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Machine Learning List Vol. 6 No. 19
Machine Learning List: Vol. 6 No. 19
Tuesday, July 19, 1994
Contents:
UCI Machine Learning Repository
CFP: JLS Special Issue on "Conceptual Change"
Inductive Learning Competition
A conservation law of generalization performance
Second Call for Papers - IWANNT*95
EWCBR-94 Call for Participation
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Subject: UCI Machine Learning Repository
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 21:56:15 -0700
From: "Patrick M. Murphy" <pmurphy@focl.ICS.UCI.EDU>
At MLC '94, a great deal of discussion was made concerning the
UCI Repository. Much of the discussion concerned the apparent
simplicity and questionable representativeness of the databases
in the repository. Other discussions concerned a proposal that
a set of large industrial databases be donated to the repository,
and then analyzed by researchers in order to find solutions for
handling more real-world-like problems.
Based on these discussions, it is apparent that there is a lot
of concern about the current contents of the repository.
Therefore, and this is only a partial solution, I suggest the
following:
1. Researchers should put more effort into donating their
databases to the repository. Don't wait to be asked.
2. Researchers who are holding on to databases for proprietary
reasons, should make public their databases sooner than later.
We all understand how difficult it can be to compile a new
database, but it is for the good of the community.
3. Researchers with industrial databases that cannot be donated
as is, should donate minimally "sanitized" versions of the
databases (for an example, see the "credit-screening" database,
"crx", in the repository). In addition, if information such as
"types" or "units" are attached to features, learners can be
constrained with respect to the features that can be compared
(e.g ?price1 > ?price2, but not ?price1 > ?voltage1).
4. Researchers who engineer new databases for their particular
algorithms, should also donated the pre-engineered versions
of the databases. Note, detailed information about attributes
is always useful.
5. When donating databases, also donate as much background knowledge
about the domain as possible, e.g. theories, types, interesting
cut-points...
6. Finally, when donating databases, researchers should donate
data and documentation files in a format similar to the format
currently used by existing databases (see DOC-REQUIREMENTS in
repository). This is for two reasons, 1) it will save me a
great deal of time, and 2) the donor, being the experts on
the databases, can probably do a much better job at creating
the documentation file than I can.
I welcome any additions to or comments on the above list, and
I hope to see a flood of new donations.
Thanks in advance,
- Patrick Murphy (ml-repository@ics.uci.edu)
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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 15:43:35 -0400
From: Ashwin Ram <ashwin@cc.gatech.edu>
Subject: CFP: JLS Special Issue on "Conceptual Change"
THE JOURNAL OF THE LEARNING SCIENCES
Call for Papers
SPECIAL ISSUE ON CONCEPTUAL CHANGE
GUEST EDITORS
Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology
ashwin@cc.gatech.edu, (404) 853-9372
Nancy J. Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology
nancy@cc.gatech.edu, (404) 894-1232
Frank C. Keil, Cornell University
keil@cornell.edu (607) 255-6365
Conceptual change is the creation and modification of concepts through
development and experience, resulting in new concepts that are often
qualitatively very different. The topic is being studied from a variety
of perspectives. Cognitive development has been concerned with the
nature of children's concepts, how they differ from adult concepts, and
how the former develop into the latter. Research in scientific
conceptual change has investigated how new conceptual structures in a
scientific community come to replace existing ones through scientific
revolutions or through long-term scientific enterprise. Research in
education has been concerned with the nature of students' concepts and
misunderstandings and their development through learning processes in
and out of the classroom. Artificial intelligence researchers have
created computational models of conceptual and representational change.
This special issue will bring together a diverse set of approaches to
the common fundamental problems of conceptual change: what it is, how it
occurs, and how to facilitate it. Papers on all aspects of conceptual
change are invited. Discussion of psychological, philosophical,
educational, and computational studies of conceptual change are
appropriate; of particular interest are the implications of the results
of such studies towards understanding the fundamental nature of
conceptual change.
Five copies of manuscripts should be submitted by December 1, 1994 to
Ashwin Ram
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
following guidelines set forth in the journal. For more information,
contact any of the guest editors.
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 94 22:59:19 BST
From: David.Page@comlab.ox.ac.uk
Subject: Inductive Learning Competition
TO THE INTERNATIONAL ML COMMUNITY: NEW EAST-WEST CHALLENGE
Donald Michie, Stephen Muggleton
David Page and Ashwin Srinivasan
Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK.
How do today's inductive inference algorithms stack up
against human brains? We here announce an inductive theory
formation challenge, in the form of 3 competitions. (1)
Readers are invited to induce rules from a set of 20 train-
descriptions developed from Ryszard Michalski's classic
presentation of 5 Eastbound and 5 Westbound trains more than
10 years ago. The 10 new trains originate from Stephen
Muggleton's pseudo-random train-generator, coded in Prolog
and outputting trains encoded as Prolog facts. These were
subjected to filtering and class-labelling sufficient to en-
sure that at least two moderately simple classifying
theories lie hidden in the final 20 trains. By kind donation
of Oxford University Press, the simplest theory submitted,
whether of human or machine authorship, wins a copy of
Richard Gregory's handsome "Oxford Companion to the Mind"
(35 Pounds Sterling, US$49.95). (2) Competition 2 is for
sub-symbolic learning, based on a predictive performance
criterion rather than explicit theory formation. For this,
the prize is a free copy of "Machine Learning, Neural and
Statistical Classification" (eds. D. Michie, D.J.
Spiegelhalter and C.C. Taylor, Ellis Horwood Series in Ar-
tificial Intelligence), 1994 (39.95 Pounds Sterling,
US$67.95). (3) In Competition 3 each of 5 subtasks takes
the same 5 trains vs. 5 trains format as in (1), with the
difference that each subtask was generated randomly and
pre-classified arbitrarily. Further details in the form of a
compressed tar file are obtainable at:
URL = ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/pub/Packages/ILP/trains.tar.Z
FTP site = ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk
FTP file = pub/Packages/ILP/trains.tar.Z
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Subject: A conservation law of generalization performance
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 17:37:36 -0700
From: Michael Pazzani <pazzani@pan.ICS.UCI.EDU>
At MLC 94, Cullen Schaffer presented an interesting paper entitled "A
conservation law of generalization performance." I'd like to start a
discussion of the paper. The paper starts on page 259 of the
proceeding. Do you think the conservation law is correct? If so,
will it change how you do your research?
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 94 10:11:58 EDT
From: Lee Giles <giles@research.nj.nec.com>
Subject: Second Call for Papers - IWANNT*95
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on Applications of
Neural Networks to Telecommunications (IWANNT*95)
Stockholm, Sweden
May 22-24, 1995
You are invited to submit a paper to an international workshop on applications
of neural networks and other intelligent systems
to problems in telecommunications and information networking.
This is the second workshop in a series that began
in Princeton, New Jersey on October, 18-20 1993.
This conference will take place in the center of Stockholm at a
time of the year when the beautiful city is at its best. A tour
in the famous archipelago adds to the attraction.
This workshop will bring together active researchers in neural networks
and related intelligent systems
with potential users in the telecommunications industries.
Today, telecommunications also means data transmission,
cable TV, wireless, and entertainment industries.
We expect the workshop to be a forum for discussion
of applications issues relevant to the enlarged circle of
telecommunications industries.
It is sponsored by IEEE, INNS, SNNS (Swedish Neuronet Society),
Bellcore and Ericsson.
Suggested Topics:
Application of Neural Networks and other Intelligent Systems in:
Network Management
Congestion Control
Adaptive Equalization
Speech Recognition
Security Verification
Language ID/Translation
Information Filtering
Dynamic Routing
Software Reliability
Fraud Detection
Financial and Market Prediction
Adaptive User Interfaces
Fault Identification and Prediction
Character Recognition
Adaptive Control
Data Compression
Please submit 6 copies of both a 50 word abstract and a 1000 word summary
of your paper to arrive in New Jersey, USA by September 16, 1994.
Mail papers to the conference administrator:
Betty Greer, IWANNT*95
Bellcore, MRE 2P-295
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
(201) 829-4993
(fax) 829-5888
bg1@faline.bellcore.com
Abstract and Summary Due: September 16, 1994
Author Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 1994
Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: February 10, 1995
Organizing Committee:
General Chair
Josh Alspector
Bellcore, MRE 2P-396
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960-6438
(201) 829-4342
josh@bellcore.com
Program Chair
Rod Goodman
Caltech 116-81
Pasadena, CA 91125
(818) 356-3677
rogo@micro.caltech.edu
Publications Chair
Timothy X Brown
Bellcore, MRE 2E-378
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960-6438
(201) 829-4314
timxb@faline.bellcore.com
Treasurer
Anthony Jayakumar, Bellcore
Publicity
Atul Chhabra, NYNEX
Lee Giles, NEC
Local Arrangements
Miklos Boda, Ellemtel
Bengt Asker, Ericsson
Program Committee
Harald Brandt, Ellemtel
Tzi-Dar Chiueh, National Taiwan University
Francoise Fogelman, SLIGOS
Michael Gell, British Telecom
Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Thomas John, Southwestern Bell
Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia
S Y Kung, Princeton University
Tadashi Sone, NTT
Bernard Widrow, Stanford University
Conference Administrator
Betty Greer
Bellcore, MRE 2P-295
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
(201) 829-4993
(fax) 829-5888
bg1@faline.bellcore.com
International Workshop on Applications of
Neural Networks to Telecommunications (IWANNT*95)
Stockholm, Sweden
May 22-24, 1995
Registration Form
Name: _____________________________________________________________
Institution: __________________________________________________________
Mailing Address:
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
Telephone: ______________________________
Fax: ____________________________________
E-mail: _____________________________________________________________
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Registration Fee Enclosed | |
($400; $500 after Apr. 15, 1995; $200 students;)
Please make sure your name is on the check (made out to IWANNT*95)
Registration includes lunch, a boat tour of the Stockholm archipelago,
and proceedings available at the conference.
Mail to:
Betty Greer, IWANNT*95
Bellcore, MRE 2P-295
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
(201) 829-4993
(fax) 829-5888
bg1@faline.bellcore.com
Deadline for submissions: September 16, 1994
Author Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 1994
Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: February 10, 1995
C. Lee Giles / NEC Research Institute / 4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540 / 609-951-2642 / Fax 2482
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Subject: EWCBR-94 Call for Participation
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 94 7:57:28 GMT
From: wess@informatik.uni-kl.de
SECOND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON CASE BASED REASONING
EWCBR'94
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
7-10th of November 1994
Royaumont Foundation, Chantilly (France)
With Support from AFIA
(the french association for Artificial Intelligence)
COMETT
(Commission of European Communities)
Conseil Regional
Ile de France
GENERAL INFORMATION-
In November, 1993, the First European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning was
hosted by the University of Kaiserslauten (Germany). The Workshop was a
resounding success, attracting over 130 participants from 17 countries. The
Second European Workshop on CBR will be held near Chantilly, some 20 km North
of Paris. Academic and social events will allow a close interaction between
workshop participants. Registration will be limited to 120 participants on a
"first-come, first-served" basis. The first day will be focussed on the
practical uses of CBR technology and will consist of tutorials, presentations
of industrial CBR applications and of invited presentations of outstanding CBR
projects. The Workshop will consist of three days of paper presentations,
invited talks, panels and poster sessions that will focus on the technology. An
edited volume of selected papers will be published after the Workshop.
EWCBR CHAIRS-
Dr. Mark KEANE, University of Dublin, Ireland (conference co-chair)
Prof. Jean-Paul HATON, CRIN / INRIA, France (conference co-chair)
Dr Michel MANAGO, AcknoSoft, France (industry day chair & local chair)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
A. Aamodt (Norway) Kevin Ashley (USA)
A. Cesta (Italy) P. Cunningham (Ireland)
B. Faltings (Switzerland) J. Kolodner (USA)
R. Lopez de Mantaras (Spain) M. Manago (France)
B. Neumann (Germany) E. Plaza (Spain)
M. Richter (Germany) L. Saitta (Italy)
D. Sleeman (United Kingdom) I. Smith (Switzerland)
H. Tirri (Finland) M. V. Someren (Netherlands)
W. Van de Velde (Belgium) M. Veloso (USA)
W. Visser (France) A.Voss (Germany)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM INDUSTRY DAY (7/11/94)
(subject to changes without notice)
9:00 - 11:00. Introductory tutorial on CBR
11:00 - 11:30. Coffe Break
11:30-12:15. Curing Composite Material in an autoclave
(Lockheed, USA)
12:15 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 -14:15. Maintaining Airplanes using CBR
(British Airways, UK)
14:15 - 15:00. Troubleshooting jet engines
(SNECMA, France)
15:00- 15:30 - Break
15:30 - 16:00. Plant Information Management by Sharing fault cases
(Mistubishi Electric Corp, Japan)
16:00 - 16:30. CBR Technology in Chemical Safety Control
(VINITI, Russia)
16:30 - 17:00. CBR applications in the Military Domain
(DGA, France)
17:00 - 17:30 - Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00. CBR applied to maintenance of Telecommunication Networks
(Federal Armed Forces, Germany)
18:00 - 18:30. Designing Buildings with CBR: Overview of the FABEL project
(GMD, Germany)
18:30 - 19:30. Panel: CBR : Putting the technology to use
LIST OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS DURING THE SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
C. Bento, Portugal: Empirical Study of an Evaluation Function
for Cases Imperfectly Explained
B. Richards, Switzerland: Qualitative Models as a Basis for Case Indices
K. Ashley, USA: A CBR Knowledge Representation for Practical Ethics
R. Barletta, USA: A Hybrid Indexing and Retrieval Strategy for Advisory
CBR systems built with Remind
M. Cox, USA: A Managing Learning Goals in Strategy Selection Problems
C. Reiser, Austria: Case-Based Reasoning for Multi-step Problems and
its integration with Euristic Search
B. Dave, Switzerland: Case-Based Design in Architecture
J. Lieber, France: A Criterion of Comparison Between Two Case Bases
E. Auriol, France: Integration Induction and Case-Based Reasoning:
Methodological Approach and First Evaluations
P. Cunningham, Ireland: On the Limitations of Memory Based Reasoning
M. Avila, Germany: Controlling a Non-Linear Hierarchical Planner
using Case-Based Reasoning
G. Kamp, Germany: Using Terminologial Logics in Case-Based Corporate
Service and Support
Y. Kerner, Israel: Case-Based Evaluation in Computer Chess
E. Reategui, UK: A Classification System for Credit Card Transactions
B. Unrugeanu, Romania: Case-Based Assistance in CAD
J. Schaaf, Germany: Detecting Gestalts in CAD- Plans to be Used as Indices
for Case-Retrieval in Architecture
G. Weber, Germany: Examples and Remindings in a Case-Based help system
S-A Yang, Scottland: Use of Case-Based Reasoning in the Domain of
Building Regulations
B. Smyth, Ireland: A Comparison of Incremental Case-Based Reasoning
and Inductive Learning
B. Kang, Australia: A Maintenance Approach to Case-Based Reasoning
LOCATION:
EWCBR 94 will take place at the Royaumont Foundation, near the town of
Chantilly, some 20 km north of Paris. Founded in the 13th Century by King Louis
the 9th, the Royaumont Foundation is a National Monument that offers an
exceptional setting for EWCBR-94.
CONFERENCE FEE:
__________________________________________________________________
| | EWCBR | Industry | Both |
| | scientific | Day (1) | |
|___________________|_____________|________________|_____________|
| Early Registration| | | |
| (before 31/7/94): | | | |
| Student (2) | 400 FF | 1 450 FF | 1 450 FF |
| University | 1 000 FF | 1 450 FF | 1 650 FF |
| Others | 1 400 FF | 1 450 FF | 1 850 FF |
|___________________|_____________|________________|_____________|
| Late Registration | | | |
| (after 31/7/94): | | | |
| Student (2) | 900 FF | 2 000 FF | 2 050 FF |
| University | 1 500 FF | 2 000 FF | 2 250 FF |
| Others | 1 900 FF | 2 000 FF | 2 450 FF |
__________________________________________________________________
(1) : includes welcome coffee and pastries, lunch on the 7th
The above costs include VAT at 18,6%.
(2) : Student rate apply to fully registered students, under 26 years old.
Copy of student ID and proof of age required with registration.
EXCHANGE RATES (approximately):
1 US$ = 5.70 FF
1 DM = 3.45 FF
1 =L = 8.8 FF
1 Ecu = 6.6 FF
ACCOMMODATIONS :
The cost of wine, food, wine, accommodations and wine is 2 250 FF per person in
double rooms. For single room, the cost is 2 950 FF. This includes meals from
Monday evening until Thursday's Lunch and wine. Participants registering for
the EWCBR'94 scientific conference ARE REQUIRED to take accommodations (and
wine) at the Royaumong Foundation (the fee also includes access to the
conference site, coffee breaks and wine).
REGISTRATION :
The Registration form will be supplemented by a more detailed one with respect
to payment and travelling. Please return your registration form using regular
mail or fax to the following address:
AcknoSoft, EWCBR-94
58 a rue du Dessous des Berges
75013 Paris, France
Tel: (33 1) 44 24 88 00
Fax: (33 1) 44 24 88 66
_____________________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION FORM
Last Name:
First Name:
Institution:
Address:
ZIP Code, City:
Country:
e-mail:
Telephone:
Fax:
Signature:
Check the appropriate boxes below
[ ] I would like to attend EWCBR'94 Industry Day
[ ] I would like to attend EWCBR'94 Scientific Conference
(Check both boxes if you intend to register to both)
Category:
[ ] Student under 26 (Copy of ID and proof of age required)
[ ] University
[ ] Other
Accommodations:
(required for all participants to EWCBR'94 scientific conference)
[ ] Single Room (2 950 FF, Number Restricted)
[ ] Double Room (2 250 FF) Share With:
[ ] Female [ ] Male
[ ] Smoker [ ] Non-Smoker
[ ] Special Meals Required Please Indicate:
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