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NL-KR Digest Mon Jan 2 11:47:25 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 2
Today's Topics:
CFP: KDD95: Knowl. Discovery and Data Mining, Aug 95, Montreal
Announcement: Summer School on Comp Ling, Sep 95, Tzigov Chark
CFP: JLP Special Issue on High Performance Logic Prog., 1996
CFP: IJCAI'95 Wkshp on Applied Nonmonotonic Reas., Aug 95, Montreal
Position: Harvard-MIT-NEMC Postdoc fellowships in Medical Informatics
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 94 13:59:47 PST
From: pjs@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (Padhraic J. Smyth)
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: KDD95: Knowl. Discovery and Data Mining, Aug 95, Montreal
The First International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95)
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Montreal, Canada, August 20-21, 1995
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Sponsored by AAAI and in Cooperation with IJCAI, Inc.
Co-located with IJCAI-95.
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) and Data Mining are areas of common
interest to researchers in machine learning, machine discovery, statistics,
intelligent databases, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, high
performance computing, and expert systems. The rapid growth of data and
information created a need and an opportunity for extracting knowledge from
databases, and both researchers and application developers have been
responding to that need. KDD applications have been developed for
astronomy, biology, finance, insurance, marketing, medicine, and many other
fields. Core problems in KDD include representation issues, search
complexity, the use of prior knowledge, statistical inference, and
algorithms for the analysis of massive amounts of data both in size and
dimensionality.
Due to strong demand for participation and the growing demand for formal
proceedings, it has become necessary to change the format of the previous
KDD workshops to a conference with open attendance. This conference will
continue in the tradition of the 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1994 KDD workshops
by bringing together researchers and application developers from different
areas, and focusing on unifying themes such as the use of domain knowledge,
managing uncertainty, interactive (human-oriented) presentation, and
applications. The topics of interest include:
Foundational Issues and Core problems in KDD
Database Mining Tools and Applications
Computationally Efficient Search for Structure in Data
Interactive Data Exploration and Discovery
Knowledge Representation Issues in KDD
Data and Knowledge Visualization
Data and Dimensionality Reduction
Prior Domain Knowledge and Re-use of Discovered Knowledge
Statistical and Probabilistic Aspects of KDD
Dependency Models and Inference
Machine Learning/Discovery Algorithms for Large Databases
Managing Model Selection and Model Uncertainty
Assessment of Model Predictive Performance
Integrated Discovery Systems and Theories
Parallel techniques for data management and search
Security and Privacy Issues in Machine Discovery
This list of topics is not intended to be exhaustive but an indication of
typical topics of interest. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit
papers on any topics of relevance to Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
We also invite working demonstrations of discovery systems. The conference
program will include invited talks, a demo and poster session, and panel
discussions. Active discussion format will be encouraged to maintain the
workshop feel that previous participants found valuable and constructive.
The conference proceedings will be published by AAAI. As in previous KDD
Workshops, a selected set of KDD-95 papers will be considered for
publication in journal special issues and as chapters in a book.
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Please submit 5 *hardcopies* of a short paper (a maximum of 9 single-spaced
pages not including cover page but including bibliography, 1 inch margins,
and 12pt font) by March 3, 1995. A cover page must include author(s) full
address, E-MAIL, a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. This cover page
must accompany the paper. IN ADDITION, an electronic version of the cover
page MUST BE SENT BY E-MAIL to kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov by March 3, 1995.
Please mail the papers to : KDD-95
AAAI
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496
U.S.A.
send e-mail queries regarding submissions logistics to: kdd@aaai.org
* *** I m p o r t a n t D a t e s * *
** Submissions Due: March 3, 1995 **
** Acceptance Notice: April 10, 1995 **
** Camera-ready paper due: May 12, 1995 **
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Conference Co-Chairs:
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Usama M. Fayyad (Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology)
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Research Laboratories)
Program Committee
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Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Tej Anand (AT&T Global Information Solutions, USA)
Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA)
Wray Buntine (NASA AMES Research Center, USA)
Peter Cheeseman (NASA AMES Research Center, USA)
Greg Cooper (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Brian Gaines (University of Calgary, Canada)
Clark Glymour (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
David Hand (Open University, UK)
David Heckerman (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Se June Hong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Larry Jackel (AT&T Bell Labs, USA)
Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA)
Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany)
David Madigan (University of Washington, USA)
Chris Matheus (GTE Laboratories, USA)
Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Laboratories, USA)
Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA)
Arno Siebes (CWI, Netherlands)
Evangelos Simoudis (Lockheed Research Center, USA)
Andrzej Skowron (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Padhraic Smyth (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
Alex Tuzhilin (NYU Stern School, USA)
Xindong Wu (Monash University, Australia)
Wojciech Ziarko (University of Regina, Canada)
Jan Zytkow (Wichita State University, USA)
Publicity Chair: Padhraic Smyth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Industry Liaison: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Please send KDD-95 conference registration and related inquiries to:
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KDD-95
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496. U.S.A.
Phone: (+1 415) 328-3123; Fax: (+1 415) 321-4457 Email: kdd@aaai.org
Please send technical program related queries to Program Co-Chairs:
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Usama M. Fayyad Ramasamy Uthurusamy
Machine Learning Systems Group Computer Science Department, AP/50
Jet Propulsion Lab M/S 525-3660 General Motors Research, Bldg 1-6
California Institute of Technology 30500 Mound Road, Box 9055
Pasadena, CA 91109 Warren, MI 48090-9055
U.S.A. U.S.A.
(+1 818) 306-6197 Phone (+1 810) 986-1989 Phone
(+1 818) 306-6912 FAX (+1 810) 986-9356 Fax
Email : kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
Please send KDD-95 Publicity and related inquiries to:
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Padhraic Smyth (KDD-95) email: kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 U.S.A.
Phone: (+1 818) 306-6422 Fax: (+1 818) 306-6912
Inquiries about KDD-95 sponsorship and industry participation to:
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Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, e-mail: gps@gte.com
GTE Laboratories, MS-45 tel: 617-466-4236
40 Sylvan Road fax: 617-466-2960
Waltham MA 02154-1120 USA URL: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 94 19:25:26 GMT
From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Announcement: Summer School on Comp Ling, Sep 95, Tzigov Chark
To: nicolas@aisb.ed.ac.uk
Preliminary Announcement
International Summer School
"CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS"
____________________________________________________________________
9 - 13 Sept 1995
Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
DATES: 9 - 13 Sept 1995 (arrival 8 Sept)
LOCATION:
Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains
surrounding the Batak Lake. Tzigov Chark is 150km from Sofia,
the capital of Bulgaria.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME:
A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Lexicalized tree-adjoining grammars
J. Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Knowledge acquisition from corpora
J. Haller (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Unification-based Machine Translation
J. Schutz (IAI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Issues in Language Engineering
J. Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK)
Machine translation: history, current status and
possible future developments
W. von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Knowledge-based Machine aided Translation
Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Lexical knowledge acquisition
A. Ramsey (University College Dublin)
Interpretation in context
Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon, Korea)
English-to-Korean Machine Translation
Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy)
Referring expressions in sublanguages
C. Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona, Spain)
Mathematical Linguistics: its relevance for
Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Other speakers are expected to confirm their participation.
A more complete list will be given in the second announcement.
SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION:
For further information please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov <ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de> or
Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@edinburgh.aisb.ac.uk>
RELATED EVENTS:
The summer school participants are also invited to take part in the
Int. Conference "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING",
which will take place immediately after the summer school in
Velingrad, 20 km from Tzigov Chark.
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: due in Jan 1995
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 11:57:51 -0700
From: gupta@cs.nmsu.edu (Gopal Gupta)
To: POPX@vax.ox.ac.uk, ai@uk.ac.qmw.dcs,
Subject: CFP: JLP Special Issue on High Performance Logic Prog., 1996
Apologies if you get this mail twice. Latex version of the
call is enclosed at the end. Please print it and post it.
The Journal of Logic Programming
Editor-in-Chief: M. Bruynooghe
Founding Editor: J.A. Robinson
Special Issue on High Performance Implementations
of Logic Programming Systems
Guest Editors: Gopal Gupta & Mats Carlsson
Call For Papers
The Journal of Logic Programming is planning a special issue on High
Performance Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, tentatively
to appear in early 1996. High-quality original research papers are
invited on all aspects of high performance sequential and parallel
implementations of logic programming languages. Topics include, but
are not limited to,
o compilation technology for logic programming languages,
o runtime implementation techniques and implementation
optimizations,
o parallel, concurrent, and distributed implementations,
o principles and practice of logic programming implementation
technology, and
o performance analysis of logic programming implementations.
Short papers (5 to 8 pages) describing important past implementation
efforts (which have not been published in archival journal papers)
are also solicited. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published
in conferences that have not appeared in archival journals are also
eligible for submission.
Please send six copies of your paper, by March 1st, 1995, to
Gopal Gupta
Guest co-editor
Laboratory for Logic, Databases, and Advanced Programming
Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University
Box 30001/CS, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
Email: jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu
JLP Latex style files will be made available. Authors are encouraged
to use them to speed up the production process. Postscript files over
email will also be accepted. Authors are required to email a title
and a four or five line abstract to arrive by February 15th, 1995, at
jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu to facilitate assignment of reviewers in advance.
NORTH-HOLLAND
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Special Issue on High Performance Implementations of Logic Programming Systems
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Guest Editors: Gopal Gupta \& Mats Carlsson
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{\bf Call For Papers}
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The Journal of Logic Programming is planning a special issue on
High Performance Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, tentatively
to appear in early 1996.
High-quality original research papers are invited on all
aspects of high performance sequential and parallel implementations
of logic programming languages.
Topics include, but are not limited to,
\begin{itemize}
\item compilation technology for logic programming languages,
\item runtime implementation techniques and implementation optimizations,
\item parallel, concurrent, and distributed implementations,
\item principles and practice of logic programming implementation technology, and
\item performance analysis of logic programming implementations.
\end{itemize}
\noindent
Short papers (5-8 pages) describing important past
implementation efforts (which have not been published in
archival journal papers) are also solicited.
Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in
conferences that have not appeared in archival journals
are also eligible for submission.
\noindent Please send six copies of your paper, by March 1st, 1995, to
\begin{quote}
Gopal Gupta\\
Guest co-editor\\
Laboratory for Logic, Databases, and Advanced Programming\\
Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University\\
Box 30001/CS, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA \\
Email: jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu
\end{quote}
\noindent
JLP \LaTeX ~style files will be made available and authors are encouraged
to use them to speed up the production process. Postscript files over
email will also be accepted. Authors are {\em required}
to email a title and a 4-5 line abstract to arrive by February 15th, 1995,
at jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu to facilitate the assignment of reviewers in advance.
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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:27:03 +0200
From: Ilkka Niemel{ <ini@titan.hut.fi>
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: IJCAI'95 Wkshp on Applied Nonmonotonic Reas., Aug 95, Montreal
CALL FOR PAPERS
IJCAI'95 WORKSHOP
on
Applications and Implementations of Nonmonotonic Reasoning Systems
August 19 or 20 or 21 (to be determined) 1995
Montreal, Canada
Nonmonotonic reasoning is a central theme in many areas of artificial
intelligence (AI) and, in particular, in knowledge representation.
Nonmonotonic reasoning is employed in logic programs and deductive
databases, inheritance reasoning, reasoning about actions, and
diagnosis. Many formalisms for nonmonotonic reasoning have been
proposed in the literature. Recent research has discovered interesting
relationships between the various formal systems, and the computational
properties of nonmonotonic reasoning have been studied intensively.
Hence, we now have a firm theoretical basis for nonmonotonic
reasoning.
Recently, it has been critically pointed out that the
considerable efforts on the semantical and other foundational issues of
nonmonotonic reasoning have not resulted in implementations of
nonmonotonic reasoning systems or new practical applications.
We believe that this is because only in recent years has a substantial
share of the research in nonmonotonic reasoning been dealing with
computational issues, and hence only now we can start developing real
applications that are based on the more principled approaches to
nonmonotonic reasoning.
This workshop will focus on the implementation of AI applications that
use nonmonotonic reasoning. The workshop is intended to bring together
researchers who implement knowledge representation systems which use
nonmonotonic deduction such as logic programming systems, deductive
databases, truth maintenance systems, probabilistic and other numerical
systems, and researchers working on AI applications where nonmonotonic
reasoning is employed such as diagnosis and reasoning about physical
systems, actions, time, and beliefs. The goal is to evaluate the state
of the art of the field, explore significant new research issues and
delineate areas where more research is needed. Specific topics
include:
- Implementation techniques for nonmonotonic reasoning.
- Implemented knowledge representation systems which
use nonmonotonic deduction.
- Evaluation methods for implementations of nonmonotonic reasoning
systems.
- Experimental work comparing various algorithms for nonmonotonic
reasoning.
- Applications of nonmonotonic reasoning methods to other areas in AI as
well as to other fields in computer science.
There will be an increased focus on panels and discussions. Where
possible, the panels will be organized around groups of related papers.
In addition to technical papers, we invite position papers.
Authors of position papers will have about 10 minutes to present their
view and then about 10-15 minutes to lead a discussion on the
issues raised in the paper. Position papers could address issues like
the following:
* Is the theory of nonmonotonic logic relevant to its practice?
For example, does the work on semantical foundations for NAF (negation
as failure) really influence its practice?
* Have any real nonmonotonic systems been implemented based on
theoretical ideas from nonmonotonic logic?
* Where can we use nonmonotonic reasoning in real life applications?
* Where is nonmonotonic logic (as opposed to reasoning) used in
practical applications?
* Do we have to worry about applications? Are we satisfied with
what was achieved so far in implementing nonmonotonic systems?
Authors wishing to present a paper (either technical or positional) are
invited to submit 5 hard-copies of extended abstracts not exceeding 10
pages. Each copy of the paper should include a separate title page
containing the title of the paper, full names, postal addresses, phone
numbers, fax numbers and email addresses of all authors and an abstract
of 100-200 words. Electronic (PostScript) submissions will be accepted
but fax submission cannot be accepted. Position papers are especially
welcome. Send papers to
Rachel Ben-Eliyahu
Department of Computer Science,
Technion - Israel institute of technology,
Haifa 32000, Israel,
email: nonmon95@cs.technion.ac.il,
tel: +972-4-294 354,
fax: +972-4-294 353
An ascii version of the title page of each submitted paper should
be sent by e-mail to
nonmon95@cs.technion.ac.il
Participation in the workshop will be by invitation only. At least one
author of each accepted paper will be invited. People wishing to
attend without presenting a paper should contact one of the workshop
co-chairs. Participants not presenting a paper will be selected by the
organizing committee on the basis of their research interests and previous
accomplishments. Note that workshop participation is not possible
without registration to the main conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
Extended abstracts are due by February 24, 1995, authors will be notified
by March 25, camera ready version will be due by April 15, 1995.
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Rachel Ben-Eliyahu Ilkka Niemela
Technion -
Israel institute of technology Helsinki University of Technology
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science
Haifa 32000, Israel Otakaari 1, FIN-02150 ESPOO, Finland
email: rachelb@cs.technion.ac.il email: Ilkka.Niemela@hut.fi
tel: +972-4-294 354 tel: +358-0-451 3290
fax: +972-4-294 353 fax: +358-0-465 077
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Rachel Ben-Eliyahu (co-chair), Technion, Israel
Oscar Dressler, Siemens AG, Germany
Kurt Konolige, SRI International, USA
Ilkka Niemela (co-chair), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
David Poole, University of British Columbia, Canada
Bart Selman, AT&T Bell labs, USA
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Carlo Zaniolo, University of California Los Angeles, USA
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 12:04:01 -0500
To: AI-MEDICINE@medmail.stanford.edu, AIDEV@aisb.ed.ac.uk,
From: greenes@harvard.edu (Robert A. Greenes)
Subject: Position: Harvard-MIT-NEMC Postdoc fellowships in Medical Informatics
*** Postdoctoral Fellowships Available for AY 1994 ***
HARVARD, MIT, and TUFTS/NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER COMBINED
RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS
Openings are available for qualified applicants for the Harvard Medical
School, MIT, Tufts/New England Medical Center combined training program in
medical informatics, for July, 1994 or later.
Research training fellowships are available at three participating laboratories:
o Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital (under the
direction of Robert A. Greenes, M.D., Ph.D.), emphasizing clinical
decision making, medical educational strategies, clinical
guidelines, clinical record keeping, medical knowledge
representation and query, radiologic image management, and collabo-
rative architectures for network-based application development.
See also WWW page: http://dsg.harvard.edu/
o Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital
(under the direction of G. Octo Barnett, M.D.), emphasizing clinical
decision making, medical student education, student/physician
workstation design, problem-based knowledge access, ambulatory
computer-based medical record systems, and implementation/evaluation
of guidelines
o Division of Clinical Decision Making, NEMC (under the direction of
Stephan G. Pauker, M.D.), emphasizing clinical decision making,
knowledge representation, and guidelines and outcome evaluation
Fellowships involve in-depth experience in the ongoing research programs of
the participating laboratories, with emphasis on assumption of project
responsibility, leading to publication, presentation, and independent
funding. Our goal is to train individuals who will be well-equipped to be
leaders of medical informatics programs of their own, or to bring these
skills to their clinical specialties.
Research fellows typically take 1-2 courses per term in addition to their
project work. Those wishing a degree may concurrently apply for admission
to the masters or doctoral programs in Medical Computer Science at the MIT
Department of Electrical Engineering/ Computer Science, or in Health
Decision Science at Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health
Policy and Management.
The combined training program offers a wide range of opportunities for
education, research, and collegial interaction among the training sites.
A large variety of course offerings at Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, many
seminars, journal clubs, and other opportuities for exchange of
information provide all trainees with opportunities to learn about the
variety of work occurring at the various laboratories and in the
affiliated institutions, as well as in the larger field of medical
informatics.
A number of associated faculty participate in the program through the
research activities of each of the training sites. In addition to the
research programs of the participating laboratories, we encourage the
fellows to develop projects that may involve unique collaborative
relationships.
Applicants must be physicians or doctorates in other health care or
biomedical fields or in computer science. Physcians will usually have at
least one year and preferably three years of residency training prior to
beginning of fellowship. Prior computer experience is strongly preferred.
Fellowship support includes a postdoctoral stipend, health insurance,
tuition, and travel funds. FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO U.S.
CITIZENS OR PERMANENT RESIDENTS. Others may apply, but only if they have
independent external sources of support.
For more information, contact the program office:
Medical Informatics Training Program
ATTN: Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD
Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
(617) 732-6281 FAX: (617) 732-6317
email: greenes@harvard.edu
or the individual training program component directors via email at:
Barnett: obarnett@hstbme.mit.edu
Greenes: greenes@harvard.edu
Pauker: sgp@cor.cdm.nemc.org
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