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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:11, e-mailed 96-04-01

Contents:
News:
* GPS, KDD-96 -- around 200 submissions received!
* T. Duczmal, ZDM Scientific Ltd Offers Data Mining Services,
http://www.cadvision.com/zdm.sci
Publications:
* B. Whitehall, Intelligent Data Analysis Journal CFP,
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ida
* W. Shannon, Book Review: ML, Neural, Statistical Classification
Positions:
* P. Clayton-Smith, MANAGER OF INFORMATION AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
Meetings:
* J. Han, ACM-SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Program,
http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html
* R. Zicari, Internet Forum Europe`96 (IFE`96)
http://www.omg.org/ow/owgerm.htm
* A. Sharma, Final CFP: ALT'96, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~alt96/

--
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery community,
focusing on the latest research and applications.

Contributions are most welcome and should be emailed,
with a DESCRIPTIVE subject line (and a URL, when available) to (kdd@gte.com).
E-mail add/delete requests to (kdd-request@gte.com).

Nuggets frequency is approximately weekly.
Back issues of Nuggets, a catalog of S*i*ftware (data mining tools),
and a wealth of other information on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
is available at Knowledge Discovery Mine site, URL http://info.gte.com/~kdd.

-- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Information is the currency of our era, but what is its value?
Information is not knowledge, and it surely is not wisdom.

-John Lippman, Wall Street Journal, 28 March 1996

Knowledge helps you make a living. Wisdom helps you make a life.

-Fortune from a fortune cookie (thanks to Haym Hirsh)

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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:33:38 -0500
From: gps0@eureka (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro)
Subject: KDD-96 -- around 200 submissions received!

I have been informed by KDD-96 co-chairs that around 200
submissions were received (compared to about 130 for KDD-95).


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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 12:51:50 -0700
To: kdd@gte.com
From: tduczmal@cadvision.com (Tom Duczmal)
Subject: ZDM Scientific Ltd Offers Data Mining Services.

We would like to announce that the new Data Mining service is available
through Internet. ZDM Scientiifc Ltd specialize in custom Data Mining
services and Real Time Expert Systems development. The company is located
in Calgary and will conduct business globally over the Internet.
Additional information can be obtained from our web site at
http://www.cadvision.com/zdm.sci
Thank you
kind regards
Tom Duczmal, Ph.D.


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>~~~Publications:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:14:50 -0500 (EST)
From: blw@utrc.utc.com (Brad Whitehall)
Subject: Intelligent Data Analysis Journal CFP

Dear Dr. Piatetsky-Shapiro,

I hope the readers of KDD Nuggets will find this new journal
interesting
and relevant. Included are some comments from the Editor-in-Chief.

Thank you,
Brad Whitehall

-------------------

Intelligent Data Analysis - An International Journal has officially
been announced by Elsevier and the journal home page has been
built. Following is the call for papers which includes the journal
URL.

Since the first issue of the IDA journal is planned to be launched
during
the first quarter of 1997, this means that our review process should
start
early May 96. We therefore need a number of good papers within the next
2-3
months. Please send the journal announcement to your colleagues and
make
every effort to attract potential authors to submit their papers to our
journal.

A. Famili


C A L L F O R P A P E R S (New Journal)
==========================================

Intelligent Data Analysis - An International Journal

An electronic, Web-based journal
Published by Elsevier Science


URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ida
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ida


Important e-mail addresses:

Editor-in-Chief: famili@ai.iit.nrc.ca
Editorial Office: h.dalterio@elsevier.com
Subscription Information: USDirect@elsevier.com



Introduction
------------

As science and engineering disciplines become more and more
computerized,
the volume and complexity of the data produced on a day-to-day basis
quickly
becomes overwhelming. Traditional data analysis approaches have
proven
limited in their ability to generate useful information. In a wide
variety
of disciplines (as diverse as financial management, engineering,
medical/
pharmaceutical research and manufacturing) researchers are
adapting
Artificial Intelligence techniques and using them to conduct
intelligent
data analysis and knowledge discovery in large data sets.


Aims/Scope
----------

The journal of Intelligent Data Analysis will provide a forum
for the
examination of issues related to the research and
applications of
Artificial Intelligence techniques in data analysis across a
variety of
disciplines. These techniques include (but are not limited to): all
areas of
data visualization, data pre-processing (fusion, editing,
transformation,
filtering, sampling), data engineering, database mining techniques,
tools
and applications, use of domain knowledge in data analysis,
machine
learning, neural nets, fuzzy logic, statistical pattern
recognition,
knowledge filtering, and post-processing. In particular, we prefer
papers
that discuss development of new AI architectures,
methodologies, and
techniques and their applications to the field of data analysis.
Papers
published in this journal will be geared heavily towards applications,
with
an anticipated split of 70% of the papers published being
applications-
oriented, and the remaining 30% containing a more theoretical
material.


Editor-in-Chief:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A. Famili
National Research Council of Canada,
Canada


Editorial Board:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Timothy Bailey Francesco Bergadano
San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of Torino,
USA Italy


Pierre Boulanger Pavel Brazdil
National Research Council of University of Porto,
Canada, Canada Portugal


Carla E. Brodley Paul R. Cohen
Purdue University, University of Massachusetts,
USA USA

Luc De Raedt Doug Fisher
Catholic University of Leuven, Vaderbilt University,
Belgium USA

Matjaz Gams James Garrett, Jr.
Jozef Stefan Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
Slovenia USA

Larry Hall Alois Heinz
University of South Florida, Universitaet Freiburg,
USA Germany


Achim G. Hoffmann Jane Hsu
University of New South Wales, National Taiwan University,
Australia Taiwan


Scott Huffman Xiaohui Liu
Price Waterhouse Technology Center, University of London,
USA UK


Ramon Lopez de Mantaras David Lubinsky
Artificial Intelligence Research University of The
Witwatersrand,
Institute, Spain South Africa


Nicolaas J.I. Mars Stan Matwin
University of Twente, University of Ottawa,
The Netherlands Canada


Claire Nedellec Raymond Ng
Universite Paris-Sud, University of British Columbia,
France Canada


Alun Preece Lorenza Saitta
University of Aberdeen, University of Torino,
UK Italy


Alberto Maria Segre Wei-Min Shen
The University of Iowa, University of Southern
California,
USA USA


Evangelos Simoudis Stephen Smith
IBM Research Almaden Research Carnegie Mellon University,
Center, USA USA


Tony Smith George Tecuci
University of Waikato, George Mason University,
New Zealand USA


Richard Weber Sholom Weiss
Management Intelligent Technologies Rutgers University,
GmbH, Germany USA


Bradley Whitehall Gerhard Widmer
United Technologies Research Center, Austrian Research Institute for
USA Artificial Intelligence,
Austria


Janusz Wnek H.-J. Zimmermann
George Mason University, RWTH Aachen,
USA Germany




Information for Authors:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. General

The journal of Intelligent Data Analysis invites submission of
research
and application papers within the aims and scope of the
journal. In
particular, we prefer papers that discuss development of new AI
architec-
tures, methodologies, and techniques and their applications to the
field of
data analysis.

2. Manuscript

The manuscript should be in the following format. The first page
of the
paper should contain the title (preferably less than 10 words), the
name(s),
address(es), affiliation(s) and e-mail(s) of the author(s). The first
page
should also contain an abstract of 200-300 words, followed by 3-5
keywords.

3. Submission

To speed up the production process, authors should submit the
text of
original papers in PostScript (compressed file), to the
Editor-in-Chief
(address below). Any graphical or tabular files should be sent in
separate
files in Encapsulated PostScript or GIF format. The corresponding
author
will receive an acknowledgement, by e-mail.

(

The standard format (Times Roman) is preferred. The Manuscript
should not
exceed 35-40 pages of text (or the compressed/uuencoded PostScript
file
should not be more than 1.0 Meg).

4. References

All references in the paper should be listed in alphabetical order
under the
first author's name and numbered consecutively by arabic
numbers. The
structure of the references should be in the following format:

(a) Example of journal papers:
R.A. Brooks, Intelligence without Representation, Artificial
Intelligence,
47 (1) (1991), 139-159.

(b) Example of monographs:
A. Basilevsky, Applied Matrix Algebra in the Statistical Sciences,
North-
Holland, Amsterdam, (1983).

(c) Example of edited volume papers:
J. Pan and J. Tenenbaum, An Intelligent Agent Framework for
Enterprise
Integration, in: A. Famili, D. Nau and S. Kim, eds., Artificial
Intelligence
Applications in Manufacturing, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1992),
349-383.

(d) Example of conference proceedings papers:
R. Sutton, Planning by Incremental Dynamic Programming, in:
Proceedings of
the 8th International Machine Learning Workshop, Evanston, IL, USA,
Morgan
Kaufmann, (1991), 353-357.

(e) Example of unpublished papers:
C. H. Watkins, Learning from Delayed Rewards, Ph.D. Thesis, Cambridge
Uni-
versity, Cambridge, England, (1989).

5. The Review Process

Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. The authors
will
receive the results of the review process through e-mail. The
authors of
conditionally accepted papers are expected to revise their papers
within
2-3 months.


6. Proofreading

Authors will be responsible for proofreading. Final copies of papers
will
be made available to the author and should be verified by the author
within
three working days. No new material may be inserted in the text at the
time
of proofreading.

7. Final Manuscript

When paper accepted, the publisher requires an electronic copy of the
paper
in one of the following formats, along with the originals of figures
and
tables.

Papers can be submitted in any one of the following formats:

- FrameMaker,
- WordPerfect,
- MicroSoft Word or
- Postscript.

Graphical files must be submitted separately, in either PostScript or
GIF
formats. A paper copy original is also required for any graphical
material.


Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis will be a fully electronic,
refereed
quarterly journal. It will contain a number of innovative features
not
available in comparable print publications. These features include:

- An alerting service notifying subscribers of new papers in the
journal,
- Links to large data collections, including the U.C. Irvine
Machine
Learning Repository Database,
- Links to secondary collection of data related to material
presented in
the journal,
- The ability to test new search mechanisms on the collection of
journal
articles,
- Links to related bibliographic material.


If you are interested in receiving further announcements or
subscription
information about the upcoming journal, Intelligent Data Analysis,
please
send e-mail to:

h.dalterio@elsevier.com


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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:42:19 -0600 (CST)
From: William Shannon (shannon@osler.wustl.edu)
Subject: Book Review: ML, Neural, Statistical Classification


The Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 91, Num. 433,
March 1996, has a book review on page 436 which might be of interest to
readers.

'Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification'
eds. Donald Michie, David Spiegelhalter, and Charles Taylor

The reviewer is John Elder.



William D. Shannon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Division of General Medical Sciences
Campus Box 8005, 660 S. Euclid
St. Louis, MO 63110

Phone: 314-454-8356
Fax: 314-454-5113
e-mail: shannon@osler.wustl.edu


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>~~~Positions:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:23:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Penelope Clayton-Smith (penelope@metronet.com)
To: kdd@gte.com
Subject: Position

If the position seems somewhat fuzzy in it's definition, I believe that
the candidate's skill set will help define the position. The company is
located in the west,very supportive and dedicated to new technologies
that can improve production. The candidate in this position will need to be
savvy of corporate politics, but if capable of articulating technological
benefit, will find the company will commit long term resources for
project's completion.

The fee is paid by the company, always...No resumes are released before
the candidate gives permission. We are not a resume mill. Thanks.

MANAGER OF INFORMATION AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

Ph.D level researcher to direct the future data
needs of this manufacturer. Candidate needs excellent database development
skills, but beyond that, must be able to plan, communicate and advocate
emerging informational technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead a group of professionals conducting research in information
management technologies. Identify emerging information management
solutions. Work with various research organizations to prototype new
technologies, assess and implement new products. The program includes all
aspects of information management and covers such diverse areas as
information integration, repository technologies, data warehousing,
distributed system transactions, advanced storage concepts, Web access to
information, organization and retrieval of multimedia data and management
of complex scientific databases and documents.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Advanced degree or equivalent experience in information management.
Demonstrated track record in research or advanced development in the field.
This include repository technology and advanced concepts for
representation of complex knowledge, database management tools such as
relational, object oriented and deductive database management software.
Information access which implies distributed data management.
Inclusion of new data types such as video, graphics and audio.

Prior experience in line management is desirable. US citizenship is
required.

If interested, please contact
____________________________________________________________>
| Penelope Clayton-Smith, CPC* |penelope@metronet.com|
> | High Technology Recruitment,Inc | (214) 407-0303 |
> | P.O. Box 28571 |
> | Dallas, TX 75228 |
| |
| |
|_*Certified Personnel Consultant__________________________|


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>~~~Meetings:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: han@cs.sfu.ca
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 23:10:39 PST
Subject: ACM-SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Advance Program and Registration Information

ACM-SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Advance Program and Registration Information

Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'96 and IRIS/Precarn
Montreal, Canada, June 2 (Sunday) 1996
===========================================

Workshop (SIGMOD'96 DMKD) Home Page: http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA
Arbee L.P. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Ming-Syan Chen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wesley Chu, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Son Dao, Hughes Research Labs, USA
Christos Faloutsos, AT&T and Univ. of Maryland, USA
Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, USA
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada
Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Tomasz Imielinski, Rutger University, USA
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
Willi Kloesgen, GMD, Germany
Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada
Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada
KayLiang Ong, Trilogy, USA
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories, USA
Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mitre Corp., USA.
Shalom Tsur, Argonne National Research Lab, USA
S.K. Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada
Carlo Zaniolo, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada (han@cs.sfu.ca).
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada (laks@cs.concordia.ca).
Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada (rng@cs.ubc.ca).

IMPORTANT DATES

Final Camera-Ready Version due: April 15, 1996
Early registration deadline: May 10, 1996.

ADVANCE PROGRAM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

9:00 -- 9:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:10 -- 9:50 Invited Speaker: Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
9:50 -- 10:00 Coffee Break

Session I Mining Spatial Data/Classification
10:00 -- 10:20 'Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Databases: Progress and
Challenges,' K. Koperski, J. Adhikary, and J. Han (SFU)
10:20 -- 10:40 'Spatial Data Mining: Discovering Knowledge of Clusters from
Maps,' R. Ng (UBC)
10:40 -- 11:00 'On Preprocessing Data for Effective Classification,'
H. Lu, S. Sung and Y. Lu (Nat. U. of Singapore)
11:00 -- 11:05 'BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large
Databases,' T. Zhang, R. Ramakrishnan, M. Livny (Wisconsin)
11:05 -- 11:10 'A Visual Language for Interactive Data Exploration,'
P. Selfridge and D. Srivastava (AT & T)

Session II Mining Relational/Transactional Data
11:20 -- 11:40 'Incremental Discovery of Sequential Patterns,'
K. Wang and J. Tan (Nat. U. of Singapore)
11:40 -- 12:00 'DMQL: A Data Mining Query Language for Relational Databases,'
J. Han, Y. Fu, K. Koperski, W. Wang and O. Zaiane (SFU)
12:00 -- 12:20 'Distributed Tree Induction for Knowledge Discovery in Very
Large Distributed Databases,' J. Arguello (Florida)
12:20 -- 12:25 'Internet Search using Information Mining,' I. Khosla,
B. Kuhn and N. Soparkar (Michigan)
12:25 -- 12:30 'Supporting Information Infrastructure for Distributed,
Heterogeneous Knowledge Discovery,' M. Novak and
R. King (Colorado)

13:30 -- 14:30 Data Mining System Demonstration.
14:30 -- 15:10 Invited Speaker: Tej Anand (AT & T) 'Knowledge Discovery
for Data Warehouses'
Session III Mining Object and Complex Data
15:20 -- 15:40 'From File Mining to Database Mining,' T. Imielinski (Rutgers)
15:40 -- 16:00 'Early Experience with a System for Mining, Estimating, and
Optimizing Large Collections of Objects Managed Using an
Object Warehouse,' R. Grossman (Magnify, Inc.)
16:00 -- 16:20 'Mining Knowledge in Object-Oriented Frameworks for
Semantic Query Processing,' S. Yoon (Widener U.) and
L. Henschen (Northwestern)
16:20 -- 16:25 'Data Mining Opportunities in Very Large Object Oriented
Databases,' B. Wuthrich and K. Karlapalem (HKUST)
16:25 -- 16:30 'Middleware Support for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
in Large-scale Distributed Information Systems,'
A. Bestavros (Boston U.)
16:30 -- 16:40 Coffee Break

Session IV Miscellaneous
16:40 -- 17:00 'Security and Privacy Implications of Data Mining,'
C. Clifton (Mitre) and D. Marks (Defense)
17:00 -- 17:20 'Data mining as selective theory extraction in probabilistic
logic,' M. Jaeger (Max-Planck-Institut), H. Mannila (Helsinki),
and E. Weydert (Max-Planck-Institut)
17:20 -- 17:25 'User-Assisted Knowledge Discovery: How Much Should the User
Be Involved,' A. Silberschatz (Bell Labs) and
A. Tuzhilin (New York)
17:25 -- 17:30 'Split_Up system: Data mining in the legal domain,'
J. Zeleznikow and A. Stranieri (La Trobe U.)
17:30 -- 17:35 'Using inductive learning and data mining to build legal case
based reasoners,' J. Zeleznikow and G. Vossos (La Trobe U.),

Session V Panel Discussion
17:45 -- 18:30 'Bridging Data Mining and Data Warehousing'


Data Mining System Demonstration
--------------------------------

We encourage the demonstrations of your data mining systems during the
system demo session (13:30 -- 14:30). There is no 'official' call for
demos. If you plan to give a system demo, please e-mail one paragraph
demo proposal to han@cs.sfu.ca. You are responsible to bring your own
equipments for demonstration. If you need any help on demo equipments,
please contact us as soon as possible.

Workshop Registration Form
--------------------------

SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Registration Form

(Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,
in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'96 and IRIS/Precarn,
Montreal, Canada, June 2 1996)

For workshop information, please check http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html.
For registration information, please call: (514) 847-0522.
Sorry, no email registration!

Mail or Fax to: SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Registration
UQAM Department of Computer Science
C.P. 8888 Station C.V.
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8
Canada
Email: sigmod96@uqam.ca
Fax: (514) 987-8477

PLEASE PRINT:

Last Name: First Name:

Affiliation: Phone:

Address:


Fax: Email:

(needed_for_email_acknowledgment) _____________________

Workshop registration includes admission to the workshop, one copy of the
workshop proceedings, and the coffee breaks.

Please print the amount you are paying and circle the currency of payment.
____________________________________________________________________________
Category Duration Early Registration(?) US $ Cdn $
____________________________________________________________________________

Data Mining Workshop June 2, 1996 Before May 10 80 110 $ _____
Data Mining Workshop June 2, 1996 After May 10 102 140 $ _____
____________________________________________________________________________

Payment can be made by check, money order, or credit card. Please make checks
or money orders payable, in US or Canadian currency, to ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1996.

Note: Credit cards will be charged only in Canadian currency.

Please check here __ if you are enclosing a check or money order.

Credit Card: __ VISA __ Mastercard Credit Card Number:
Cardholder Name: Credit Card Expiration Date:
Signature: Total Charge Authorized: Cdn $ ___

Requests for refunds of registration fees will only be honored through May 2.
Refunds are subject to a US $50 processing fee. All no-show registrations
will be billed in full. Note: Receipts will be given out at the workshop.


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From: 'Prof. Zicari' (zicari@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de)
Subject: ife
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:27:30 +0100 (MEZ)

NEW INTERNET SHOW IN EUROPE


LogOn and Object World Corp. has launched a brand new trade show called

Internet Forum Europe`96 (IFE`96)

covering the busines aspects of the Internet/Intranet.

The show will be a collocated event with Object World Frankfurt 96
(see attached fact sheet).

The venue and the dates are the same as Object World Frankfurt`96,
Sheraton Conference Center (Airport), Frankfurt/Main., October 9-11, 1996

As the Program Chair of IFE I am currently looking for
qualified speakers who want to present at the IFE conference.

Please send your proposals to Roberto_Zicari@omg.org ,
or fax it to +49-6173- 94 04 20, including:

- a title of a presentation
- name of speaker
- short bio
- target audience


If your company is interested in exhibiting at IFE or wish to have more
information on the IFE exhibition please contact:

Mrs. Christiane Sattler,
e-mail: 100425.764@compuserve.com (Christiane Sattler)

Mrs. Gudrun Schmidt,
e-mail: 101473.327@compuserve.com ( Schmidt Gudrun)

both at LogOn (Tel +49-6173- 28 52, Fax. +49-6173- 94 04 20)

Regards

Roberto Zicari
IFE Chair


******************* INTERNET Forum Europe '96 **********************

Facts & Information


Date: October 9-11, 1996
Location: Sheraton Hotel Conference Center (Airport),
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Tutorials: October 9, 1996
Conference: October 10-11, 1996
Exhibition: October 10-11, 1996


Focus
Internet Forum Europe (IFE) is an international trade show focused exclusively
on the business aspects of the Internet/Intranet. The show is composed
of a conference and an exhibition.
For 1996, the show is a collocated event with Object World Frankfurt'96.

Conference Topics
The Internet Forum Europe'96 conference program will examine the following
topics:

Infrastructure: How to get started using the Internet. (Providers,
Products/Services to enable access to the Internet)

Services: Which services are available via Internet , how to use them , how to
select and compare them. (E-mail, World Wide Web, telnet, ftp, News)

Electronic Commerce: (Electronic Payment, Online Retail)

Electronic Content Management :(Multimedia Asset Management, Rights and
Royalties)

Training: Basic and advanced classes on using the Internet (E-mail, WWW, ftp)

Business: What are the business opportunities using the Internet.

Regulations: What are the legal, social implications of the Internet.

World Wide Web: Addressing all aspects of using the WWW, writing your own Web
pages, building a WWW site.

Software Development: How to write software for the Internet. (Security,
Marketing, Browsers, Search Engines,etc.)

Java: Focus on Java related development aspects.

Target Audience/Attendees
Internet Forum Europe'96 will attract professionals ranging from small business
up to large corporations who are interested in the business aspects of the
Internet, ranging from technical professionals to business decision makers and
end users, from private and public organizations.

Target Audience/ Exhibitors
The Internet Forum Europe'96 Exhibition will consist of leading companies
offering products and/or services for the Internet, including but not limited
to: Internet access providers, On-line service providers, Internet consultancy
companies, companies offering World Wide Web related products and/or services,
companies offering Java-related products and/or services, Marketing and PR
companies using Internet, On-line Publishers.

Size: Internet Forum Europe'96 is a collocated event with Object World
Frankfurt'96. Object World Frankfurt has entered its fifth consecutive year. It
has experienced continuous growth as a result of the increasing adoption of OT
by industrial developers and growth in the number of OT vendors. Object World
Frankfurt show management anticipates that significant growth will continue in
1996 expecting over 2,000 attendees, over 800 participants in the conference and
more than 70 leading vendors. For the combined shows, show management
expects over 3,000 attendees, and 100 exhibitors.

Special Events- Internet Forum Europe'96 will feature the first European
Internet Application Awards given to best applications developed for the
Internet.

Organizers and sponsors: Internet Forum Europe'96 is sponsored and organized by
LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH and Object World Corp.

For more information on exhibiting:

Gudrun Schmidt and Christiane Sattler
LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH
Tel. +49-6173-28 52
Fax. +49-6173-94 04 20
E-mail: 100425.764@compuserve.com

For more information on the conference:

Birgit Osterholt
LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH
Tel. +49-6173-940 446
Fax. +49-6173-940 420
E-mail: 101510.3135@Compuserve.com

On-line info: http://www.omg.org/ow/owgerm.htm


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From: arun@cse.unsw.edu.au (Arun Sharma)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:36:45 +1100 (EST)
Subject: Request for posting the Final CFp for ALT'96 in the KDD list

Final Call for Papers: ALT'96
The Seventh International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory
Coogee Holiday Inn, Sydney, Australia
October 23-25, 1996


The 7th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'96) will
be held at the Coogee Holiday Inn, Sydney, Australia during October 23-25,
1996, and will be collocated with the Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition
Workshop. The workshop is being sponsored by the Japanese Society for
Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW),
and is being organized in cooperation with the IFIP Working Group 14.4
and the Australian Computer Society.

We invite submissions to ALT'96 in all areas related to algorithmic learning
theory including (but not limited to):


the design and analysis of learning algorithms, the theory of machine
learning, computational logic of/for machine discovery, inductive inference,
learning via queries, artificial and biological neural networks,
pattern recognition, learning by analogy, Bayesian/MDL/MML estimation,
statistical learning, inductive logic programming, robotics, application
of learning to databases, gene analysis, etc.


INVITED TALKS: Invited talks will be given by

Prof. J.R. Quinlan, (University of Sydney),
Prof. T. Shinohara (Kyushu Institute of Technology),
Prof. Les Valiant (Harvard Univ.), and
Prof. Paul Vitanyi (CWI and Univ. of Amsterdam).

SUBMISSIONS: Authors must submit nine copies of their extended abstracts to:

Arun Sharma - ALT'96
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney, 2052, Australia

ABSTRACTS must be received by April 15, 1996.

NOTIFICATION of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first (or
designated) author by June 3, 1996.

CAMERA-READY copy of accepted papers will be due July 1, 1996.

FORMAT: The submitted abstract should consist of a cover page with title,
authors' names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word
summary, and a body not longer than ten (10) pages of size A4 or 7x10.5
inches in twelve-point font. Note that only the first ten (10) pages of the
body will be sent out for review. Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged.

POLICY: Each submitted abstract will be reviewed by the members of the
program committee, and be judged on clarity, significance, and originality.
Simultaneous submission of papers to any other conference with published
proceedings is not allowed. Papers that have appeared in journals or other
conferences are not appropriate for ALT'96.

PROCEEDINGS will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes Series in
Artificial Intelligence from Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the
conference. Selected papers of ALT'96 will be invited to be published in a
special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.


CONFERENCE CHAIR:

Prof. Setsuo Arikawa
RIFIS, Kyushu University 33
Fukuoka, 812 Japan
arikawa@rifis.kyushu-u.ac.jp

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

Arun Sharma, Univ. of New South Wales
arun@cse.unsw.edu.au

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

H. Arimura (KyuTech),
Jose Balcazar (UPC, Barcelona),
P. Bartlett (ANU),
W. Cohen (AT&T),
S. Ben David (Technion),
H. Imai (U. Tokyo),
K.P. Jantke (TH Leipzig),
S. Kobayashi (U. Electro-Comm.),
M. Numao (TiTech),
S. Jain (National U. Singapore),
S. Lange (TH Leipzig),
L. De Raedt (Leuven),
Y. Sakakibara (Fujitsu Labs)
M. Sato (Osaka Pref. U.),
O. Watanabe (TiTech),
K. Yamanishi (NEC),
T. Zeugmann (Kyushu)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:

Achim Hoffmann
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
alt96@cse.unsw.edu.au

For more information, contact:

Email: alt96@cse.unsw.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~alt96/


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