Subject: IDA97 announcement
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                         Announcing IDA-97:

     Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
                       Birkbeck College, London
                         4th-6th August 1997 

Objective
=========
For many years  the intersection  of computing  and data  analysis contained
menu-based statistics  packages and not  much else.  Recently, statisticians
have embraced computing,  computer scientists are using statistical theories
and methods, and researchers in all corners are inventing algorithms to find
structure in vast  online datasets.  Data analysts  now have access to tools
for exploratory  data analysis,  decision tree induction,  causal induction,
function  finding,  constructing  customised  reference  distributions,  and
visualisation.  There are  prototype  intelligent  assistants  to  advise on
matters of design and analysis.  There are tools for traditional, relatively
small samples and for enormous datasets.  

The focus of  IDA-97  will be  "Reasoning About Data".  We are interested in
intelligent systems that reason about how to analyze data,  perhaps as human
analysts do.  Analysts often  bring exogenous  knowledge about  data to bear
when they decide how to analyze it;  they use intermediate results to decide
how to proceed;  they reason about how much  analysis the data will actually
support;  they consider which methods will be most informative;  they decide
which aspects of a model are most uncertain and focus attention there;  they
sometimes  have  the  luxury  of  collecting more  data,  and plan  to do so
efficiently.  In short, there is a strategic aspect to data analysis, beyond
the tactical choice of this or that test, visualisation or variable.

IDA-95, the First International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis,  was
organised  to provide  an international  forum for  the  discussion  of such
issues.  The symposium took place in Germany and attracted participants from
20 countries in four continents. A survey after the event supported the idea
of  making  IDA  a  regular,  biennial  conference.  IDA-97 will  be a major
international, high-quality meeting that brings together a broad spectrum of
work.

Topics 
======
The following topics are of particular interest to IDA-97:

- Analysis of IDA algorithms
- applications (e.g., commerce, medicine, engineering, finance,
                      legal, manufacturing, public policy)
- assistants, intelligent agents for data analysis
- Bayesian inference and influence diagrams
- bias
- bootstrap, randomization, computer-intensive methods
- causal modeling
- censored data
- classification
- clustering
- data mining
- data visualisation
- data cleaning, pre-processing and post-processing
- decision analysis
- evaluation of IDA systems
- exploratory data analysis
- experiment design
- fuzzy logic
- graphical models
- human-computer interaction in IDA
- information extraction, information retrieval, textual systems
- knowledge-based systems
- machine learning and statistics
- model specification, selection, estimation
- neural/evolutionary approaches
- reasoning under uncertainty
- representation of statistical knowledge
- search
- statistical pattern recognition
- statistical strategy
- time series and temporal data
- uncertainty and noise in data
- visualization

Submissions
===========
We are still working on the submission details and we shall make them
available in the next call for papers and on the IDA-97 WWW pages.

Review
======
All submissions will  be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, 
significance,  soundness and clarity.  At least two referees  will review 
each submission independently and final decisions will be made by program 
chairs, in consultation with relevant reviewers.

Publications
============
Papers which are accepted and presented at the  conference will appear in
the IDA-97  proceedings.  Authors of the  best papers  will be invited to
extend their papers for inclusion in a special issue of "Intelligent Data
Analysis: An International Journal".

Location
========
IDA-97 will be held in the  newly-furnished conference  halls at Birkbeck 
College,  University of London.  The college is  ranked among the leading
UK university institutions  for its levels  of national and international
excellence in  research in  the humanities,  natural sciences  and social 
sciences.  It is situated in  central London,  surrounded by  many of the
well-known  museums,  theatres,  restaurants,  and shops.  It is directly 
reachable  from   Heathrow  airport,   in  about  50  minutes  by  London
Underground.

Exhibitions
===========
IDA-97 welcomes  demonstrations of  software and  publications related to
intelligent data analysis.

Sponsorship
===========
IDA-97 welcomes  those  organisations who may wish  to partly sponsor the
conference.  Sponsorship of  an international  conference in an important
emerging  field  such as  IDA-97  will  ensure  high  visibility  for the
benefactor,  both  through  the  appearance  of the  organisation logo on
promotional literature  and in references to the conference  in all media
exposure prior to and after the event.

IDA-97 Organisation
===================
General Chair:            Xiaohui Liu
Program Chairs:           Paul Cohen, Xiaohui Liu
Steering Comm. Chair:     Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA
Exhibition Chair:         Richard Weber, MIT GmbH, Aachen, Germany
Finance Chair:            Sylvie Jami, Birkbeck College, UK
Local Arrangements Chair: Trevor Fenner, Birkbeck College, UK
Public. and Proc. Chair:  Michael Berthold, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Sponsorship Chair:        Mihaela Ulieru, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Steering Committee

Michael Berthold          University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Fazel Famili              National Research Council, Canada
Doug Fisher               Vanderbilt University, USA
Alex Gammerman            Royal Holloway London, UK
David Hand                Open University, UK
Wenling Hsu               AT&T Research, USA
Xiaohui Liu               Birkbeck College, UK
Daryl Pregibon            AT&T Research, USA
Evangelos Simoudis        IBM Almaden Research, USA

Program Committee

Eric Backer               Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Riccardo Bellazzi         University of Pavia, Italy
Michael Berthold          University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Carla Brodley             Purdue University, USA
Gongxian Cheng            Birkbeck College, UK
Fazel Famili              National Research Council, Canada
Julian Faraway            University of Michigan, USA
Thomas Feuring            WWU Muenster, Germany
Alex Gammerman            Royal Holloway London, UK
David Hand                Open University, UK
Rainer Holve              Forwiss Erlangen, Germany
Wenling Hsu               AT&T Research, USA
Larry Hunter              National Library of Medicine, USA
David Jensen              University of Massachusetts, USA
Frank Klawonn             University of Braunschweig, Germany
David Lubinsky            University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras   Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain 
Sylvia Miksch             Stanford University, USA
Rob Milne                 Intelligent Applications Ltd, UK
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh   Daimler-Benz Forschung und Technik, Germany
Claire Nedellec           Universite Paris-Sud, France
Erkki Oja                 Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Henri Prade               University Paul Sabatier, France
Daryl Pregibon            AT&T Research, USA
Peter Ross                University of Edinburgh, UK
Steven Roth               Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Lorenza Saitta            University of Torino, Italy
Peter Selfridge           AT&T Research, USA
Rosaria Silipo            University of Florence, Italy
Evangelos Simoudis        IBM Almaden Research, USA
Derek Sleeman             University of Aberdeen, UK
Paul Snow                 Delphi, USA
Rob St. Amant             North Carolina State University, USA
Lionel Tarassenko         Oxford University, UK
John Taylor               King's College London, UK
Loren Terveen             AT&T Research, USA
Hans-Juergen Zimmermann   RWTH Aachen, Germany

Enquiries
=========
General:             Xiaohui Liu
                     Department of Computer Science
                     Birkbeck College
                     Malet Street
                     London WC1E 7HX, UK
                     E-mail: [email-masked]
                     Tel: (+44) 171 631 6711
                     Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727

Technical Program:   Paul Cohen
                     Department of Computer Science
                     University of Massachusetts, Amherst
                     Amherst, MA 01003-4610
                     USA
                     E-mail: [email-masked]
                     Tel: (+1) 413 545 3638
                     Fax: (+1) 413 545 1249
 
Exhibition:          Richard Weber
                     MIT GmbH 
                     Promenade 9 
                     52076 Aachen 
                     Germany 
                     E-mail: [email-masked]
                     Tel: (+49) 2408 94580 
                     Fax: (+49) 2408 94582 

Finance:             Sylvie Jami
                     Department of Computer Science
                     Birkbeck College
                     Malet Street
                     London WC1E 7HX, UK
                     E-mail: [email-masked]
                     Tel: (+44) 171 631 6726
                     Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727

Local Arrangements:  Trevor Fenner
                     Department of Computer Science 
                     Birkbeck College
                     Malet Street 
                     London WC1E 7HX, UK
                     E-mail: [email-masked] 
                     Tel: (+44) 171 631 6704
                     Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727

Publicity &          Michael Berthold         
Publication:         Universitaet Karlsruhe, IRF    
                     Am Zirkel 2
                     76128 Karlsruhe, Germany          
                     E-mail: [email-masked]
                     Tel: (+49) 721 608 4219
                     Fax: (+49) 721 370 455

Sponsorship:         Mihaela Ulieru
                     Simon Fraser University
                     2357 Riverside Drive
                     North Vancouver, B.C.
                     Canada V7H 1V8
                     Email: [email-masked]
                     Tel: (+1) 604 924 1001
                     Fax: (+1) 604 924 1006

There is also a moderated IDA-97 discussion list. To subscribe,
send the word "subscribe" in the message body to:

   [email-masked]

Latest information regarding IDA-97 will be available on the World
Wide Web Server of the  Department of Computer Science at Birkbeck
College, London: 

   http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html