CONFERENCES & SEMINARS 05.25.99
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May 23-26, 1999
TECH SUMMIT '99, INFORMATION BUILDERS' ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL USERS CONFERENCE
Location: Orlando, Florida
Contact: http://www.ibi.com/ts99
Description: This event brings developers, users, and technology managers together for a well-rounded education in Information Builders' solutions for enterprise reporting, application development and data warehousing -- in Web, client/server and host-based environments.
May 23-28, 1999
DCI'S DATA WAREHOUSE PRACTITIONERS' TRAINING PROGRAM
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Contact: http://www.dci.com/datawhse
June 17, 1999
SEMINAR ON DATA INTEGRATION AND DATA WAREHOUSING IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: http://www.eagledev.com
Description: Eagle Development Group, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation, will be sponsoring a half-day seminar to address the data integration and data warehousing issues arising in the financial services industry. The seminar, to be held on Thursday, June 17, 1999, from 8:00am - 12:00pm at the Westin Copley Hotel, will feature Larry Barnes, Principal Technical Specialist of Microsoft, speaking about Microsoft SQL Server 7 Data Warehousing, as well as Lou Maiuri, Executive Vice President Eagle Development, discussing Eagle PACE, the investment industry's premier data hub/data warehouse and OLAP reporting system.
June 21-22, Sep 13-14, Nov 8-9, 1999
DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
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Contact: http://www.gordianknot.com; 800-405-2114 or 281-364-9882; agent@gordianknot.com. Enter your request in the subject field:
DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
A broad-brushed, intensive introduction of methods, applications, tools and techniques offered by The Gordian Institute. Registration: $995
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This two day seminar covers the subject of data mining from the ground up. Those in attendance will learn about different methods of modeling and how those models apply to real business problems. If you desire to make data mining an integral part of your business process, then this offering is designed for you.
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June 21-22, 1999
1999 DECISIONTOOLS USERS CONFERENCE
Location: Ithaca, New York
Contact: http://www.palisade.com
July 5-16, 1999
WORKSHOP ON DATA MINING IN ECONOMICS, MARKETING, & FINANCE
MACHINE LEARNING & APPLICATIONS
Location: Chania, Greece
Contact: http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99
In recent years there has been a huge increase in Economic, Marketing and Finance databases with examples including Government surveys, supermarket sales information and minute by minute stock prices. The common denominator for these examples is that the amount of data is overwhelming for the typical user and specialized tools are needed to aid in an analysis. By approaching an analysis as a search for knowledge (data mining), rather than to test a hypothesis (classical statistics), previously unknown relationships in the data can be discovered.
The workshop has two main aims: to present the current trends in Data Mining as a research area and to link this with the experience gained by practitioners. Topics could include: new techniques/algorithms, success/failure case stories, comparisons between different tools, new ideas for future research. Data Mining has its roots in practical problem solving. So although technical topics are encouraged, the main focus will be on Data Mining as a tool for applied research. Active discussions are welcome and in particular the views of users.
July 17 or 18, 1999
DATA MINING WITH EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS: RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
Location: Orlando, Florida
Contact: http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~dmea/
The general goal of the workshop will be to discuss promising and necessary research directions in data mining with evolutionary algorithms.
The workshop length will be either half day or full day, depending on the number of submitted papers. The workshop will consist of presentations by selected speakers, followed by discussions. Speakers will be selected via submission of short papers, reviewed by an international program committee. Submitted papers must address important research directions and open problems, rather than just discuss some particular algorithm developed by the authors.
The workshop will have a limited number of participants. If you cannot submit a paper or if your paper is not selected, you can still attend the workshop if you are invited by the Chairman. Invitees will be selected via submission of a short CV, describing their relevant expertise, main publications, etc.
The following items must be submitted to the Workshop Chairman: * A hardcopy of a short CV (maximum 2 pages) for each author * Four hardcopies of a short paper (maximum 5 pages)
Important Dates:
Paper and CV submission: papers must arrive by March 12
Acceptance/rejection Notification: March 26 Camera-ready paper: April 21
Workshop Chairman:
Prof. Alex Alves Freitas
PUC-PR (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana)
Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Informatica Aplicada
Predio da Engenharia Eletrica e Computacao
Rua Imaculada Conceicao, 1155. Prado Velho.
Curitiba-PR, 80215-901
BRAZIL
Aug 2, 1999
WORKSHOP IN TEXT MINING: FOUNDATIONS, TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Contact: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~feldman/ijcai_99.html
Description: Text Mining is a new and exciting research area that tries to solve the information overload problem by using techniques from data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, natural-language understanding, case-based reasoning, statistics, and knowledge management to help people gain insight into large quantities of semi-structured or unstructured text. Text Mining typically involves preprocessing of a document collection (such as through text categorization or term extraction), storage and indexing of the intermediate representations, analysis of the intermediate representations (such as via distribution analysis, document clustering, trend analysis, and association rule discovery), and visualization of the results. Sample topics appropriate for this workshop include the development of efficient algorithms for very large document collections, tools for visualizing such document collections, the use of intelligent agents to perform text mining on the internet, and the use information extraction to better capture the major themes of the documents.
Aug 4-5, 1999
DECISION PROCESSING '99
Location: San Jose, California
Contact: http://exhibit.dci.com/decproc
Aug 15-18, 1999
ACM SIGKDD FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING
Location: San Diego, California
Contact: http://research.microsoft.com/datamine/kdd99/
Aug 31 - Sep 2, 1999
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE AND DATA WAREHOUSE WORLD
Location: New York, NY
Contact: http://www.dci.com/
Aug 31 - Sep 3, 1999
EURO-PAR'99: HIGH-PERFORMANCE DM AND KDD
Location: Toulouse, France
Contact: http://www.enseeiht.fr/europar99/
Description: Euro-Par is the premier European conference on parallel computing and normally attracts about 300 participants. It is an annual international conference, dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum to promote the development of parallel computing both as an industrial tool and as an academic discipline, extending the frontiers of the state of practice as well as the state of the art. Euro-Par'99 features 23 topics. Each topic (formerly called workshop) is arranged by a small committee, consisting of a global chair, a local chair, and usually two, sometimes more vice-chairs. One main topic of Euro-Par'99 is Parallel Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
Oct 18-22, 1999
DSS WORLD 1999 INTERNATIONAL USER CONFERENCE
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://www.strategy.com/dssworld
Nov 6, 1999
INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARAMACOLOGY (IDAMAP 99)
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap99/
Nov 9-11, 1999
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ROUGH SETS, FUZZY SETS, DATA MINING AND GRANULAR-SOFT COMPUTING
Location: Yamaguchi, Japan
Contact: http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/rsfdgrc99
Nov 13-19, 1999
SC99: ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING
Location: Portland, Oregon
Contact: http://www.sc99.org
Description: This conference provides a showcase for new developments in scalable architectures, networking, enabling technologies, data archives, visualization, and computational modeling.
Dec 6-8, 1999
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISCOVERY SCIENCE
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contact: http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds99
The second international conference on Discovery Science (DS'99) will be held at Waseda University International Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan, from December 6 to 8, 1999. The conference will be sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area "Discovery Science", in cooperation with Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and with SIG of Data Mining, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. The conference will be colocated with the Tenth International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'99).
The "Discovery Science" is a three year project from 1998 to 2000 that aims to (1) develop new methods for knowledge discovery, (2) install network environments for knowledge discovery, and (3) establish the Discovery Science as a new area of Computer Science. A systematic research is planned that ranges over philosophy, logic, reasoning, computational learning and system developments. We are now close to the end of the first year and quite a few new research results are being expected.
The main objective of this conference is to provide an open forum for intensive discussions and interchange of new information among researchers working in the new area of Discovery Science. We believe that such forum will be of benefit to the participants of the conference as well as to the "Discovery Science" project.
Invited lectures will be delivered by Professor Donald Michie (University of Edinburgh), Professor Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley), Professor Jan M Zytkow (University of North Carolina). There will be three more speakers invited by ALT'99: Katharina Morik (University of Dortmund), Robert Schapire (AT&T Shannon Lab.), and Kenji Yamanishi (NEC).
Dec 15-17, 1999
IAT'99: 1ST ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY
Location: Hong Kong
Contact: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99
Description: The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is a high-quality, high-impact biannual agent conference series. As the first meeting in this new series, IAT'99 will primarily focus on (i) the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (ii) the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent technology. The aim of IAT'99 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics to (i) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (ii) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT'99 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems.
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