KDD Nuggets 95:12, e-mailed 95-05-30 Contents: * G. Helscher, EMCSR'96 Program -- includes KDD Symposium URL http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/ * Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-95): Call for Participation * 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 The KDD Nuggets is a moderated mailing list for news and information relevant to Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), also known as Data Mining, Knowledge Extraction, etc. Relevant items include tool announcements and reviews, summaries of publications, information requests, interesting ideas, clever opinions, etc. Please include a descriptive subject line in your submission. Nuggets frequency is approximately bi-weekly. 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[thanks to John William Chambless , 4/95.] >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return-Path: Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 15:01:31 +0100 From: Gerda Helscher Subject: EMCSR'96 Program Content-Type: text Content-Length: 12076 ------------------------------------------------------------------ * * * * * THIRTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING * * ON * * CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH * * (EMCSR 1996) * April 9 - 12, 1996 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in cooperation with Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna and International Federation for Systems Research Cybernetics - "the study of communication and control in the animal and the machine" (N.Wiener) - has recently returned to the forefront, not only in cyberpunk and cyberspace, but, even more important, contributing to the consolidation of various scientific theories. Additionally, an ever increasing number of research areas, including social and economic theories, theoretical biology, ecology, computer science, and robotics draw on ideas from second order cybernetics. Artificial intelligence, evolved directly from cybernetics, has not only technological and economic, but also important social impacts. With a marked trend towards interdisciplinary cooperation and global perspectives, this important role of cybernetics is expected to be further strengthened over the next years. Since 1972, the biennial European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) have served as a forum for discussion of converging ideas and new aspects of different scientific disciplines. As on previous occasions, a number of sessions providing wide coverage of the rapid developments will be arranged, complemented with daily plenary meetings, where eminent speakers will present latest research results. SESSIONS + Chairpersons: A General Systems Methodology G.J.Klir, USA B New Developments in Mathematical Systems Theory Y.Rav, France, and F.Pichler, Austria C Complex Systems Analysis and Design J.W.Rozenblit, USA, and H.Praehofer, Austria D Fuzzy Systems, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge-Based Systems C.Carlsson, Finland, K.-P.Adlassnig, Austria, and E.P.Klement, Austria E Designing and Systems, and Their Education B.Banathy, USA, W.Gasparski, Poland, and G.Goldschmidt, Israel F Humanity, Architecture and Conceptualization G.Pask, UK, and E.Prem, Austria G Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology L.M.Ricciardi, Italy H Cybernetics and Informatics in Medicine and Psychotherapy M.Okuyama, Japan, and G.Porenta, Austria I Cybernetics of Socio-Economic Systems and of Country Development K.Balkus, USA, P.Ballonoff, USA, and S.A.Umpleby, USA J Systems, Management and Organization G.Broekstra, Netherlands, and R.Hough, USA K Communication and Computers A M.Tjoa, Austria L Theories and Metaphors of Cyberspace F.Heylighen, Belgium, and S.A.Umpleby, USA M Knowledge Discovery in Databases Y.Kodratoff, France N Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems G.Palm, Germany, and G.Dorffner, Austria O Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence V.Marik, Czech Republic, and E.Buchberger, Austria SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Acceptance of contributions will be determined on the basis of Draft Final Papers. These Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum 43 lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures. However, these need not be of reproducible quality. The Draft Final Paper must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (incl. e-mail address, if possible) in this order. Please specify the symposium in which you would like to present your paper. Each scientist shall submit only o n e paper. Please send f o u r hard copies of the Draft Final Paper to the Conference Secretariat (NOT to symposia chairpersons!) Electronic or fax submissions cannot be accepted. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: October 12, 1995. Submissions received after the deadline cannot be considered. NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION: Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection no later than December 11, 1995. Successful authors will be provided by the conference secretariat at the same time with the instructions for the preparation of the final paper, which will also be available via ftp and World-Wide Web. FINAL PAPERS: The final paper will be limited to a maximum of 6 pages (10-point, double column). Camera-ready copies of the final paper will be due at the conference secretariat by January 29, 1996. Acceptance of the final paper will be based on compliance with the reviewers' comments. PRESENTATION: It is understood that each accepted paper is presented personally at the Meeting by one of its authors. CONFERENCE FEE: AS 2800 if received before January 31, 1996 AS 3300 if received later AS 3800 if paid at the conference desk. The Conference Fee includes participation in the Thirteenth European Meeting, attendance at official receptions, and the volume of the proceedings available at the Meeting. Please send cheque, or transfer the amount free of charges for beneficiary to our account no. 0026-34400/00 at Creditanstalt-Bankverein Vienna. Please state your name clearly. HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS will be handled by OESTERREICHISCHES VERKEHRSBUERO, Kongressabteilung, P.O.Box 30, A-1043 Vienna, phone +43-1-58925-118, fax +43-1-5867127. Reservation cards will be sent to all those returning the attached registration form. SCHOLARSHIPS: The International Federation for Systems Research and the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies are willing to provide a limited number of scholarships covering the registration fee for the conference and part of the accommodation costs for colleagues from weak currency countries. Applications should be sent to the Conference Secretariat before October 12, 1995. - The EMCSR organizers cannot handle applications for participants to obtain support from other sources. INSURANCE: The conference organizers can accept no liability for personal injuries, or for loss or damage to property belonging to conference participants, either during or as a result of the conference. Please check the validity of your personal insurance. * * * * * The Proceedings of the 1st to 12th European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research were published as Pichler F. and Trappl R.(eds.): ADVANCES IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, 2 vols, Transcripta Books, London, 1973. Trappl R. and Pichler F.R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.I, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1975. Trappl R. and Hanika F.de P.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.II, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1975. Trappl R., Klir G.J. and Ricciardi L.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.III, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1978. Trappl R. and Pask G.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.IV, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1978. Trappl R., Hanika F.de P. and Pichler F.R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.V, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / Halsted-Wiley, New York, 1979. Pichler F.R. and Trappl R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.VI, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Pichler F.R. and Hanika F.de P.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.VII, Hemisphere, Washington,DC, 1980. Trappl R., Klir G.J. and Pichler F.R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.VIII, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R., Ricciardi L. and Pask G.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.IX, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R., Hanika F.de P. and Tomlinson R.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol.X, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R., Findler N.V. and Horn W.(eds.): PROGRESS IN CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol. XI, Hemisphere, Washington,DC / McGraw-Hill, 1982. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1984. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '86, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '88, 2 vols., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1988. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '90, World Scientific, Singapore, 1990. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '92, 2 vols., World Scientific, Singapore, 1992. Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '94, 2 vols., World Scientific, Singapore, 1994. Please contact the conference secretariat for more details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAIRMAN of the Meeting: Robert Trappl, President Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies SECRETARIAT: I. Ghobrial-Willmann and G. Helscher Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria) Phone: +43-1-53532810 Fax: +43-1-5320652 E-mail: sec@ai.univie.ac.at PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: K.-P. Adlassnig (Austria) H. Mannila (Finland) K. Balkus (USA) V. Marik (Czech Republic) P. Ballonoff (USA) K. Morik (Germany) B. Banathy (USA) G. Nakhaeizadeh (Germany) G. Broekstra (Netherlands) M. Okuyama (Japan) E. Buchberger (Austria) G. Palm (Germany) C. Carlsson (Finland) G. Pask (UK) G. Chroust (Austria) G. Piatetsky-Shapiro (USA) G. Dorffner (Austria) F. Pichler (Austria) W. Gasparski (Poland) G. Porenta (Austria) A. Giordana (Italy) H. Praehofer (Austria) G. Goldschmidt (Israel) E. Prem (Austria) F. Heylighen (Belgium) Y. Rav (France) W. Horn (Austria) L. M. Ricciardi (Italy) R. Hough (USA) J. W. Rozenblit (USA) N. C. Hu (China) N. Rozsenich (Austria) E. P. Klement (Austria) D. Sleeman (UK) G. J. Klir (USA) A M. Tjoa (Austria) W. Kloesgen (Germany) R. Trappl (Austria) Y. Kodratoff (France) H. Trost (Austria) O. Ladanyi (Austria) S. A. Umpleby (USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: E. Buchberger P. Petta G. Chroust F. Pichler I. Ghobrial-Willmann R. Trappl G. Helscher H. Trost W. Horn M. Veitl J. Matiasek ******************************************* PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 12, 1995 ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMCSR-96 THIRTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH Please return to: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies Schottengasse 3, A-1010 VIENNA, AUSTRIA (EUROPE) E-mail: sec@ai.univie.ac.at o I plan to attend the Meeting. o I intend to submit a paper to Session ..... o I enclose the Draft Final Paper. o My Draft Final Paper will arrive prior to October 12, 1995. o My cheque for AS ....... covering the Conference Fee is enclosed. o I have transferred AS ........ to your account 0026-34400/00 at Creditanstalt Vienna. o I shall not be at the Meeting but am interested to receive particulars of the Proceedings. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Thu, 18 May 95 16:33:21 BST To: kdd@gte.com Subject: IDA-95: Call for Participation From: IDA-95@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Content-Type: text Content-Length: 15851 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-95) 17th-19th August 1995 BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY Objective --------- The gap between data generation and data comprehension is widening. Efficient computational methods for analysing data effectively are required to narrow this gap. There have been a variety of computa- tionally intelligent techniques developed, which are beginning to provide such capability. However, many questions need to be properly addressed before these techniques can be most effectively employed to perform various data analysis tasks. For example, how important is it to understand the data characteristics and to pre- process data accordingly before using the data for tasks such as classification, forecasting and decision making? With so many modern computational techniques, which one should I use for my application? How can one integrate a variety of related techniques to develop the most effective system for a given application? What is the role of domain knowledge in data analysis and what is the impact of modern visualisation techniques on data analysis? It is the propose of IDA-95 to provide an international forum for the discussion of these and other related questions. Technical Programme ------------------- To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, there will be 22 discussion papers in single session meetings over the three days. Two poster sessions, and a special plenary session for summarising posters, will provide the means for presenting and discussing the remaining 30 research papers. In addition to paper presentations, a panel debate on data preprocessing is scheduled and software demonstration is being planed. Location -------- Baden-Baden is a beautiful spa-resort town and convention centre located in the middle of the Black Forest in Germany. It can be reached in two hours by train from Frankfurt or Stuttgart. Those travelling by car can reach Baden-Baden by Autobahn A5 (Frankfurt - Basel) or Autobahn A8 (Stuttgart - Karlsruhe). The Conference will be held in the Markraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium. Sponsor ------- IDA-95 is sponsored by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in System Research and Cybernetics and will be held as part of their annual conference on "Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics". Those who want to attend the general conference should contact the Conference Chairman: Prof. George E. Lasker, Hauptpostlagernd, 70001 Stuttgart, Germany The Language ------------ The language will be English. Registration ------------ IDA-95 offers an early-registration discount. Registration rates and instructions can be found on the Registration Form at the end of this Call. IDA-95 Committee ---------------- Nirwan Ansari New Jersey Inst. of Tech., USA David Bell Univ. of Ulster at Jordanstown, N. Ireland Max Bramer Univ. of Portsmouth, England Paul Cohen Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Doug Fisher Vanderbilt University, USA Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway, London Univ., England Se June Hong IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Xiaohui Liu (Chair) Birkbeck College, London Univ., England Alan Payne Kodak Research Division, England Henri Prade Univ. of Paul Sabatier, France Alexander Ryjov Moscow State University, Russia Colin Shearer Integral Solutions Limited, England Hongbao Shi Xi'an Jiaotong University, PRC Paul Snow Independent Consultant, Concord, USA Lionel Tarassenko Oxford University, England Serdar Uckun Rockwell International Science Center, USA Vladimir Vapnik AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA Sholom Weiss Rutgers Univ. at New Brunswick, USA John Yen Texas A&M University, USA H-J Zimmermann ELITE Foundation, Aachen Inst. of Tech., Germany Panel Chair: F Famili, National Research Council, Canada More Information ---------------- For more information regarding registration and local organising matters, please write to: Dr. George E. Lasker, Hauptpostlagernd, 70001 Stuttgart, Germany For other information, please contact: Dr X Liu, Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. E-mail: ida-95@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 171 631 6711 Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727 Latest information regarding IDA-95 will be available on the World Wide Web Server of the Department of Computer Science at Birkbeck College, London: http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/CS/Research/IDA/cfp.html ********************************************* Provisional Technical Program Schedule Intelligent Data Analysis 95 Thursday 17th August 8:00 to 8:15 Opening Remarks 8:15 to 9:45 SESSION 1: Structure Learning and Data Mining Finding Structure in Streams .... P R Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA Developing Customer Vulnerability Models Using Data Mining Techniques .... E Simoudis*, R Kerber+, B Livezey+ and P Miller+, *IBM Almaden Research Center, +Lookheed AI Center, USA Data Mining by Data Owners - Presenting Advanced Technology to Non-Technologists through the Clementine System .... C Shearer and T Khabaza, Integral Solutions Limited, UK 9:45 to 10:15 BREAK 10:15 to 11:45 SESSION 2: Rule Extraction from Data Derivation of Fuzzy Classification Rules from Multidimensional Data ....F Klawonn and R Kruse, Technical Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany Extraction of Soft Rules from RecBF Networks .... M R Berthold & K-P Huber, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Rules Extracted from Neural Network by Construction Directed Method .... W Hong and H Shi, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China 11:45 to 1:00PM LUNCH 1:00 to 2:00 SESSION 3: Visualisation Visual Data Exploration Using WinViz .... H-Y Lee, H-L Ong, and K S Sodhi, Info. Techno. Inst., Singapore Detection of Outliers in Multivariate Sample with Ellipsoidal Peeling .... S M Pagnotta, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy 2:00 to 2:30 BREAK 2:30 to 4:30 SESSION 4: Poster Summaries 4:30 to 6:00 POSTER SESSION I (see below) Friday 18th August 8:00 to 9:30 SESSION 5: Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Interpretation A Case Study of Planning for Exploratory Data Analysis .... R Amant and P Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA Intelligent Analysis Techniques for Diabetes Time Data Series .... A Riva and R Bellazzi, Universita di Pavia, Italy From Numerical Tables to Political Arguments .... J A A Sillince and Yorick Wilks, Univ. of Sheffield, UK 9:30 to 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 10:00 to 11:30 SESSION 6: Classification and Clustering Accounting for Misclassification Costs in Decision Tree Classifiers .... H Roberts*, M Denby+, and K Totton*, *BT Laboratories, +York University, UK Fuzzy Clustering Methods in Data Analysis .... E Bauman, A Dorofeyuk, Institute of Control Sciences, Russia Signal-Level Clustering for Data Analysis .... F Reine, Carl Schenck AG, Germany 11:30 to 1:00 LUNCH 1:00 to 2:30 SESSION 7: Preprocessing Preprocessing Techniques for Nonlinear Modeling Using Adaptive Notch Filters as Delay Replacement Operators .... A D Back and A H Tsoi, University of Queensland, Australia Piecewise--Smooth Noisy Signal Analysis and Interpretation .... V L Brailovsky, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Data Analysis and Use of Prior Knowledge in a Hybrid Statistical and Backpropagation Network Model for Time-series Forecasting .... G Rumantir, M Hulme, and V Ciesielski, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia 2:30 to 3:00 BREAK 3:00 to 4:30 PANEL ON DATA PREPROCESSING Fazel Famili (Chair) National Research Council, Canada Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Wei-Min Shen USC/ISI, USA Richard Weber MIT GmbH, Germany Wenling Hsu AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA 4:30 to 6:00 POSTER SESSION II (See below) Saturday 19th August 8:30 to 9:30 SESSION 8: Data Analysis Methodology Fact-Finding Committee Work: Data Analysis Beyond Single Sources .... S Miksch* and J Graetner+, Vienna Technical University+ *Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Induction, Evaluation, Restructuring: Data Analysis as a Machine Learning Loop .... E Sommer, German National Research Center for Computer Science 9:30 to 10:00 BREAK 10:00 to 11:30 SESSION 9: Integration Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Trees .... A P Heinz, Institut fuer Informatik, Germany Competitive Intelligence (Data Extraction and Analysis) : TETRALOGIE .... T Dkaki and B Dousset, Universiti Paul Sabatier, France Cooperation of Various Classification Techniques: Application to Complex Object Recognition .... P Loonis and E-H Zahzah, Universite de la Rochelle, France 11:30 to 11:45 Closing Remarks POSTER SESSION 1 Knowledge Discovery with Multidimensional Visualisation .... H M Chung, California State University, USA Intelligent Data Analysis for Hierarchical Rule-base Generation .... G.C. van den Eijkel, E. Backer and J.J. Gerbrands, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Instantly Solvable Search Problems .... E E Gasanov, Moscow State University, Russia Feature selection via the discovery of simple classification rules .... G Holmes and C Nevill-Manning, Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand Data Analysis with Rule Generating Learning Algorithms .... K-P Huber and M R Berthold, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Knowledge Inconsistency in Fuzzy Algorithms .... A R Kornilov and A Piskunov Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Russia Intelligent techniques for analysis of inconsistent and missing data in a distributed database environment .... D McSherry & S McClean, University of Ulster, UK Superhigh Resolution Computer-Aided Measuring System: theory and applications .... Yu P Pyt'ev, A I Chulichkov and B I Volkov, Moscow State Univ., Russia A Self-Organising Tree-Structured Classifier for High-Dimensional Data Sets .... J Schiffers, Res. Inst. for Applied Knowledge Processing, Germany Time Series Prediction with Fuzzy Spline Wavelets .... A Shmilovici* and Oded Z. Maimon+ *Tel-Aviv University, Israel. +Boston University, USA. Problem Decomposition: Application in Experimental Research, Statistical Analysis, and Modelling .... M Sloof and L Tijskens, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Subset Selection Using Rough Numeric Dependency .... T C Smith and G Holmes, Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand Applications of Inductive Learning Techniques: Methodological Issues .... F Verdenius* and M van Someren+, *ATO-DLO, +University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands A Parallel Mutli-Sieving Neural Network Architecture and its application to the two spiral problem .... G Y Wang and H B Shi, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China Employing Classifier Systems for Real Time Control Strategy Selection in Urban Drainage Systems .... G Wilson, Danish Hydraulic Institute, Denmark POSTER SESSION 2 Automatic analysis of electronystagmographic signals .... M H Costa, L A Castagno, C M Richter and M C Tavares, Universidale Catolica de Pelotas, Brasil Managing Noisy Data in the AI-based Processing of Old Audio Recordings .... A Czyzewski, Technical Univ. of Gdansk, Poland The Role of Data Pre-processing in Intelligent Data Analysis .... A Famili, National Research Council, Canada Combined logical-numerical enhancement of real-time control of sewer systems .... H M Garcia, Danish Hydraulic Institute, Denmark A Systematic Hazardous Waste Management Evaluator (SHOWME) for Waste Site Data Processing .... S Gupta, R Gupta, S Kumar, and D Gupta, CFEST, USA Systematically Verifying and Refining Old Principles : Case of Space Locality .... O Hammami, University of Aizu, Japan New Topological and Fuzzy Structures in Image Segmentation and Image Understanding Tasks .... K I Kiy, State Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Automatic Reasoning about Acoustic Data - Problems with Preprocessing, Classification and Decision Uncertainty .... B Kostek, Technical Univ. of Gdansk, Poland A Fuzzy Linguistic Interface for Large-Sacle Databases .... B Lyapin* and A Ryjov+, +Moscow State University *Institute for Socio-Economic Development, Russia Application of an artificial neural network to the real time control of hydraulic structures .... K Masood-Ul-Hassan, Lars Yde and A.W. Minns, Int. Inst. for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, The Netherlands Application of a Structured Genetic Algorithm for Information Processing in Autonomous Vehicles .... O Ono and B Kobayashi, Meiji University, Japan A Distributed Architecture Based on Image Processing and Data Interpretation for Automatic Recognition of Natural Objects .... J-C Ossola and M Thonnat, INRIA, France Reduction of Cultural Bias in Multinational Management, Marketing and Research .... A Schneider, Indiana University, USA Data Assimilation and Parameter Estimation in a 2-D Advection-Dispersion Model .... R C Torre, Danish Hydraulic Institute, Denmark Implementation of practical technological forecasting for strategic decision making support .... E V Ugrinovich & V B Styajkin, Russian Asso. of Fuzzy Systems. ********************************************************************** REGISTRATION FORM International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-95) 17th-19th August 1995 BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY NAME: ________________________________________ TITLE: ________________ Organisation: ________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Telephone: ______________ FAX: ______________ Email: _______________ _ _ _ _ I am: |_| Author |_| Presenter |_| Session Organiser |_| Participant Title of Presentation: _______________________________________________ _ |_| Attached is my Cheque/Money Order for Registration. (US$300.- if paid before 5 June 1995; US$350.- if paid after 5 June.) 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We strongly feel that these processes are of central importance to cognitive science in general and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, and that so far they have not been given the attention and effort they deserve. Moreover, we feel that the success of the entire enterprise (of cognitive science) depends on the success of the effort to model the inductive learning processes understood sufficiently broadly. We also believe that the current (and the previous) subdivisions of cognitive psychology and AI impedes (and has impeded) the progress of both enterprises, since there are serious reasons to believe that all cognitive processes are built on top of the inductive learning processes. We cordially invite various researchers from the above two disciplines (including those working in Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks) to join this supervised mailing list. As a first question we propose to discuss the very definition of the inductive learning process: Inductive learning is a process by means of which, given a finite positive training set C+ from a possibly infinite class (or category) C and a finite set C- from the complement of C, an agent is able to reach a state (of inductive generalization) which allows it to form an idea about, and REPRESENTATION of, the class C. This state, in turn, enables the agent to recognize a new object as belonging to class C or not. ****************************************************************************** The subscription to this list is free. This list will be moderated and we reserve the right to terminate the membership of those members who abuse the list. 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This page has call for participation, accepted papers, and more. * In Siftware section, new entry for PVE, Parallel Visual Explorer (PVE). *Description: Visual Data Mining tool using the methodology of Parallel Coordinates. This is the authoritative implementation, by the Original Inventors and Developers of Parallel Coordinates. It is the only known representation of multivariate datasets which preserves all the information and tranforms multivariate relations into well-defined 2-D patterns. The package includes a set of patented interactive queries which are also linked to scatter plots. These can be combined into complex queries by means of Boolean operators. Another patented query finds the best predictor variables characterizing a desirable set of data points. There are clustering algorithms, functions defining new variables (in terms of the original ones), scaling and permutation techniques and other aids. Altogether one can rapidly discover multivariate relations and associations which affect various objectives. It has been successfully used on many real datasets (one with 500 variables another with 25,000 data points) in a variety of applications; financial, manufacturing, medical, process control, aviation, marketing & distribution and many others. >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~