Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
Birkbeck College, University of London
4th-6th August 1997

in cooperation with
AAAI, ACM SIGART, BCS SGES, IEEE SMC and SSAISB

The focus of IDA-97 will be "Reasoning About Data". We are interested in intelligent systems that reason about how to analyze data, perhaps as human analysts do. Analysts often bring exogenous knowledge about data to bear when they decide how to analyze it; they use intermediate results to decide how to proceed; they reason about how much analysis the data will actually support; they consider which methods will be most informative; they decide which aspects of a model are most uncertain and focus attention there; they sometimes have the luxury of collecting more data, and plan to do so efficiently. In short, there is a strategic aspect to data analysis, beyond the tactical choice of this or that test, visualisation or variable.

Topics
The following topics are of particular interest to IDA-97:

• APPLICATION & TOOLS
  • analysis of different kinds of data (e.g., censored, temporal etc)
  • applications (e.g., commerce, engineering, finance, legal, manufacturing, medicine, public policy, science)
  • assistants, intelligent agents for data analysis
  • evaluation of IDA systems
  • human-computer interaction in IDA
  • IDA systems and tools
  • information extraction, information retrieval
  
  
• THEORY & GENERAL PRINCIPLES
  • analysis of IDA algorithms
  • bias
  • classification
  • clustering
  • data cleaning
  • data pre-processing
  • experiment design
  • model specification, selection, estimation
  • reasoning under uncertainty
  • search
  • statistical strategy
  • uncertainty and noise in data
  
  
• ALGORITHMS & TECHNIQUES
  • Bayesian inference and influence diagrams
  • bootstrap and randomization
  • causal modeling
  • data mining
  • decision analysis
  • exploratory data analysis
  • fuzzy, neural and evolutionary appraoches
  • knowledge-based analysis
  • machine learning
  • statistical pattern recognition
  • visualization

Review
All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity. At least two referees will review each submission independently. Results of the review will be sent to the first author via email, unless requested otherwise.

Sponsorship
IDA-97 welcomes those organisations who may wish to partly sponsor the conference. Sponsorship of an international conference in an important emerging field such as IDA-97 will ensure high visibility for the benefactor, both through the appearance of the organisation logo on promotional literature and in references to the conference in all media exposure prior to and after the event.

IDA-97 Organisation

General Chair:            Xiaohui Liu

Program Chairs:           Paul Cohen, Xiaohui Liu

Steering Com. Chair:      Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA

Exhibition Chair:         Richard Weber, MIT GmbH, Aachen, Germany

Finance Chair:            Sylvie Jami, Birkbeck College, UK

Local Arrangements Chair: Trevor Fenner, Birkbeck College, UK

Public. and Proc. Chair:  Michael Berthold, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Sponsorship Chair:        Mihaela Ulieru, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Steering Committee

Michael Berthold          University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Fazel Famili              National Research Council, Canada
Doug Fisher               Vanderbilt University, USA
Alex Gammerman            Royal Holloway London, UK
David J Hand              The Open University, UK
Wenling Hsu               AT&T Consumer Lab, USA
Xiaohui Liu               Birkbeck College, UK
Daryl Pregibon            AT&T Research, USA
Evangelos Simoudis        IBM Almaden Research, USA

Program Committee

Eric Backer               Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Riccardo Bellazzi         University of Pavia, Italy
Michael Berthold          University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Carla Brodley             Purdue University, USA
Gongxian Cheng            Birkbeck College, UK
David Dowe                Monash University,  Australia
Fazel Famili              National Research Council, Canada
Julian Faraway            University of Michigan, USA
Thomas Feuring            WWU Muenster, Germany
Alex Gammerman            Royal Holloway London, UK
David J Hand              The Open University, UK
Rainer Holve              Forwiss Erlangen, Germany
Wenling Hsu               AT&T Consumer Lab, USA
Larry Hunter              National Library of Medicine, USA
David Jensen              University of Massachusetts, USA
Frank Klawonn             University of Braunschweig, Germany
David Lubinsky            University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras   Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain
Sylvia Miksch             Stanford University, USA
Rob Milne                 Intelligent Applications Ltd, UK
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh   Daimler-Benz Forschung und Technik, Germany
Claire Nedellec           Universite Paris-Sud, France
Erkki Oja                 Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Henri Prade               University Paul Sabatier, France
Daryl Pregibon            AT&T Research, USA
Peter Ross                University of Edinburgh, UK
Steven Roth               Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Lorenza Saitta            University of Torino, Italy
Peter Selfridge           AT&T Research, USA
Rosaria Silipo            University of Florence, Italy
Evangelos Simoudis        IBM Almaden Research, USA
Derek Sleeman             University of Aberdeen, UK
Paul Snow                 Consultant, USA
Rob St. Amant             North Carolina State University, USA
Lionel Tarassenko	  Oxford University, UK
John Taylor               King's College London, UK
Loren Terveen             AT&T Research, USA
Hans-Juergen Zimmermann   RWTH Aachen, Germany

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