Subject: info on ILP week in Prague, including registration form
From: NADA LAVRAC <[email-masked]>
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 11:12:00 +0001

Dear ILP97 PC member,

Please find below the information on the ILP Week in Prague, Czech Republic:
* General information on the ILP Week in Prague, 15_20 September 1997
* International Summer School on ILP and KDD, 15-17 September 1997
* 7th International Workshop on ILP, ILP-97, 17-20 September 1997
* CompulogNet Area Meeeting on representation issues in reasoning 
  and learning, 20 September 1997
* Registration form and payment information

Please register as soon as possible.
Please spread this info as widely as possible.

Best regards,
Nada and Saso

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                           ILP Week in Prague
                          15-20 September 1997
               http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/ai_group/kazakov/ilp97/
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Since the very start of machine learning research, logic has been very popular
as a representation  language for inductive concept learning and the
possibilities for learning in a first order representation have been
investigated. Recently,  this research  has concentrated in the lively research
field of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), which studies inductive machine
learning within the framework of logic programming. 

The ILP Week in Prague will consist of the following three events:

15-17 September 1997 - The International Summer School on Inductive
                       Logic Programming and Knowledge Discovery in 
                       Databases (ILP and KDD)
17-20 September 1997 - The Seventh International Workshop on Inductive
                       Logic Programming (ILP-97)
   20 September 1997 - CompulogNet Meeting of the Area "Computational
                       Logic and Machine Learning" (CL and ML)

Schedule:
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Monday,    15 September - ILP and KDD Summer School
Tuesday,   16 September - ILP and KDD Summer School
Wednesday, 17 September - ILP and KDD Summer School (morning)
                        - ILP-97 Workshop (afternoon)
                        - Welcome party (evening)
Thursday,  18 September - ILP-97 Workshop
                        - Guided-tours (afternoon - optional)
Friday,    19 September - ILP-97 Workshop
                        - Farewell dinner (evening)
Saturday,  20 September - ILP-97 Workshop (morning)
                        - CL and ML Area Meeting (afternoon)

Program Organization:
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Nada Lavrac and  Saso Dzeroski, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Email: [email-masked], [email-masked]

Local organization:
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Olga Stepankova and Dimitar Kazakov
Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Technicka 2, CZ-166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Email: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Phone: +420 2 293 107 or +420 2 2435 7233
Fax:   +420 2 2435 7224

Register via URL: http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/ai_group/kazakov/ilp97/
or by sending the registration form (attached below) to the congress agency:

ProTyS, s.r.o. 
Na kopecku 1/1282
Praha 8
CZ 180 00, Czech Republic
Phone/fax: +420 2 6830 860, Fax: +420 2 2435 7224
 
Registration Fees  Early registration       Late registration
                   (before 15  August)      (after 15 August)
                   Regular    Student       Regular    Student
ILP and KDD        280 ECU    180 ECU       300 ECU    200 ECU
ILP-97             150 ECU    150 ECU       170 ECU    170 ECU
CL and ML           15 ECU     15 ECU        15 ECU     15 ECU

A limited number of grants for the ILP and KDD Summer School, intended
mainly for students, is offered. Applications for grants should be 
submitted to the organizing committee before June 30, 1997.

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                                ILP & KDD
                       International Summer School on
      Inductive Logic Programming and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
                          15-17 September 1997
               http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilpkdd97.html
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The summer school will provide its attendants with up-to-date knowledge on
ILP techniques relevant for solving practical problems of KDD, as well as an 
overview of existing ILP applications in practical domains. Hands-on
exercises will be included in order to give end-users a feeling of the 
practical problems current ILP systems are capable of solving.

Who should attend:
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The ILP&KDD Summer School is intended for those interested in the practice
of knowledge discovery in databases and intelligent data analysis. These
include, but are not limited to:
   * End-users from industry and other institutions that face problems of
     extracting high-level information from data or databases.
   * Researchers in the areas of artificial intelligence, databases, logic
     programming, machine learning and statistics.
   * Students of computer science, statistics and related fields.
The number of attendants will be limited due to the hands-on
exercises, therefore early registration before 15 August is recommended.
 
Program:
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Monday, September 15
  10:00 - 13:00 Saso Dzeroski and Nada Lavrac:
      Introduction to ILP and its applications
  14:30 - 18:00 Stefan Wrobel and Dietrich Wettschereck:
      ILP for KDD: Hands-on exercises with KEPLER, an integrated KDD tool
Tuesday, September 16
  09:00 - 12:30 Stephen Muggleton and Ashwin Srinivasan:
      Explanatory ILP and its applications: Hands-on exercises with PROGOL
  14:30 - 18:00 Luc De Raedt, Hendrik Blockeel, and Luc Dehaspe:
      Descriptive ILP and its applications: 
      Hands-on exercises with CLAUDIEN and TILDE
Wednesday, September 17
  09:00 - 12:30 Usama Fayyad:
      KDD and Data Mining - Overview and Methods

The number of attendants will be limited due to the hands-on exercises.

Organization:
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Saso Dzeroski and Nada Lavrac (program)
Olga Stepankova and Dimitar Kazakov (local)

Sponsors:
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The ILP&KDD Summer School is sponsored by the ESPRIT Project 20237
Inductive Logic Programming 2.

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                                   ILP-97
                    The Seventh International Workshop on
                         Inductive Logic Programming
                             17-20 September 1997
               http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilp97.html   
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ILP-97 is the seventh in a series of international workshops on Inductive
Logic Programing. The Proceedings of ILP-97 will be published by Springer.

Program:
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The scientific program will include invited talks by Usama Fayyad, Georg
Gottlob, and Jean-Francois Puget, as well as presentations of 26 accepted
papers  describing theoretical, empirical and applied research in ILP
The abstracts of invited talks and the  list of accepted papers are
available via  http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilp97.html.

Program Chairs:
---------------
Nada Lavrac and Saso Dzeroski

Program Committee:
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F. Bergadano (Italy)    H. Bostrom (Sweden)     I. Bratko (Slovenia)
W. Cohen (USA)          L. De Raedt (Belgium)   P. Flach (Netherlands)
S. Matwin (Canada)      S. Muggleton (UK)       M. Numao (Japan)
D. Page (UK)            C. Rouveirol (France)   C. Sammut (Australia)
M. Sebag (France)       A. Srinivasan (UK)      S. Wrobel (Germany)

Local Chair:
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Olga Stepankova

Sponsors:
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CompulogNet and MLNet

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                Representation issues in reasoning and learning
 CompulogNet Meeting of the Area "Computational Logic and Machine Learning"
                            20 September 1997
                  http://macpf.kub.nl:2080/AreaMeeting97/
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This CompulogNet Area Meeting concentrates on the practial aspects of
representation formalisms as employed in Computational Logic and Machine
Learning. It will focus on the following issues:

CHOOSING THE RIGHT REPRESENTATION SCHEME FOR LEARNING
   * Case studies: what representation scheme worked well for what learning
     task, and perhaps more importantly, which ones didn't?
   * Specific debates: propositional vs. predicate logic, Datalog vs.
     Prolog, Horn clauses vs. constraints, ...
   * Towards a representation methodology: characteristics of domains vs.
     characteristics of representations

COMPARING REPRESENTATIONS FOR LEARNING AND REASONING
   * How does efficient reasoning relate to learnability?
   * Are there particular representation schemes that work well in reasoning
     but poorly in learning, and vice versa?
   * Does learning need reasoning, does reasoning need learning, and if so,
     how does this influence a choice of an effective representation scheme

BEYOND CLASSICAL LOGIC FOR LEARNING
Do we need:
   * description logic as an intermediate between propositional and
     predicate logic
   * CLP enabling sophisticated number handling
   * extensions to predicate logic (temporal logic or situation calculus for
     dynamic domains, epistemic logic for multi-agent domains, ...)

The program will include both invited and submitted contributions on
these and related issues.

Organization:
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Peter Flach and Nada Lavrac (program)
Olga Stepankova and Dimitar Kazakov (local)

Sponsor:
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CompulogNet
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                           REGISTRATION FORM
                  http://blanice.felk.cvut.cz/ILP/
Send to:
ProTyS, s.r.o. 
Na kopecku 1/1282
Praha 8
CZ 180 00, Czech Republic
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1. PERSONAL DATA

Title:        

Last name: 

Middle initials:

First name: 

Citizenship:

Student (yes/no):

Affiliation:

Mailing Address:

Country:

E-mail: 

Tel.:

Fax::

2. REGISTRATION FEES

Registration for the Summer School, as well as for the Workshop includes:

    * Conference materials including the lecture notes 
    * Lunches and refreshments 
    * Ticket for the public transport for the corresponding event days 
    * Welcome party 

Participants registering only for the Compulog Net Area meeting will get lunch
and refreshments on Saturday, 20 Sept., and the CompulogNet Meeting materials.

Accompanying person registration covers the public transport ticket,
the welcome party and the coffee break refreshments.

Registration Fee   Early registration       Late registration
                   (before 15  August)      (after 15 August)
                   Regular    Student       Regular    Student
ILP and KDD School 280 ECU    180 ECU       300 ECU    200 ECU
ILP-97 Workshop    150 ECU    150 ECU       170 ECU    170 ECU
Accompanying pers.  25 ECU per person        25 ECU per person
CL and ML Meeting   15 ECU     15 ECU        15 ECU     15 ECU

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I want to participate in:    | Early registration until 15 August 
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ILP and KDD Summer School    |                   ECU       
ILP-97 - 7th ILP Workshop    |                   ECU
Accompanying persons         |                   ECU
CL and ML Meeting            |                   ECU
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Total of Registration Fees   |                   ECU
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I prefer vegetarian cuisine (yes/no):
Vegetarian cuisine also for the accompanying persons (yes/no): 

3. ACCOMODATION

Hotel Krystal 
J.Martiho 2/407 
160 00 Prague 6 
Czech Republic 
phone: 316 27 61 

Hotel Krystal charges 35 ECU per night for a two-bed room. However,
you should pay an additional 12 ECU fee if you want to have a roommate.

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Accomodation in Hotel Krystal (conference venue)
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None                      |
Room - single  (35 ECU)   |                   ECU       
Room - double  (47 ECU)   |                   ECU
Check-in date             |       
Check-out date            |  
Number of nights          |                 
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Total Accomodation Fee    |                   ECU
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4. SOCIAL PROGRAM
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Wednesday, 17 Sept.                      Number of people
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Welcome party: 19:00h,                      
Betleem chapel, downtown.                      #
(included in the registration fee)

Accompanying persons                           #
(included in the registration fee)
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Thursday, 18 Sept.
(the two planned events are                 Number of people / Cost
co-ordinated and do not overlap.              
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Site-seeing tour: 
16:30, bus, tourist-guide (12 ECU/person)      #        /      ECU
 
Private visit of the Prague Municipal hall
(otherwise not open to public). Art nouveau.   #        /      ECU
18:30, tourist-guide (limited number of 
participants, 13 ECU/person)
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Friday, 19 Sept.
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Farewell diner:
19:00, Hotel Praga (****)
participants: 15 ECU/person                    #        /      ECU
accompanying persons: 30 ECU/person            #        /      ECU
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Total Social Program Fees                                      ECU
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5. PAYMENT

Total amount to pay
(Registration + Accomodation + Social Program):                ECU

Method of payment: Cheque/Bank transfer/Cash
                   Visa card or Eurocard/Master card 
                                                          
Notice that all cash payments should be done before Friday, 5 September. 
     
Cheques: Laid down in your local currency, payable to ProTyS s.r.o. 
    
Bank transfers:
- You have to pay the banking charges. Otherwise, your 
  registration will be considered as incomplete. 
- Please, send us a hard copy of your transfer along with a copy of
  this registration form. You should also mention the name and address
  of your bank. 
- Do not forget to write down your name on the transfer order. 
- The bank transfer can be done in any fully convertible currency on
  the following  account:
          Bank                 Komercni banka a.s.
                               Praha 8 - expozitura Palmovka
          Account number       3756990247/0100
          Code SWIFT           KOMB CZ PP
          References           ILP/your surname+your name
          (up to 22 characters)
          Congress Agency      ProTyS, s.r.o.
          Address              Na kopecku 1/1282
                               Praha 8
                               CZ 180 00, Czech Republic

Credit cards:
The holders of the above mentioned credit cards should print out,
fill in and sign an additional form (below), which should be sent by 
normal mail or fax to the ProTyS Congress Agency. 

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Payment by  Credit Card - ILP Week in Prague
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O Visa
O Eurocard / Mastercard

Cardholder's Name:

Card Number:

Expiration Date:

I, the undersigned, give the authorisation to ProTyS s.r.o. to
withdraw from my account the equivalent in Czech Crowns of

the total amount of ECU                 after 15 August 1997.
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Date:                        Cardholder's signature:

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