CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

Dec 9-11
DCI'S DATABASE & CLIENT SERVER WORLD
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Contact: http://www.DCI.com
800-DCI-EXPO

Description: The Federal Data Mining Symposium will spotlight the technical advances in and applications of Data Mining in the government community. The need for better and more automated methods of analysis is particularly important as the amount of data being collected and stored increases dramatically. Analysts must be knowledgeable about new types of techniques, both statistical and artificial intelligence techniques, in order to better find patterns, correlations, trends, and summaries in the wealth of data.

The major goals of the Symposium are to exchange information and ideas on the role of data mining and present requirements and proposed solutions, provide discussions on the broad range of applicable technologies, provide policy guidance applicable to DoD and civil agency information resource managers, and identify and encourage service-unique and government-wide knowledge and use of the important technology.

The Federal Data Mining Symposium will focus on three overall areas:

• User requirements for better analysis methods including data mining techniques
• Applications of data mining that have been constructed and fielded, both for structured data as well as textual and other multimedia data
• Technology for addressing the requirements

Topics of interest include:

• User requirements for data mining
• Applications of data mining
• Data mining from multimedia data (e.g., text, imagery, geospatial)
• Lessons learned from constructing data mining systems
• Solutions to data mining problems (noisy data, uncertain data, incomplete data, dynamic data)
• Data cleansing as part of the data mining process
• Visualization as part of data mining process
• Validation and verification of discovered knowledge
• Security/privacy concerns and solutions
• Employment of discovered knowledge in decision support or other systems

Data users, analysts, administrators, managers, developers, researchers, theoreticians, and vendors are cordially invited to attend and to submit papers for presentation at the Federal Data Mining Symposium. Papers will be selected based on relevance to the conference and technical quality. Selected papers will be presented at the conference and/or published in the proceedings. Exhibit Space Available! Call for Papers Due No Later Than - October 31, 1997

Jan 28-29, 1998
DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Location: Santa Clara, California
Contact: http://www.gordianknot.com
800-405-2114
agent@gordianknot.com

Those in attendance of this Gordian Institute short course will learn about different methods of modeling and how those models apply to real business problems. Those who desire to make data mining an integral part of their business process are target candidates. Attendees will learn to:

• Uncover valuable information buried in data.
• Learn what data has real meaning and what data simply takes up space (also known as "data prospecting")
• Examine which data mining methods and tools are most effective
• Avoid pitfalls in the analysis of results

Gordian's "Data Mining: Principles and Practice" seminar focuses on actual use and implementation of data mining techniques in the real world. The instructor has been deeply involved with the development of data mining methods and the means of their use. Actual products will be reviewed, as will results drawn from real data mining applications.

Those who would like a hands-on perspective to the instructional sessions may attend an optional third day application workshop. The workshop will highlight superior performance as well as pitfalls resulting from various tools and techniques when applied to different types of data intensive problems. Objective evaluations of popular data mining products can save immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of tools will perform best for your application.

Feb 11-12, 1998
DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Location: Satellite, FL (near Orlando)
Contact: http://www.gordianknot.com
800-405-2114
agent@gordianknot.com

Those in attendance of this Gordian Institute short course will learn about different methods of modeling and how those models apply to real business problems. Those who desire to make data mining an integral part of their business process are target candidates. Attendees will learn to:

• Uncover valuable information buried in data.
• Learn what data has real meaning and what data simply takes up space (also known as "data prospecting")
• Examine which data mining methods and tools are most effective
• Avoid pitfalls in the analysis of results

Gordian's "Data Mining: Principles and Practice" seminar focuses on actual use and implementation of data mining techniques in the real world. The instructor has been deeply involved with the development of data mining methods and the means of their use. Actual products will be reviewed, as will results drawn from real data mining applications.

Those who would like a hands-on perspective to the instructional sessions may attend an optional third day application workshop. The workshop will highlight superior performance as well as pitfalls resulting from various tools and techniques when applied to different types of data intensive problems. Objective evaluations of popular data mining products can save immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of tools will perform best for your application.

Feb. 26-28
FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENGINEERING Location: Orlando, Florida
Contact: http://carin.bellcore.com:8000/icde98
s.urban@asu.edu