references to their name will then include a link to their page. o A list of new articles added to the archive each week. o A mailing list to keep you informed of any new articles >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Wed, 24 May 95 09:08:15 BST From: (Porter, Bill) Encoding: 552 Text, 20170 HEX, 7806 HEX, 15184 HEX, 8438 HEX To: KDD%EUREKA@gte.com Subject: White Cross Systems Documents White Cross Systems Ltd is pleased to announce the availability of its new release of parallel database systems software. New features in this release bring important advances in the use of high performance database technology for commercial decision support applications. The full information is in

Highlights

PowerJoins III - N-Way Joins/Parallel Subselect

Extends White Cross' unique capabilities in high speed complex processing in data mining applications to queries which need to relate data from many large tables. An insurance database user, for example, can now run queries in seconds to reveal high value information hidden in the relationships between separate client, policy, claims and premium files.

View Images

Is a highly flexible and efficient means of explicitly placing a data view in memory which reflects the user's current focus of interest. Existing White Cross customers will now find that they can substantially increase the quantity of data held in a memory image for a given RAM capacity.

View images can be created and dropped rapidly, and with considerably more ease than indexes in conventional RDBMS.

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 16:56:35 -0400 To: kdd@gte.com From: don@tsearch.com (Don Sirey) Data Mining, Data Visualization positions at top Silicon Valley Company! Full-Time Engineers with experience in Data Mining, Data Visualization and Artificial Intelligence are needed for a corporation in the South Bay to develop Advanced Applications SW to run on their Commercial Video/Media Servers as well as independant development. Systems SW experience or experience implementing software code preferred in background. Both junior level (right out of school) to senior level positions available. E-mailed resumes must be in ASCII. Don Sirey Consultant Technology Search International 181 Metro Drive, Suite 310 San Jose, CA 95110 VOICE 408.437.9500 don@tsearch.com FAX 408.437.1033 tsidon@aol.com >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:08:58 +0200 From: Yves.Kodratoff@lri.fr (Yves Kodratoff) To: gps0@ns.gte.com Subject: Symposium on Knowledge Discovery in Databases at EMCSR'96 April 9 -12, 1996 Information relative to the European Meeting on Cyb. and Sys. Res. in http://www.ai.univie.ac.at Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) is a new research area at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and databases. Hence, submitted papers must not describe only an improvement in one of the three concerned fields, but some interaction between at least two of them. KDD and Data Mining have already received attention from Industry, and we will welcome papers describing KDD applications on large sets of data of industrial interest. We would like to promote other issues as well, such as the formalization of the KDD approach (theories for KDD), and the epistemological, philosophical, and ethical issues. Just before the symposium, will take place a tutorial on KDD, delivered by Usama Fayyad and Evangelos Simoudis, two pioneers of this area. The tutorial costs $ 275 and its duration is about 4 hours of teaching. After the tutorial, a free demonstration of some publicly available KDD software will take place. *** Please reserve for the tutorial through the Conference Secretariat *** Selection committee: +++++++++++++++++++++ Pieter Adriaans, Christoph Breitner, Wray Buntine, Werner Emde, Usama Fayyad, Ronen Feldman, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Olivier Gascuel, Attilio Giordana, Willi Kloesgen, Yves Kodratoff, Heikki Mannila, Thierry van de Merckt, Ryszard Michalski, Katharina Morik, Vassilis Moustakis, Reza Nakhaeizadeh, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Luc De Raedt, Michele Sebag, Colin Shearer, Arno Siebes, Derek Sleeman, Charles Taylor, Ruediger Wirth, Stefan Wrobel. Submission Guidelines +++++++++++++++++++++ Acceptance of contributions will be determined on the basis of Draft Final Papers. These papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum 43 lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures. However, these need not be of reproducible quality. The Draft Final Paper must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (incl. e-mail address, if possible) in this order. ***Please specify the symposium in which you would like to present your paper.*** Each scientist shall submit only one paper. Please send four hard copies of the Draft Final Paper to the Conference Secretariat ****(do NOT send them to symposia chairpersons!) **** Electronic or fax submissions cannot be accepted. Deadline for Submission: October 12, 1995. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Notification of Acceptance/Rejection ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection no later than December 11, 1995. Successful authors will be provided by the conference secretariat at the same time with the instructions for the preparation of the final paper, which will also be available via ftp and World-Wide Web. Final Papers ++++++++++++ The final paper will be limited to a maximum of 6 pages (10-point, double column).Camera-ready copies of the final paper will be due at the conference secretariat by Jan. 29, 1996. Presentation ++++++++++++ It is understood that each accepted paper is presented personally at the Meeting by one of its authors. Conference Fee ++++++++++++++ AS 2800 if received before January 31, 1996 AS 3300 if received later AS 3800 if paid at the conference desk. Secretariat +++++++++++ I. Ghobrial-Willmann and G. Helscher Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria) Phone: +43-1-53532810 Fax: +43-1-5320652 E-mail: sec@ai.univie.ac.at >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 18:22:37 +0200 From: "Tiziana Catarci" To: kdd-request@gte.com Subject: AVI 96 cfp Content-Type: text Content-Length: 5635 AVI'96 Advanced Visual Interfaces: an International Workshop Gubbio, Italy, May 27-29, 1996 Under the patronage of the Universita' di Bari In cooperation with the Esprit 8422 "FADIVA" Working Group In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI (pending) The AVI'96 home page on the World Wide Web is: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/info.html PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS This Workshop has the aim of bringing together experts in different areas of computer science who have a common interest in the design and management of visual interfaces. This Workshop is the third of a series initiated with AVI'92 in Rome, and continued with AVI'94 in Bari. The Proceedings of AVI'92 and AVI'94 have been published by World Scientific and ACM Press respectively. Both formal methods and concrete applications fit well into the framework of this workshop. Since cognitive science and metaphor analysis have proved to be useful for understanding the basic mechanisms which allow visual interfaces to be easy to learn and use, these topics are also relevant to the workshop. Furthermore, we will focus on research in the areas of information visualization, graphical and pictorial communication tools, virtual reality applications, multimedia environments, WWW interfaces, visual languages, visual database systems, adaptive interfaces, and other recent technological developments. The program will comprise invited talks, given by leaders in the field, including: Stuart Card (Xerox PARC, USA), Alan Dix (University of Huddersfield, UK), Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto, Canada), Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland, USA). TOPICS Visual Interface Design and Management Visual Interaction Interface Evaluation Controlled Studies and Usability Testing Animated Interfaces Adaptive Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Virtual Reality Visualization Visual Databases Visual Query Systems Dynamic Queries Cognitive Models of User Metaphor Analysis Hypermedia & Multimedia WWW interfaces PAPER SUBMISSION We strongly encourage submissions that address research and development on the above and other related topics, or that propose new approaches suitable for fulfilling the demands that characterizes advanced interfaces of the next generation. Please submit six copies of an 8000 word original manuscript to: Tiziana Catarci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel/Fax: +39-6-49918331 E-mail: catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it and tic@cs.brown.edu DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION The Exhibit Program will primarily consist of demonstrations of software prototypes from universities and research laboratories. Demonstration proposals can be submitted to the Exhibits Program by submitting a project/system description of up to 3,000 words. In addition, publishers are invited to exhibit books and related journals. Exhibits Program submissions should be sent to: Giuseppe Santucci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel: +39-6-85300817 Fax: +39-6-85300849 E-mail: santucci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it IMPORTANT DATES Paper and demo proposal submission: November 1, 1995 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 1996 Camera-ready paper: February 7, 1996 Accepted papers and system descriptions that will be presented at the Workshop will be included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press. GENERAL CHAIR Stefano Levialdi Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel: +39-6-8841962 Fax: +39-6-8841964 e-mail: levialdi@dsi.uniroma1.it PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Tiziana Catarci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel/Fax: +39-6-49918331 E-mail: catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it, tic@cs.brown.edu Maria Francesca Costabile Universita' di Bari, Dipartimento di Informatica, Via Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy. Tel/Fax: +39-80-5443300 E-mail: fcosta@iesi.ba.cnr.it EXHIBIT PROGRAM CHAIR Giuseppe Santucci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel: +39-6-85300817 Fax: +39-6-85300849 E-mail: santucci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean-Francois Abramatic (INRIA, France) Christopher Ahlberg (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden) Heinz Dieter Boecker (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Richard Cooper (Univ. of Glasgow, UK) Isabel Cruz (Tufts Univ., USA) Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. of Firenze, Italy) Yves Dennebouy (EPFL, Switzerland) Max Egenhofer (Univ. of Maine, USA) Jim Foley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Phil Gray (Univ. of Glasgow, UK) Matthias Hemmje (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Hubertus Hohl (Siemens, Germany) Rob Jacob (Tufts Univ., USA) Raghu Kolli (Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands) Kim Marriott (Monash, Australia) Piero Mussio (Univ. of Roma, Italy) Paolo Paolini (Univ. of Lecce, Italy) Steven Pemberton (CWI, The Netherlands) Ramana Rao (Xerox PARC, USA) Thomas Rist (DFKI, Germany) Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland, USA) Maurizio Talamo (Univ. of Roma, Italy) Roberto Tamassia (Brown Univ., USA) Yuzuru Tanaka (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) Genoveffa Tortora (Univ. of Salerno, Italy) Manfred Tscheligi (Univ. of Vienna, Austria) Kent Wittenburg (Bellcore, USA) Tiziana Catarci Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma ITALY Tel. +39-6-49918331 Fax. +39-6-49918331 or +39-6-85300849 E-mail catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it or tic@cs.brown.edu >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~