DM: KDD-CUP: List of Participants

[Ismail Parsa]

KDD-CUP is a knowledge discovery and data mining tools competition
held in conjunction with the International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-98.)  For more information about the
CUP, please visit the web site at

        http://www.kdnuggets.com/kdd98/kdd-cup-98.html 

Last year, the CUP enjoyed worldwide participation of 45 data mining
tools.  This year, it is enjoying worldwide participation of 57
contestants.  18 of the 57 participants have elected to stay
anonymous.  The software status of those that elected anonymity is as
follows:

  4 Commercial
  4 Freeware
 10 Research Prototype.

The following 39 participants wish to be identified.

 SOFTWARE/TOOL/RESEARCH PROTOTYPE        VENDOR/INSTITUTION
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 APN (Adaptive Probabilistic Networks)   Berkeley/SRI/Stanford        
        
 BAYDA/PRO                               Complex Systems Computation 
Group   
                                           (CoSCo), University of 
Helsinki   
 BNB (Boosted Naive Bayes Classifier)    University of California San 
Diego  
 BPSOM                                   Eindhoven University of 
Technology  
 CARRL                                   Austrian Research Institute 
for AI  
 DataBase Mining Marksman                HNC Software Inc.            
        
 DataDetective                           Sentient Machine Research    
        
 DataLamp                                University of East Anglia    
        
 Discovery Board                         Rutgers University           
        
 DMZ                                     Yongwon Lee, Lockheed Martin 
ATC    
                                           (tool not affiliated with 
Lockheed
                                           Martin ATC.)               
       
 DTI v5.0                                ECCI-University of Costa 
Rica        
 Enterprise Miner                        SAS Institute                
        
 Fragment-Potential                      QueryObject Systems, NY &    
        
                                           Institute for Information  
        
                                           Transmission Problems, 
Moscow      
 GainSmarts                              Urban Science Applications, 
Inc.    
 ICL                                     Katholieke Universiteit 
Leuven       
 IGLUE                                   CRIL                         
        
 Information Network                     Tel Aviv University          
        
 JABC                                    University of Constance, 
Germany    
 JAM                                     Florida Institute of 
Technology &   
                                           Columbia Univeristy        
        
 JAWS                                    University of Waikato, New 
Zealand  
 Kepler                                  Dialogis Software & Services 
GmbH   
 KnowledgeMiner                          Frank Lemke, Script Software 
        
 KnowMan DataMiner(research version)     Intellix / Riso National 
Laboratory 
 LPDT                                    Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute    
 MineSet                                 Silicon Graphics, Inc.       
        
 Mixtures of Trees                       Massachusetts Institute of 
Technolog
 Model 1                                 Unica Technologies, Inc.     
        
 ModelQuest Enterprise                   AbTech Corp.                 
        
 Otis                                    Randy Kerber, NCR (tool not 
affiliat
                                           with NCR)                  
        
 PolyAnalyst                             Megaputer Intelligence Ltd.  
        
 QS                                      Iona Corp.                   
        
 Rdt/Db                                  Informatik LS VIII, 
Universitaet Dortmund
 SENN Sales                              Siemens Nixdorf Business 
Service         
 The Shrunken-Belly Method               Edward Malthouse, 
Northwestern University
 TILDE                                   Katholieke Universiteit 
Leuven            
 Tutti 0.1                               Tampere University of 
Technology         
 WARMR                                   Katholieke Universiteit 
Leuven            
 WhiteCross HeatSeeker                   MRJ Technology 
Solutions/WhiteCross      
 WizWhy                                  WizSoft                      
             

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| KDD-CUP-98 Program Committee                                       |
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o Vasant Dhar, New York University, New York, NY
o Tom Fawcett, Bell Atlantic, New York, NY
o Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
o Ismail Parsa, Epsilon, Burlington, MA
o Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Knowledge Stream Partners, Boston, MA
o Foster Provost, Bell Atlantic, New York, NY
o Kyusoek Shim, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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| KDD-CUP PROCESS & IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED)                        |
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o Registration and signing of the NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) 
  July 1-15, 1998
o Release of the datasets, related documentation and the KDD-CUP
  questionnaire
  July 22, 1998
o Return of the results and the KDD-CUP questionnaire  
  August 19, 1998
o KDD-CUP Committee evaluation of the results
  August 19-25
o Individual performance evaluations send to the participants
  August 26, 1998
o Public announcement of the winners and awards presentation during
  KDD-98 in New York City
  August 29, 1998 

Yours,
        Ismail

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