Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 1996 Index

Past Issues: 1995 Nuggets, 1994 Nuggets, 1993 Nuggets

1996

January	Nuggets 96:1	Nuggets 96:2	Nuggets 96:3	Nuggets 96:4
February	Nuggets 96:5	Nuggets 96:6	Nuggets 96:7
March	Nuggets 96:8	Nuggets 96:9	Nuggets 96:10
April	Nuggets 96:11	Nuggets 96:12	Nuggets 96:13	Nuggets 96:14
May	Nuggets 96:15	Nuggets 96:16	Nuggets 96:17
June	Nuggets 96:18	Nuggets 96:19	Nuggets 96:20	Nuggets 96:21
July	Nuggets 96:22	Nuggets 96:23	Nuggets 96:24
August	Nuggets 96:25	Nuggets 96:26	Nuggets 96:27
September	Nuggets 96:28	Nuggets 96:29	Nuggets 96:30
October	Nuggets 96:31	Nuggets 96:32	Nuggets 96:33
November	Nuggets 96:34	Nuggets 96:35	Nuggets 96:36	Nuggets 96:37
December	Nuggets 96:38	Nuggets 96:39	Nuggets 96:40

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:1, e-mailed 96-01-05
News:

* U. Fayyad, Data Mining in the Cosmos

* E. Simoudis, IBM TV commercial on data mining, 12/30/1995

* R. Andrews, Rule Extraction Mailing List

* L. Prechelt, NN Benchmarking homepage
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/NIPS_bench.html

Publications:

* J. Major, New Wiley book on intelligent systems

Meetings:

* P. Smyth, Preliminary CFP for 1996 CSNA/NT, Amherst, MA, June 1996

* S. Tsumoto, CFP: Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Machine Discovery
(RSFD'96), Tokyo, Nov 1996, http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~roughset

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:2, e-mailed 96-01-12
News:

* J. Han, ACM-SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Deadline Extension:
January 22, 1996 http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html

* E. Colet, URL for Advanced Scout:
http://www.research.ibm.com/xw-scout

Publications:

* R. Golan, Electronic Bulletin of the Rough Set Community,
http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~roughset

Meetings:

* Bramer, Prelim CFP: Expert Systems 96, Cambridge UK, Dec 1996

* M. Vazirgiannis, CFP: ECAI workshop on Knowledge Representation
for Interactive Multimedia Systems, KRIMS'96,
http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/CfP/KRIMS96

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:3, e-mailed 96-01-18

News:

* U. Fayyad, New Journal -- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery --
information and free sample issue request form

* D. Fisher, hard to find ML alg for Optimized Set Reduction

* D. Madigan, Bayesians Worldwide list

http://bayes.stat.washington.edu/bayes_people.html

Siftware:

* J. Ong, CrossGraphs visualization and statistics tool,

http://www.belmont.com/cg.html

* C. Hian, Info on IDIS PC,

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~cecil/dmining.htm

Positions:

* T. Hamilton, Data Mining R&D at UTC Research Center (East Hartford, CT, USA)

Publications:

* R. Zicari, CFP: Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS) journal

Meetings:

* B. Zupan, ECAI96 WS Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine ...

* I. Imam, AAAI-96 WS on Intelligent Adaptive Agents,

http://www.mli.gmu.edu/~iimam/aaai96.html

* R. Greiner, CFP: Relevance in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/people/levy/rrr-cfp.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:4, e-mailed 96-01-29

News:

* GPS, Recent Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery applications ?

* R. Mantaras, Strategic Task Force KDD of MLnet -- email discussion

* R. Gibson, Request for speakers on DM/KDD at U. of Central Florida?

Publications:

* B. Wuthrich, new version of 'Knowledge Discovery in Databases'

manuscript, http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/beat/bio.html

Siftware:

* S. Tafolla, Q-Yield, data analysis tool for semiconductor

manufacturing, http://www.quadrillion.com/quad/

Meetings:

* T. Catarci, AVI'96, Advanced Visual Interfaces workshop program:

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/info.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:5, e-mailed 96-02-02

News:

* GPS, KDD-96 update and reminders

Publications:

* J. Ullman (via DBWORLD), NSF workshop Report on Future

of Database Research, http://db.stanford.edu/pub/ullman/lagii.ps

Siftware:

* C. Shearer, Clementine V2 Release, http://www.isl.co.uk

Positions:

* C. Shearer, Data Mining Applications and Tool Development (in UK)

Meetings:

* J. Wnek, MSL'96 Workshop (Submission deadline: Feb 10, 1996)
http://www.mli.gmu.edu/msl96.html

* E. Horwitz, CUAI'96 reminder (Submission deadline: March 1, 1996)
http://cuai-96.microsoft.com/

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:6, e-mailed 96-02-14

News:

* M. Hernandez, Results on The Data Cleaner
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mauricio

* B. Masand, Thinking Machines exits Chapter 11
http://www.think.com/

Meetings:

* S. McClean, UNICOM Data Mining Conference, London 25-26 APRIL 1996

* R. Golan, CIFEr 1996 call for participation, March 24-26, NYC
http://www.ieee.org/nnc/conferences/cfp/cifer96.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:7, e-mailed 96-02-23

News:
Publications:

* X. Wu, Book: Knowledge Acquisition from Databases
Siftware:

* D. Hovel, MSBN: The Microsoft Bayesian Networks Modeling Tool

http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/dtg/

* Knowledge Industries, no-cost academic licenses for Bayesian-network

software, http://www.kic.com
Positions:

* D. Madigan, Statistics position at University of Washington
Meetings:

* J. Valentine, UNICOM Data Mining Conference, London 25-26 APRIL 1996

-- corrected, http://www.worldserver.pipex.com/unicom/events/isai96.html

* L. Goldfarb, CFP: Workshop: What is inductive learning? Toronto,

May 20-21, 1996.

* R. Krovi, CFP: AIS Minitrack AI Applications in Business Decision

Processes, Aug 16-18, Phoenix, AZ, USA

http://hsb.baylor.edu/ramsover/ais.ac.96

*** Only 24 till KDD-96 paper submission deadline ***

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:8, e-mailed 96-03-01
Contents:
News:

* H. Wang, Communications Week (Feb 12) on Data Mining,

http://techweb.cmp.com/cw/021296/close596.htm

* U. Vere, Ultragem: New Company Offers Data Mining Services

http://www.ultragem.com

* A. Beitel, Director of Marketing needs help
Publications:

* AI-STAT list, Journal of Statistical Software

http://www.stat.ucla.edu/journals/jss/
Siftware:

* R. Kohavi, MLC++ tool at http://www.sgi.com/Technology/mlc/

* J. P. Brown, Superinduction Tool, http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown
Meetings:

* B. Grossman, Call for Position Papers for Data Mining Meeting,

March 14-15, 1996, San Diego

http://nscp.uic.edu/Conf/sdsc.html

* D. Sleeman, ICML-96 workshop: Synergy between Scientific Knowledge

Discovery and Knowledge Discovery In Databases,

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~sleeman/cfp-iml96ws.html

* 2nd CFP: AAAI-96 Workshop on Integrating Multiple Learned Models,

http://www.cs.fit.edu/~imlm/

* I. Imam, CFP: AAAI-96 WS on INTELLIGENT ADAPTIVE AGENTS

http://www.mli.gmu.edu/~iimam/aaai96.html

* J. Oliver, Final CFP for ISIS, Information, Statistics and

Induction in Science, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 Aug 1996,

http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~jono/ISIS/ISIS.shtml

*** only 18 days to KDD-96 paper submission deadline ***

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:9, e-mailed 96-03-15
Contents:
News:

* U. Fayyad, CNN story on 'data mining'

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/TECH/9602/information_overload/index.html

* J. Han, KDD-96 submission logistics -- only 3 days left!
Publications:

* K. Thearling, 2 white papers on Data Mining at

http://www.santafe.edu/~kurt
Siftware:

* C. Volinsky, logistic regression: Bayesian Model Averaging

via bic.logit, http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/bic.logit
Positions:

* Staff, Vacancy: Lectureship in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

http://www2.tcd.ie/statistics
Meetings:

* P. Chapnick, Data Mining Summit, Chicago, May 2-3, http//www.vldb.com

* S. Wrobel, ICML 96 Workshop announcement,

http://nathan.gmd.de/persons/stefan.wrobel/ICML96/workshops.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:10, e-mailed 96-03-24
Contents:
News:

* GPS, What's New at KD Mine
Publications:

* Minton, JAIR article by Quinlan,

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/quinlan96a.html
Siftware:

* D. Zighed, New version of SIPINA-W v1.2
Positions:

* H. Mannila, Position in Intelligent Systems, University of Helsinki

* I. Mclaren, PhD studentship in Logic-based data mining techniques at

U. of Luton, UK
Meetings:

* B. Zupan, IDAMAP-96 (ECAI'96 workshop) submissions due April 2,

http://www-ai.ijs.si/ailab/activities/idamap96.html

* Bramer, UK: Expert Systems 96: Call for Papers (version 2: 23/03/96)

http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/sges/es96.html

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/

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:12, e-mailed 96-04-09
Contents:
News:

* IBM Announces Data Mining Solution for Improved Decision,

http://www.software.ibm.com/

* L. Bookman, APT introduces Parallel Data Warehousing

and Data Mining Environment
Publications:

* R. Sun, Report on Hybrid Connectionist-Symbolic Models,

ftp://cs.ua.edu/pub/tech-reports/sun.ai-magazine.ps
Siftware:

* R. Kohavi, 3D Decision-Tree Visualizer for MLC++,

http://www.sgi.com/Technology/mlc
Positions:

* B. Wagstaff, Data Mining intern position at Red Brick Systems,

http://www.redbrick.com
Meetings:

* J. Fuernkranz, CFP: MLnet WS on ILP for KDD,

http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/ilp_kdd/

* M. Klusch, CIA-97 Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents

postponed from Oct 96 to Feb 97,

http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:13, e-mailed 96-04-15
Contents:
News:

* GPS, ComputerWorld on Victoria Secret Data 'Wearhouse',

http://www.computerworld.com/search/AT-html/open/960408SL15vic.html

* E. Colet, WSJ article on NBA's use of data mining and technology.
Publications:

* B. MacReady, An Efficient Method To Estimate Bagging's Generalization

Error, http://www.santafe.edu/~wgm/papers.html

* R. Tibshirani, Bias, variance and prediction error for classification

rules, http://utstat.toronto.edu/reports/tibs/biasvar.ps
Positions:

* P. Riddle, Data Mining Job at Boeing

* S. Cornell, Senior Data Mining position for a start-up in Bay Area

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:14, e-mailed 96-04-30
Contents:
News:

* P. Smyth, KDD-96 Registration Information Online

http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96

* J. Han, KDD-96 list of accepted papers

* U. Fayyad, On Payback of Data Warehousing

* C. Fraley, mailing list: UW Stat working group on model-based

classification
Publications:

* S. Minton, JAIR article, Iterative Optimization and Simplification

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/fisher96a.html
Siftware:

* R. Agrawal, Quest home page

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/quest
Meetings:

* P. Smyth, Final CFP for Sixth AI and Statistics Workshop,

http://www.stat.washington.edu/aistats97/

* M. Bramer, IEE Colloquium on Knowledge Discovery,

London, October 17-18 1996

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:15, e-mailed 96-05-11
Contents:
News:

* T. Anand, Call for Commercial and Research System Demos at KDD-96

-- deadline is June 3, http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96/cfd.html
Publications:

* A. Tuzhilin, DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS JOURNAL, spec. issue on

Knowledge Discovery and Its Applications to Business Decision Making
Meetings:

* Liu Huan, CFP for PAKDD97, Singapore 23-24 February, 1997

http://www.iscs.nus.sg/conferences/pakdd97.html

* M. Berthold, CFP: IDA-97: Intelligent Data Analysis

London, 4-6 August 1997, http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html

* M. Hadjimichael, CFP: Rough Sets and Soft Computing, 1997,

North Carolina, March 2-5, 1997

http://cs.uregina.ca/~roughset/rssc97.txt

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:16, e-mailed 96-05-20
Contents:
News:

* GPS, New York Times article 'Tracking Crumbs of Data

That Threaten to Define Us' ,

http://www.nytimes.com/web/docsroot/library/cyber/surf/0512dunn.html

* GPS, Infoworld Apr 29, 1996 article on Data Mining's Midas Touch

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchives.pl?dt_iwe18-96_84.htm
Publications:

* P. Turney, Hypertext Bibliographies for Machine Learning,

http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/bibliographies/

* J. Hunter, CFP: Special Issue of the Journal

'Artificial Intelligence in Medicine',

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jhunter/AIM_call.html

* H. Sever, A Special Issue of JASIS on Data Mining,

http://www.usl.edu/~raghavan/JASIS97.html
Positions:

* X. Lui, EPSRC CASE Research Studentship in Intelligent Data Analysis

http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~hui/IDA/home.html
Meetings:

* R. Bramer, UK Expert Systems 96: Call for Tutorials

* J. Talavera, IPMU'96 Final Programme, July 1-5, 1996, Granada (SPAIN)

http://decsai.ugr.es/ipmu96.html

* ISIS Conference: Information, Statistics and Induction In Science,

Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 August 1996,

http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~jono/ISIS/ISIS.shtml

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:17, e-mailed 96-05-29
Contents:
News:

* G. Grinstein, Information Exploration Shootout

http://www.cs.uml.edu/shootout/

* GPS, May 1995 LAN Magazine Cover Story on Data Mining:

http://www.lanmag.com/

* J. Gallman, KDD applied to a corrective action data base
Publications:

* C. Brodley, preprint available: 'Applying classification

algorithms in practice', http://yake.ecn.purdue.edu/~brodley/

* A. Pryke, Searchable Bibliography of Online KDD papers,

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~anp/TheDataMine.html
Siftware:

* M. Kiselev, PolyAnalyst v2.01 data mining system,

http://mosca.sai.msu.su/~mp/megapute.html

* C. Turnquist, New Knowledge Discovery Company www.kd1.com

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:18, e-mailed 96-06-04
Contents:
News:

* GPS, Computerworld: Red Brick in to data mining market 6/3/96,

http://www.computerworld.com/search/AT-html/9606/960603SL23brick.html

* P. Domingos, Newsweek and Wired June 1996 on Data Mining

* GPS, What's New at KD Mine (May 1996)

http://info.gte.com/~kdd/what-is-new.html
Publications:

* R. Kohavi, Test drive different algorithms on your problem,

ftp://starry.stanford.edu/pub/ronnyk/mlc96.ps.Z

* L. Breiman, paper on BIAS, VARIANCE AND ARCING

ftp://ftp.stat.berkeley.edu/users/breiman

* L. Breiman, Distribution Based Trees Are More Accurate,

ftp://ftp.stat.berkeley.edu/users/breiman/DB-CART.ps
Siftware:

* A. Zighed, SIPINA_W version 1.3,

http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/eric.html
Positions:

* M. Stonebraker, (DBWORLD) Informix opportunities
Meetings:

* S. Anand, Workshop on Data Mining at Basel, Oct 1996

http://iserve1.infj.ulst.ac.uk:8080/pakm96.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:19, e-mailed 96-06-18
Contents:
News:

* J. Han, KDD-96 Advance Program

* P. Hoffman, Corrected Information Exploration Shootout link,

http://iris.cs.uml.edu:8080

* T. Anand, List of KDD-96 Demos

* U. Fayyad, CDT on Internet privacy policy,

http://www.cdt.org/privacy/
Publications:

* J. Friedman, Paper On Bias, Variance, 0/1 - Loss, and

the Curse-Of-Dimensionality,

ftp://playfair.stanford.edu/pub/friedman/kdd.ps.Z

* L. Goldfarb, CFP: Special Issue of Pattern Recognition:

What is inductive learning?

* X. Wu, CFP: Special Issue of Informatica on Data Mining Metrics
Positions:

* T. Anand, 2 Positions at Knowledge Discovery group at NCR
Meetings:

* M. Bramer, Colloquium on Knowledge Discovery, London, October 1996

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:20, e-mailed 96-06-24
News:

* GPS, ComputerWorld: MasPar changes name to NeoVista and focuses

on Data Mining

* E. Yassa, Real-time system that can work with large data sets?
Siftware:

* S. Champion, New Data Mining Company: NeoVista Solutions,

www.neovista.com

* I. Savnik, FDEP program for induction of functional dependencies

from relations, martin.ijs.si/savnik/fdep.html

* M. Conkling, STATlab, http://www.slp-infoware.com
Positions:

* Computational Finance Program in Oregon,

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CompFin/

* M. Amin, Position at Advanced Technology Center of

United HealthCare Corp. (UHC)
Meetings:

* E. Horvitz, UAI-96 program and registration information,

http://cuai-96.microsoft.com/

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:21, e-mailed 96-06-28
News:

* T. Anand, updated list of demos at KDD-96

* G. Williams, Australian Data Mining Group and Reports

http://www.dit.csiro.au/~gjw/dataminer.html

* D. Cohen, CART from California Statistical Software ?

* R. Golan, Financial Data Mining with Rough Sets

* GPS, ComputerWorld on going beyond Data Warehousing,

http://www.computerworld.com/search/AT-html/9606/960624SL26patty.html
Publications:

* GPS, AI Magazine Summer 1996 on Data Mining a Sky Survey
Meetings:

* G. Widmer, ECML-97: Call for Papers

http://is.vse.cz/ecml97/home.html

* J. Ignacio, Workshop on Machine Learning and more in Madrid,

JULY 10-12, 1996

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:22, e-mailed 96-07-11
News:

* M. Brodie (in DBWORLD), VLDB news

* R. Golan, Applying Computational Intelligence to the

Investment Process

* H. Duh, Incremental Algorithm for mining association rules

* I. Askira, Comprehensibility and novelty in KDD research
Publications:

* J. Han, CFP: JIIS Special Issue on Data Mining,

http://www.isse.gmu.edu/JIIS/
Siftware:

* N. Indurkhya, CART update

* L. Dehaspe, S*i*ftware tool: Claudien
Meetings:

* L. Huan, Final CALL for PAPERS PAKDD97 (August 1, 1996),

http://www.iscs.nus.sg/conferences/pakdd97.html.

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:23, e-mailed 96-07-18
News:

* A. Eldredge, KDD-96 Conference Banquet -- please reply if interested

* J. Simoni, Data Mining from full text documents?

* GPS, Jun 10, 1996 Information Week Cover Story on Digging Too Deep

* Computational Finance in Oregon , http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CompFin/
Siftware:

* E. Tocatlian, ALICE Data Mining Tool

* E. Tocatlian, ISoft/BusinessObjects partnership
Meetings:

* I. Imam, CFP: AAAI-96 WS on Intelligent Adaptive Agents,

http://www.mli.gmu.edu/~iimam/iaa96/ws_list.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:24, e-mailed 96-07-30
News:

* U. Fayyad, KDD-96 Final Update and KDD-97 News

* GPS, Data Mining From Text -- Summary of Responses

* S. Streltsov, Data Mining on the Web: lifestyle comparison
Publications:

* J. Widom, SIGMOD record on-line

http://bunny.cs.uiuc.edu/sigmod/sigmod_record
Meetings:

* V. Aroca, Data Mining Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Oct 10, 1996

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:25, e-mailed 96-08-06
News:

* GPS, KDD-96 Conference -- Second Wind for KDD

* R. Uthurusamy, KDD-97 CFP (draft), http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd97/

* S. Vere, Data Mining Repository for Very Large Datasets

* J. Fuernkranz, Summary of ICML-96 Workshop on ILP for KDD,

http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/ilp_kdd/

* J. Johnson, Growth of databases and the largest DB today?
Siftware:

* D. Lin, Data mining services and tools available via Internet

* S. Tate, The Data Mining Suite from Information Discovery, Inc.
Meetings:

* R. Zicari, Object World Frankfurt 96 and Internet Forum Europe 96,

http://www.ltt.de

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:26, e-mailed 96-08-13
News:

* S. Hedberg, End users of KDD applications -- Reply ASAP please!

* GPS, PR NewsWire: DCI Data Warehouse World, Data Mining Gold Rush,...

* M. Smyth, Intensive Tutorial in Learning Methods ...,

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cbcl/web-pis/jordan/course/index.html
Publications:

* GPS, SYLLOGIC on Support for data mining algorithms in a relational

environment, http://www.syllogic.nl/art0001.html

* D. Aubrey, Mining for Dollars

* V. Raghavan, CFP: J. ASIS Special Issue on Data Mining,

http://www.usl.edu/~raghavan/JASIS97.html
Siftware:

* J. Brown, Complexity and Predictions,

http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown/hmpg16.html

* N. Smith, Data preprocessing software for neural network users,

http://www.jurikres.com
Positions:

* K. Ali, Data Mining positions at IBM San Jose

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:27, e-mailed 96-08-22
News:

* G. McKiernan, Project Aristotle(sm): Automated Categorization

of Web Resources,

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Aristotle.htm

* T. Van de Merckt, DCI Data Warehouse World etc ...

* T. Van de Merckt, Corporate KDD site,

http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~thierry/ckdd.html
Siftware:

* G. Cybenko, Web Informant for periodically finding relevant sites,

http://informant.dartmouth.edu

* S. Wrobel, Kepler: an extensible multi-task system

http://nathan.gmd.de/projects/ml/kepler-englisch.html
Meetings:

* M. van Someren, ECML-MLnet workshops 1997

* S. Tsumoto, Web Page for RSFD'96,

http://ylab-gw.cs.uec.ac.jp/RSFD96.html

* M. Klusch, Workshop CIA-97 on Copperative Information Agents,

http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/registration.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:28, e-mailed 96-09-05
News:

* Y. Kodratoff, Report on KDD-96

* A. Tickle, Occam's Razor and data mining

* L. Mazlack, Berkeley Special Interest Group In Database Mining

* M. Smyth, Intensive Tutorial: Learning Methods for Prediction,

Classification,

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cbcl/web-pis/jordan/course/index.html
Positions:

* D. Wolpert, Job openings at IBM net.Mining (Almaden)
Meetings:

* B. Gaines, CFP: AAAI Spring Symposium, AI in Knowledge Management,

Stanford University, March 24-26, 1997,

http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/AIKM97/

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:29, e-mailed 96-09-10
News:

* C. Schommer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main Laboratory for

Data Mining, http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/CC/LDM/
Publications:

* P. Turney, Re: Occam's Razor and data mining,

http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cgi-bin/jair-abstract?webb96a

* M. Ramoni, Reports on Learning in Bayesian Networks,

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~marco/papers/

* D. Lin, IDIS Report, 'Rules are better than Decision Trees'
Siftware:

* W. Gong, DBMiner, http://db.cs.sfu.ca/DBMiner
Positions:

* G. Williams, Position in Computational and Statistical

Data Mining (ANU), ftp://acsys.anu.edu.au/pub/ParAlgs
Meetings:

* S. Tsumoto, Revised CFP: RSFD'96, Tokyo, November 6-8, 1996

http://ylab-gw.cs.uec.ac.jp/RSFD96.html

* M. Bramer, EXPERT SYSTEMS '96, Cambridge, UK : 16-18 December 1996

http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/sges.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:30, e-mailed 96-09-24
News:

* GPS, MONEY Daily: Privacy storm shows the best and worst of the 'Net
Siftware:

* Istvan Banhegyi, KKBB Management Systems Consumer Pattern Recognition

http://members.tripod.com/~IstvanBanhegyi/pattsimp.htm
Positions:

* B. Brooks, KDD Positions at SRA International,

http://www.sra.com

* T. Eisenbud, Positions at Start-up Data Mining service bureau.

* A. Hindle, New positions at Harlequin Limited,

http://www.harlequin.com/full/adapsys.html

* R. Greiner, Research/Development Position # 1 at Siemens

* R. Greiner, Position #2: Research Programmer at Siemens
Meetings:

* E. King, Seminar: Making Sense of Data:

Computer-Aided Pattern Discovery,

* G. Widmer, CFP: ECML-97, 23-26 April 1997, Prague,

http://is.vse.cz/ecml97/home.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:31, e-mailed 96-10-04
News:

* D. Cohen, P-Trak database
Publications:

* GPS, IEEE Expert Special Issue on Data Mining,

http://www.computer.org/pubs/expert/toc.htm

* GPS, Datamation: Database Marketing predicts Customer Loyalty

http://www.datamation.com/PlugIn/issues/1996/sept/DATAM.html
Siftware:

* New Entry for REDUCT tool for data mining and DSS,

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/reduct

* S. Inglis, WEKA Machine Learning workbench,

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml
Meetings:

* P. Smyth, all for Participation for AISTATS-97,

http://www.stat.washington.edu/aistats97/

* M. Smyth, Modern Regression and Classification Course in Boston,

http://playfair.stanford.edu/~trevor/mrc.html

* R. Freeman, NNCM-96, NEURAL NETWORKS IN THE CAPITAL MARKETS,

http://cs.caltech.edu/~learn/nncm

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:32, e-mailed 96-10-15
News:

* S. Stolfo, JAM: Java Agents for Meta-learning

(Application: Fraud and Intrusion Detection),

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sal/JAM/PROJECT

* M. Zemankova, DARPA BAA : High-Performance Knowledge Bases ,

http://www.arpa.mil/baa/#iso

* S. Tafolla, Automatically Finding Keys in Legacy Databases ?
Publications:

* GPS, CFP: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal

* E. Fiesler, Handbook of Neural Computation,

http://www.idiap.ch/nn.html

* J. Han, JIIS Special Issue on Data Mining: The final call for papers
Siftware:

* N+G. Andrienko, IRIS: visual data exploration system,

http://allanon.gmd.de/and/and.html
Positions:

* T. Senator, KDD Positions at NASD
Meetings:

* D. Leake, ICCBR-97: Int. Conf. on Case-Based Reasoning

Providence, Rhode Island, July 25-27, 1997

http://www.iccbr.org/

* D. Fisher, ICML-97: Int. Conf. on Machine Learning,

July 8-12, 1997, Nashville, TN

http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~mlccolt/icml97/index.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:33, e-mailed 96-10-25
News:

* GPS, Business Week on Data Mining and High Tech in Finance

http://www.businessweek.com/1996/44/b349914.htm

* P. Domingos, Data mining story in Newsweek
Publications:

* S. Minton, Quinlan JAIR article, Learning First-Order Definitions...

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/quinlan96b.html
Siftware:

* R. Kohavi, MLC++ 2.0 now available at

http://www.sgi.com/Technology/mlc/
Positions:

* Gonzales Consulting, Data Mining in Mortgage Servicing Industry

* M. Bramer, Research Studentships at the University of Portsmouth, UK
Meetings:

* R. Gulliver, IMA Workshop on Data Mining and Industrial Applications,

Nov 18-20, 1996, Minneapolis

http://www.ima.umn.edu/hpc.f4.html

* D. Gordon, Call for workshop proposals at ICML-97,

http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~mlccolt/icml97/index.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:34, e-mailed 96-11-07
News:

* C. Shearer, Clementine Strikes Silver
Publications:

* GPS, IEEE Expert Oct'96 Spec. Issue on Data Mining,

Searching for Mother Lode: Tales of the first Miners, by S. Hedberg,

http://www.computer.org/pubs/expert/1996/insight/x5004/x5004.htm

* R. Kohavi, MLJ spec. issue on Applications of Machine Learning

and the Knowledge Discovery Process,

* T. Catarci, SIGMOD record special issue on Information Visualization

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~isabel/print.html
Siftware:

* S. Reiss, SGI MineSet 1.1,

http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet

* F. Lenherr, Neuroscience Web Search

http://www.acsiom.org/nsr/neuro.html

* M. Kiselev, PolyAnalyst free evaluation version available,

http://mosca.sai.msu.su/~mp/megapute.html
Positions:

* W. Cohen, Job offer for research programmer at AT&T Labs

* J. Gavan, Telecom Knowledge Discovery positions in Western US
Meetings:

* M. Berthold, IDA-97: Intelligent Data Analysis,

London, 4-6 August 1997, http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html

* M. Klusch, CIA-97: Cooperative Information Agents,

extended submission deadline: 17 November 1996

http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:35, e-mailed 96-11-14
Publications:

* R. Uthurusamy, Communications of ACM Special Issue on Data Mining,

http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine/acm-contents.htm

* L. Breiman, Paper: Out-Of-Bag Estimation,

ftp.stat.berkeley.edu/pub/breiman/OOBestimation.ps
Siftware:

* J. P. Brown, new at SuperInduction Website,

http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown
Positions:

* C. Shearer, VP Business Development for ISL (USA)

* E. Babb, Data Mining Job at PARSYS (UK)

* W. Wallace, Statistics Position at RPI (USA)
Meetings:

* J. Han, CFP: SIGMOD'97 Data Mining workshop,

May 11, Tucson, Arizona

* D. Geiger, CFP: UAI-97: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence,

August 1-3, 1997, Providence, RI,

http://cuai97.microsoft.com/

* R. Schapire, CFP: COLT'97, Computational Learning Theory,

Nashville, Tennessee, July 6--9, 1997,

http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~mlccolt/

* E. King, Course: Making Sense of Data: Computer-Aided Pattern

Discovery, January 27-31, 1997, Wheeling, WV;

http://www.heuristics.com/gordian/MkgSns.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:36, e-mailed 96-11-21
News:

* U. Fayyad, Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery journal: first issue

http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine

* L. Winstone, Data Mining and Data Warehousing Survey,

http://db.cs.sfu.ca/questionnaire

* A. Van Epps, New Data Mining WebSite, http://www.rpi.edu/~vanepa2/
Publications:

* J. Friedman, Local Learning Based on Recursive Covering,

ftp://playfair.stanford.edu/pub/friedman/dart.ps.Z

and Another Approach To Polychotomous Classification,

ftp://stat.stanford.edu/pub/friedman/poly.ps.Z
Positions:

* GPS, Database Marketing Position at GTE Mobilnet, Atlanta
Meetings:

* S. Vinterbo, PKDD'97 -- Principles of Data Mining and

Knowledge Discovery, Norway, June 25-27, 1997

http://www.idt.ntnu.no/pkdd97

* M. Smyth, Hastie and Tibshirani, Regression and Classification ...

course, Cambridge, MA, Dec 9 - 10, 1996,

http://playfair.stanford.edu/~trevor/mrc.html

* M. Smyth, Hinton and Jordan, Learning Methods for Prediction ...,

course, LA, Dec 14-15, 1996

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cbcl/web-pis/jordan/course/index.html

* KBCS, CFP: KBCS-96, Bombay, India, Dec 16-18,

http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html

* D. Gordon, ICML-97 workshop proposals due Dec 4, 1996

http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~mlccolt/icml97/index.html

Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 96:37, e-mailed 96-11-27
News:

* GPS, LA Times: Bill Gates says Microsoft's competitive advantage is ..
Publications:

* R. Kohavi, Data Mining Using MLC++ won TAI's Best Paper award,

ftp://starry.stanford.edu/pub/ronnyk/mlc96.ps.Z

* F. Famili, CFP: Intelligent Data Analysis - new journal,

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

* H. Motoda, CFP: IEEE Expert Spec. Issue on

feature transformation and subset selection

* T. Dietterich, Statistical Tests for Comparing Supervised

Classification Learning Algorithms,

ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/tgd/papers/stats.ps.gz
Siftware:

* GPS, new entries for data mining companies

DAZSI and Neural Technologies
Positions:

* M. Singh, NCSU Position: Workflow Management and Data Mining,

http://www.csc.ncsu.edu
Meetings:

* L. Huan, Advance Program PAKDD-97: Pacific-Asia Conf. on

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Singapore, 23-24 February, 1997

http://www.iscs.nus.sg/conferences/pakdd97

KDD Nuggets 96:38, e-mailed 96-12-06
News:

* GPS, ComputerWorld on Drilling for Data,

http://www.computerworld.com/guide/961202drill.html

* EricT, ISOFT Agreement With Business Objects

* C. Matheus, Database Visualization and VRML,

http://www.best.com/~cyber23/virarch/article.html

* Francis, Query: First use of 'Data Mining' and 'Data Warehousing'?
Publications:

* M. Montgomery, Book: Probabilistic Expert Systems by Glenn Shafer
Siftware:

* W. Cohen, RIPPER learning system now available to researchers

http://www.research.att.com/~wcohen/ripperd.html

* M. Ankerst, VisDB, Visual Data Mining System,

http://www.dbs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/dbs/projekt/visdb/visdb.html
Positions:

* E. King, VP, MARKETING SEGMENTATION MANAGER at

CoreStates Bank of Delaware
Meetings:

* C. Taylor, CFP: MLNET workshop: Learning In Changing Domains,

http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/ecml97/dyn.htm

* Computational Finance at Oregon Graduate Institute,

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CompFin/

Nuggets 96:39, e-mailed 96-12-13
News:

* S. Uthurusamy, KDD-97 Call for Papers

http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd97/

* J. Hoskins, first mention of data mining
Publications:

* GPS, Book on Data Mining by P. Adriaans and D. Zantinge

* L. Breiman, Paper: PASTING BITES TOGETHER FOR PREDICTION IN

LARGE DATA SETS,

ftp.stat.berkeley.edu/users/breiman/pastebite.ps
Siftware:

* D. Zighed, SIPINA-W (latest version Dec. 1996)
Positions:

* S. Wrobel, GMD Postgraduate Program in ML/Data Mining

http://nathan.gmd.de/projects/ml/home.html
Meetings:

* P. Smyth, Final Reminder for 6th AI and Statistics Workshop,

Jan 4-7, 1997 Fort Lauderdale, Florida

http://www.stat.washington.edu/aistats97/

* S. Cartmell, PADD 97 Update, (submission deadline extended)

April 23-25, 1997, London, UK

http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD97/index.html

* T. Fawcett, CFP: AAAI-97 Workshop on AI in Fraud Detection

* B. Zupan, CFP: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and

Pharmacology (IDAMAP-97) at IJACI-97,

http://www-ai.ijs.si/ailab/activities/idamap97.html

KDD Nuggets 96:40, e-mailed 96-12-18
News:

* U. Fayyad and C. Meek, First mention of data mining in Leamer (1978)
Publications:

* D. Jensen, Papers on Overfitting and Model Complexity,

http://www-eksl.cs.umass.edu/papers/

* X. Hu, New book: Rough Sets and Data Mining
Siftware:

* N. Bissantz, BETREX: award-winning data mining software
Positions:

* E. Fourakis, Graduate level interns positions in MD and VA
Meetings:

* S. Koenig, AAAI-97 Workshop on On-Line Search

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~skoenig/search/index.html

* M. van Someren, European Conf. on Machine Learning (ECML-97)

and related workshops

* H. Blockeel, CFP: IJCAI-97 Workshop on Frontiers of

Inductive Logic Programming

* S. Goldman, ICML/COLT '97: Call for Tutorials,

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~sg/tutorial96.html