KDD Nuggets 95:19, e-mailed 95-08-15 Contents: * P. Smyth, Late-breaking information for KDD95 * D. Snocken, Amendment to S*i*ftware entry for NETMAP * J. Zytkow, Special issue on AUTOMATED DISCOVERY The KDD Nuggets is a moderated mailing list for news and information relevant to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). 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 Organization: ALTA Analytics Ltd To: kdd@gte.com Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 16:30:10 +0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Amendment to S*i*ftware entry for NETMAP Reply-To: davids@alta-uk.co.uk Dear KDD Nuggets Moderator, The following text is a completed template entry for the NETMAP product entry for inclusion in the S*i*ftware section of your WWW pages :- Many Thanks in advance, *Discovery methods: Visualisation, Clustering, Deviation Detection and Link analysis *Comments: NETMAP is a general purpose, information visualisation tool which supports analysts in the process of identifying patterns, trends and targets from multiple data sources. NETMAP has been used in many industry sectors during its history as a UNIX based Data Mining tool. It has proved most effective in mining potential fraud cases from large qualitative, text based datasets distributed across large corporate networks. It is in this area that most of the installed base of users exists, particularly within the US Government. NETMAP has also been used for many years as an organisational analysis tool to discover, by means of a questionnaire, the hidden informal teams working within large organisations. More recently NETMAP has been successfully applied to marketing analysis in a number of industry sectors. "NETMAP is generating an unusual level of excitement among computer professionals who are immune to most claims of exponential technical advances and gee-whiz products" - New Scientist (Additional information and Case Studies are available from the contacts below) *Source: ALTA Analytics *Platform(s): UNIX Workstations HP 9000/700 series IBM RS/6000 BULL DPX SUN Sparc DECstation DEC Alpha *Contact: In the United States ALTA Analytics, Inc. Corporate Headquarters, Sales and Customer Support 555 Metro Place North, Suite 175, Dublin. OH 43017 USA. Telephone: +1 (614) 792 2222 Facsimilie: +1 (614) 792 3694 Tollfree: +1 (800) 872 7144 Customer Support Tollfree USA: +1 (800) 545 9329 Email: info@alta-oh.com, sales@alta-oh.com Washington D.C. Sales and Customer Service 2000 15th St North, Suite 507, Arlington, VA 22201 USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 243 0848 Facsimilie: +1 (703) 243 0782 Tollfree USA: +1 (800) NETMAPS (638 6277) Email: info@alta-va.com, sales@alta-va.com In Europe ALTA Analytics Ltd UK/Europe Sales and Customer Support 18 Savile Row, London, W1X 1AE, Telephone: +44 (171) 437 7009 Facsimilie: +44 (171) 437 1797 Email: info@alta-uk.co.uk, sales@alta-uk.co.uk *Status: Commercial strength product *Updated: David Snocken, davids@alta-uk.co.uk, 1995-08-08 ------------------------------ David Snocken ALTA Analytics Ltd 18 Savile Row, London. W1X 1AE Telephone: +44 (0)171 437 7009 Fax: +44 (0)171 437 1797 Email: davids@alta-uk.co.uk >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:52:38 -0500 From: zytkow@lore.cs.twsu.edu (jan zytkow) While new journals are started every day, there is something special about "Foundations of Science". This is why I recommend your attention: (1) The second issue is dedicated to automated discovery, with excellent papers by Herbert Simon and Wei-Min Shen, several commentaries and Simon's response (details below). (2) The subject matter of the journal is of direct importance to all who are interested in automation of discovery. The majority of the issues of FOS will serve as a handbook on the designated topic, and the articles should have long term reference value. In my opinion, our field of automated discovery needs such a source of ideas about science. (3) it is inexpensive -- see the details below Foundations of Science is a new journal, focussing on foundational issues in science, language, and cognition. *** FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, Volume 1, number 2, August 1995 Special issue on AUTOMATED DISCOVERY Herbert Simon...Machine Discovery Wei-Min Shen....The Process of Discovery Jan Zytkow......Creating a Discoverer: Autonomous Knowledge Seeking Agent Comments on Simon's paper by Margaret A. Boden .........Commentary on Simon's paper on "Machine Discovery" Gerd Grasshoff ............The methodological function of surprises Andrzej Lewenstam .........Focus the cognitive modeling on real scientists Aleksandar Milosavljevic ..Discovery process as a search for concise encoding of the observed data Raul Valdes-Perez .........Machine discovery praxis Herbert Simon's reply to the commentators FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, volume 1, number 1, March 1995 FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE - DISCUSSION:........................5-18 Bas van Fraassen...A Philosophical Approach to Foundations of Science Patrick Suppes.....A Pluralistic View of Foundations of Science Arne Collen........The Foundations of Science THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS: David Freedman.....Some Issues in the Foundations of Statistics...19-39 Comments by James Berger, E. L. Lehmann, Paul Holland, Clifford Clogg, Neil Henry............................41-67 David Freedman.....Rejoinder......................................69-83 Diedrik Aerts and Sven Aerts......Applications of Quantum Statistics in Psychological Studies of Decision Processes...............85-97 Maria Carla Galavotti...Operationism, Probability and Quantum Mechanics....................................................99-118 Paul Humphreys..........Computational Empiricism.................119-130 VARIA: Joseph Agassi...........Blame Not the Laws of Nature.............131-154 Executive Editors: Paul Humphreys, Philosophy Department, 521 Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22903, USA. Phone: (804) 924 - 6921. E-mail: pwh2a@virginia.edu Ryszard Wojcicki, (Editor-in-Chief), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland. Telefax: (48-2) 635-4038. E-mail: iandi@plearn.edu.pl Advisory Editors: Jeffrey Bub (USA), Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara (Italy), Newton C. A. da Costa (Brazil), Chico Doria (Brazil), V. K. Finn (Russia), Allan Franklin (USA), C. U. Moulines (Germany), Fritz Rohrlich (USA), Bas van Fraassen (USA), Jan Zytkow (USA) SUBSCRIPTION ORDER INFORMATION All the subscription matters are handled by Foundations of Science D.O.(Distribution Office) P.O. Box 32106, Raleigh NC 27622-2106, USA. Phone 919-676-9211. Subscriptions for Vol.1, issues 1 & 2 is $22 for the members of the Association for Foundations of Science (no membership fee), and $35 for other individuals. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~