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D S * CONFERENCES & SEMINARS 08.11.98

July 28 - Sept 3

THE ACTIVE DATA WAREHOUSE
Locations: various, see below
Contact: http://www.strategy.com/seminar/

THE ACTIVE DATA WAREHOUSE
Does your data warehouse deliver or does it only do take-out?

MicroStrategy and IBM invite you to a comprehensive and free half-day seminar that introduces DSS Broadcaster, its capabilities, and it's real-world applications in conjunction with the power of the DB2® Universal Database. All of this and we deliver it to you, FOR FREE!

Throughout the summer, "The Active Data Warehouse" seminars will be held in cities across the country. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about how DSS Broadcaster can benefit your business. The kick off begins July 28th in California and Texas. For specific locations and registration visit http://www.strategy.com/seminar/

MicroStrategy's DSS Broadcaster is a powerful information broadcast server capable of delivering personalized messages from your data warehouse to recipients via E-mail, Fax, Pager, and Mobile Phone. Using exception conditions and recurring schedules as triggers, DSS Broadcaster helps maximize the value of your data warehouse by providing critical information to end users as part of the normal business process. To learn more about the power and functionality of DSS Broadcaster visit http://www.strategy.com/products/Broadcaster/index.htm

You can try out DSS Broadcaster now! Sign up for a FREE SUBSCRIPTION to DSS StockMarket http://www.strategy.com/products/stockmarket/index.htm , an E-mail and pager service built that provides stock quotes, portfolio analysis, and stock market information. DSS StockMarket is just one example of the types of information services that can be built using DSS Broadcaster.

Join us in discovering what the future holds. When we say that we will forever change the world of business analysis and data warehousing, we're not kidding. REGISTER TODAY!

MicroStrategy provides enterprise Decision Support System (DSS) software, enabling decision-makers to conduct sophisticated business analyses against large volumes of numerical data. For more information about MicroStrategy, visit http://www.strategy.com

Aug. 9-14

SUMMER IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE
Location: San Francisco, California
Contact: http://www.dw-institute.com/confindex.htm

Aug 17-21

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EAST
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://www.sd98.com

Aug. 31

WORKSHOP: KEYS TO THE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS OF DATA MINING
Location: New York, NY
Contact: kdd-workshop@exapps.com
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/KDD/1998/

To be held in conjunction with The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining New York City, August 31, 1998

Chairs: 

     Kurt Thearling
     Director of Advanced Analytics
     Exchange Applications
     695 Atlantic Avenue
     Boston, MA 02111

     Roger M. Stein
     Vice President, Senior Credit Officer
     Quantitative Analytics and Knowledge Based Systems
     Moody's Investors Service
     99 Church Street
     New York, NY 10007

Description: Data mining is on the cusp of true commercial success. Commercial institutions are starting to move beyond pilot studies and research programs toward the production use of predictive models for real world business applications. While this is exciting, it is also where it gets harder.

Successful data mining in business doesn't come down to simply having a hot algorithm and giving it to an experienced modeler. Business users care about things such as database support, application integration, business templates, flexibility, scalability, real profitability, and other issues that have not historically been the concern of the KDD community. From a development point of view, the core algorithms are now a small part, perhaps 10%, of the overall data mining application, which itself is only 10% of the business process that contains the application. The purpose of this workshop is to focus on the remaining 99% so that commercial data mining application are relevant to business users.

A number of the issues that we hope will get addressed at the workshop are described in a recent article by Kurt Thearling titled "Some Thoughts on the Current State of Data Mining Software Applications" (available online at http://www.santafe.edu/~kurt/text/dsstar/top10.shtml ) and in an interview given by Roger Stein (also available online at http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~rstein/interview.html ).

Objectives: The goal is to bring together a diverse group of developers, users, and integrators of business data mining applications. The workshop will consist of a number of in-depth case studies and analyses, several invited speakers, and panel sessions. Time will also be set aside for discussions.

It is expected that the workshop will include forty to fifty participants.

Approximately half of the participants will come from the data mining development community with the other half coming from the data mining business user community. Developers of commercial software for data mining will also be eligible to attend the workshop if they have significant contributions to make beyond promotional pitches. The set of business users attending will be selected from a diverse set of industries such as banking, retail, insurance, government, internet services, telecom, etc. In addition to developers and users, a small number of participants will come from system integration and services companies.

Position Paper Submission: All participants must submit a position statement of at least 1000-words (about two pages) describing their views on the subject of commercial data mining. The focus should be on the practical application of data mining rather than the underlying algorithms.

For business users, position paper topics might include:

For developers, examples of some possible topics include:

The all submissions should be sent to the workshop chairs via email at kdd-workshop@exapps.com

In addition to the position statements, participants need to include the following information in their submission:

  1. Developers: Software developers should include the name of their software application, technical specifications, and the names of three representative customers with deployed applications.
  2. Users (and SI/Services): End users should include the names of data mining applications that they have worked with, the industry that they are working in, and the general problem space they are applying data mining to.

Participants will be chosen based on position statements and their ability to contribute to the workshop. All position statements will be distributed to each attendee before the workshop. Depending on the content and variety of submissions, a collection of the papers from the workshop may be published either in book form or as a special issue of a relevant journal.

Timetable: 

     Jun 15:        Papers due
     Jul 10:        Notification of acceptance/rejection
     Aug 31:        Workshop

Aug 31 - Sept 3

SAP TECHNICAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: http://sapteched.saplabs.com

Sept 14-15

MANAGING DATA WAREHOUSE PROJECTS: THE KEY ISSUES
Location: Dallas, Texas
Contact: http://www.dci.com

Sept 15-17

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SUMMIT
Location: San Jose, California
Contact: http://www.dci.com/erp

Sept 16-18

DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING FOR THE DATA WAREHOUSE
Location: Dallas, Texas
Contact: http://www.dci.com

Sept 16-18

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS: OLTP & DATA WAREHOUSING SOLUTIONS
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Contact: http://www.gartner.com

Sept 16-19

OBJECT-RELATIONAL SUMMIT
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://www.dbsummit.com/98orhome.htm

Sep 16-18, 1998

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

DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE

A broad-brushed, intensive introduction of methods, applications, tools and techniques 
                    offered by
              The Gordian Institute
               Registration: $1495

WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE UNIQUE?
This course focuses on actual use and implementation of data mining methods. The instructor will also show how to evaluate various data mining products. Exercises will reveal impressive results from the same tool that may have failed in other categories. The workshops will save immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of tools and techniques will perform best for your application.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

REQUEST FULL COURSE DETAILS
You will quickly receive complete details to include pricing, course outline, instructor background, site logistics and registration form through any of the following:

Sept 21-24

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE WORLD '98
Location: Denver, Colorado
Contact: http://www.ecomworld.com/98conference/EDICONF98.html

Sept 23-25

STRATEGIES & TOOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL DATA WAREHOUSES
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Contact: http://www.dci.com

Sept 23-26

PKDD'98
2ND EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
Location: Nantes, France
Contact: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/pkdd98

Description: 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'98 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, especially on KDD-specific principles that go beyond each contributing area.

Both theoretical and applied submissions are sought. Reviewers will assess the contribution towards the principles of KDD, in addition to the usual requirements of relevance, novelty, clarity and significance. Applied papers should go beyond an individual application, presenting an explicit method that promises a degree of generality within one or more stages of the discovery process, such as preprocessing, mining, visualization, use of prior knowledge, knowledge refinement, and evaluation. Theoretical papers should demonstrate how the proposed theoretical contribution advances the discovery process.

Oct 26-30

MICROSTRATEGY DSS WORLD
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://www.strategy.com

Nov 4-6, 1998

DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Location: Dallas, Texas
Contact: http://www.gordianknot.com
800-405-2114
agent@gordianknot.com

DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE

A broad-brushed, intensive introduction of methods, applications, tools and techniques 

                    offered by
              The Gordian Institute
               Registration: $1495

WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE UNIQUE?
This course focuses on actual use and implementation of data mining methods. The instructor will also show how to evaluate various data mining products. Exercises will reveal impressive results from the same tool that may have failed in other categories. The workshops will save immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of tools and techniques will perform best for your application.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

REQUEST FULL COURSE DETAILS
You will quickly receive complete details to include pricing, course outline, instructor background, site logistics and registration form through any of the following:

Nov 16-17

MANAGING DATA WAREHOUSE PROJECTS: THE KEY ISSUES
Location: San Francisco, California
Contact: http://www.dci.com

Nov 18-20

DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING FOR THE DATA WAREHOUSE
Location: San Francisco, California
Contact: http://www.dci.com

Dec 1-3

STRATEGIES & TOOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL DATA WAREHOUSES
Location: Orlando, Florida
Contact: http://www.dci.com

Dec 7-8

MANAGING DATA WAREHOUSE PROJECTS: THE KEY ISSUES
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: http://www.dci.com

Dec 9-11

DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING FOR THE DATA WAREHOUSE
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: http://www.dci.com

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