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Publications:
  • (text) Steve Minton, JAIR Article, Cached Sufficient Statistics for ...
    http://www.jair.org/abstracts/moore98a.html
  • (text) Warren Jones, CFP: ACM SIGBIO Newsletter: Biomedical Knowledge
    Discovery and Data Mining
    http://sigbio.cis.uab.edu

    Siftware:
  • (text) J.P.Brown, SuperInduction Update
    http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown

    Positions:
  • (text) Aviva Lev-Ari, Applied Research Position in Kendall Square,
    Cambridge, MA
  • (text) Christophe Giraud-Carrier, MSc in ML at Bristol, UK
    http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~cgc/MSc-ML-Prosp.html
  • (text) Yves Kodratoff, French Petroleum Institute Position in Lyon, France

    Courses:
  • (text) Eric King, Data Mining Two Day Course with Workshop
    May 11 and 12, Herndon, VA

    Meetings:
  • (text) Kurt Thearling, KDD-98 Workshop: Keys to the Commercial
    Success of Data Mining,
    http://www.santafe.edu/~kurt/workshop.shtml
  • (text) Hillol Kargupta, KDD-98 Workshop on DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING,
    http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol/
  • (text) Umeshwar Dayal, SIGMOD DMKD 98 Workshop
    Seattle, Friday, June 5, 1998
    http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db/dmkd.htm
  • (text) Lynd Bacon, Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, May 1, 1998
    http://www.ChicagoASA.org/
  • (text) Johan Suykens, Advanced Black-Box Techniques for Nonlinear Modeling
    http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/
  • (text) Max Bramer, ES98: 18th SGES Int. Conf.,
    Cambridge, England, December 14th-16th 1998
    http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/~bramerma/sges/es98/es98.htm
  • (text) Jan Komorowski, ECAI-98 Workshop on Synthesis Of Intelligent Agent
    Brighton, UK
  • (text) Martin Kohler, CFP: PAKDD98-workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining,
    Melbourne, Australia, 15 April 1998
    http://ruby.doc.ic.ac.uk/workshop/programme.html
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    Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:36:37 -0800 (PST)
    From: Steve Minton minton@ISI.EDU
    Subject: JAIR Article, Cached Sufficient Statistics for ...
    Web: http://www.jair.org/abstracts/moore98a.html

    Readers of this mailing list may be interested in the following
    article which was just published in JAIR:

    Moore, A. and Lee, M.S. (1998)
    'Cached Sufficient Statistics for Efficient Machine Learning with Large
    Datasets', Volume 8, pages 67-91.

    Available in PDF, PostScript and compressed PostScript.
    For quick access via your WWW browser, use this URL:
    http://www.jair.org/abstracts/moore98a.html
    More detailed instructions are below.

    Abstract: This paper introduces new algorithms and data structures for
    quick counting for machine learning datasets. We focus on the
    counting task of constructing contingency tables, but our approach is
    also applicable to counting the number of records in a dataset that
    match conjunctive queries. Subject to certain assumptions, the costs
    of these operations can be shown to be independent of the number of
    records in the dataset and loglinear in the number of non-zero entries
    in the contingency table.
    We provide a very sparse data structure, the ADtree, to minimize
    memory use. We provide analytical worst-case bounds for this structure
    for several models of data distribution. We empirically demonstrate
    that tractably-sized data structures can be produced for large
    real-world datasets by (a) using a sparse tree structure that never
    allocates memory for counts of zero, (b) never allocating memory for
    counts that can be deduced from other counts, and (c) not bothering to
    expand the tree fully near its leaves.
    We show how the ADtree can be used to accelerate Bayes net structure
    finding algorithms, rule learning algorithms, and feature selection
    algorithms, and we provide a number of empirical results comparing
    ADtree methods against traditional direct counting approaches. We
    also discuss the possible uses of ADtrees in other machine learning
    methods, and discuss the merits of ADtrees in comparison with
    alternative representations such as kd-trees, R-trees and Frequent Sets.

    The article is available via:

    -- comp.ai.jair.papers (also see comp.ai.jair.announce)

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    The compressed PostScript file is named moore98a.ps.Z (122K)

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    Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:04:12 -0600
    From: jones@cis.uab.edu (Warren Jones)
    Subject: CFP: ACM SIGBIO Newsletter: Biomedical Knowledge Discovery
    and Data Mining
    Web: http://sigbio.cis.uab.edu

    A special issue of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest
    Group on Biomedical Computing (ACM SIGBIO) Newsletter is being planned. This
    issue will be a collection of short descriptions of projects which are applying
    knowledge discovery and data mining techniques to the health and biological
    sciences. The goal of this special issue is to identify as many projects as
    possible and thus the community in this area. A form for submitting information
    is available at URL: http://sigbio.cis.uab.edu. Please submit by June 30, 1998.

    Contact: Warren T. Jones, Editor of Special Issue
    Department of Computer and Information Sciences
    University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
    Email: jones@cis.uab.edu
    Fax: (205) 934-5473
    Phone: (205) 934-2213


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    Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:49:37 -0600
    From: 'J.P.Brown' jpbrown@hal-pc.org
    Subject: SuperInduction Update
    Web: http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown

    'There have been some great new KDD developments recently, but I can see
    that there are still many ways that faster, more reliable and completely
    objective data mining and knowledge discovery can be achieved. Some
    readers will remember the early progress of SuperInduction, last year.
    This up-dated version http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown (much more to
    come) shows that the path to perfection is being hotly pursued.'


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    From: Aviva.Lev-Ari@ps.net
    Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:56:00 -0600
    Subject: Applied Research Position in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA

    I would like to explore the possibility of interviewing candidates
    with academic background in the following Quantitative/Modeling
    domains:
    - Statistics
    - Mathematics
    - Operations Research
    - Computer Science - numerical analysis
    - Econometrics
    - Psychometrics

    Applied Research Employment opportunity for MSc or Ph.D. level.

    - Internet Economics
    - Electronic Commerce Transaction Information Analytics
    - Data Mining
    - Network performance analysis
    - Online shopping behaviour
    - Organizational ecology (mathematical sociology)
    - Supply chain modeling

    Candidate shall master some not all of the above areas.

    Profile:
    To fit an interdisciplinary team of extremely bright professionals,
    creative and inquisitive young broadly trained in Quantitative Methods
    and Measurement Theory with an undergrade education in
    Stat/Math/OR/CS/Econometrics/Psychometrics.

    Modifyable into an independent applied researcher and heavy user of
    S-Plus, SAS, Mathematica, MatLab, LaTex and graphical software.

    Excellent writing (technical editorial skills) and oral communication
    skills (ability to explain technical terms to non-technical
    professionals). Independent in exploration of newly research concepts
    assigned to, offer creative ideas to the project, and amenable to be
    mentored and expand his/hers knowledge boundaries on a daily basis.

    A team player, substantiated professional confidence desirable,
    highest integrity with handling data, choosing methods and respecting
    the technical savvy of other peers and management.

    Position to be filled by June 1998.

    Compensation:

    Master Level: up to $45K - $60K
    Ph.D. Level: up to $60K - $80K
    Benefits and stock options.

    Contact:
    Aviva Lev-Ari, Ph.D.
    Director of Information Analytics
    TimeO Group, Electronic Commerce Division of PSC
    Perot Systems Corp (PSC)
    101 Main St.
    Cambridge, MA 02142
    (617) 303-5011
    e-Mail: Aviva.Lev-Ari@ps.net

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    From: Christophe Giraud-Carrier cgc@cs.bris.ac.uk
    Subject: MSc in ML at Bristol
    Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:25:13 +0000 ()

    The Department of Computer Science at the University of
    Bristol (UK) offers a MSc in Machine Learning. Bristol is
    one of the UK's most active research centres in Machine
    Learning, with Prof John Lloyd, Dr Peter Flach, Dr
    Giraud-Carrier and currently 5 research assistants/students.

    Further details on this course and requests for
    application forms are found at:
    http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~cgc/MSc-ML-Prosp.html
    and on our research at:
    http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/MachineLearning

    Informal queries to Christophe Giraud-Carrier at
    cgc@cs.bris.ac.uk.

    ----------------------
    Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Lecturer in Computer Science
    University of Bristol
    Department of Computer Science
    Merchant Venturers Building
    Woodland Road
    Bristol, BS8 1UB
    United Kingdom

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    Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 11:59:13 +0100 (MET)
    From: Yves.Kodratoff@lri.fr (Yves.Kodratoff@lri.lri.fr)
    Subject: French Petroleum Institute Position in Lyon, France

    The French Petroleum Institute, a world-class research center on petroleum
    and its applications, is looking for PhD candidates *** from the European
    Community *** in data mining for its Industrial Development Center in
    Solaize near Lyon, France.

    The theoretical body of the thesis will be to work on deviation detection
    and outliers inspection in data bases containing continuous variables. The
    application concerns IFP data bases in refining and petrochemicals, namely
    : automated clustering of feedstock and products, applied outlier
    detection, and looking for relationship between the design and operations
    parameters.

    The work will be supported by up-to-data scientific computing means
    including software and workstations/PC.

    A grant of more than 8000 FF a month the first year, 9000 FF the
    second, and 10000 FF the third is proposed (net salary).

    Candidates should prepare : - a cv, - two recommendation letters, -
    a motivation letter
    and send them by mail or e-mail to
    Francois WAHL, Institut Francais du Petrole, BP3, F - 69390 VERNAISON
    e-mail : Francois.WAHL@IFP.fr


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    Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:12:06 -0500
    From: Eric King, eric@heuristics.com
    Subject: Data Mining Two Day Course with Workshop
    Web: May 11 and 12 Herndon, VA
    ==================DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE=================
    | offered by - The Gordian Institute |
    | May 11 and 12 Herndon, VA $995 |
    ------------------------------------

    Whether you are new to the complex science of data mining, or have already
    realized its elusive paths to success, a two day course offered by The
    Gordian Institute entitled 'Data Mining: Principles and Practice' will
    provide an intensive introduction to the process of data mining. Those in
    attendance will learn about different methods of modeling and how those
    models apply to real business problems.

    'Data Mining: Principles and Practice' is designed to offer thorough
    reviews of terminology, as well as benefits and pitfalls of the technology
    while minimizing time away from the office. The two day data mining
    seminar covers the subject of data mining from the ground up. The key
    issue explored in this short course is how to avoid frustrating and costly
    mistakes and improve your business process by correct use of these powerful
    methods.

    ATTENDEES WILL LEARN:
    - The basic principles and terminology of data mining
    - The different methods of data mining and how they compare
    - How to prepare raw data for data mining
    - How to analyze and validate the results
    - What questions data mining can answer
    - What are the pitfalls and how to avoid them
    - What commercial products are available and how to evaluate them

    Gordian's 'Data Mining: Principles and Practice' seminar focuses on actual
    use and implementation of data mining techniques in the real world. The
    instructor has been deeply involved with the development of data mining
    methods and the means of their use. Actual products will be reviewed, as
    will results drawn from real data mining applications.

    OPTIONAL THIRD-DAY HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
    Those who would like a hands-on perspective to the instructional sessions
    may attend an optional third day application workshop for an additional
    $495. The workshops will highlight superior performance as well as
    pitfalls resulting from various tools and techniques when applied to
    different types of data intensive problems. Exercises will reveal
    impressive results from the same technique that may have failed in another
    category.

    In addition, objective evaluations of popular data mining products can save
    immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of
    tools will perform best for your application. The Gordian Institute is not
    a data mining tools company. Data mining methods, tools and products will
    be presented objectively. The instructor will show how to evaluate various
    packages based on strengths, limitations, value and general performance.
    Products will be separated into four categories:

    - Statistical
    - Decision Tree
    - Neural Net
    - Clustering Technologies

    GORDIAN INSTITUTE'S QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER
    The next offering of 'Data Mining: Principles and Practice' will be
    presented May 11 and 12 in Herndon, VA (DC Metro Area) at $995. If the
    venue of the next offering is not suitable, a free subscription to
    Gordian's quarterly newsletter will include announcements of future
    offerings in addition to informative articles related to intelligent
    software solutions. To subscribe, simply send an empty Email message with
    'Gordian's Quarterly Newsletter' in the subject to agent@gordianknot.com

    THE PRESENTER
    Ben A. Hitt, Ph.D. has many years of experience using pattern recognition
    technologies and intelligent software tools to solve business problems. He
    has taught thousands of students in the use and principles of advanced
    software and machine learning technologies. He was Director of Training
    for NeuralWare, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA, and in that role instructed the use
    of neural networks for Financial Forecasting, Fraud Detection, Process
    Control and Direct Marketing. He was instrumental in the design and
    development of ModelMAX, a complete neural network application for the
    direct marketing industry. Dr. Hitt also designed and implemented a
    nationally recognized detection system for rapid tax refund application
    fraud. He has recently conducted a detailed and exhaustive survey of
    commercial data mining products for a major US bank.

    REQUEST FULL DETAILS
    Reserve your seat early, as course sizes are limited to allow for a high
    level of interaction with the instructors. You may request details for
    this course, to include pricing, specific dates, course outline, site
    logistics and registration form through any of the following:
    ______________________________________________
    - Email: agent@gordianknot.com
    (Reply with either or both as the SUBJECT)
    - Data Mining Details
    - Gordian's Quarterly Newsletter
    - Web: http://www.gordianknot.com
    - Toll Free: 800-405-2114
    - Direct: 281-364-9882
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    Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 10:17:47 -0500
    From: Kurt Thearling KThearling@exapps.com
    Subject: Workshop: Keys to the Commercial Success of Data Mining
    Web: http://www.santafe.edu/~kurt/workshop.shtml

    Call For Participation

    Workshop: Keys to the Commercial Success of Data Mining

    To be held in conjunction with The Fourth International Conference on
    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    New York City, August 31, 1998
    http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/KDD/1998/

    Chairs:

    Kurt Thearling
    Director of Advanced Analytics
    Exchange Applications
    695 Atlantic Avenue
    Boston, MA 02111

    Roger M. Stein
    Vice President, Senior Credit Officer
    Quantitative Analytics and Knowledge Based Systems
    Moody's Investors Service
    99 Church Street
    New York, NY 10007

    Contact Info: kdd-workshop@exapps.com

    Description:

    Data mining is on the cusp of true commercial success. Commercial
    institutions are starting to move beyond pilot studies and research programs
    toward the production use of predictive models for real world business
    applications. While this is exciting, it is also where it gets harder.

    Successful data mining in business doesn't come down to simply having a hot
    algorithm and giving it to an experienced modeler. Business users care
    about things such as database support, application integration, business
    templates, flexibility, scalability, real profitability, and other issues
    that have not historically been the concern of the KDD community.
    From a development point of view, the core algorithms are now a small part,
    perhaps 10%, of the overall data mining application, which itself is only
    10% of the business process that contains the application. The purpose of
    this workshop is to focus on the remaining 99% so that commercial data
    mining application are relevant to business users.

    A number of the issues that we hope will get addressed at the workshop are
    described in a recent article by Kurt Thearling titled 'Some Thoughts on the
    Current State of Data Mining Software Applications' (available online at
    http://www.santafe.edu/~kurt/text/dsstar/top10.shtml and in an interview
    given by Roger Stein (also available online at
    http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~rstein/interview.html.

    Objectives:

    The goal is to bring together a diverse group of developers, users, and
    integrators of business data mining applications. The workshop will
    consist of a number of in-depth case studies and analyses, several invited
    speakers, and panel sessions. Time will also be set aside for
    discussions.

    It is expected that the workshop will include forty to fifty participants.

    for full details and submission guidelines see the web site above.

    Timetable:
    Jun 15: Papers due
    Jul 10: Notification of acceptance/rejection
    Aug 31: Workshop


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    Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:14:00 -0800 (PST)
    From: 'Dr. Hillol Kargupta' hillol@eecs.wsu.edu
    Subject: Workshop on DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING at KDD-98
    Web: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol/

    CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING

    The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    New York City, August 31, 1998

    CHAIRS:
    Hillol Kargupta
    Faculty of Computer Science
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Washington State University
    Pullman, WA 99164-2752
    e-mail: hillol@eecs.wsu.edu

    Philip Chan
    Computer Science
    Florida Institute of Technology
    150 W. University Blvd.
    Melbourne, FL 32901
    email: pkc@cs.fit.edu

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    David Levine, Boeing Corporation
    Foster Provost, Bell Atlantic
    Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University
    Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina
    Ron Musick, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
    Salvatore Stolfo, Columbia University
    Vincent Ng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    William Cohen, AT&T Labs Research
    Zoran Obradovic, Washington State University

    WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:

    Automated detection of patterns from large amount of data is often called
    data mining. As computing and communication are increasingly converging to
    each other, mining data, stored in distributed databases with adequate
    attention to security related issues, is of growing interest. Distributed
    data mining (DDM) systems are finding an increasing number of applications
    in popular Intranet/Internet environments, data mart based warehousing
    architectures, network intrusion detection, geographical information
    systems and many others. This workshop will provide a platform for
    discussing theoretical and applied research issues in DDM. The topics
    of interest include, but are not limited to:


    1) Theory and foundation issues in DDM: Problem decomposability and data
    distribution; complexity issues in DDM; representational issues.

    2) Methods and algorithms: Distributed algorithms for popular data mining
    techniques (e.g. association rules, classifiers, clustering);
    techniques for communication minimization, cooperative learning.

    3) Software agents and DDM: Agent based approaches in DDM.
    Agent interaction: cooperation, collaboration, negotiation,
    organizational behavior

    4) DDM for spatial data: DDM in geographical information databases

    5) Architectural issues in DDM: Architecture, control, security,
    communication issues

    6) Experimental DDM systems: Large experimental systems, performance,
    design issues.

    7) Applications of DDM: Application of DDM in business, science,
    engineering, and medicine.

    8) Human interaction in DDM: Human-DDM interface, multi-user interaction
    in DDM.

    9) Distributed data mining on the Internet

    10) Parallel Data mining: Parallel data mining algorithms, applications;
    high performance computing in DDM

    PAPER SUBMISSION: see Web: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol/

    TIMETABLE:

    Manuscripts due: June 16, 1998
    Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 15, 1998
    Final version due: July 31, 1998


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    Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 19:08:26 -0800
    From: Umeshwar Dayal, Umeshwar_Dayal@HP-PaloAlto-notes3.om.hp.com
    Subject: SIGMOD DMKD 98 Workshop
    Web: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db/dmkd.htm

    CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
    SIGMOD'98 Workshop on Research Issues in
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (SIGMOD-DMKD'98)

    Seattle, Friday, June 5, 1998
    =================================================================
    OBJECTIVES
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery has become an active area of
    research, attracting people from several disciplines: database
    systems, AI, machine learning, statistics, information retrieval, and
    data visualization. Data mining products and toolkits are now
    commercially available, and serious industrial applications are being
    developed. There are several interdisciplinary conferences on the
    topic of data mining. The Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining
    and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD) was started two years ago as a forum for
    database researchers to discuss issues related to data mining from
    large databases and data warehouses. The first two workshops were held
    in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 1996 and 1997, and were successful in
    attracting a large number of participants. These two workshops focused
    primarily on advances in data mining algorithms and techniques. These
    topics have now become standard fare in the programs of leading
    database conferences. Therefore, we have chosen to emphasize a
    somewhat different theme for this year's workshop. Our objective is to
    bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss research
    issues and experience in developing and deploying data mining systems,
    applications, and solutions.

    FORMAT
    The workshop will be held the day following the SIGMOD /PODS'98
    conference. We expect about half a day to be devoted to technical
    presentations based on accepted papers. The program will also include
    several invited speakers from industry who will share their experience
    in developing and deploying data mining technology, and there will be
    time to discuss issues related to building data mining systems.

    Full details: see http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db/dmkd.htm

    IMPORTANT DATES
    Abstract Due: April 17, 1998
    Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 1998
    Workshop Date: June 5, 1998

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS
    Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research (surajitc@microsoft.com)
    Umesh Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (dayal@hpl.hp.com)


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    Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:52:59 -0600
    From: Lynd Bacon lynd.bacon@lba.com
    Subject: Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, May 1, 1998
    Web: http://www.ChicagoASA.org/

    May Day for Missing Data!
    The Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association is pleased to
    announce a conference on Statistical Analysis with Missing Data to be held
    on May 1, 1998. Invited speakers include Rod Little (University of
    Michigan), Joe Schafer (Penn State University), Nancy Cook (Harvard Medical
    School), and David Judkins(Westat, Inc.). Additionally, representatives
    from software companies
    SOLAS and SPSS will present use of their programs for missing data. For
    more information contact Don Hedeker (312-996-4896; hedeker@uic.edu) or
    consult the chapter website at http://www.ChicagoASA.org/.

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    | marketing and management science mr.daemon@lba.com |
    | Homewood IL USA +1.708.957.0883 |
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    | Find out about the Chicago ASA monthly speaker series |
    | at http://www.lba.com/asa-lunch.html |
    /////////////////////////////


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    Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:48:23 +0200
    From: Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
    Subject: ADVANCED BLACK-BOX TECHNIQUES FOR NONLINEAR MODELING
    Web: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/
    Last Call for Papers:

    *** ADVANCED BLACK-BOX TECHNIQUES FOR NONLINEAR MODELING:
    THEORY AND APPLICATIONS ***
    Date: July 8-10, 1998
    Place: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    On-line Info: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/

    Organized at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SISTA) and the
    Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Networks (ICNN) in the framework of the
    project KIT and the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole IUAP P4/02.
    In cooperation with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

    for details see the web site above.

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    Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 11:17:51 +0000
    From: 'Max Bramer' bramerma@sis.port.ac.uk
    Subject: ES98: 18th SGES International Conference - December 14th-16th 1998
    Web: http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/~bramerma/sges/es98/es98.htm

    The British Computer Society

    SGES: the Specialist Group on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied
    Artificial Intelligence

    ES98: Cambridge, England, December 14th-16th 1998

    Call for Contributions

    The 18th SGES International Conference on Knowledge-Based Systems and
    Applied Artificial Intelligence is being held in Cambridge between
    14th and 16th December 1998.

    The objective of the annual SGES conferences is to bring together
    researchers and application developers from business, industrial and
    academic communities to discuss issues and solutions to problems based
    on techniques derived from Artificial Intelligence.

    These conferences are the premier European forum for Applied AI. The
    two-day conference (December 15th-16th) will be preceded by a day of
    tutorials on AI topics. The whole event will be accompanied by an
    exhibition.

    The Conference continues to build on the success of previous years,
    with a two-track event containing fully refereed technical and
    applications papers.

    For the Technical Stream, contributions are invited in the form of
    papers of up to 5,000 words presenting original work on
    knowledge-based systems or other areas of Artificial Intelligence.
    Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): knowledge-based
    systems, knowledge engineering methodology, constraint satisfaction,
    intelligent agents, machine learning, model-based reasoning,
    verification and validation of KBS, natural language understanding,
    case-based reasoning, neural networks, genetic algorithms, data mining
    and knowledge discovery in databases.

    For the Application Stream, contributions are invited in the form of
    papers of up to 5,000 words presenting case studies of knowledge-based
    or other AI systems that address real-world problems such as
    diagnosis, monitoring, scheduling and selection. Most importantly, the
    papers should highlight the critical elements of success and the
    lessons learned.

    For full details see http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/~bramerma/sges/es98/es98.htm

    IMPORTANT DATES:
    Title/Abstract notification: now
    Full paper submission: 19 June 1998
    Notification of acceptance: 7 August 1998
    Camera ready papers due: 18 September 1998


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    Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:32:54 +0100
    From: Jan Komorowski janko@control.lth.se
    Subject: ECAI Workshop on Synthesis Of Intelligent Agent

    Synthesis Of Intelligent Agent Systems From Experimental Data
    A Workshop at ECAI'98, Brighton, UK

    Organizing Committee: Jan Komorowski, Norway/Sweden, Chair; Ivo
    Duentsch, North Ireland, Andrzej Skowron, Poland

    ABSTRACT

    Two major questions arise in the analysis and synthesis of the behavior
    of intelligent agents:

    - how an intelligent agent discovers decision rules from
    experimental data,
    - what is a general framework for approximate reasoning about
    teams of intelligent agents.

    We invite submission of original papers (up to 10 pages) reporting on
    research in progress that investigates applications of approximate
    reasoning techniques to synthesis of intelligent agents. The papers
    will be reviewed by the the workshop organizing committee.
    Approximately 8 papers will be selected for full presentation at the
    workshop; all other papers judged to be of sufficiently high quality
    will be accepted for publication in the proceedings of the workshop.
    (For style guidelines see
    http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/style.html

    Much attention has recently focused on rough sets, Boolean reasoning
    techniques and rough mereology as appropriate techniques for answering
    several of the above questions. During the workshop we wish to
    investigate these and related approaches such as, for instance,
    case-based, statistical, modal and multi-valued logics and logic
    programming applied to the problem of synthesis from experimental
    data. Theoretical, applied and comparative work will be considered.
    After the workshop, the authors will be invited to submit revised and
    full versions of their papers to be evaluated for a collected
    publication.

    Workshop participation is limited to 30 people. Priority will be given
    to authors of the submitted papers. All participants must register for
    ECAI98.

    About four central topics will be introduced by invited experts in the
    field. Abstracts of their presentations will be posted on the web in
    January 1998.

    Important dates:
    Submission of the papers: 3 April 1998
    Notification of acceptance: 11 May 1998
    Camera ready papers: 1 June 1998

    Submissions are to be sent to skowron@mimuw.edu.pl (postscript files)
    or s-mailed to Prof. Andrzej Skowron, Department of Mathematics,
    Warsaw University, ul. Banacha 2, 02 097 Warsaw, POLAND. Electronic
    submissions are preferred.

    Inquiries: Ivo Duentsch, I.Duentsch@ulst.ac.uk

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    Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 19:47:25 +0000
    From: Martin Kohler mk@doc.ic.ac.uk
    Subject: Call for Participation - PAKDD98-workshop -
    Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM-98)
    Web: http://ruby.doc.ic.ac.uk/workshop/programme.html

    Call for Participation

    The PAKDD Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM-98)
    Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia
    15 April 1998

    The workshop is associated with The Second Pacific-Asia Conference on
    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-98)

    Data mining is the automatic discovery of patterns, changes,
    associations and anomalies in large data sets. Data mining is
    emerging as a key enabling technology for a variety of scientific,
    engineering, medical and business applications. This workshop will
    focus on three key issues:

    1. Scaling data mining algorithms, applications and systems to massive
    data sets. The workshop will highlight techniques from high
    performance and parallel computing and their applications to data
    mining.

    2. Developing data mining algorithms, applications and systems for
    mining distributed data. The workshop will highlight distributed data
    mining and distributed data intensive decision support.

    3. Integrating data mining with other systems and applications to
    support business processes throughout large enterprises.

    This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on all
    aspects of parallel and distributed data mining during the PAKDD 98
    conference. The workshop is scheduled for one day and includes
    presentations and discussions. Please check the advance programme of
    the workshop for details:

    http://ruby.doc.ic.ac.uk/workshop/programme.html

    The workshop proceedings will be published by either World Scientific
    or Imperial College Press, UK. Selected papers from the workshop will
    be published in a special issue of the Journal of Data Mining and
    Knowledge Discovery.

    We would like to welcome you to participate in the PDDM-98 workshop.
    Please check the registration details at:

    http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98/regis.shtml

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