Stanford University, California, USA
July 30, 2001
in cooperation with the Intl Conference on Conceptual Structures ( ICCS-2001 )
WORKSHOP CONTEXT
Throughout the last decade,
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) has become an increasingly important
topic in research as well as in industrial applications, up to being now
a well-established interdisciplinary research area, benefiting yet from
diverse influences such as: Databases, Data Analysis and Machine Learning
Technology. Among those communities, there are several sub-areas of research
that can be unified by their common interest in "concept lattice
structures" which, as
a consequence, start to play an important role in Data Mining.
Over the last two decades, several trends of works have demonstrated how concept lattices formalize conceptual structures by coding any kind of dualities, and can be used to address a variety of problems in Databases, Data Analysis and Machine Learning. These include :
- association rules or data dependencies in Databases, searching frequent item sets, indexing documents for information retrieval...;
- exploring attributes in Data Analysis for binary as well as more complex symbolic data structures...;
- designing concept lattices-based machine Learning Systems for conceptual clustering and classifications...
These studies have generated
diverse methods and specific tools along their developments, which are
now well implemented, commonly used and have shown the usefulness of this
structural approach for each domain. Consequently, it may be the right
time to exchange and share the researchers' experiences of these areas,
in order to increase lattice-based contributions to Knowledge Discovery
in Databases.
WORKSHOP GOALS
The main purpose of this
workshop is to bring together the members of the Databases, Data Analysis
and Machine Learning communities that are working on such concept lattice
structures, for considering the current state of art and identifying the
strengths -and the potential weaknesses- of these approaches. The workshop
will address the general methodologies and principles that are appropriate
in the development of concept lattice based Data Mining methods
and tools.
Hence, we are seeking for papers devoted on the theory and practice of concept lattices for modelling conceptual structures and more specifically for KDD. The workshop will focus on the following questions:
- which tasks of KDD's processes can be improved with lattices?
- which sampling data size could reasonably deal with lattices?
- for which data (Boolean, symbolic, numerical, semistructured...)?
- are there "fast" algorithms to design lattices from data?
- how to revise and to incrementally build lattices?
- how to appropriately visualize the generated lattices?
- how to reduce computational complexity of lattices?
- how to interpret the designed lattice and its structure?
- are they "fast" algorithms to generate significant rules from lattices?
- how to reduce the lattice size (approximations, irreducible nodes...)?
These questions should
also be demonstrated on real examples through applications of concept lattices
for knowledge discovery (Biology, Genetics, Social Sciences, Banking, ...).
Emphasis will be given on recent theory and algorithms of concept lattices
for KDD, on systems based on concept lattices and their applications in
Data Mining.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
This workshop is firstly aimed at bringing together members of different overlapping communities that share concept lattices as a kernel for developing Data Mining methods and tools:
- those coming from Data Bases, which use lattices for generating association rules or indexing data;
- those coming from Data Analysis, with an interest in formal concept analysis;
- those coming from Machine Learning, developing lattice-based machine learning systems.
This will give an opportunity
to push further the discussion upon the potentialities -and limitations-
of concept lattices for Knowledge Discovery in Databases accross these
communities, but also to spread it furthermore among other trends of works
in Conceptual Structures.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop is planned to include three kinds of session:
Invited talks: The workshop will feature a number of invited presentations by people who have contributed to these areas.
Technical papers: Contributors to the workshop will be requested to highlight only key contributions when presenting their work, in order to set aside the maximum possible time for discussion and interaction.
Panel/discussion sessions:
Key issues will be debated by panellists and the workshop participants
as a whole.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
We invite submissions
of technical papers and short position papers (two pages). Authors of accepted
technical and position papers will be invited to participate in the workshop.
Format requirements
for submissions of technical papers are:
- maximum 12 double-spaced
pages, excluding title page and bibliography
- all submissions should
be made electronically if possible, by email attachment and preferably
in Postscript format. Only if electronic submission is impossible should
you send three hardcopies.
- all submissions must
be sent to the primary workshop contact, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, at the
address below.
IMPORTANT DATES
8 May 2001
Submission of technical and position papers
8 June 2001
Notification of acceptance
1 July 2001
Camera-ready papers
WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITEE
Engelbert
Mephu Nguifo (Co-Chair / Primary Contact)
Centre de Recherche
en Informatique de Lens (CRIL)
Université d'Artois
- IUT de Lens
Rue de l'université
SP 16
62307 Lens cedex
France
Email: mephu@cril.univ-artois.fr
Phone: +33 3 21 79 32
{53, 73}
Fax: +33
3 21 79 32 72
webpage: http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/~mephu
Michel Liquière
(Co-chair)
LIRMM
161 rue Ada
34392 Montpellier cedex
5
France
Email: liquiere@lirmm.fr
Phone: +33 4 67 41 86
63
Fax: +33 4 67 41 85
00
Vincent Duquenne (Co-chair)
Génétique,
Neurogénétique et Comportement
CNRS FRE 2134
3B rue de la Férollerie
45071 Orléans
Cedex 02,
France
Email: v.duquenne@wanadoo.fr
Fax: (33) 2 38 25 79
79
Tel: (33) 2 38 25 79
69
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione
Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy - carpinet@fub.it
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Edwin Diday, CEREMADE-LISE
Paris Dauphine, France - diday@ceremade.dauphine.fr
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Vincent Duquenne, CNRS
FRE 2134 Orleans, France - v.duquenne@wanadoo.fr
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Jean-Gabriel
Ganascia, LIP6 Paris, France - Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia@lip6.fr
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Bernhard
Ganter, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany -
ganter@math.tu-dresden.de
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Robert
Godin, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada
- godin.robert@uqam.ca
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Sergej Kuznetsov, Moscow
VINITI Institute, Russia - serge@viniti.ru
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Lotfi Lakhal, LIM
Marseille, France
- lotfi.lakhal@lim.univ-mrs.fr
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Michel Liquière,
LIRMM
Montpellier, France - liquiere@lirmm.fr
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Engelbert
Mephu Nguifo, CRIL Lens, France - mephu@cril.univ-artois.fr
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Sergei Ob''edkov, Russian
State University for the humanities, Russia - bs-obj@east.ru
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Ramakrishnan
Srikant, IBM Almaden Research Center, San José (CA), USA
- srikant@almaden.ibm.com
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Gerd
Stumme, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany - stumme@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
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Rudolf
Wille, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany -
wille@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
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Workshop websites:
http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/iccs2001/clkdd2001/
or http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/wk-clkdd2001/
ICCS-2001 web site:
http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/iccs2001/