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Dear Colleagues,

Enclosed please find the final announcement for IDEAL'98.
Incidentally, the symposium proceeding entitled, "Intelligent Data
Engineering and Learning: Perspectives on Financial Engineering and
Data Mining" is published by Springer-Verlag, Singapore.  If you are
interested in purchasing the proceeding, it is available as ISBN
981-4021-23-7 directly from Springer.  You may find more information
about the content of the book and the final symposium program on our
website at http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ideal98.

Regards,

Irwin King
Organizing Chair, IDEAL'98

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*            1998 International Symposium on Intelligent             *
*              Data Engineering and Learning, IDEAL'98               *
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*       Perspectives on Financial Engineering and Data Mining        *
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*                The Chinese University of Hong Kong                 *
*                        October 14-16, 1998                         *
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*                http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ideal98                 *
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                               KEYNOTES
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      (Keynotes will be held at the University Conference Hall,
    Administration Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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                1. Financial Modeling and Calibration
                   Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech, USA
              Thursday, 15 October 1998, 10:00-10:45 am
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    2. Taming the Giants and the Monsters: Recent Developments in
                         Data Mining and KDD
                   Usama M. Fayyad, Microsoft, USA
               Thursday, 15 October 1998, 5:15-6:00 pm
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   3. Data Analysis, Visualization, and Hidden Factor Discovery by
                        Unsupervised Learning
        Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
                Friday, 16 October 1998, 2:00-2:45 pm
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             4. Neural Networks Learning for Data Mining
             Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
                Friday, 16 October 1998, 9:00-9:45 am
                                   

                         TUTORIAL INFORMATION
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     (All tutorial sessions will be held at the Conference Room,
  Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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                1. Visual Data Explorations in Finance
                     Guido J. Deboeck, World Bank
             Wednesday, 14 October 1998, 9:00 am-12:00 pm

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             2. Data Mining and KDD: An Overview Tutorial
                   Usama Fayyad, Microsoft Research
             Wednesday, 14 October 1998, 1:30 am-6:30 pm

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For further information and inquiries please contact:

IDEAL'98 Secretariat 
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Fax (852) 2603-5024
E-mail: ideal98@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ideal98

Laiwan Chan
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
E-mail: lwchan@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Irwin King
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
E-mail: king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
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Omar Wing, CUHK, HK
Lei Xu, CUHK, HK

PROGRAM and ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Program Chair : Laiwan Chan, CUHK, HK
Organizing Chair : Irwin King, CUHK, HK
 Amir Atiya, Caltech, USA
 Andrew Back, RIKEN, Japan
 Shu-Heng Chen, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan
 Peter Dayan, MIT, USA
 Ada Fu, CUHK, HK (OC)
 Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada
 Sami Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
 Pasi Koikkalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
 Kwong Sak Leung, CUHK, HK
 Hong Jun Lu, HKUST, HK (OC)
 Ho-Chung Lui, KRDL, Singapore 
 Mahesan Niranjan, Cambridge University UK
 Mark Plumbley, King's College London, UK
 Shiyi Shen, Nankai University, China
 Volker Tresp, Siemens, Germany 
 Michael Turmon, JPL, USA
 Man Hon Wong, CUHK, HK (OC)
 Lizhong Wu, Nonlinear Prediction Systems, USA
 Zhongxing Ye, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
 Bengio Yoshua, Universite de Montreal, Canada
 Jen-Lun Yuan, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan
 Hans Georg Zimmermann, Siemens, Germany