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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