Apologies for multiple postings. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI) Special Issue on Concept Lattice-based theory, methods and tools for Knowledge Discovery in Databases -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> First Call for Papers <<< Guest Editors: E. Mephu Nguifo, M. Liquière and V. Duquenne Deadline: November 1st, 2001 Throughout the last decade, Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) has become an increasingly important topic in research as well as in industrial applications. KDD is highly interdisciplinary, benefiting from diverse influences such as: Databases, Data Analysis, and Machine Learning technology. Among these communities, there are several sub-areas of research that can be unified by their common interest in "concept lattice structures" which are starting to play an important role in Data Mining. Over the last two decades, research has demonstrated how concept lattices formalize conceptual structures by coding any kind of duality. Conceptual lattices can be used to address a variety of problems in Databases, Data Analysis, and Machine Learning. Examples include : - association rules or data dependencies in Databases, searching frequent item sets, indexing documents for information retrieval...; - exploring attributes in Data Analysis for binary as well as more complex symbolic data structures...; - designing concept lattices-based machine Learning Systems for conceptual clustering and classifications... Studies of concept lattices have generated diverse methods and tools. Consequently, now is the right time to exchange and share researchers' experiences and ideas in order to increase concept lattice-based contributions to Knowledge Discovery in Databases. GOALS The main purpose of this special issue is to allow researchers to communicate their work on concept lattices to a general artificial intelligence audience. Emphasis is on the general methodologies and principles that are appropriate in the development of concept lattice based Data Mining methods and tools. Hence, we are seeking papers devoted to the theory and practice of concept lattices for modelling conceptual structures and more specifically for KDD. Topic of interest include (but are not limited to): - which tasks of KDD's processes can be improved with lattices? - which sampling data size could reasonably deal with lattices? - to which data (Boolean, symbolic, numerical, semistructured...) are concept lattices best applied? - are there "fast" algorithms to design lattices from data? - are there "fast" algorithms to generate significant rules from lattices? - how to revise and to incrementally build lattices? - how to appropriately visualize the generated lattices? - how to reduce computational complexity of lattices? - how to interpret the designed lattice and its structure? - how to reduce the lattice size (approximations, irreducible nodes...)? Answers to these questions should be demonstrated on real examples through applications of concept lattices for knowledge discovery (Biology, Genetics, Social Sciences, Banking, ...). Preference will be given to recent theory and algorithms of concept lattices for KDD. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submissions: November 1, 2001 Reviews to the authors: January 15, 2002 Revised Manuscripts: March 1, 2002 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 15, 2002 Expected publication date: Winter 2002 NOTICE: This special issue follows the ICCS 2001 workshop on the same topic, but is open also to contributions that were not presented at that conference. Please direct any inquiries to Engelbert Mephu Nguifo: mephu@cril.univ-artois.fr SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: * Manuscripts must not exceed 25 pages and must conform to the JETAI guidelines and style (appr. 8,000 to 10,000 words, which comes to about 20 to 25 printed JETAI pages). Example papers can be downloaded from the publishers. The first author will be the primary contact unless otherwise stated. See http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/t-authors/etaauth.html * Papers must be submitted electronically. Email the MS Word, PDF or compressed PS file (as an attachement) to Engelbert Mephu Nguifo. If the file is too large to be emailed, put it on the Web and email the URL to Engelbert MEPHU NGUIFO. Only if electronic submission is impossible should you send fourth hardcopies. Important: If a paper was presented at the ICCS 2001 Workshop on Concept Lattices for KDD, the journal version of the paper must be improved significantly. Authors of workshop papers should put final changes or improvements in their papers which resulted from conversations or questions asked during the workshop. Normally, the journal version will be an expanded version of the workshop/conference version. It is also often necessary to rewrite the paper so that it is accessible to the broad readership of the journal, not just to the specialized members of the subfield that the workshop/conference was for. More generally, authors are strongly encouraged to expand on the material that was included in the workshop/conference paper, e.g. to provide more details, to give greater, more in-depth, discussion of the results and related work, to expand upon the experimental results, and to give a more thorough and scholarly treatment of the material than is possible in a workshop/conference paper. Submitted papers, including invited papers, are not guaranteed to be accepted for journal publication. Papers will be thoroughly reviewed by at least 2 reviewers and accepted only if they meet the JETAI standards. GUEST EDITORS Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL), mephu@cril.univ-artois.fr Michel Liquière, LIRMM Montpellier, liquiere@lirmm.fr Vincent Duquenne, CNRS FRE 2134, Orléans, v.duquenne@wanadoo.fr LINKS : - Workshop websites: http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/iccs2001/clkdd2001/ or http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/wk-clkdd2001/ - ICCS-2001 web site: http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/iccs2001/ - JETAI web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk