DM: Introduction

[Mark Last]

Hi,

My name is Mark Last.
I am a PHD student in Industrial Engineering at Tel-Aviv University, 
Israel.
The subject of my research is: Information theoretic connectionist 
approach
to data mining.  The method combines a neural network structure with 
some
basic concepts of the Information Theory and it is applicable to 
attributes
of qualitative and quantitative nature.  It can be used for extracting
informative rules from a database, predicting values of unknown 
attributes
and discovering unreliable data.  The algorithm has been successfully 
tested
on a number of real-world databases.

The issues to be studied in my doctorate include: 
Optimizing the network structure (including the data pre-processing 
stage).
Measuring statistical significance of extracted rules and predictions.
Incorporating degrees of data reliability in a regular database.

We are interested in cooperation with scientific institutions and 
other
organizations on real-world applications of our method.

Regards,

Mark
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Mark Last
Department of Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
Tel.: 972-3-6408173
Fax:  972-3-6407669
e-mail: last@eng.tau.ac.il
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