Call for Participation
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           The Inaugural IT Summer School
      Theme of 2000: DATA MINING AND HEURISTICS
                 (ITSS: DM2000)

        Hosted By: The School of Computer Science,
     University College, University of New South Wales,
         Australian Defence Force Academy Campus.

       Canberra, Australia, 27-Nov-2000 to 8-Dec-2000.
           http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/SC/


In collaboration with
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School of Computer Science, University College, UNSW    AND
Data Mining Group,CSIRO, Canberra

The School of Computer Science (http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/), University
College,
University of New South Wales, at the Australian Defence Force Academy
Campus,
is pleased to announce the Inaugural IT Summer School with
Data Mining and Heuristics (DMS200) as the theme for the year 2000. The aim
of
the summer school is to expose students and interested IT professionals to
recent
advances and research topics in IT. The summer school then can become a
vehicle
for students to determine research foci for their future research initiative
- through discussions with IT academics - and provide an avenue for IT
professionals
to refresh and update their knowledge of current IT issues.

This year, the main topic has been decided to be in Data Mining (DM), an
area of
high demand in the market nowadays and one of the School of Computer
Science's
research strength areas. The summer school will focus on machine learning,
statistics,
optimisation, and heuristics techniques for DM. In addition, the overall
umbrella of DM,
Knowledge Discovery in Databases, will be covered as well.

Topics to be covered
====================

Details of the programme can be found at
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/SC/.

·       Introduction to data mining (1 hour introduction)
·       Decision support systems (4 hours)
·       Optimisation Theory for data mining (9 hours)
·       Advanced Databases (2 hours)
·       Heuristics (5 hours)
·       Data mining techniques (14 hours)
·       Knowledge Discovery in Databases (4 hours)
·       Web and Text Mining (4 hours)
·       Seminars (4 hours)

Who should attend?
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Group 1: Undergraduates at the end of their 3rd year who are intending to
pursue research or work with data mining or related fields.
Group 2: Honours and Masters students in data mining or related fields.
Group 3: PhD students and academics in data mining or related fields.
Group 4: Managers who are intending to use, or investigate the use of, data
mining in their organisations.
Group 5: Data mining consultants who would like to refresh their memory and
learn the state-of-the-art in the field.

How to register for ITSS:DM2000 ?
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Potential attendees should send a short biography to the coordinator before
31-8-2000.

By Email: abbass@cs.adfa.edu.au
By Mail:
      Hussein A. Abbass
      School of Computer Science, University College,
      University of New Wouth Wales,
      Australian Defence Force Academy,
      Canberra, ACT2600, Australia.
By fax:
      02-62688581 within Australia      +61-2-62688581 International Applicants

Financial support for students
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The School of Computer Science at the University College, UNSW, is
subsidising the fees
for the summer school. In addition, there are limited numbers of
scholarship to support
students to attend the summer school. Scholarships are limited to Group 1
and Group 2
applicants and cover the fees (including accommodation and limited number
of travel grants).
A student should send a C.V. with at least one academic referee's report to
the coordinator
before 31-Aug-2000. Please, indicate if you are interested in travel grants
or not.
There are few travel grants available and selection will based be on
individual merit.
Travel grants are not available for international applicants.

Deadlines
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31-Aug-2000     Scholarship and summer school applications close
29-Sep-2000     Fees due for the summer school
29-Sep-2000     Acceptance for scholarships
27-Nov-2000     Opening of summer school

Fees in Australian dollars:
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                                        Students    Academia    Industry

Summer school with accommodation        
+ internal transportations                  AUD$1200    AUD$2500    AUD$3500

Summer school without accommodation     
and internal transportations           AUD$800      AUD$1500    AUD$2500



Hussein Aly Abbass Amein        
Lecturer in Computer Science,           Email: abbass@cs.adfa.edu.au    
Australian Defence Force Academy,       http: http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass
School of Computer Science,             Tel.(M) (+61) 0402212977
University College,                     Tel.(H) (+61) (2) 62578757
University of New Wouth Wales,          Tel.(W) (+61) (2) 62688158              
Canberra, ACT2600, Australia.           Fax.(W) (+61) (2) 62688581