KDD Nuggets Index for 1995

KDD Nuggets 95:1, e-mailed 95-01-16

* GPS, home page for KDD-95 conf: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/kdd95.html and KDD-95 logo contest reminder.

* GPS, Kamran Parsaye on Large Scale Data Mining in Parallel

--- CFPs ---

* Y. Yao, CSC'95 Workshop on Rough Sets and Data Mining

* R. Zicari, OBJECT WORLD FRANKFURT `95

* Paul.Vitanyi, 2nd European Conf. on Computational Learning Theory

* G Cheng, CFP: IDA-95: International Symp on Intelligent Data Analysis

KDD Nuggets 95:2, e-mailed 95-01-30

* GPS, update on KDD-95 conference

* Winton Davies, on Software Agents for Mining Databases

* G. Hebrail, Statistical analysis of textual data, 2 abstracts

* D. Jensen, Statistical Evaluation of Classifiers

--- CFPs ---

* P. Ozturk, Int. Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 1995 (ICCBR-95)

* B. Julien, IJCAI-95 W'shop on ML in Engineering, 2nd CFP

KDD Nuggets 95:3, e-mailed 95-02-10

* GPS, KDD-95 conference -- 3 weeks till paper submission deadline!

* GPS, Database Mining (tm) is trademarked by HNC

* E. Irani, Classifier evaluation -- Ph.D. abstract

* T. Finin, faculty position related to KDD

* D. O'Leary, IEEE CAIA 1995 -- Conference Preview

* B. Wuthrich, new report on Knowledge Discovery in Databases

KDD Nuggets 95:4, e-mailed 95-02-17

* U. Fayyad, KDD-95 conference -- Final Reminder

* D. Fisher, Clustering tech report

* GPS, J. of Intelligent Information Systems, KDD spec. issue is out

* R. Rymon, SE-learn -- SE-tree-based learning package

* J. J Cannat, New Data Mining Tool AC2

* D. Aha, slides for ML tutorial at AI & Stats 1995

KDD Nuggets 95:5, e-mailed 95-02-27

* E. Simoudis, home for Recon: http://hitchhiker.space.lockheed.com/~recon/

* W. Kovach, WWW page for statistical software, http://www.compulink.co.uk/kovcomp

* R. Musick, Ph. D. thesis abstract: Belief Network Induction

* A. Sharma, Announcement of Post-Doctoral Position

* GPS, what is new in Knowledge Discovery Mine

* D. Jensen, ERRATA: Statistical Evaluation of Classifiers

--- CFPs ---

* TDWI: Data Warehousing Institute Annual Conference (DW'95)

* K. Ong, Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Discovery with Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (KDOOD)

KDD Nuggets 95:6, e-mailed 95-03-16

* R. Uthurusamy, KDD-95 update -- over 130 papers received!

* AAAI, reminder -- KDD-94 proceedings available from AAAI Press.

* GPS, Greatest Pattern Search Ever!

* S. Hirtle, CSNA Newsletter at http://www.pitt.edu/~hirtle/csna.html

--- Job Ads ---

* Vic Rayward-Smith, Res. Assistant position, U. of East Anglia

* Bing Liu, Res. Assistant position, National University of Singapore

--- CFPs ---

* W. Kloesgen, New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS-95)

* Xiaohui Liu, ADT-95, London, April 3-5 1995

KDD Nuggets 95:7, e-mailed 95-03-25

* D. Aha, A list of ML folks' home pages

* A. Levy, PODS-95 program and paper abstracts on-line

* Y. Kodratoff, MLnet workshop on Industrial Applications of ML

* W. Van de Velde, European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW'94)

--- Questions:

* T. Clark, Programs to match similar records

* R. Dybowski, GA visualisation

--- Job ads:

* R. Agrawal, Positions in the IBM Almaden

* CFPs: Calls for Papers and Participation:

* Z. Obradovic, New journal: Multiple-Valued-Logic and Soft Computing

* R. Zicari, Object Application Awards Program Invites Entries

* P. Ozturk, ICCBR-95, final CfP

KDD Nuggets 95:8, e-mailed 95-04-01

* Replies to Tim Clark Query on Matching Records:

* L. Breiman, Matching Records

* S. Stolfo, Matching Records: Merge/Purge Tool Soon Available

* A. Ketterlin, Analyzing Foster Childrens' Home Payments Database

* S. Rondeau, An algorithm for matching similar records

* Publications:

* D. Heckerman, CACM special issue on Bayesian networks

* G. Grandbase du Donnee, Knowledge Burial in Databases: An Underview

* Question:

* A. Pang, Data mining in retail sector ?

* CFPs: Calls for Papers and Participation:

* D. Georgakopoulos, ICDE-96, Int. Conf. on Data Engineering

KDD Nuggets 95:9, e-mailed 95-04-21

* S. Hirtle, CSNA WWW pages moved to http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/

* G. Melli, Announce - Synthetic Classification Data Sets program Siftware:

* R. Almond, Software for Belief Networks Page http://bayes.stat.washington.edu/almond/belief.html

* R. Segal, Brute -- a system for induction of conjunctive rules

* GPS, Siftware: SAS homepage at http://www.sas.com/
WinViz homepage http://www.iti.gov.sg/factsheet/ia/winviz.html

* W. Taylor, Classes from Data! Autoclass C is here! CFPs: Calls for Papers and Participation:

* H. Blockeel, ILP95 - final CFP

KDD Nuggets 95:10, e-mailed 95-05-05

* P. Smyth, KDD-95 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

* R. Uthurusamy, list of accepted papers for KDD-95

* P. Smyth, new KDD-95 page http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95

* GPS, Useful backprop articles

* A. Chatterjee, Siftware: Parallel Visual Explorer (PVE) http://www.ibm.com/News/950203/pve-01.html

* A. Mueller, Question: Retail Data sets ?

* I Flockhart, Question: significance levels for patterns ?

KDD Nuggets 95:11, e-mailed 95-05-23

* T. Sellis, Warning: Plagiarism case

* K. Ong, CFP: Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Discovery with Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (KDOOD) http://www.cs.concordia.ca/kdood.html

* G. Williams, CFP: Australian AI'95 http://walrus.adfa.oz.au/ai95/ai95.html

* J. Elder, Short Course on Computer-Aided Pattern Discovery

* M. Feldens, Question: Fraud detection systems ?

* GPS, Neural networks FAQ at wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/FAQ/neural-net-faq.html

KDD Nuggets 95:12, e-mailed 95-05-30

* G. Helscher, EMCSR'96 Program -- includes KDD Symposium http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/

* Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-95): Call for Participation http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/CS/Research/IDA/cfp.html

* GPS, New mailing list INDUCTIVE

* A. Geppert, VLDB program at http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/dbtg/vldb95/vldb95.html

* R. Valdes-Perez, AAAI-95 Symposium on Discovery notes available

* GPS, what is new at KD Mine http://info.gte.com/~kdd/what-is-new.html

KDD Nuggets 95:13, e-mailed 95-06-09

* P. Smyth, KDD-95 call for participation -- reminder

KDD successes recognized:

* M. Baudin, Cassiopee wins innovation prize at XPS '95

* U. Fayyad, SKICAT Makes New Discoveries in Astronomy

* GPS, Key Findings Reporter wins GTE's highest technical award

* GPS, ComputerWorld: Customer 'data mining' pays off

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* B. Julien, IJCAI-95 wrk on ML in Engineering - Call for Participation http://www.crim.ca:80/Domaines_Services/GSBC/index-english.html

* M. Bramer, Research Studentship in Machine Learning/AI

* I Flockhart, Re: Significance levels for patterns

* EBRSC, Workshop on Rough Set Theory (RST'95), CFP

KDD Nuggets 95:14, e-mailed 95-06-21

* Dante Assoc, full-time positions in Data Mining/Software Eng./AI

* GPS, WWW Database Article Archive, http://www.lpac.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/Articles/DBArchive.html

* B. Porter, White Cross Parallel Database Software http://info.gte.com/~kdd/wcross.html

* D. Sirey, Data Mining and Visualization positions -- Silicon Valley

* Y. Kodratoff, Symposium on KDD at EMCSR'96 http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/

* T. Catarci, CFP: AVI'96 - Advanced Visual Interfaces http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/info.html

KDD Nuggets 95:15, e-mailed 95-06-29

* R. Uthurusamy, KDD-95 final program -- see also http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95

* GPS, IEEE Expert Mini-symposium: KDD vs Privacy

* Y. Reich, ECOBWEB: a public domain clustering tool http://or.eng.tau.ac.il:7777/topics/ecobweb.html

* R. Quinlan, New Releases of C4.5 and FOIL, ftp://ftp.cs.su.oz.au/pub/ml/patch.tar.Z

* H. Roberts, Communications Week on Data Mining

* S. Tafolla, Peter Clark's Machine Learning Software, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pclark/software.html

KDD Nuggets 95:16, e-mailed 95-07-07

* Cen Li, new KDD related page http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~biswas/ResearchPages/kdd.html

* W. Sarle, How are neural networks related to statistical methods?

* GPS, useful pointers about Montreal, http://www.showboat.com/showboat/montreal.htm

* R. Kohavi, MLC++ Utilities 1.2, http://robotics.stanford.edu:/users/ronnyk/mlc.html

* M. Pazzani, Postdoc at UC Irvine

* R. Tucker, Renascence Partners -- http://www.rpl.com/

* S. Dixon, Data Mining related jobs at SmithKline Beecham

KDD Nuggets 95:17, e-mailed 95-07-28

* W. Ziarko, Special Issue of Computational Intelligence

* D. Silver, Data Transformation Tools -- Summary

* C. Sturrock, Random vs. network-selected sample partitioning

* P. Smyth, NASA data sets at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov

* M. Bramer, Research Fellowships in KBS/Machine Learning http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/FELLOWSHIP.HTML

* GPS, ComputerWorld: Sears Mines Data with multidimensional tools

* GPS, New Siftware in KD Mine http://info.gte.com/~kdd/what-is-new.html

KDD Nuggets 95:18, e-mailed 95-08-04

* GPS, forthcoming BYTE story on Data Mining (Oct 95 ?)

* GPS, KD Mine usage Stats (accessed from 42 countries ...)

* GPS, ComputerWorld 95/07/10 on Data Mining at Bank of America

* U. Fayyad, KDD tutorial home page http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95/tutorials/IJCAI95-tutorial.html

* W. Buntine, Web sources on Bayesian/Probabilistic networks

* A. Gupta, IBM Almaden Data Mining site http://www-i.almaden.ibm.com/cs/quest/index.html

KDD Nuggets 95:19, e-mailed 95-08-15

* P. Smyth, Late-breaking information for KDD95

* D. Snocken, Amendment to S*i*ftware entry for NETMAP

* J. Zytkow, Special issue on AUTOMATED DISCOVERY

KDD Nuggets 95:20, e-mailed 95-08-25

* GPS, KDD-95 conference: A great success

* R. Ravula, Query: KDD in Transportation Industry?

* R. Hauser, Net Research Tool, http://www.infohaus.com/access/by-seller/Agent_Knowledgebase_Associates_Inc

* R. Hauser, KD Mine featured in NetWatch, http://www.pulver.com/netwatch/topten/topten.htm

* S. Schaal, Paper on incremental local learning, http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~sschaal/pub/publications.html

* S. Salzberg, Paper on Comparing Classifiers, http://www.cs.jhu.edu/salzberg/home.html
Job Ad:

* Cavill, UK: seek graduate student for NN / Data Mining (KDD) project

KDD Nuggets 95:21, e-mailed 95-09-05

* KDD-95, KDD-95 Proceedings available from AAAI Press http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Press/Catalog/uthurusamy.html

* GPS, Montreal Gazette on KDD-95

* X. Wu, Opinion: Expert Systems and KDD

* A. Freitas, Parallel KDD Technical Report

* T. Hu, Ph.d thesis: KDD: An Attribute-Oriented Rough Set Approach

Job Ad: * S. Troccolo, US-CA-Palo Alto-AI jobs/Data mining/programming

* E. Rigdon, Session on Data Mining at Fall 1996 INFORMS, Nov 96

* C. Kadie, Predicting Learning Curves (Ph.D. thesis, online)

* D. Martin, IBM's data mining home page: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cgi-bin/stss/get/data-mining/

KDD Nuggets 95:22, e-mailed 95-09-11

* GPS, IEEE Expert, Aug 1995, article on Data-Mining the Cosmos at JPL

* D. Grube, Opinion: re Nuggets 95:21, "Expert Systems and KDD"

* GPS, Test Datasets for Data Mining http://info.gte.com/~kdd/datasets.html

* Radford Neal, Software for Bayesian Learning For Neural Networks http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~radford

* GPS, European Privacy Laws Strengthened

* E. Rigdon, CFP: Advanced Research Techniques Forum

* B. Prior, HPCwire: Data Mining and Forecasting at J.P. MORGAN

* M. Kamath, Web Site to Search Database Bibliographies http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/db/bib-search.html

KDD Nuggets 95:23, e-mailed 95-09-22

* GPS, Oct 95 BYTE "STATE of the ART" section on Data Mining

* P. Turney, Proceedings of IJCAI-95 wrkshop on Data Engineering for Inductive Learning, http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/DEIL/

* B. Prior, HPCwire: Price Waterhouse Releases Data Mining Software

* D. Conklin, Ph.D. abstract: KD in Molecular Structure Databases

* C. Bergman, Positions in IBM Data Mining Group

* J. Gama, STATLOG project pointer for Netscape http://www.up.pt/liacc/ML/statlog/index.html

* N. Mameded, FINAL PROGRAM: EPIA'95, Madeira, Portugal, Oct 3-6

* Z. Ras, CFP: ISMIS'96 reminder, papers due Oct 15, 1995 http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/konferencje/ismis96/

KDD Nuggets 95:24, e-mailed 95-09-29

* GPS, KDD-96 Conference update

* J. Han, CFP: SIGMOD'96 DMKD workshop on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html

* H Zhu, 3 TechReports on Measuring Generalisation

* Leo Breiman, Work on Parallelizing CART ?

* E. Andre, ECAI-96: Call for Workshop Proposals, http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/ecai96/call-for-workshops.html

* D. Shasha, Book: Lives and Discoveries of Great Computer Scientists, http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/outofmind.html

* K. Ong, Integration of KDD with Deductive and OO Databases (KDOOD-95) workshop program, http://www.cs.concordia.ca/program.html

KDD Nuggets 95:25, e-mailed 95-10-06

* P. Smyth, KDD-96 Call for Papers, http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96

* M. Zemankova, US Acad. researchers - NSF DBES CAREER $$$ Guidelines, proposal deadline Oct 17, 1995

* M. Manago, AcknoSoft -- Data mining finalist for European award

* GPS, Kluwer ML Journal and more at http://mlis.www.wkap.nl/mach/

* M. Jain, Query: data mining using neural networks ?

* Bramer, Expert Systems 95 (UK) Information and Registration Form

* R. Musick, CFP: First IEEE Metadata Conference, Maryland, April 96

KDD Nuggets 95:26, e-mailed 95-10-20

* GPS, New book: Elements of Machine Learning by Pat Langley http://Market.NET/literary/mkp/pages/3018/index.html

* Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, ICML-96: Final Call for Papers http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/ICML96/main.html

* J. Han, IEEE TKDE Special Issue on Data Mining

* G. Melli, Synthetic Classification Data Sets (SCDS) program, http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/people/GradStudents/melli/SCDS

KDD Nuggets 95:27, e-mailed 95-10-27

* U. Fayyad, KDD-96 dates change: August 2-4, 1996 http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96

* M. Pazzani, Graduate Fellowships at UCI, http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gcounsel/applicantfaq.html

* R. Kohavi, PhD Dissertation: Wrappers for Performance Enhancement, http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk

* B. Jueneman, ABA Digital Signature Guidelines released http://www.intermarket.com/ecl
CFPs:

* E. Horvitz, CFP: UAI-96, Portland, Oregon, Aug 1-3 http://cuai-96.microsoft.com/

* W. Ziarko, CFP: Data Mining and Rough Sets session at CESA-96, July 9-12, 1996, Lille, France

* R. Uthurusamy, Data Mining Talks at CIKM, Nov 29-Dec 2, 1995

* R. Golan, CFP: Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering, CIFEr-96, http://www.ieee.org/nnc/conferences/cfp/cifer96.html

KDD Nuggets 95:28, e-mailed 95-11-03

* M. Holsheimer, Data Distilleries Company, http://www.ddi.nl

* GPS, Intelligent Agents in Netscape

* A. Tuzhilin, CFP: Special Issue of DSS on Knowledge Discovery
Siftware:

* J. Betak, DOS Port of AutoClass C Bayesian Classifier version 2.7

* Zighed, Machine learning program for PC/Windows
Meetings:

* J. Talavera, IPMU'96: Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty, Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996, http://pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html

KDD Nuggets 95:29, e-mailed 95-11-10

* GPS, Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -- forthcoming!

* K. Thearling, Pilot Software announces data mining initiative, http://www.pilotsw.com

* M. Mollo, query: filtering personal information ?
Publications:

* S. Murthy, PhD thesis: On Growing Better Decision Trees from Data, http://www.cs.jhu.edu/grad/murthy

* J. Catlett, Ph.D. thesis: Megainduction: machine learning on very large databases, (1991) online at http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/people/catlett/phd.html
Positions:

* C. Djeraba, CS position at IRESTE, Nantes, France

* I. Haimowitz, GE job opportunities in data mining / warehousing
Meetings:

* P. Smyth, AISTATS-97: Preliminary Announcement, http://www.stat.washington.edu/aistats97/

* GPS, Rule-Extraction from Neural Networks at AISB-96

KDD Nuggets 95:30, e-mailed 95-11-22
News:

* GPS, Nov 95 WIRED and Nov 20 ComputerWorld on Data Mining

* J. Boykin, Proposed legislation on NII Copyright Law

* A. Oudshoff, Query: Data mining methodology ?
Publications:

* D. Rosen, Paper on "How Good Were Those Probability Predictions?" http://www.scs.unr.edu/~cbmr/people/rosen/erl/
Positions:

* M. Bramer, Computer Science Professor at U. of Portsmouth, UK, http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/
Meetings:

* M. Bramer, Expert Systems 95, Cambridge, UK, Dec 11-13 1995

* M. Klusch, CFP: CIA-97: Cooperative Information Agents, http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html

KDD Nuggets 95:31, e-mailed 95-12-03
News:

* GPS, Langley and Simon in Nov 95 Comm of ACM on Applications of ML

* IDIS, Information Discovery, Inc Home page http://www.datamining.com/
Publications:

* GPS, IBM white paper on Data Mining http://booksrv2.raleigh.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/datamine/
Siftware:

* J. Betak, OC1 and PEBLS decision tree software for DOS, ftp://ftp.gmd.de/ml-archive/software.html
Meetings:

* L. Huan, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD97), Singapore, February 1997, http://www.iscs.nus.sg/conferences/pakdd97.html

* J. Wnek, CFP: Multistrategy Learning Workshop MSL'96, May 23-25, 1996, West Virginia, http://www.mli.gmu.edu/msl96.html

KDD Nuggets 95:32, e-mailed 95-12-15
News:

* GPS, KDD-96 Best Paper awards announcement

* Ed Colet, Data mining and Advanced Scout in the press...

* G. John, IBM Data Mining pointers http://booksrv2.raleigh.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/datamine/ http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cgi-bin/stss/get/data-mining/

* W. Buntine, important address change for Wray Buntine

* V. Kamp, Question: KDD for FORECASTING-Systems?
Siftware:

* T. Rauber, TOOLDIAG 2.0: Pattern Recognition toolbox available http://www.uninova.pt/~tr/home/tooldiag.html
Positions:

* Ed Colet, Part-time positions working with IBM and NBA
Meetings:

* J. Valentine, Data Mining seminar, London, 25-26 April 1995 http://www.demon.co.uk/unicom

* N. Zagoruiko, INPRIM-96 Congress, Novosibirsk, Russia, June 1996, section on Discovery

KDD Nuggets 95:33, e-mailed 95-12-21
News:

* GPS, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal CFP: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine/

* GPS, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining book can be ordered from

MIT Press at http://aaai.org/Publications/Press/Catalog/fayyad.html
Publications:

* S. Minton, JAIR article on "Rule-based Machine Learning Methods for Functional Prediction", http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/home.html
Positions:

* R. St Amant, Job opportunity, large data sets, data mining
Meetings:

* P. Chan, CFP: AAAI-96 Workshop on Integrating Multiple Learned Models http://www.cs.fit.edu/~imlm/

* A. Sharma, CFP: ALT'96, Algorithmic Learning Theory, Australia, Oct 1996, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~alt96/