Introduction and Welcome

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Introduction and Welcome
ACAI 05 ADVANCED COURSE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY

• Nada Lavrac
• Department of Knowledge Technologies
• Joef Stefan Institute
• Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Slovenia Ljubljana
Europe
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Location of JSI
Department of Knowledge Technologies Joef Stefan
Institute
Ljubljana
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Joef Stefan Institute - Profile

• Joef Stefan Institute (founded in 1949) is the
  leading national research organization in natural
  sciences and technology
• information and communication technologies
• chemistry, biochemistry nanotechnology
• physics, nuclear technology and safety
• Joef Stefan International Postgraduate School
  (founded in 2004) offers MSc and PhD programs
• ICT, nanotechnology, ecotechnology
• research oriented, basic management courses
• in English
• 500 researchers and students

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Joef Stefan - Profile

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Joef Stefan - Profile

• Joef Stefan (1835-1893) was one of the most
  distinguished physicists of the nineteenth
  century
• He originated the law of the total radiation
  from a black body

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Department of Knowledge Technologies

• Machine learning Data mining
• ML (decision tree and rule learning, subgroup
  discovery, )
• Text and Web mining
• Relational data mining - inductive logic
  programming
• Equation discovery
• Other research areas
• Semantic Web and Ontologies
• Knowledge management
• Decision support
• Human language technologies
• Applications in medicine, ecological modeling,
  business, virtual enterprises,

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ACAI-05 Knowledge Discovery June 27-July 5,
2005

• Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA)
• Statistical concepts, Statistical methods,
  Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Time series,
  Bayesian Networks, Visualization tools, Rule
  Induction, Evolutionary systems, Kernel Methods
• Berthold and Hand (eds.), Intelligent Data
  Analysis, second edition, Springer 2003   
• Data Mining and Decision Support (DM DS)
• Text mining, Data mining, Web mining, Decision
  Support, Link Analysis, Relationa Data Mining, DM
  and DS integration, Distributed DM,
• Mladenic, Lavrac, Bohanec and Moyle (eds.), Data
  Mining and Decision Support Integration and
  Collaboration, Kluwer 2003   

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Hands-on exercises and scientific workshop

• Hands-on exercises, three afternoons, June 29,
  June 30, July 1
• You are offered 3 out of 4 courses in three
  consecutive afternoons
• Text Garden
• R
• Orange
• WEKA
• Scientific Workshop, June 28 afternoon

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SEKT-05 July 6 July 8, 2005

• Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies
  (SEKT)
• information extraction, ontology learning,
  ontology management, language technologies,
  semantic search engines,
• based on recent developments in the FP6
  Integrated Project SEKT on Semantically-Enabled
  Knowledge Technologies

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ACAI-05 and SEKT-05 organization

• ACAI-05 program
• Nada Lavrac and Michael Berthold
• SEKT-05 program
• Marko Grobelnik and Mitja Jermol
• Hands-on
• Branko Kavek et al., Marko Grobelnik et al.,
  Luis Torgo, Bla Zupan et al.
• ACAI-05 and SEKT-05 organization
• Mitja Jermol, pela Sitar, Tina Anic, Marjana
  Plukavec, Sebastjan Mislej, Ljupco Todorovski et
  al.

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Sponsors and Support

• Joef Stefan Institute, Konstanz University
• ECCAI, Pascal, SEKT
• Springer, Kluwer
• SLAIS, IDA, KDNet, FRI-UL,
• All of you who attend )

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Welcome

• We hope youll like the scientific and social
  program of ACAI-05
• and will return to Ljubljana for science,
  business or pleasure in the future.
• Welcome and enjoy your stay in Ljubljana !

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Programe
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Social Events

• Sunday trip July 3, 2005
• Meeting point JSI main entrance at 8.30 AM
• Register at the registration desk before Thursday
• Dinner July 7, 2005
• Meeting point JSIU main entrance at 7.00 PM
• Register at the reg. Desk before Monday

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Books

• Books will be available from Wednesday at the
  registration desk

Intelligent Data AnalysisAn IntroductionBerthold
, Michael Hand, David J. (Eds.) 2nd rev. and
ext. ed., 2003, XI, 514 p.140 in colour.,
HardcoverISBN 3-540-43060-1
Data mining and decision support Text mining,
Data mining, Web mining, Decision Support, Link
Analysis, Based on the book by Mladenic,
Lavrac, Bohanec and Moyle (eds.) Data Mining and
Decision Support Integration and Collaboration
, Kluwer 2003