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From: ida-95@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Subject: IDA-95: International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
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Organization: IDA-95 Program Committee
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 23:25:50 +0000 (GMT)
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1st CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS     
 
   International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-95)
                   Baden-Baden,  Germany
                   17th-19th August 1995
 
 
 Objective
 ---------
 
 The gap between data generation and data comprehension is widening. 
 Efficient computational methods for analysing data effectively are 
 required  to  narrow  this  gap.   There  have  been  a variety of 
 computationally   intelligent   techniques  developed,  which  are 
 beginning to provide such capability. However, many questions need
 to be properly  addressed  before  these  techniques  can be  most 
 effectively employed to perform various data analysis tasks. It is
 the purpose of  IDA-95  to provide an  international forum for the
 discussion of these questions, some of which are listed below:
 
 
    a) How important is it to  understand the data  characteristics
       and to pre-process  data  accordingly  before using the data
       for  tasks   such  as   classification   and    forecasting?
       [Exploratory data analysis,  incompleteness and uncertainty,
       noise filters, outliers]
 
    b) With so many modern techniques, which technique should I use
       for  my  application?    [Bayesian  networks,  fuzzy  logic,
       decision trees, genetic algorithms, neural nets, statistical
       pattern recognition]
 
    c) What is the  impact of  modern  visualisation  techniques on
       data analysis?  [Computer graphics,  computational geometry, 
       image processing, user interface]
 
    d) What is the role of domain knowledge in data analysis?  Does
       it help analyse data more  effectively  or simply  introduce
       "biases" into the analysis procedure?
 
    e) How do we  evaluate  the  performance  of  intelligent  data
       analysis systems?  What should we do when "golden standards"
       do not exist?
 
    f) How can  one  integrate a  variety of  related techniques to
       develop the most effective system for a given application?
 
 
 Submissions
 -----------
 
 Participants who wish to present a paper are requested to submit a
 1000 word  extended  abstract  as soon as possible,  but not later
 than   February  1,  1995.  (E-mail  submissions  are  preferred.)
 Notification  of acceptance  will be sent to  authors by March 15,
 1995. Full camera-ready  papers,  not  exceeding  5  single-spaced
 pages, will be required by  May 1, 1995  for  publication  in  the 
 Symposium Proceedings. In addition to  paper  presentations, panel
 sessions on one or more of the above-mentioned topics are planned. 
 If you would like to organise a panel discussion in these or other
 related  topics,  please  submit  your  proposals  with a one-page
 description of the subject matter and a list of proposed panelists
 by April 1, 1995.
 
 
 Program Committee
 -----------------
 
 Nirwan Ansari         New Jersey Inst. of Tech., USA
 David Bell            Univ. of Ulster at Jordanstown, N. Ireland
 Max Bramer            Univ. of Portsmouth, England    
 Paul Cohen            Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA 
 Doug Fisher           Vanderbilt University, USA
 Alex Gammerman        Royal Holloway, London Univ., England
 Se June Hong          IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
 Xiaohui Liu           Birkbeck College, London Univ., England (Chair)
 Alan Payne            Kodak Research Division, England
 Henri Prade           Univ. of Paul Sabatier, France
 Colin Shearer         Integral Solutions Limited, England
 Paul Snow             Independent Consultant, Concord, USA
 Lionel Tarassenko     Oxford University, England
 Serdar Uckun          Rockwell International Science Center, USA
 Vladimir Vapnik       AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA
 Sholom Weiss          Rutgers Univ. at New Brunswick, USA
 H-J Zimmermann        ELITE Foundation, Aachen Inst. of Tech., Germany
 
 
 Location
 --------

 Baden-Baden  is a beautiful  spa-resort town and convention centre
 located in the middle of the  Black Forest in  Germany.  It can be 
 reached in two hours by train from  Frankfurt or Stuttgart.  Those
 travelling by car can reach Baden-Baden by Autobahn A5  (Frankfurt
 - Basel) or  Autobahn A8  (Stuttgart - Karlsruhe).  The Conference
 will be held in the Markraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium.
 
 
 Sponsor
 -------
 
 IDA-95 is  sponsored  by the  International Institute for Advanced
 Studies in  System Research  and  Cybernetics  and will be held as
 part of their annual conference on  "Systems Research, Informatics
 and  Cybernetics".   The  aim  of  this  year's  conference  is to
 encourage  and facilitate the  interdisciplinary communication and
 co-operation  amongst  scientists,  engineers,  and  professionals
 working in  different fields  such as  computer science, cognitive
 science,  engineering,  linguistics,  logic, management, medicine,
 philosophy  and  psychocybernetics,  and  to  identify and develop
 those  areas  of  research  that  will  most  benefit  from such a
 cooperation.  Those  who  want  to submit  papers to  the  general
 conference should contact:
 
 Professor G E Lasker,  School of  Computer Science,  University of
 Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada. Fax: (+1) 519 974 8191
 
 
 
 Correspondence
 --------------
 
 Submissions for IDA-95 should be addressed to:
 
 Dr X Liu,  Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet
 Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK.
 
 
 E-mail: ida-95@dcs.bbk.ac.uk  
 Tel:    (+44) 171 631 6711  
 Fax:    (+44) 171 631 6727
 
 
 Latest information regarding IDA-95 will be available on the World
 Wide Web Server of the  Department of Computer Science at Birkbeck
 College, London: http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/CS/Research/IDA/cfp.html
 



