KDD Nuggets 95:24, e-mailed 95-09-29 Contents: * 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 The KDD Nuggets is a moderated mailing list for information relevant to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Please include a DESCRIPTIVE subject line and a URL, when available, in your submission. Nuggets frequency is approximately weekly. Back issues of Nuggets, a catalog of S*i*ftware (data mining tools), references, FAQ, and other KDD-related information are available at Knowledge Discovery Mine, URL http://info.gte.com/~kdd by anonymous ftp to ftp.gte.com, cd /pub/kdd, get README (however ftp site is generally less up to date). E-mail add/delete requests to kdd-request@gte.com E-mail contributions to kdd@gte.com -- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (moderator) ********************* Official disclaimer *********************************** * All opinions expressed herein are those of the writers (or the moderator) * * and not necessarily of their respective employers (or GTE Laboratories) * ***************************************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quotable Quote ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The scientist seeks to mean the same thing to everybody who listens to him; the artist is content to say something universal and yet mean different things to everybody who listens to him. Jacob Bronowski (thanks to Brij Masand) >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 From: gps@gte.com (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro) Subject: KDD-96 conference -- status update Those of us who attended KDD-95 are eagerly looking forward to KDD-96, the second International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. KDD-96 conference will be co-located with AAAI in Portland, Oregon and is scheduled to go 2.5 days, tentatively August 3-5, 1996. Conference organizing committee, Fayyad, Evangelos, and Han, are finalizing the last minute details. The official KDD-96 CFP will be released next week. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: han@cs.sfu.ca Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 18:04:04 PDT Subject: CFP: SIGMOD'96 Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining (DMKD'96) ============================================================================ Call For Position Papers and Review Talks ============================================================================ Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'96 Montreal, Canada, June 2 (Sunday) 1996 =========================================== Workshop (SIGMOD'96 DMKD) Home Page: http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html OBJECTIVES Mining knowledge from large databases is a promising research area, with high application potential due to the huge amounts of data accumulated in databases and other repositories, coupled with the rapid growth of data. Data mining has attracted people from many different fields, including database systems, knowledge-base systems, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, statistics, information retrieval, and data visualization. The past conferences and workshops dedicated to knowledge discovery in databases are associated with AI conferences (e.g., IJCAI, AAAI, and Machine Learning). It is important to have such a forum associated with database conferences as well to examine mining issues particularly related to database systems. The objective of this workshop is to bring researchers in database systems together to discuss and examine the issues related to mining knowledge from databases. FORMAT The workshop will be held one day before the SIGMOD/PODS'96 conference. The plan is to have a full-day workshop, consisting of 3 theme sessions and one panel session. The three theme sessions will be on three major issues: Foundations, Implementations, and Applications respectively. Each theme session includes one overview talk, 5-6 position presentations (including a short discussion after each position presentation). If the number of submissions is large, we will consider arranging a poster session and a system demonstration session in parallel with it. The workshop will also be coordinated with KDD'96 conference (http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96) (Portland, Oregon, August 1996). TOPICS The topics of the discussion will be partitioned into 3 major themes. 1. Foundations, principles and methodologies of data mining, including Knowledge discovery methods Efficiency and scalability of KDD algorithms Mining different kinds of knowledge from data Integration of deduction and induction techniques Statistics, probability and uncertainty in data mining Maintenance of mined knowledge and knowledge-base construction Knowledge evolution through learning Methods for knowledge discovery in advanced database systems (including object-oriented, deductive, spatial, temporal, textual, multimedia, heterogeneous, transaction, and active databases, and global information systems) 2. Systems and implementations for data mining, including Knowledge discovery systems, implementations, and performance Languages and interfaces for knowledge discovery in databases Interactive data mining and knowledge visualization Integrated discovery systems Systems, implementations, and performance for knowledge discovery in advanced database systems 3. Knowledge discovery applications, including Successful knowledge discovery application examples in industry, administration, and business New application challenges and requirements for data mining The inadequacy of current knowledge discovery mechanisms Influence of data mining to the advances of database systems Security and social impact of data mining SUBMISSION AND REVIEWS OF THE POSITION PAPERS and OVERVIEW TALK PAPERS. Authors are invited to submit short position papers and comprehensive overview talk papers on each of the three themes. Each position paper should be no longer than 6 pages. Each overview talk paper should be no longer than 25 pages. WE ENCOURAGE ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS IN THE FORM OF POSTSCRIPT, LATEX, ETC. but limited to the std 8/5x11 size paper. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. The selected papers of the Workshop, after being extended into journal length and quality, will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA Ming-Syan Chen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Wesley Chu, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Son Dao, Hughes Research Labs, USA Christos Faloutsos, AT&T and Univ. of Maryland, USA Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, USA Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada Tomasz Imielinski, Rutger University, USA Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA Willi Kloesgen, GMD, Germany Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada KayLiang Ong, Trilogy, USA Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories, USA Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Shalom Tsur, Argonne National Research Lab, USA S.K. Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada Carlo Zaniolo, University of California at Los Angeles, USA IMPORTANT DATES Submissions Due: January 15, 1996 Acceptance Notice: March 15, 1996 Final Version due: April 15, 1996 Five hard copies or one electronic copy of the paper should be submitted by January 15, 1996 to Dr. Raymond Ng Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4, Canada rng@cs.ubc.ca ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada (han@cs.sfu.ca). Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada (laks@cs.concordia.ca). Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada (rng@cs.ubc.ca). Workshop (SIGMOD'96 DMKD) Home Page: http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: 3 TechReports on Measuring Generalisation ... From: H ZHU Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 12:47:23 -0000 Is there any well-defined meaning to statements like "Learning rule A is better than learning rule B"? The answer is yes, as long as three things are specified: the prior, which is the distribution of problems to be solved; the information divergence, which tells how different the estimated distribution is from the true distribution; and the model, which is the space of all the representable solutions. The following three Technical Reports develop the necessary theory to evaluate and compare any neural network learning rules and other statistical estimators. ftp://cs.aston.ac.uk/neural/zhuh/discrete.ps.Z ftp://cs.aston.ac.uk/neural/zhuh/continuous.ps.Z ftp://cs.aston.ac.uk/neural/zhuh/generalisation.ps.Z Bayesian Invariant Measurements of Generalisation for Discrete Distributions Bayesian Invariant Measurements of Generalisation for Continuous Distributions Information Geometric Measurements of Generalisation by Huaiyu Zhu and Richard Rohwer ABSTRACT Neural networks can be considered as statistical models, and learning rules as statistical estimators. They should be compared in the framework of Bayesian decision theory, with information divergence as the loss function. This ensures coherence (An estimator is optimal if and only if it gives optimal estimates for almost all the data) and invariance (the optimality condition does not depend on one-one transforms in the input, output and parameter spaces). The main result is that the ideal optimal estimator is given as an appropriate average over the posterior. The optimal estimator restricted to any particular model is given by an appropriate projection of the ideal optimal estimator onto the model. The ideal optimal estimator is a sufficient statistic so that all the practical learning rules are its functions. They are also its approximations if preserving information in the data is the sole utility. This new theory of statistical inference retains many of the desirable properties of the least mean squares theory for linear Gaussian models, yet is applicable to any statistical estimation problem, including all the neural network learning rules (deterministic and stochastic, supervised, reinforcement and unsupervised). Comments are welcome and very much appreciated! Dr. Huaiyu Zhu zhuh@aston.ac.uk Neural Computing Research Group Dept of Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK ------------------------------ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Leo Breiman Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:46:54 -0700 To: kdd%eureka@gte.com Maybe you can help me find an answer to: What is known or has been written about parallelizing CART (or any classification tree program) to run on a workstation network? Leo Breiman >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D 66123 Saarbruecken From: Elisabeth Andre Subject: ECAI-96: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 14:59:53 +0200 If you receive multiple copies of this announcement, please accept my sincere apologies and thank you for your patience and understanding. ------------------------------------ ECAI-96: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ------------------------------------ 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 12-16, 1996 Budapest, Hungary The ECAI-96 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program for ECAI-96, which is to be held in Budapest, Hungary, August 12-16, 1996. The workshops for ECAI-96 will be held in the period 12th - 13th August, immediately prior to the start of the main conference. Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. Members from all segments of the AI community are invited to submit proposals for review. To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, preferably under 30 participants and certainly under 40. Attendance should be limited to active participants only. Workshops are intended to be genuinely interactive events and not mini-conferences. Thus, although the format of workshop presentations will be determined by the organizers proposing the workshop, ample time must be allotted for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length, but most will last a full day. Attendees at workshops MUST register for the main ECAI conference. ------------------------------------- Submission Details ------------------------------------- Proposals for workshops should be between two and three pages in length, and should contain: - A brief but technical description of the workshop identifying specific technical issues that will be its focus. - A discussion of why the workshop is of interest at this time. - The names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of the Organizing Committee, which should consist of three or four people knowledgeable in the field but not all at the same institution. - The name of one member of the Organizing Committee who is designated the primary contact, this being someone with an email address. - A list of previously-organized related workshops organized by any of the Organizing Committee. This is to help the Workshop Chair put the workshop in context (previous experience with similar workshops is not required). - If possible, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees. - A proposed schedule for organizing the workshop and a preliminary agenda. - A description of how the organizers intend to encourage a workshop, rather than a mini-conference, atmosphere. Proposers are encouraged to send their draft proposal to potential participants for comments before submission. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text as soon as possible, but no later than November 1, 1995. Organizers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than December 1, 1995. A summary of accepted workshops with contact addresses will be available on the ECAI webserver after 15th December 1995. Workshop organizers will be responsible for: - Producing and distributing a Call for Participation in the workshop, open to all members of the AI community. The Call for Participation should make it clear that all workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECAI conference and that the number of participants is limited. It should also make clear the process by which the Organizing Committee will select the participants. - Reviewing requests to participate in the workshop and selecting the participants. - By December 1, 1996, preparing a review of the workshop for possible publication and sending it to the workshop coordinator. Workshop organizers will be sent a set of guidelines for the preparation of any working notes. They must provide the local arrangement office with the following materials by June 3, 1996: - A provisional list of workshop participants. - Any working notes to be duplicated for the workshop, up to a total of 120 pages per participant. - A list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. Workshop organizers must provide the local arrangement office with a final list of workshop participants by July 29, 1996. ECAI will be responsible for: - Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshop. - In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. - Duplicating working notes as described above and distributing them to the participants. ECAI encourages the production of publications based on the workshops, but the ECAI name cannot be used on such publications without prior permission being given. ECAI reserves the right to cancel any workshop if deadlines are missed. To cover costs, it will be necessary to charge a fee of ECU 50 for each participant of each workshop in addition to the normal ECAI-96 conference registration fee. An up-to-date version of the Call for Workshop Proposals is available via WWW at URL: http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/ecai96/call-for-workshops.html. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to: Dr. Elisabeth Andre Workshop Coordinator German Research Center for AI, DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Tel: +49 681-302 5267 Fax: +49 681-302 5341 Email: ecai-96-ws@dfki.uni-sb.de ------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------- Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposals 1 November 1995 Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposals 1 December 1995 Submission of final copy of Workshop Notes 3 June 1996 Workshop dates 12-13 August 1996 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 21:51:02 EDT From: shasha@SHASHA.CS.NYU.EDU (Dennis Shasha) To: kdd%eureka@gte.com .subject: Biographies of Great Researchers Dear Colleague, You may find this book as fun to read as I found co-writing it. Thanks, Dennis Shasha, New York University ---------- OUT OF THEIR MINDS The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere A collection of 15 short biographies of great living computer scientists. The technical level ranges from standard biography (untechnical) to a verbal description of the fundamental ideas in an algorithm, architecture, language or AI technique. The more you know, the more you'll enjoy the book, but people who simply like biographies also like the book. For more information and excerpts, please see http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/outofmind.html Publisher: Copernicus An Imprint of Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc. 175 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10010 ISBN: 0-387-97992-1 (August, 1995), $23. To order by phone: (US and Canada) 1-800-777-4643; (Other Americas, Europe, and Africa) (49) 30-82-071, Berlin office; and (Asia and Australia) (852) 72-73-96-98, Hong Kong office. To order by email: (US, Canada, and Mexico) orders@springer-ny.com (elsewhere) orders@springer.de >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: KayLiang Ong/Trilogy Date: 25 Sep 95 11:25:16 Subject: Re: KDOOD workshop programme announcement and call for participation ========================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ========================================================================== DOOD'95 Post-Conference Workshops on Integration of Knowledge Discovery in Databases with Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (KDOOD) and Temporal Reasoning in Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases December 8, 1995, National University of Singapore(NUS), Singapore ========================================================================== WORKSHOP PROGRAMME ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08:30-08:55 Workshop Registration -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08:55-09:00 Opening Remarks -------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, USA KayLiang Ong, Trilogy Development Group, USA ========================================================================== Workshop 1: Knowledge Discovery in Databases and DOOD ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09:00-10:00 Session 1: General Knowledge Discovery Framework -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada Paper1: An Overview of Database Mining Techniques (20 min) by Bob Kero, Lucian Russell, Shalom Tsur, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Wei-Min Shen, ISI/USC, USA Paper2: Comparing Knowledge Discovery Techniques (20 min) by Beat Wuthrich, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Paper3: Knowledge Discovery in Temporal Databases: The Initial Step (20 min) by Mohamed H. Saraee and Babis Theodoulidis University of Manchester, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00-10:50 Session 2: Knowledge Discovery Environment -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: KayLiang Ong, Trilogy Development Group, USA Abstract1: A New Visualisation Technique for Knowledge Discovery in OLAP (10 min) by Hing-Yan Lee and Hwee-Leng Ong, Information Technology Institute, Singapore Abstract2: Intelligent Knowledge Discovery Assistants on the Internet (10 min) by C. Zaniolo and D. Tsonis, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Paper4: Towards a Flexible and Integrated Environment for Knowledge Discovery (20 min) by Christoph A. Breitner, Axel Freyberg and Andreas Schmidt Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization, Germany Abstract3: A Metapattern-Based Automated Discovery Loop for Data Mining (10 min) by Bing Leng and Wei-Min Shen, USC/Information Science Institute, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:50-11:20 Tea/Coffee Break -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:20-12:20 Session 3: Deductive Rules and Knowledge Discovery -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA Paper5: Meta-Rule-Guided Mining of Association Rules in Relational Databases (20 min) by Yongjian Fu and Jiawei Han Simon Fraser University, Canada Abstract4: Effective Classfication Rule Extraction From Databases (10 min) by Hongjun Lu, Rudy Setiono, Huan Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Paper6: Discovering Charactertistic Rules from Deductive Databases (20 min) by Goh Chien Le, Masahiko Tsukamoto and Shojiro Nishio Osaka University, Japan Abstract5: Maintenance of Discovered Knowledge: A Strategy for Updating Association Rules. (10 min) by David W Cheung, The Univeristy of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:20-12:50 Session 4: Panel and Open Discussion -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada Laks Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada Panel: To Be Announced ========================================================================== 12:50-14:00 Lunch Break ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Workshop 2: Temporal Reasoning in DOOD ========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:00-15:30 Session 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: S. Conrad, University of Magdeburg, Germany Paper1: A Temporal and Probabilistic, Deductive and Object-Oriented (30 min) Query Language by B. Wuthrich, W. C. Tong, K. Sankaran Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Paper2: Schema Evolution in a Deductive Framework (30 min) by N. Kesim, Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey M. Sergot, Imperial College London, UK Paper3: Adding a Temporal Dimension to a Deductive Database (30 min) by T. Orci, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15:30-16:00 Tea/Coffee Break -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16:00-17:30 Session 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair: G. Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Paper4: The ChronoBase Temporal Deductive Database System (30 min) by P. Moller, S. Sripada, ECRC Munich, Germany Short Interactive Querying and Visualisation in Temporal Databases Presentation: by B. Theodoulidis, P. Papapanagiotou, V. Pappas-Katsiafas (20 min) University of Manchester, UK Discussion: The Role of Temporal Reasoning in DOOD (40 min) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== End of Workshop Programme ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Contact Information: ========================================================================== KayLiang Ong, Trilogy Development Group, 6034, West Courtyard Drive, Austin, Texas 78730, Phone: 512-794-5900 ext. 214 Email: ong@trilogy.com ========================================================================== WWW and FTP Information: ========================================================================== This announcement is also available at the WWW site: http://www.cs.concordia.ca/program.html Other related web pages are: http://www.cs.concordia.ca/kdood.html http://max.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/institut/db/DOOD-WS.html The registration form in postscript can also be obtained by FTP at: ftp.ubc.ca:/pub/pickup/kdood/kdood.txt The DOOD'95 announcement can also be found using WWW, at address: http://www.iscs.nus.sg/conferences/dood-prelim.html and anonymous ftp, at address: ftp.nus.sg:/pub/NUS/ISCS/conference/dood-prelim.ps.Z ========================================================================== Workshop Registration: ========================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRE-CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP REGISTRATION Please complete registration and hotel reservation forms and return by mail or fax (e-mail is not sufficient) to: DOOD '95, (Attn: Ms Sew Kiok TOH) Department of Information Systems & Computer Science National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 tel: 772 2807 fax: +65 779 4580 email: tohsk@iscs.nus.sg DISCLAIMER Every effort has been made to present, as accurately as possible, all the information contained in this brochure. 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Thereafter, the full amount will be forfeited. o I enclose a bank draft/money order made payable to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE for SIN $__________ Bank Draft/Money Order No:_____________ Issuing Bank:________________ o Please charge to my credit card (tick on circle): Card type: o Visa o Mastercard Card Holder's Name: ____________________________________________ Card Number: ________________________ Expiry date: ____________ Date: ____________ Cardholder's Signature: ____________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOTEL RESERVATION INFORMATION AND FORM (DOOD '95) Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the Excelsior Hotel. This tourist class hotels is at the heart of downtown Singapore, near shopping malls, museums, parks and restaurants. Hotel rooms are equipped with self-coded safe, teletext colour TV, IDD telephone, attached bath room and mini-bar. If you require hotel accommodation, please complete the necessary details on the hotel reservation form. Limited number of rooms are available and reservations at the special DOOD rate can be accepted until November 1, 1995 subjected to availability. After this date, reservations will be on a space available basis. Hotel deposit for one night is required to reserve each room. Transportation to/from hotel and conference site will be provided. Name (Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms): __________________________________________________ Organisation : __________________________________________________ Address : __________________________________________________ City : ___________ Postcode:_______ Country:___________ Telephone : ___________ Fax:____________ Email:_____________ Please make the following reservation. Check In Date: ___________Check Out Date: __________ for _______night(s) Single Room(s) (SIN $130* per room) ______ Double Room(s) (SIN $130* per room) ______ Twin Room(s) (SIN $130* per room) ______ * All room rates subjected to 4% tax and 10% service charge. o I enclose a bank draft or money order made payable to YTC Hotels Ltd. for SIN $__________ for my hotel reservations. Bank Draft/Money Order No: ____________ Issuing Bank: ________________ o Please charge my reservations to my credit card (tick on circle): Card type: o Visa o Mastercard o American Express o JCB Card Holder's Name: _____________________________________________ Card Number: _________________________ Expiry date: ____________ Date: ____________ Cardholder's Signature: _____________________ =========================================================================== >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~