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

[Prof. Martin Charles Golumbic]

        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:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

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___ 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