CALL FOR PAPERS

                            3rd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
                      ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF
                   KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES
                      PRAGUE, September 15-18, 1999
                         http://lisp.vse.cz/pkdd99/


ABOUT PKDD'99

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 '99 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.

LOCATION

PKDD'99 will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, at the campus of 
the University of Economics, 15 minutes walking distance from the 
historical center of Prague.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

 - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
 - Statistics and probability in data mining
 - Logic-based perspective on data mining
 - Data warehousing and knowledge discovery
 - Man-Machine interaction in data mining
 - Artificial Intelligence contributions to KDD
 - High performance computing for data mining
 - Machine learning and automated scientific discovery
 - Quality assessment of data mining results
 - Applications of data mining and knowledge discovery
 - KDD process


PROGRAM

 - invited talks by KDD leaders and experts
 - oral and poster presentations of innovative research papers
 - software demonstrations
 - panel discussions
 - discovery challenge
 - tutorials


PROGRAM CHAIRS

Jan Zytkow 
Univ. of North Carolina, 
Charlotte 
e-mail: zytkow@uncc.edu 

Jan Rauch
University of Economics, 
Prague
e-mail: rauch@vse.cz


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 http://lisp.vse.cz/pkdd99/styles. The title page must be submitted
electronically in ASCII by May 1. An electronic version of the paper
must be submitted by May 4th, 1999. Electronic submission can be done
using e-mail to pkdd99@lisp.vse.cz (uuencoded and compressed 
PostScript) or using the form on the PKDD99 web page (PostScript). 
Four hard copies of the paper by regular mail are also accepted if 
electronic submission is not possible. All items should be sent to 
the following addresses:  

Regular mail: 
Jan Rauch
University of Economics,
W. Churchill Sq. 4,
130 67 Prague, Czech  Republic
e-mail: pkdd99@lisp.vse.cz


IMPORTANT DATES

Tutorial proposals submission deadline: May 15th, 1999
Panel proposals submission deadline: May 15th, 1999
Demo proposals submission deadline: July 15th, 1999
Discovery Challenge papers submission: July 1st, 1999

Abstract submission deadline: May 1st, 1999
Papers submission deadline:   May 4th, 1999
Notification of acceptance: June 4th, 1999
Camera ready papers: June 30th, 1999