Workshop Multi-Relational Data Mining
                 MRDM 2001           held in conjunction with
          PKDD'01 and ECML'01   September 6, 2001 in Freiburg, Germany        http://www.kiminkii.com/mrdm
Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM) is the multi-disciplinary field
dealing with knowledge discovery from relational databases consisting
of multiple tables. The field aims at integrating results from
existing fields such as ILP, KDD, ML and Relational Databases, as well
as at producing new techniques. A workshop on MRDM will be held on
September 6, 2001 in Freiburg, Germany. The workshop will be one of
ten held in conjunction with the 12th European Conference on Machine
Learning (ECML'01) and the 5th European Conference on Principles and
Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'01). With this call we are inviting researchers to contribute to, and
participate in the workshop. One aim of the workshop is to come up
with a definition of the goals of the field and of the relationship
with contributing fields. We encourage experts and users to provide
opinions in this direction. The number of participants is limited to
30, in order to promote an atmosphere of lively discussion and
interaction. Precedence will be given to contributing authors.
Registration is done by registering for the main conference,
indicating the additional MRDM workshop.  Call for contribution We are calling for two types of contributions: * full papers. The
paper should be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines.
The paper should not exceed 12 printed pages. Accepted papers will be
given 30 mins for presentation; * discussion pieces. These are 1- to 2-page statements of opinions,
open problems, questions, etc., intended to contribute to the open
discussion which is central to this workshop. Contributors will be
given 5 to 10 minutes to state their views. All submission is electronic via the workshop-website, in either
PostScript or Word format.  List of suggested topics (not complete) process: methodology, MRDM & CRISP, preprocessing, declarative
  bias, domain knowledge. methods: ILP, graph-based, SQL-based, propositionalisation. foundations: datamodelling, problem
complexity, database normal
  forms, recursion, database aggregates. systems: database connectivity for ILP, SQL-based systems,
  data-caches, data mining primitives, MRDM front-ends,
  scalability. applications: bioinformatics, medical, event correlation, financial,
  natural language processing.  Timetable June 08 2001:  workshop paper submission deadline.
June 29 2001:  workshop paper acceptance notification.
July 13 2001:  workshop paper camera-ready deadline.
September 6 2001: workshop.  Program chairs Arno Knobbe                   Daniël van der Wallen
Kiminkii                          Dantec bv
postbus 171                    Pontanusstraat 21
3990 DD  Houten             1093 RX  Amsterdam
The Netherlands              The Netherlands
a.knobbe@kiminkii.com   daniel@dantec.nl
www.kiminkii.com           www.dantec.nl  Program committee Hendrik Blockeel
Stefan Wrobel
Jörg-Uwe Kietz
Marc de Haas
Dietrich Wettschereck
Arno Siebes
Saso Dzeroski  Websites MRDM 2001: http://www.kiminkii.com/mrdm
All workshops: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/ecml-pkdd-01-cfw/
ECML/PKDD: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ml/ecmlpkdd/