DM: ICAI-99: call for participation

[Peter Brockhausen]

            Intensive Course on Artificial Intelligence, 
                 Data Mining, and Knowledge Discovery
        http://www-ai.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/EVENTS/ICAI99/

                            March 11, 1999



Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik
Computer Science VIII
Univ. Dortmund
morik@ls8.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
http://www-ai.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
(Scientific chair)

Organizer: Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI)



"The problem of data overload looms ominously ahead in almost every
field of our society. Databases of tera byte are now not uncommon. Our
ability to analyze and understand massive datasets lags far behind our
ability to gather and store the data with the ever advancing computer
technology. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is
required to support the extraction and the discovery of useful
knowledge from the rapidly growing volumes of data. Raw data is rarely
of direct benefit. Its true value is reflected by our ability to
extract information useful for decision support or for exploration and
understanding of the phenomena exhibited in the data source."

This quote from the First International Conference on Discovery
Science which took place at Fukuoka, Japan, in 1998, describes well
the challenge that brings together scientists from artificial
intelligence, database technology, information retrieval, and
statistics. In parallel with the Japanese initiative for a discovery
science, the Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery at
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, also took place in
1998. Both aim at a distinct field that integrates approaches from
computational learning theory, neural networks, Bayesian networks,
machine learning, knowledge discovery in databases, linguistic
engineering, intelligent agents, statistical learning theory, and
information retrieval. Why should we stand behind?

The goal of the intensive course - ICAI 1999 - is to show the need and
to promote the use of discovery science here. ICAI-99 offers to
decision-makers in commerce and in industry, in particular those who
are dealing with the management and analysis of large data sets, but
also to scientists and students:

      - overview presentations of new information technologies
      - presentations of innovative application fields.

We are glad to announce international, well-known scientists and
practicians as speakers. In a compact, one-day tutorial you can get in
touch with the state of the art in this new, exciting discipline!


ICAI-99 (http://www-ai.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) will take place in
Dortmund, March 11, 1999 one day before the 2nd. SFB 475 Conference on
'Reduction of Complexity in Multivariate Data Structures'
(http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/sfb475/2ndconference.html)

You will find the full call for participation and registration details
at http://www-ai.informatik.uni-dortmund.de


Program

 9.00 -  9.15 Einfuehrung
 9.15 - 10.00 Discovery Science --  Tom Mitchell
    Kaffee
10.30 - 11.00 Data Mining --  Pieter Adriaans
11.00 - 11.30 Werkzeuge zur Wissensentdeckung -- Stefan Wrobel
11.30 - 12.00 Datawarehousing als Voraussetzung des Data Mining 
              -- Matthias Jarke
    Mittagessen
14.00 - 14.45 Statistics and more -- David J. Hand
14.45 - 15.15 Kapitalmarktanalyse -- Walter Kraemer
    Kaffee
15.45 - 16.15 Wissensentdeckung im Finanzbereich
              -- Gholemreza Nakhaeizadeh
16.15 - 16.45 Wissensentdeckung im Versicherungsbereich 
              -- Joerg-Uwe Kietz
16.45 - 17.15 Datenanalyse in der Intensivmedizin 
              -- Ursula Gather, Michael Imhoff

(Some talks will be in german)


Registration fees:

                     GI members    non GI members

before 1.2.99

students               --              20,00 DM
normal               90,00 DM         165,00 DM     

after  1.2.99       

students             20,00 DM          35,00 DM
normal              150,00 DM         190,00 DM