ILP&KDD

International Summer School on

Inductive Logic Programming and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

15-17 September 1997, Prague, Czech Republic

New! On-line school on ILP & KDD

Warning: still under construction!

General information:

The summer school will provide its attendants with up-to-date knowledge on ILP techniques relevant for solving practical problems of KDD, as well as with existing ILP applications in practical domains. Hands-on exercises will be included in order to give end-users a feeling of what practical problems current ILP systems are capable of solving. It will take place immediately before ILP-97, the Seventh International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming.

Who should attend:

The ILP&KDD Summer School is intended for those interested in the practice of knowledge discovery in databases and intelligent data analysis. These might include, but are not limited to:

End-users from industry and other institutions that face problems of extracting high-level information from data or databases.
Researchers in the areas of artificial intelligence, databases, logic programming, machine learning and statistics.
Students of computer science, statistics and related fields.

Program:

MONDAY, 15 SEP 1997

Saso Dzeroski and Nada Lavrac:
Introduction to ILP and its applications

Stefan Wrobel and Tamasz Horvath:
ILP for KDD 
Hands-on exercises with KEPLER, an integrated KDD tool

TUESDAY, 16 SEP 1997
  
Stephen Muggleton and Ashwin Srinivasan:
Explanatory ILP and its applications
Hands-on exercises with PROGOL

Luc De Raedt, Hendrik Blockeel, Luc Dehaspe, and Wim Van Laer:
Descriptive ILP and its applications
Hands-on exercises with CLAUDIEN, ICL, and TILDE

WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 1997

Usama Fayyad: KDD and Data Mining - Overview and Methods

Summer School Schedule

Final program of the ILP Week

Registration and local information:

An ASCII registration form is provided here for your convenience. The number of attendants will be limited due to the hands-on exercises. Applications will be handled on a first-come first-served basis. For more detailed information on registration, travel arrangements and local matters, visit the Home page of the Prague ILP Week.

Program organization:

Saso Dzeroski and Nada Lavrac
J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Email: Saso.Dzeroski@ijs.si, Nada.Lavrac@ijs.si
Phone: +386 61 177 3217 (Saso) or +386 61 177 3272 (Nada)
Fax: +386 61 125 1038 or +386 61 219 385

Local organization:

Olga Stepankova and Dimitar Kazakov
Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Technicka 2, CZ-166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Email: step@lab.felk.cvut.cz, Phone: +420 2 293 107 or +420 2 2435 7233, Fax: +420 2 2435 7224

Sponsors:

The ILP&KDD Summer School is sponsored by the End-user-club of the ESPRIT ILP2 Project.