************************************************************ Call for main conference below ************************************************************ PKDD'2000 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS PAPERS ====================================== 4th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES LYON, FRANCE September 13 - 16, 2000 WORKSHOPS: September 12, 2000 http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~pkdd2000/Workshops/index.html Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) have emerged from a combination of many research areas: databases, statistics, machine learning, automated scientific discovery, inductive logic, programming, artificial intelligence, visualization, decision science, and high performance computing. While each of these areas can contribute in specific ways, KDD focuses on the value that is added by creative combination of the contributing areas. The goal of PKDD'2000 is to provide a European- based forum for interaction among all theoreticians and practitioners interested in data mining. Interdisciplinary collaboration is one desired outcome, but the main long-term focus is on theoretical principles for the emerging discipline of KDD and on practical applications of discovery systems that are built on those principles. We seek the KDD-specific principles that go beyond each contributing area. We seek a new generation of applications that go beyond applications developed in each contributing area. Five workshops will be organized at PKDD'2000: Workshop 1 ============ Data Mining, Decision Support, Meta-learning and ILP: Forum for Practical Problem Presentation and Prospective Solutions Time. Chairs: Pavel Brazdil and Alipio Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal email: pbrazdil@ncc.up.pt, amjorge@ncc.up.pt Deadline : June 15, 2000h The objective is to provide a forum for interchange of ideas between researchers and representatives of companies involved in applying the existing technologies in solving of real problems. Researchers will describe their experience in applying the methodologies to problems of commercial, industrial and social interest. The representatives of companies will describe not only their success stories, but also concerns about the directions the research should follow. Website: http://www.ncc.up.pt/~ltorgo/ML_group.htmls/Events/DDMI/ Workshop 2 ============ PKDD Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (TSDM2000) Chairs: John F. Roddick, Flinders U., South Australia Kathleen Hornsby, U.Maine, USA email: roddick@cs.flinders.edu.au, khornsby@spatial.maine.edu Deadline : June 15, 2000h The workshop will focus on research and practice of knowledge discovery from datasets containing explicit or implicit temporal or spatial information. Main topics of the workshop are: temporal association rule mining, time and space-oriented sequence mining,temporal and spatial classification, mining from geographic and geo-referenced data, spatial data mining, spatial clustering methods, spatio-temporal data mining, KDD processes and frameworks specifically catering for temporal and spatial data mining. Website: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/TSDM2000/TSDM2000.html Workshop 3 ============ Knowledge Discovery in Biology Chair: Jan Komorowski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway email: Jan.Komorowski@idi.ntnu.no Deadline : will be announced The workshop will focus on research and practice of knowledge discovery from datasets containing explicit or implicit temporal or spatial information. Main topics of the workshop are: temporal association rule mining, time and space-oriented sequence mining, temporal and spatial classification, mining from geographic and geo-referenced data, spatial data mining, spatial clustering methods, spatio-temporal data mining, KDD processes and frameworks specifically catering for temporal and spatial data mining. Website: will be announced Workshop 4 ============ Machine Learning and Textual Information Access Chairs: Hugo Zaragoza, LIP6, University Paris 6, France Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, University Paris 6, France Martin Rajman, EPFL, Switzerland email: Hugo.Zaragoza@lip6.fr, Patrick.Gallinari@lip6.fr, Martin.Rajman@epfl.ch Deadline : will be announced As "Textual Information Access" we denote here both the emerging interdisciplinary community of researchers from different fields sharing interest in the textual data objects and machine or statistical learning techniques aiming to develop automatic text analysis systems. Among the main topics are: information retrieval and filtering, multi-media information access, topic detection and tracking, text summarisation, representation techniques of textual information semantics, etc. Website: will be announced Workshop 5 ============ Knowledge Management: Theory and Applications Chair: Jean-Louis Ermine, CEA Paris, France email: ermine@cartier.cea.fr Deadline : June 15th , 2000 Knowledge management is the process of extracting knowledge from the sources accessible to persons in an organisation (structured data in databases, semi-structured data on the web and company documents, unstructured data in the brain of persons, multimedia data). The following topics are involved: knowledge capture, knowledge synthesis, knowledge dissemination, models and methodologies for knowledge management, etc. Website: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/KMTA2000/ Jan Rauch University of Economics Prague Workshops Chair *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** 4th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES LYON, FRANCE, September 13-16, 2000 http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~pkdd2000 (under construction) About PKDD-2000 =============== Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) have emerged from a combination of many research areas: databases, statistics, machine learning, automated scientific discovery, inductive logic programming, artificial intelligence, visualization, decision science, and high performance computing. While each of these areas can contribute in specific ways, KDD focuses on the value that is added by creative combination of the contributing areas. The goal of PKDD-2000 is to provide a European-based forum for interaction among all theoreticians and practitioners interested in data mining. Interdisciplinary collaboration is one desired outcome, but the main long-term focus is on theoretical principles for the emerging discipline of KDD and on practical applications of discovery systems that are built on those principles. We seek the KDD-specific principles that go beyond each contributing area. We seek a new generation of applications that go beyond applications developed in each contributing area. History ======= PKDD 1997: Trondheim, Norway PKDD 1998: Nantes, France PKDD 1999: Prague, Czech Republic Location ======== PKDD-2000 will be held at the University of Lyon 2 (http://www.univ-lyon2.fr/). Lyon is the second city of France (1.2 M inhabitants). The city of Lyon is a capital of the French gastronomy. Communication facilities with high density communication network. To know more about Lyon: http://www.lyon-france.com/ Topics of interest ================== Data and knowledge representation for data mining - Beyond relational databases: text, multimedia and web data models - KDD-motivated data reduction and discretization - Prior domain knowledge and use of discovered knowledge - Knowledge representation for enterprise databases - Modeling knowledge uncertainty - Combining query systems with discovery capabilities Statistics and probability in data mining - Discovery of probabilistic networks - Discovery of exceptions and deviations - Pattern-recognition for data mining - Statistical significance in large-scale search - The problems of over-fit Logic-based perspective on data mining - Inference of knowledge from data - Exploring different subspaces of first order logic - Rough sets in data mining - Boolean approaches to data mining - Inductive Logic Programming for mining real databases - The use of tolerance (similarity) relations in data mining Data warehousing and knowledge discovery - Data mining support for the design of a data warehouse - Discovery techniques for data cleaning - From data warehousing to knowledge warehousing - Relations between OLAP and knowledge discovery - Incremental knowledge representation for incremental data Man-Machine interaction in data mining - Visualization of data - Visualization of knowledge - User-friendly discovery interfaces - Interactive data mining: human and computer contributions Artificial Intelligence contributions to KDD - Representing knowledge and hypotheses spaces - Complexities of search for knowledge - Combining many search methods in one system - Data mining in distributed/multiagent systems High performance computing for data mining - Hardware support for KDD - Parallel discovery algorithms and complexity - Distributed data mining - Scalability in high dimensional datasets - Decomposition of large data tables Machine learning and automated scientific discovery - From concept learning to concept discovery - Expanding the autonomy of data miners - Embedding learning methods in KDD systems - Conceptual clustering in knowledge discovery - Applications of scientific discovery systems to databases - Scientific hypothesis evaluation that transfers to KDD - Hypothesis spaces of scientific discovery useful in KDD Quality assessment of data mining results - Multi-criteria knowledge evaluation - Benchmarks and metrics for system evaluation - Statistical tests in KDD applications - Usefulness and risk assessment in decision-making Applications of data mining and knowledge discovery - Medicine: diagnosis and prognosis - Control theory: predictive and adaptive control, model identification - Engineering: diagnostics of mechanisms and processes - Public administration - Marketing and finance - Data mining on the web in text and heterogeneous data - Scientific databases - Fraud detection KDD process - Discovery in enterprise databases - Prediction and intervention use of knowledge - Mining many databases - New KDD algorithms Program ======= - Invited talks by KDD leaders and experts - Oral and poster presentations of innovative research papers - Software demonstrations - Panel discussions - Discovery challenge - Tutorials General Chair ============= Jan Zytkow, (zytkow@uncc.edu) University of North Carolina, Charlotte (USA) Program Chair ============= Djamel A. Zighed, (zighed@univ-lyon2.fr) University Lyon 2 (France) Jan Komorowski, (janko@idi.ntnu.no) Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) Program Committee ================= Magnus L. Andersson, AstraZeneca, Moelndal (Sweden) Petr Berka, University of Economics, Prague (Czech Republic) Jean-François Boulicaut, INSA Lyon (France) Henri Briand, University of Nantes (France) Leonardo Carbonara, American Management System, London (U.K.) Luc De Raedt, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg (Germany) Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan (Israel) Arthur Flexer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,Vienna (Austria) Alex Freitas, Catholic Pontifical University, Curitiba (Brasil) Patrick Gallinari, University Paris VI (France) Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, University Paris VI (France) Mohand-Said Hacid, University Lyon I & INSA Lyon (France) Petr Hajek, Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic) Howard J. Hamilton, University of Regina (Canada) David J. Hand, Imperial College, London (U.K.) Mika Klemettinen, University of Helsinki (Finland) Willi Kloesgen, Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Sankt Augustin (Germany) Yves Kodratoff, University Paris-Sud (France) Jan Komorowski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) Jacek Koronacki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland) Michel Lamure, University Lyon I (France) Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki (Finland) Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa (Canada) Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University (Japan) Jan Mrazek, Bank of Montreal, Toronto (Canada) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada) Mohamed Quafafou, University of Nantes (France) Ricco Rakotomalala, University Lyon II (France) Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (USA) Gilbert Ritschard, University of Geneva (Switzerland) Michele Sebag, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (France) Arno Siebes, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands) Myra Spiliopoulou, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany) Nicolas Spyratos, University Paris-Sud (France) Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic) Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University (Japan) Ljupco Todorovski, Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, School of Medicine (Japan) Gilles Venturini, University of Tours (France) Inkeri Verkamo, University of Helsinki (Finland) Louis Wehenkel, University of Liege (Belgium) Gerhard Widmer, University of Vienna (Austria) Rudiger Wirth, Daimler-Chrysler AG Research and Technology, Ulm (Germany) Stefan Wrobel, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg (Germany) Ning Zhong, Yamaguchi University, Ube (Japan) Djamel A. Zighed, University Lyon II (France) Jan Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (USA) Discovery challenge =================== A. Siebes (arno@cwi.nl): Chair P. Berka (berka@vse.cz): Co-chair Tutorials ========= W. Kloesgen (willi.kloesgen@gmd.de): Chair Industrial track and sponsor ship ================================= L. Carbonara (leonardo_carbonara@amsinc.com): Chair Workshop symposia ================= J. Rauch (rauch@vse.cz): Chair Local organizing committee ========================== J.-H. Chauchat, S. Lallich: sponsors publicity S. Hassas: web site M. Lamure: publication F. Muhlenbach, C. Agier: posters L. Tougne, F. Bentayeb: reviewing S. Rabaseda, A. Varaine: registration, accommodations, administration F. Feschet: software demonstration N. Nicoloyannis: discovery challenge J.-F. Boulicaut: tutorials M.-S. Hacid: workshop symposia O. Boussaid: database Submission of papers ==================== Submitted papers should be in English and not exceed 10 single-spaced pages of 12pt font (excluding title page but including tables, figures and bibliography). A separate title page should begin with title, authors, affiliations, surface and e-mail addresses, and an abstract of about 200 words. LaTeX and Word style files are available at the web site: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html An electronic version of the paper must be submitted by May 1st, 2000. Electronic submission can be done using e-mail to pkdd2000@eric.univ-lyon2.fr (uuencoded and compressed PostScript) or using the form on the PKDD2000 web page (PostScript). Four hard copies of the paper by regular mail are also requested if electronic submission is not possible. All items should be sent to the following addresses: Regular mail: ------------ PKDD2000 E.R.I.C._Lyon, Bat. L, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, 5 avenue Pierre Mendes-France F69676 Bron Cedex, France Electronic mail: ---------------- pkdd2000@eric.univ-lyon2.fr Important dates =============== Tutorial proposals submission deadline: May 15th, 2000 Panel proposals submission deadline: May 15th, 2000 Demo proposals submission deadline: July 15th, 2000 Discovery Challenge papers submission: July 1st, 2000 Papers submission deadline: May, 1st, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June, 5th, 2000 Camera ready papers: June 30th, 2000 Registration ============= [ ] I wish to receive further information [ ] I intend to present my paper(s) at a regular session(s) [ ] I intend to propose a workshop [ ] I intend to present a poster [ ] I intend to present a tutorial [ ] I intend to present a software demonstration [ ] I intend to participate in the conference Name: Dr./Mr./Ms. ______________________ (first name) ___________________ (last name) Affiliation: ______________________________ Position: _______________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________________________ City: ___________________ State:____________ Zip:__________ Country:________________ Office Phone: _______________ Cellular Phone: _______________ Personal Phone: _______________ Office Fax: _______________ Personal Fax _______________ E-mail: _______________________________ Web Site: ________________________________ Paper, Workshop, Poster, Tutorial or Software demonstration title: _________________________________________________________________________ Registration fees ================= Before June 30th After June 30th Regular 1600 FF 2000 FF Student 1200 FF 1500 FF Foreign payments must be made in French francs. Personal checks are acceptable. Please make checks payable to: PKDD2000 Conference. Also, please insure that your name appears on the check so that we can properly attribute it to you in case it gets separated from this form. Credit cards (VISA or MasterCard) are accepted for all conference attendees. ___ VISA ___ MasterCard Credit Card Number __________________________________ Name on card ______________________________ Expiration Date ____________________ Signature _________________________________________ Please send the registration form along with full payment to: PKDD2000 E.R.I.C._Lyon, Bat. L, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, 5 avenue Pierre Mendes-France F69676 Bron Cedex, France Phone : +33(0)4 78 77 24 58 Fax : +33(0)4 78 77 23 75 http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ PKDD-2000 Workshops and Symposia Program - CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 10th 4th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES LYON, FRANCE, September 13-16, 2000 http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~pkdd2000 PKDD-2000 is the Fourth European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD). A full day of workshops and symposia will be hosted on September 12, prior to the conference, at the conference location in Lyon. Workshops are appropriate for smaller groups, focused on a well defined subject, for instance a common set of data or a common discovery problem. They should encourage presentation of new research ideas and work in progress that may not have reached maturity. Ample time should be scheduled for discussion. The target size is 20-30 participants. The scope and attendance of a symposium may be broader. Both work in progress and complete work can be presented. Panel discussions, demonstrations, invited presentations are encouraged. The target size is 40-50-60 participants. Proposals should contain: * a title for the workshop or symposium * description of the topics * motivation: why are the topics of particular interest to the participants; are the topics of interest to the broader KDD community * format description and estimated duration in hours * the name of workshop chair and 2-5 other committee members; they should be technical experts in the field; be able to publicize the workshop or symposium in various communities * estimated number of participants * a list of potential authors and attendees, if available IMPORTANT DATES March 10th : Workshop proposals (e-mail to rauch@vse.cz) March 17th : Notification of acceptance/rejection September 12th: Workshops and symposia