http://www.kdnuggets.com/kdd98/kdd-cup-98.html
Last year, the CUP enjoyed worldwide participation of 45 data mining
tools. This year, it is enjoying worldwide participation of 57
contestants. 18 of the 57 participants have elected to stay
anonymous. The software status of those that elected anonymity is as
follows:
4 Commercial
4 Freeware
10 Research Prototype.
The following 39 participants wish to be identified.
SOFTWARE/TOOL/RESEARCH PROTOTYPE VENDOR/INSTITUTION
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APN (Adaptive Probabilistic Networks) Berkeley/SRI/Stanford
BAYDA/PRO Complex Systems Computation Group
(CoSCo), University of Helsinki
BNB (Boosted Naive Bayes Classifier) University of California San Diego
BPSOM Eindhoven University of Technology
CARRL Austrian Research Institute for AI
DataBase Mining Marksman HNC Software Inc.
DataDetective Sentient Machine Research
DataLamp University of East Anglia
Discovery Board Rutgers University
DMZ Yongwon Lee, Lockheed Martin ATC
(tool not affiliated with Lockheed
Martin ATC.)
DTI v5.0 ECCI-University of Costa Rica
Enterprise Miner SAS Institute
Fragment-Potential QueryObject Systems, NY &
Institute for Information
Transmission Problems, Moscow
GainSmarts Urban Science Applications, Inc.
ICL Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
IGLUE CRIL
Information Network Tel Aviv University
JABC University of Constance, Germany
JAM Florida Institute of Technology &
Columbia Univeristy
JAWS University of Waikato, New Zealand
Kepler Dialogis Software & Services GmbH
KnowledgeMiner Frank Lemke, Script Software
KnowMan DataMiner(research version) Intellix / Riso National Laboratory
LPDT Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MineSet Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Mixtures of Trees Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
Model 1 Unica Technologies, Inc.
ModelQuest Enterprise AbTech Corp.
Otis Randy Kerber, NCR (tool not affiliat
with NCR)
PolyAnalyst Megaputer Intelligence Ltd.
QS Iona Corp.
Rdt/Db Informatik LS VIII, Universitaet Dortmund
SENN Sales Siemens Nixdorf Business Service
The Shrunken-Belly Method Edward Malthouse, Northwestern University
TILDE Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Tutti 0.1 Tampere University of Technology
WARMR Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
WhiteCross HeatSeeker MRJ Technology Solutions/WhiteCross
WizWhy WizSoft
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| KDD-CUP-98 Program Committee |
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o Vasant Dhar, New York University, New York, NY
o Tom Fawcett, Bell Atlantic, New York, NY
o Georges Grinstein, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
o Ismail Parsa, Epsilon, Burlington, MA
o Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Knowledge Stream Partners, Boston, MA
o Foster Provost, Bell Atlantic, New York, NY
o Kyusoek Shim, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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| KDD-CUP PROCESS & IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) |
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o Registration and signing of the NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement)
July 1-15, 1998
o Release of the datasets, related documentation and the KDD-CUP
questionnaire
July 22, 1998
o Return of the results and the KDD-CUP questionnaire
August 19, 1998
o KDD-CUP Committee evaluation of the results
August 19-25
o Individual performance evaluations send to the participants
August 26, 1998
o Public announcement of the winners and awards presentation during
KDD-98 in New York City
August 29, 1998
Yours,
Ismail
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| Ismail Parsa |
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| Epsilon |
| 50 Cambridge Street |
| Burlington MA 01803 USA |
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| E-MAIL: iparsa@epsilon.com |
| V-MAIL: (781) 273-0250*6734 |
| FAX: (781) 272-8604 |
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