[UAI] Second Bar-Ilan Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Learning

From: Prof. Martin Charles Golumbic (golumbic@macs.biu.ac.il)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 09:33:36 PDT

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            Second Bar-Ilan Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Learning
                    http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~research/kdd2

    Sponsored by the Bar-Ilan Institute for Computer Science Research
            with support from the Faculty of Exact Sciences and the
            Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

    The Workshop will take place at Bar-Ilan University as follows:
            Wed. May 31, all day: Feldman Conference Center
            Thu. June 1, 9-13:00: Beck Auditorium
                        14-16:00: Math and CS Building, 3rd floor

    (Registration Information below)

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    Wednesday May 31, 2000

    9:00 Registration

    9:20 Welcome -- Martin Golumbic (Bar-Ilan University)

    9:30
    The Information Bottleneck Method:
    A Principled Approach to the Extraction of Relevant Information
            Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University)

    10:30
    Privacy Preserving Data Mining
            Yehuda Lindell (The Weizmann Institute of Science)
            Benny Pinkas (The Weizmann Institute of Science)

    11:00 Coffee

    11:30
    Theory Revision with Queries
            Gyorgy Turan (University of Illinois at Chicago)

    12:30 Lunch -- included with full registration

    2:00
    Collaborative Human-Computer Communication Systems
            Barbara J. Grosz (Harvard University)

    2:30
    Efficient Agnostic Learning of Linear Perceptrons
            Shai Ben-David (Technion)

    3:30 Break

    3:45
    Time series prediction by feedforward neural networks
            Ido Kanter (Bar-Ilan University)

    4:30 Short break

    4:40
    Axioms for Cognitive Foundations of Inuctive Inference and Probability
            Itzhak Gilboa (Tel Aviv University)
            David Schmeidler (Ohio State University)

    5:10
    Learning from Positive Data for Document Classification using Neural Networks
            Larry Manevitz (Haifa University)
            Malik Yousef (Haifa University)

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    Thursday June 1, 2000

    9:00
    Assessing Usage Patterns to Improve Data Allocation via Auctions
            Rina Azoulay-Schwartz (Bar-Ialn University)
            Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University)
    9:30
    Knowledge Agents on the Web
            Yariv Aridor and David Carmel (IBM Haifa)

    10:00 Break

    10:10
    Planning in Markovian Decision Processes
            Yishay Mansour (Tel Aviv University)

    11:00 Break

    11:20
    Improving Stability of Decision-Tree Methods
            Mark Last (University of South Florida)
            Einat Minkov (Tel-Aviv University)
            Oded Maimon (Tel-Aviv University)

    11:50 Break

    12:00
    Introduction to Financial Mathematics (joint with Math Colloquium)
            J-P. Fouque (North Carolina)

    1:00 Lunch -- on your own

    2:00
    Text Classification via Ad Hoc Queries
            Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University)

    3:00
    Using WINNOW for Authorship Attribution
             Moshe Koppel (Bar-Ilan University)

    3:45
    On Design Learning: an AI Approach
            Rivka Oxman (Technion)

    4:15 Farewell until Dinner

    7:30PM Jerusalem Day celebrations and Dinner in Jerusalem

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    REGISTRATION FORM

    Please send Registration forms to: research@cs.biu.ac.il

    Fees may be paid at the door (lunch reservations are limited)
    We need advance registration information in order to provide
    enough refreshments.

    Name:

    Affiliation:

    email:

    Check as appropriate:

    ___ I will attend Wed. May 31

    ___ I will attend Thu. June 1

    Registration Fees:

    ___ Including Lunch Wed May 31, 80 NIS

    ___ No lunch, free, subject to advance registration
                            



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