KDNuggets News for 1998

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KDNuggets News for 1998

January	98:1 (emailed 98-01-05)	98:2 (emailed 98-01-21)
February	98:3 (emailed 98-02-07)	98:4 (emailed 98-02-16)
March	98:5 (emailed 98-03-02)	98:6 (emailed 98-03-15)	98:7 (emailed 98-03-23)
April	98:8 (emailed 98-04-07)	98:9 (emailed 98-04-18)
May	98:10 (emailed 98-05-02)	98:11 (emailed 98-05-17)	98:12 (emailed 98-05-31)
June	98:13 (emailed 98-06-12)	98:14 (emailed 98-06-23)	98:15 (emailed 98-06-30)
July	98:16 (emailed 98-07-14)	98:17 (emailed 98-07-29)
August	98:18 (emailed 98-08-18)	98:19 (emailed 98-08-31)
September	98:20 (emailed 98-09-16)	98:21 (emailed 98-09-30)
October	98:22 (emailed 98-10-16)	98:23 (emailed 98-10-30)
November	98:24 (emailed 98-11-08)	98:25 (emailed 98-11-22)
December	98:26 (emailed 98-12-02)	98:27 (emailed 98-12-15)

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:1, e-mailed 98-01-05

News:

(text) GPS, What Wal-Mart might do with Barbie association rules

Publications:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, MineSet mailing list and article in Data Management Strategies
(text) Shivakumar Vaithaynathan, AI Review: Special Issue on Data Mining on the Internet, deadline extended to Jan 30, 1998
(text) Stephen Koo, Data Mining articles in Chinese, http://www.hkstar.com/~skoo

Siftware:

(text) Raphaelle Thomas, ALICE on the Web, http://www.alice.fr/

Meetings:

(text) Aurora Perez, SCI'98-ISAS'98 FOCUS SYMPOSIUM ON KDD, Orlando, Florida, July 12-16, 1998, http://orion.ls.fi.upm.es/~aurora/sci98/sci98.html
(text) Mehran Sahami, AAAI/ICML-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/textcat.html
(text) Floor Verdenius, AAAI/ICML-98 WS The Methodology of Applying Machine Learning, http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/AAAI98/AAAIWS98.html
(text) DG, EUFIT '98, Aachen, Germany, Sep 7-10, 1998, http://www.mitgmbh.de/elite/eufit.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:2, e-mailed 98-01-21

News:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, Leveraging Visual and Analytic Data Mining Guide from TechGuide, http://www.techguide.com/dw/

Positions:

(text) Aviva Lev-Ari, Perot Systems looking for recent graduates in quantitative disciplines

Courses:

(text) Rob Tibshirani, Modern Regression and Classification, Washington DC: April 6-7, 1998, http://stat.stanford.edu/~trevor/mrc.general.html
(text) Lynd Bacon, DM in marketing workshop, New Orleans LA 4/20-21/98,
http://www.ama.org/conf/arm/

Meetings:

(text) Dave Stodder, Data Mining Summit, March 1-4 Beverly Hills, California USA,
http://www.dbsummit.com
(text) Jan Zytkow, PKDD-98: Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, NANTES, FRANCE, SEPTEMBER 23-26, 1998
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98/
(text) RSCTC, Conf. on Rough Sets And Current Trends In Computing (RSCTC'98) June 22 - 26 1998, Warsaw, Poland,
http://alfa.mimuw.edu.pl/~rsctc/
(text) Hiroshi Motoda, Discovery Science 1998, Fukuoka, Japan, December 14-16, 1998,
http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds98
(text) Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, High Performance Data Mining Workshop, Tuesday March 31, 1998, Orlando, Florida
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ranka
(text) Serafin Moral, UAI'98 Second Call for Papers,
http://www.uai98.cbmi.upmc.edu

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:3, e-mailed 98-02-07

News:

(text) GPS, Gartner Group: data mining is one of top 10 technologies for 1998
(text) GPS, KDD-98 Awards for Best Research and Application Papers

Publications:

(text) Saso Dzeroski PhD, REMINDER: DMKD Special Issue on ILP&KDD Deadline 15 FEB, 1998,
http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/dami.cfp
(text) H Michael Chung, JMIS Call for Papers on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,
http://www.csulb.edu/~cit/cit/call.html#call
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence: letters due 4/1/98,
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9855

Siftware:

(text) David Jensen, Evaluation of Intelligent Systems -- New Website

Positions:

(text) Shannon Pemberton, Data Mining Employent Opportunities at InsWeb, CA
(text) Walter Daelemans, LCG TMR Network: Research Opportunities, Europe
(text) Chandrika Kamath, Employment opportunity at Lawrence Livermore Lab

Meetings:

(text) Foster Provost, REMINDER: KDD-98 paper submissions due in March
http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/kdd98/
(text) Gen Topping, Data Mining Summit, March 1-4, 1998, Beverly Hills, CA
http://www.dbsummit.com/
(text) Melanie Hilario, ECML'98 WS - Upgrading Learning to the Meta-Level
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~cgc/ecml98-ws.html
(text) G. Nakhaeizadeh, ECML'98 WS - Application of Machine Learning and Data Mining in Finance,
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ecml98
(text) Vincent Corruble, ECAI-98 WORKSHOP ON MACHINE DISCOVERY, August 24, 1998, Brighton, U.K
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~vcorrubl/disco98/cfp.html
(text) Riccardo Bellazzi, ECAI-98 Workshop on Inteligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology, August 24, 1998, Brighton, UK
http://aim.unipv.it/~ric/idamap98

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:4, e-mailed 98-02-16

News:

(text) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, NY Times on Data Mining fighting Medicare Fraud
(text) Tom Dinsmore, Barbie Association Rules
(text) Aydin Senkut, Meta Group ranking of data mining tools
(text) Ronny Kohavi, Call for KDD-98 Workshops
http://reality.sgi.com/ronnyk/kdd98ws.html

Publications:

(text) Kurt Thearling, White paper: 'Increasing Customer Value ...'
http://www.thearling.com

Siftware:

(text) David Isherwood, XpertRule Profiler 4 from Attar
http://www.attar.com/pages/info_pf.htm

Positions:

(text) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Boston: Chief Data Architect position
(text) Ronny Kohavi, SGI MineSet team is hiring
(text) Sue Locke, UK: University of Plymouth, Research Assistant/Fellow In Virtual Data Mining Tool

Courses:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, Training for Data Mining and Visualization using SGI's MineSet Mountain View, CA, March 23-25, 1998.

Meetings:

(text) PAP, PADD98 Call for Participation, Mar 25-27, 1998, London, UK,
http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD98/
(text) Xindong Wu, PAKDD-98: Call for Participation, Melbourne, Australia, April 15-17, 1998
http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98
(text) Yves Kodratoff, ECML'98 workshop on Text Mining, Chemnitz, Germany 21-24 April 1998
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ecml98/
(text) David Jensen, AAAI Fall Symposium on AI & Link Analysis, Orlando, Florida, October 23-25, 1998
http://eksl-www.cs.umass.edu/aila/
(text) Tom Fawcett, AAAI-98/ICML-98 workshop: AI Approaches to Time-series Problems
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~andrea/aaai98.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:5, e-mailed 98-03-02

News:

(text) GPS, KDD-98 Preview and a Final Call For Papers, New York, NY, Aug 27-31, 1998,
http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/kdd98/
(text) Ismail Parsa, KDD-98 Call for Exhibits
(text) Simon Streltsov, More on Barbie Association Rules

Publications:

(text) Xindong Wu, New Journal: Knowledge and Information Systems http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/kais/

Siftware:

(text) Beat Wuthrich, Daily stock forecast from textual Web data, http://www.cs.ust.hk/~beat/Predict

Positions:

(text) Gerardo Capiel, San Francisco: Internet Start-Up job
(text) Pablo Tamayo, Boston: Job position at TMC

Meetings:

(text) Jude Shavlik, 1998 Machine Learning Conf - Final Call for Papers http://www.cs.wisc.edu/icml98/callForPapers.html
(text) Yike Guo, PKADD Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining, Melbourne, Australia, 15 April 1998, http://ruby.doc.ic.ac.uk/workshop
(text) Yves Kodratoff, Meeting on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Paris March 18th 1998, http://www.lri.fr/~yk/an.html
(text) Robert Gulliver, NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI) Minneapolis, MN , March 7, 1998, http://www.ima.umn.edu/kdi.html
(text) PAKDD-98, Call for Participation: 2nd Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Melbourne, Australia, April 15-17, 1998, http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98
(text) Saso Dzeroski, Analysis of environmental data with ML 17.-20. March 1998, Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/aep/aep.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:6, e-mailed 98-03-15

News:

(text) GPS, KDNuggets 1 year anniversary and New Submission Guidelines www.kdnuggets.com/news/submissions.html
(text) Sreerama K. Murthy, PC Week: Mining for intelligence without a shovel, http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/opinion/0302/02wide.html
(text) Alex Chelminsky, BusinessWire: ISL and SPSS Partnership
(text) Tej Anand, Now Golden Books Family Entertainment CIO
(text) Alex Chelminsky, Information Week: Data Mining at GM

Publications:

(text) David Hatter, Proposed book on Data Mining -- feedback solicited
(text) Ryszard S. Michalski, New Book: Machine Learning & Data Mining, http://www.wiley.com/ordering/
(text) Maria Zemankova, Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2 http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/dli/start.htm
(text) N. Gershon, Call for Papers, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems Special Issue on INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, http://www.isse.gmu.edu/JIIS/

Positions:

(text) Ross Donald King, UK-Wales: Data Mining Ph.D. Studentships http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/bio/
(text) Hal Duncan, US-California: RESEARCH PROGRAMMERS, NASA AMES

Courses:

(text) Rob Gerritsen, Exclusive Ore Data Mining Seminar, April 22, Conshohocken, PA, http://www.xore.com

Meetings:

(text) Alex H B Duffy, Call for Papers, Workshop on Machine Learning in Design, Portugal, July 1998 http://www.cad.strath.ac.uk/~alex/AID/AID98/AID98-MLinD.html
(text) Riccardo Bellazzi, IDAMAP-98: ECAI Workshop: a reminder http://aim.unipv.it/~ric/idamap98

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:7, e-mailed 98-03-23

News:

(text) GPS, KDD-98 submissions are up 50% compared to last year!

Publications:

(text) Michael Beddows, Information Week: Mining Your Own Business, http://techweb.cmp.com/iw/673/73iudat.htm
(text) GPS, Data Mining Interview in Hong Kong I.T. Times, http://www.hkstar.com/~skoo/datamine.htm
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF/CISE KDI/New Challenges to Computation information program, http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?cise9801
(text) Alex Alves Freitas, New Book: MINING VERY LARGE DATABASES WITH PARALLEL PROCESSING, http://www.wkap.nl

Siftware:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, Version 2.5 of Award-Winning MineSet Software, http://mineset.sgi.com
(text) Stan Rice, Context and fuzzy concept filtering on the Web, http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/
(text) Raphaelle THOMAS, ALICE d'ISoft version 5.0, http://www.alice.fr
(text) Henry Tirri, BAYDA 1.0 - free software for Bayesian classification, http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/research/cosco
(text) Tom Fawcett, ROC Convex Hull program for comparing classifiers, http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/ROCCH/

Meetings:

(text) Martin GOLUMBIC, Workshop on KDD, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, May 20-21, 1998
(text) ECML98, Call for Participation, European Conference on Machine Learning, (ECML'98), Chemnitz, Germany, April 21-24 1998, http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ecml98/
(text) Ulrich Reimer, PAKM98 - Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, 29-30 October, 1998, Basel, Switzerland http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html
(text) JOE WHITTAKER, WORKSHOP: AI & Statistics - Uncertainty99, January 3-6, 1999, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida http://uncertainty99.microsoft.com/
(text) Buczak, Anna, ANNIE '98 - ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN ENGINEERING, November 1 - 4, 1998, St. Louis, Missouri http://www.umr.edu/~annie

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:8, e-mailed 98-04-07

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

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:9, e-mailed 98-04-18

News:

(text) GPS, Mining the Election Results
(text) Richard Dybowski, ICU-OUTCOME mailing list

Publications:

(text) Andreas Weigend, New Book: Decision Technologies for Financial Engineering, http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/compsci/3463.html
(text) Julio Ortega, CFP Extension: AI Review issue on Data Mining Application, http://www.wkap.com/

Siftware:

(text) Gabor Melli, DBPredictor 2.0 On-line Classification System http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~melli/DBPredictor

Courses:

(text) Kerry Martin, Data Mining with Decision Trees: An Introduction to CART http://www.salford-systems.com

Meetings:

(text) Ismail Parsa, Last Call for Exhibits - KDD-98 kdd-98-call-for-exhibits.txt
(text) G. Nakhaeizadeh, KDD-98 Workshop: Data Mining in Finance http://www-vwl3.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de/vwl3/cpf.html
(text) H. Motoda, Second CFP: Discovery Science 98, Fukuoka, Japan, December 14-16, 1998 http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds98
(text) John Lloyd, CFP: CompulogNet Meeting on Computational Logic and Machine Learning, June 20th, 1998, Manchester, UK http://www.compulog.org/net-www/MachineLearn.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:10, e-mailed 98-05-02

News:

(text) Xindong.Wu, PAKDD-98 Conference Report http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98/
(text) Roberto Zicari, COMDEX APPLICATIONS AWARDS`98- CALL For Entries- http://www.comdex.de/awards/

Publications:

(text) Randall Caldwell, J. of Computational Intelligence in Finance Spec. Issue on News Analysis using Distributed Data Mining, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ftpub/call.htm
(text) Russ Greiner, AI Journal special issue on 'Relevance' is available! http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~greiner/Relevance-AIJ.html

Meetings:

(text) Serafin Moral, UAI-98: listing of accepted papers available http://www.uai98.cbmi.upmc.edu
(text) Martin Golumbic, Bar-Ilan Workshop on KDD -- May 20-21, 1998, Israel http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~research/kdd/
(text) Nelson Ebecken, CFP: Brazil International Conference on Data Mining, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil, 2-4 September, 1998 http://www.coppe.ufrj.br/eventos/data_mining/mining.htm

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:11, e-mailed 98-05-17

News:

(text) Mary Beth, KDD-98 Hotel and Transportation Information
(text) Ronny Kohavi, Silicon Graphics' MineSet 2.5 has released http://mineset.sgi.com
(text) Michalakis Michael, Data Reduction in predicting stock market ?

Publications:

(text) Stephen Koo, Interview with Beat Wuthrich from Hong Kong University http://home.hkstar.com/~skoo/beat.htm

Siftware:

(text) Megaputers, Data Mining solution for Windows 95 - PolyAnalyst Lite http://www.megaputer.ru

Courses:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, MineSet training course, http://mineset.sgi.com/training

Meetings:

(text) Ning Zhong, First Call For Papers: PAKDD-99, 3rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Beijing, China, April 26-28, 1999 http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/pakdd99
(text) Belur Dasarathy, CFP: SPIE Conference On Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Orlando, Florida, during 5-9 April 1999. http://members.tripod.com/~belur/kdd.html
(text) Jude Shavlik, ICML-98: Call for Participation http://www.cs.wisc.edu/icml98/

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:12, e-mailed 98-05-31

News:

(text) Gregory Piatetsky, List of KDD-98 accepted papers
http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/kdd98/kdd_schedule.html

Publications:

(text) Michael Beddows, CIO Magazine May 15, 1998 on Data Mining http://www.cio.com/archive/051598_mining.html

Tools/Services:

(text) hm@mitgmbh.de, DataEngine at CE Expo in Houston http://www.che.com

Courses:

(text) Pavel Brazdil, Caminha, Portugal: KDD Summer School http://www.di.fct.unl.pt/eaia98
(text) P. Sharpe, Bristol, UK: MSc in Machine Learning & Adaptive Computing http://www.ics.ac.uk

Meetings:

(text) Carol Hamilton, AAAI-98, ILP'98, ICML'98, and COLT'98 Preregistration, July 26-30, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/1998/aaai98.html
(text) Philip Chan, 2nd CFP for Distributed Data Mining Workshop at KDD-98 August 31, 1998, New York http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol/
(text) John R. Koza, GP-98 Call For Participation, July 22 - 25, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin http://www.genetic-programming.org
(text) ideal98@cse, IDEAL'98 Special Sessions Hong Kong, October 14-16, 1998 http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ideal98
(text) Lorenza Saitta, Call for Participation to MSL-98, 4th International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning, June 11-13, 1998, Desenzano del Garda, Italy http://www.di.unito.it/~msl98

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:13, e-mailed 98-06-12

News:

(text) Gregory Piatetsky, KDD-98 Preliminary Schedule available www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/kdd98
(text) Gregory Piatetsky, Data Mining in The News http://www.internetworld.com/print/1998/06/08/webdev/19980608-mining.html
(text) Joe Evans, CRISP Data mining process model published and piloted

Requests:

(text) Rob Brennon, Retail datasets ?

Publications:

(text) Raul Valdes, The Scientist on literature-based discovery
http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1998/may/prof_980511.html
(text) Yike Guo, Spec. Issue of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery on Scalable Parallel and Distributed Data Mining, http://research.microsoft.com/datamine/scalePDDM

Tools/Services:

(text) Michael Bickel, Fast Fuzzy Clustering algorithm http://members.aol.com/awareai

Courses:

(text) Intervista: Implementing Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Toronto, Ontario (Canada), June 15-16/98 http://www.cam.org/~ivista/datamining.html

Meetings:

(text) Kurt Thearling, KDD-98 Workshop: Keys to the Commercial Success of Data Mining http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/KDD/1998/
(text) Liu Bing, PRICAI-98 Workshop on Data Mining ... http://www.iscs.nus.edu.sg/~liub/pricaiwp.html
(text) Blake LeBaron, CFP: Computational Finance 99, New York, January 6-8, 1999 http://www.stern.nyu.edu/cf99
(text) John Lloyd, CompulogNet Machine Learning Meeting http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/hill/jicslp98/workshops.html
(text) pakdd99, PAKDD-99: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, Beijing, China, April 26-28, 1999 http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/pakdd99
(text) Ulrich Reimer, PAKM98 - 2nd Int. Conf. on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Basel, Switzerland, 29-30 October, 1998 http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html
(text) Hiroshi Motoda, Call for Paper of PKAW98, Singapore, November 22-23, 1998 http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/PKAW98.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:14, e-mailed 98-06-23

News:

(text) Won Kim, SIGKDD -- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ACM SIG formed! acm.org/sigkdd/
(text) Gregory Piatetsky, KDD-98 Hotel Reservations update

Requests:

(text) Hillol Kargupta, KDD-98 Workshop on Distributed Data Mining Looking for Sponsors, http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol/kdd98ws.html
(text) Peggy Wright, Research Help Needed RE: Missing Value Problem

Publications:

(text) Maria Zemankova, 'Teaming with Life': a role for IT/CS communities http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/Environment/html/teamingcover.html

Tools/Services:

(text) W Spangler, CViz Cluster Visualization software http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/Home/
(text) David Jensen, AILA: Webpages updated to version 2.0 http://eksl-www.cs.umass.edu/aila/

Positions:

(text) Kathy Rokop, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Deputy Division Director for Research http://www.hr.lanl.gov
(text) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Several Data Mining Positions at Knowledge Stream Partners

Courses:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, MineSet 2.5 training courses: July, September and October http://mineset.sgi.com/training
(text) Gabor Por, Knowledge Ecology University http://www.KnowledgeEcology.com/keu/

Meetings:

(text) Belur Dasarathy, SPIE's International Symposium on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology, Orlando, FL, April 5-9, 1999 http://members.tripod.com/~belur/kdd.html
(text) Trini Flores, SIAM Conference on Optimization May 10-12, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia http://www.siam.org/meetings/op99/
(text) Ibrahim Imam, I & E Applications of AI & Systems IEA/AIE-99, Cairo, Egypt, May 31- June 3, 1999 http://mason.gmu.edu/~iimam/ieaaie99/WS99.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:15, e-mailed 98-06-30

News:

(text) Foster Provost, KDD-98 Best Paper Awards: www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/kdd98/best-paper-awards.html
(text) Ismail Parsa, Call for Participation: KDD-CUP-98 www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/kdd98/kdd-cup-98.html
(text) GPS, ZDNet: Tech companies form new privacy alliance http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/0,3440,2114258,00.html

Requests:

(text) Xindong Wu, Identifying Patterns in Call Graphs ?

Publications:

(text) John Major, J. of ASA: On Measuring and Correcting the Effects of Data Mining and Model Selection
(text) Yan Zhang, New Book: Compensatory Genetic Fuzzy Neural Networks http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/bookshop.html

Tools/Services:

(text) J.P. Brown, SuperInduction Update http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown
(text) Marco Ramoni, Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer for MS Windows 95/NT http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/bkd/

Positions:

(text) Graham Williams, Australia: Senior Data Mining Position Available http://www.dit.csiro.au/~gjw/dataminer

Courses:

(text) Eric King, Course: DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, Aug 5-7 (Portland, ME), Sep 16-18 (Santa Clara, CA), and Nov 4-6 (Dallas, TX), http://www.gordianknot.com
(text) Saso Dzeroski, ILP Tutorial Day, 21 July 1998, Madison, Wisconsin, USA http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilptut98.html

Meetings:

(text) Tae Horn, KDD-98 Workshop 'Datamining in Finance': Call for participation http://www-vwl3.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de/vwl3/cpf.html
(text) Anthony HUNTER, CFP: ECSQARU99: European Conf. on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, 5-9 July 1999 at UCL, London, UK http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.hunter/ecsqaru
(text) David Heckerman, Uncertainty 99: Workshop on AI and Statistics, Reminder: Abstracts due July 1, 1998 http://uncertainty99.microsoft.com/
(text) Ulrich Reimer, 2nd Int. Conf. on Knowledge Management: PAKM98 http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:16, e-mailed 98-07-14

News:

(text) Ismail Parsa, KDD-CUP Last Call for Participation www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/kdd98/kdd-cup-98.html

Requests:

(text) Frank Saeuberlich, Survey on Data Mining Case Studies

Publications:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, Loan Prepayment Modeling pilot/paper http://reality.sgi.com/ronnyk/mortgage.pdf
(text) Farhad Hussain, Two New Books on Feature Selection & Extraction http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-8198-X

Tools/Services:

(text) David Martin, Angoss Software KnowledgeSTUDIO http://www.angoss.com
(text) Jiawei Han, First educational version release of the DBMiner system http://www.dbminer.com
(text) Chris Fraley, MCLUST/EMCLUST for cluster analysis http://www.stat.washington.edu/fraley/software.shtml

Positions:

(text) Aviva Lev, Perot Systems: Recent MSc or Ph.D. graduates, Applied Research in Internet Economics and Electronic Commerce
(text) Kathryn Burn-Thornton, Research Assistant in Virtual Data Mining, Plymouth University, UK
(text) Justin Debuse, University of East Anglia, UK - Research Assistant http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Jobs/

Courses:

(text) Saso Dzeroski, Analysis of Environmental Data, 7-10 Sep 1998, Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/aep/aep.html
(text) Sean O'Brien, SAS Institute Hosts M98 Data Mining Technology Conference Cary, North Carolina, October 26-30, 1998 http://www.sas.com/miningconference

Meetings:

(text) info@pap.com, PADD99: Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, London, UK, 21-23 April, 1999 http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD99/
(text) Evaldas Verselis, Comdex Enterprise, Frankfurt, Germany, Sep 28- Oct 1, 1998 http://www.comdex.de

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:17, e-mailed 98-07-29

Requests:

(text) M2 Ingrid, Questions about practical data mining projects

Publications:

(text) Alex Buchner, New Book: 'Decision Support using Data Mining' http://www.ftmanagement.com/
(text) Gerd Wagner, New Book: Foundations of Knowledge Systems http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~gwagner/ks-abstract.html
(text) Jerome Friedman, Paper: Additive Logistic Regression: a Statistical View of Boosting ftp://stat.stanford.edu/pub/friedman/boost.ps.Z
(text) Steven Salzberg, New Book: Computational Methods in Molecular Biology, http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~salzberg/compbio-book.html

Tools/Services:

(text) Anant Kishore, Wizsoft Press Release http://www.wizsoft.com/

Positions:

(text) Ed DeRouin, FL-US-Orlando, Data modeler/developer http://www.itcTX.com
(text) Liu Bing, Research Positions in Data Mining, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Meetings:

(text) Thomas Reinartz, 3rd CRISP-DM SIG Workshop, New York, NY, 1 Sep 1998 http://www.ncr.dk/CRISP
(text) Michael Berthold, IDA-99 Call for Papers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-11 August 1999 http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~ida99/
(text) Hiroshi Motoda, Final CFP: PKAW98 new submission deadline, July 31 http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/PKAW98.html
(text) Riccardo Bellazzi, IDAMAP 98 final announcement, Brighton, UK, 25 August 1998 http://aim.unipv.it/~ric/idamap98

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:18, e-mailed 98-08-18

News:

(text) Won Kim, SIGKDD is officially chartered acm.org/sigkdd
(text) Ismail Parsa, Free Data Mining Exhibits at KDD-98, New York City, August 28-29, 1998 www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/kdd98/exhibits.html
(text) Ismail Parsa, KDD-CUP: List of Participants www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/kdd98/kdd-cup-98.html

Requests:

(text) Jung Jozsef, Papers on Budget-related Data Mining ?

Publications:

(text) Randall Caldwell, J. Computational Intelligence in Finance: Final CFP http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ftpub/call.htm
(text) Peter Turney, Hypertext Bibliographies- Comments, Corrections, Contributions? http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/bibliographies/
(text) Ronny Kohavi, Crossing the Chasm talk at ICML-98 http://reality.sgi.com/ronnyk/chasm.pdf

Positions:

(text) Saltzman Vera, Nova Scotia, Canada: DATABASE MINER/MODELOR position at MTT, http://www.mtt.ca/
(text) Jason Rose, Roseville, CA: Hewlett Packard Position http://www.hp.com
(text) Aviva Lev-Ari, Perot Systems: Recent MSc or Ph.D. graduates, Applied Research in Internet Economics and Electronic Commerce

Courses:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, Data Mining with MineSet class - East Coast, Sept 8-10 http://mineset.sgi.com/training

Meetings:

(text) Jan Zytkow, Summary of Upcoming Knowledge Discovery Meetings www.kdnuggets.com/meetings
(text) Thomas Reinartz, 3rd CRISP-DM SIG Workshop, New York, 1st September
www.ncr.dk/CRISP
(text) Nelson Ebecken, ICDM'98 - Preliminary Program Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2-4 Sep 1998 http://www.coppe.ufrj.br/eventos/data_mining/mining.htm
(text) Liu Bing, Final CFP: Data mining workshop in PRICAI-98 ... http://www.iscs.nus.edu.sg/~liub/pricaiwp.html
(text) Andreas Weigend, Computational Finance Jan 6-8 1999 at NYU/Stern: CFP and Registration http://www.stern.nyu.edu/CF99

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:19, e-mailed 98-08-31

News:

(text) Ismail Parsa, KDD-CUP-98 Results: The winner is ...
www.kdnuggets.com/meetings/kdd98/
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98142

Publications:

(text) R. Uthurusamy, An important article on Intellectual Property issues and Databases http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5378/786
(text) Krzysztof Cios, new book: Data Mining Methods for Knowledge Discovery http://131.183.22.140/toc.html
(text) Krzysztof Cios, 2nd CFP: IEEE Eng. in Medicine and Biology Magazine http://131.183.22.140
(text) John Koza, Call for GP Book Proposals

Positions:

(text) Shannon Pemberton, San Mateo, CA: Manager of Site Reporting and Analysis www.insweb.com
(text) Kenneth Kopple, King of Prussia, PA: Data Mining For Drug Discovery www.sb.com
(text) Patrick Perrin, Mount Arlington, NJ: Knowledge Extraction www.logos-usa.com/aig
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF-NATO Postdoc Fellowships in Sci & Eng: proposals 11/16/98 http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98149

Courses:

(text) Rob Tibshirani, Modern Regression and Classification: Chicago, IL: Nov. 23-24, 1998. http://stat.stanford.edu/~trevor/mrc.general.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:20, e-mailed 98-09-16

News:

(text) GPS, NPR Morning Edition Sep 10, 1998 story on Data Mining
(text) Won Kim, ACM SIGKDD -- Please Join!
(text) Peter Flach, new Network of Excellence: ILPnet2

Publications:

(text) Usama Fayyad, Special Issue of Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery Journal on Integration of Data Mining with Database Technology
(text) Foster Provost, William of Ockham
(text) Xindong Wu, Knowledge & Information Systems journal

Positions:

(text) S. Pemberton, San Ramon, CA: INSWEB: Senior Analyst - Data Mining
(text) Carrie Bard, Fairfax, VA: MRJ: Data Mining Software Engineer
(text) Aviva Lev-Ari, Perot Systems: Recent MSc or Ph.D. graduates, Applied Research in Internet Economics and Electronic Commerce
(text) R. King, UK, Wales: U. of Wales: Postdoc Research Associate in Bioinformatic Knowledge Discovery

Courses:

(text) Daniel Silver, Data Mining with Artificial Neural Networks Course

Meetings:

(text) PAKDD-99: Final CFP, Beijing, China, April 26-28, 1999 http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/pakdd99
(text) Hiroshi Motoda, DS98: Discovery Science 1998, Fukuoka, Japan, December 14-16, 1998 http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds98
(text) Ulrich Reimer, PAKM98: Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, 29-30 October, 1998, Basel, Switzerland http://research.swisslife.ch/pakm98.html
(text) Annie Wu, CFP: GECCO-99 Workshops, Orlando, FL, July 14-17, 1999 http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/~aswu/gecco99

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:21, e-mailed 98-09-30

News:

(text) Carol Hamilton, KDD-98 attendance statistics
(text) Sal Stolfo, Some 'random' thoughts about KDD99
(text) Nitin Agrawal, Urban Science Summary of their KDD-CUP-98 results

Publications:

(text) William Shannon, Classification Society of North America Newsletter
(text) Ronny Kohavi, Information Week story on data mining

Tools/Services:

(text) Sergei Ananyan, PolyAnalyst PRO/Power -- new release of a leading DM solution

Courses:

(text) Eric King, DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, November 4-6, Dallas, Texas; January 27-29, Orlando, Florida

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:22, e-mailed 98-10-16

News:

(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF Names New Director for CISE

Requests:

(text) Angilica Caro, Incremental data mining ?

Publications:

(text) Kurt Thearling, KDD-98 workshop on Keys to the Commercial Success of Data Mining
(text) Natalia and Gennady Andrienko, New paper about KDD and GIS
(text) Hillol Kargupta, Call for Papers: 'Advances in Distributed Data Mining' Book
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF POWRE Program, FAQ; proposals due 12/9/98

Tools/Services:

(text) James Widdoes, Free Multiple Regression With Automatic Curve Fitting

Positions:

(text) Meichun Hsu, Data Mining R&D Project Manager HP Labs
(text) Aviva Lev-Ari, Perot Systems: Recent MSc or Ph.D. graduates, Applied Research in Internet Economics and Electronic Commerce

Courses:

(text) Kerry Martin, Data Mining with Decision Trees: Intro and Advanced CART Seminars

Meetings:

(text) Kris Chatterjee, DAMA-98: Data Warehousing and Mining Conference, Nov 30, 1998, Boston, MA, USA
(text) Giorgos Paliouras, ACAI-99 machine learning school, 5-16 July 1999, Greece
(text) Giorgos Paliouras, Call for Workshops, ACAI-99 machine learning school
(text) Ibrahim Imam, Final CFP IEA/AIE-99 (Deadline OCT. 31) Cairo, Egypt, May 31- June 3, 1999

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:23, e-mailed 98-10-30

News:

(text) GPS, Industry News: Informix + Red Brick, JWAVE, Neovista 3.0, Clementine 5.0, ACM SIGKDD
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF CISE Next Generation Software Program; Due dates: 12/15 letter, 1/12/99 proposal

Publications:

(text) Jud Wolfskill, New Book: Bioinformatics, The Machine Learning Approach
(text) John Elder, Comparative papers and KDD-98 tutorial notes available
(text) Foster Provost, Incremental Data Mining: brief review and references
(text) Stephen Koo, Interview with Professor Gao Wen, 'KDD in China' founder
(text) Naren Ramakrishnan, CFP: IEEE Computer Spec. Issue on Data Analysis and Mining

Tools/Services:

(text) Anders Bjorvand, Update: Rough Enough Public Domain software, based on rough set theory

Positions:

(text) Tom Warden, Menlo Park, CA: Data Mining Analyst at Allstate Research Center
(text) Padhraic Smyth, Tenure Track Faculty Position at UC Irvine

Courses:

(text) Gabor Por, Virtual Courses: Organizational Intelligence and Communities of Practice

Meetings:

(text) Jan Zytkow, CFP: Congress on Evolutionary Computation; Special session on data mining http://garage.cps.msu.edu/cec99/
(text) Lynd Bacon, 1999 AMA Advanced Research Techniques Forum, Santa Fe, NM, 6/13/99-6/16/99 http://www.ama.org/conf/
(text) DCI Event, Data Warehouse Summit, Phoenix AZ, December 8-10, 1998 http://www.dci.com/datawhse
(text) Solomon Shimony, CFP: BISFAI-99: Bar-Ilan Symposium on foundations of AI, June 23-25, 1999 in Ramat Gan, Israel. http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~bisfai

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:24, e-mailed 98-11-08

News:

(text) Won Kim, ACM SIGKDD update
(text) Fiona Neil, Quadstone KDD-Cup-98 story
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF KDI: New announcement; deadlines 2/1/99, 5/17/99
(text) Amit Seth, Yahoo Data Mining Forum/Club formed

Publications:

(text) Xindong Wu, Re: Incremental Data Mining
(text) Mohammed Zaki, Ph.D. Thesis: Scalable Data Mining for Rules

Tools/Services:

(text) Iztok Savnik, Siftware: New version of FDEP
(text) James Newton, Request for comments on SEARCH program

Positions:

(text) Ronny Kohavi, San Mateo, CA: Blue Martini Software looking for people
(text) Letty Orozco, Austin, Texas: ITC Data Mining Specialist
(text) Christophe Giraud, 2 RA Posts in Machine Learning at Bristol, UK
(text) D. R. Mani, Mountain View, CA: KDD Job at GTE Govt Systems

Courses:

(text) Bill Goodin, UCLA short course: Data Mining Techniques and Applications, January 25-28, 1999, Los Angeles

Meetings:

(text) Belur Dasarathy, SPIE Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Orlando, April 1999
(text) David Heckerman, Workshop on AI and Statistics, Jan 3-6, 1999, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida http://uncertainty99.microsoft.com/

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:25, e-mailed 98-11-22

News:

(text) Ismail Parsa, KDD-98 Exhibit Presentations available on the web

Publications:

(text) Gregory Piatetsky, DB2 Online Fall 1998 on Text and Data Mining
(text) Douglas Fisher, Special Issue of MLJ on Unsupervised Learning
(text) Gheorghe Tecuci, New Book 'BUILDING INTELLIGENT AGENTS: An Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Theory, ... '
(text) Vincent Corruble, CFP: IJHCS special issue on Machine Discovery

Tools/Services:

(text) Sergei Ananyan, TextAnalyst - new text mining solution from Megaputer
(text) Peter Raeth, Free Adaptive Automation Web Site Available

Positions:

(text) Andreas Weigend, Faculty Openings at NYU/Stern Information Systems
(text) Haym Hirsh, faculty recruitment in AI at Rutgers
(text) Michael Pazzani, Graduate Programs at UCI in KDD and related areas

Meetings:

(text) Trish Carbone, Federal Data Mining Symposium & Exposition '99 McLean, VA, March 9-10, 1999
(text) Domenico Talia, CFP: EURO-PAR'99 - High-Performance DM and KDD Toulouse, France, August 31 - September 3, 1999
(text) IAT99, IAT'99: 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Hong Kong, December 15-17, 1999

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:26, e-mailed 98-12-02

News:

(text) Won Kim, SIGKDD Status Update and Membership Appeal

Publications:

(text) Sanjay Ranka, CFP: Spec. Issue of J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing on on High Performance Data Mining
(text) Krzysztof Cios, CFP: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, spec issue on Medical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Tools/Services:

(text) Sergei Soobbotin, CrossReader Text Mining Tool (shareware)
(text) J. Cheng, New version of Belief Network PowerConstructor

Positions:

(text) Paul Scott, RA Vacancy at Univ of Essex, UK
(text) Luc De Raedt, Research position at ESPRIT Project, U. of Leuven, Belgium

Courses:

(text) Eric King, Data Mining: Principles and Practice, Jan 27-29, 1999, Orlando, Florida

Meetings:

(text) Andreas Weigend, Computational Finance CF99, January 6 - 8, 1999, New York, NY, http://www.stern.nyu.edu/CF99
(text) Anthony HUNTER, Symbolic and Qualitative Approaches to Uncertainty, 5-9 July 1999 at UCL, London, UK, http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.hunter/ecsqaru
(text) Peter Flach, CFP: Inductive Logic Programming '99, June 24-26, 1999, Bled, Slovenia, http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~ilp99/
(text) ICML 99, CFP: ICML-99: 16th Int. Conference on Machine Learning, June 27-30, 1999, Bled, Slovenia

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 98:27, e-mailed 98-12-15

News:

(text) Gregory Piatetsky, Tools for Sequence Data Analysis ?
(text) Russ Greiner, Distribution of queries posed to belief net systems?

Publications:

(text) Se June Hong, Special Issue on Data Mining: IEEE Intelligence
(text) Jiawei Han, SFU Graduate Student Research Theses on Data Mining
(text) Dunja Mladenic, PhD thesis on machine learning from large text data
(text) Maria Zemankova, NSF KDI CfP -- updated, IMPORTANT CHANGES
(text) Russ Greiner, SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium, sub. deadline 5 Feb 99

Positions:

(text) Pereric Lindquist, Market Analyst at MT&T, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(text) K. Burn-Thornton, Research Studentships at University of Plymouth, UK

Courses:

(text) Rob Tibshirani, Modern Regression and Classification: Menlo Park, CA, Mar 1-2, 1999

Meetings:

(text) David Heckerman, Workshop on AI and Statistics: Hotel deadline Dec 21, 1998, workshop: January 3-6, 1999, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. http://uncertainty99.microsoft.com/
(text) Geraint Wiggins, 2nd CFP: Symposium on AI and Scientific Creativity, AISB'99 Convention, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-9 April 1999, http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/~simonco/conferences/AISB99
(text) Ronen Feldman, IJCAI-99 Workshop on Text Mining, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2, 1999
(text) Michael Berthold, IDA-99 Call for Papers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9th-11th August 1999 http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~ida99/,
(text) RSFD, CFP: RSFDGrC'99: 7th Int. Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing, Yamaguchi, Japan, November 9-11, 1999 http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/rsfdgrc99
(text) Matthias Klusch, CFP: Meeting of AgentLink SIG on Intelligent Information Agents, April 21 & 22, 1999 London (UK) http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/SIGM2.html
(text) Miguel Feldens, CFP - WebVis'99, Web-Based Information Visualization, Florence, Italy, August 30 - September 3, 1999, http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/swe/WebVis99.html

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