UK KDD Symposium (UKKDD’06)
26th April 2006
John Innes Conference Centre,
Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
Hosted by the <http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/Research/kdd/>UEA KDD Research Group
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Aims:
This one day Symposium, hosted by UEA Norwich, is intended to provide a
forum for discussion, dissemination and exchange of ideas between
practitioners and researchers working within the broad field of Knowledge
Discovery and Data mining (KDD). To this end a number of key people will be
presenting a "state of the art" review of KDD research work currently in
progress within UK institutions. Following the success of UK KDD'05, hosted
by the University of Liverpool, it is hoped that the Symposium will once
again attract delegates, both national and international, who are either
directly involved in KDD or have a significant interest in the subject, and
that the meeting will consequently afford an opportunity for lively debate
and discussion.
Programme:
Vic Rayward-Smith (UEA Norwich) Clustering applied to commercial
databases.
Vic Rayward-Smith is a Professor in the School of Computing science at UEA
and leads the KDD Research group at the University. He has published over
150 papers, 40 of which are concerned with KDD. He is editor-in-chief of
the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms and is on the
editorial board of Applied Intelligence. He is on the programme committee
of five international conferences concerned with KDD and has acted as a
data mining consultant to a number of companies including Norwich Union
(Aviva), the Met Office, Master Foods, Unilever and NATS.
Julia Handl (University of Manchester) Multiobjective approaches to
unsupervised classification.
Julia Handl is a PhD student in the School of Chemistry at the University
of Manchester. Her publications over the past three years have covered a
variety of topics related to unsupervised classification including cluster
validation techniques, ant-based clustering and multiobjective approaches
to clustering and feature selection. She chaired the special session on
evolutionary clustering at the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation, and serves as a referee for a number of international
conferences and journals in the field of evolutionary computation.
Trevor Martin (University of Bristol) The importance of being fuzzy.
Trevor Martin is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the AI group at
the University of Bristol. Since 2001 he has been funded for 80% of his
time by BT as a Senior Research Fellow, leading a project researching soft
computing in intelligent information management including areas such as the
semantic web, soft concept hierarchies and user modelling. He is a member
of the editorial board of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, and has served on many
conference programme and organising committees, including programme chair
for the 2007 IEEE Fuzzy Systems Conference. He has published over 150
papers in refereed conferences, journals and books, and is a Chartered
Engineer and member of the BCS.
Niall Adams (Imperial College) Fraud detection in
consumer credit.
Niall Adams obtained a bachelors degree, and a PhD in Computational
Statistics, from Liverpool John Moores University. He worked as a
post-doctoral researcher at both the Open University and Imperial College
London, where he is now a lecturer in Statistics. His research interests
includes classification and data mining, in diverse areas such as consumer
credit and molecular biology.
Jo Dicks (John Innes Centre, Norwich) Germplasm collections: Gaining
new knowledge from old datasets.
Jo Dicks has a BSc. in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham and an
MSc. in Applied Statistics and a DPhil. in Biological Sciences from the
University of Oxford. While at Oxford, Jo developed both databases and
algorithms for comparative genome analysis in mammals. In 1996, Jo moved to
the John Innes Centre, where she is a Project Leader in Computational
Biology. Jo's group specialises in modelling evolutionary processes in
plants and microbes. Since 2001, Jo has held an Honorary Lectureship at UEA
and has many past and current projects with UEA staff in the area of
biological knowledge discovery.
Mark Girolami (University of Glasgow) Examples of Bayesian inference
solving industrial problems.
Mark Girolami is a Reader in the Department of Computing Science at the
University of Glasgow. His research interests lie at the interface between
Computing Science and Statistics. He has collaborated with industry on a
number of research projects that have resulted in technologies for which
international patents have been awarded. In 2005 he was awarded an MRC
funded Discipline Hopping Award to investigate the application of Bayesian
inference in certain problems in Computational Biology. In 2000 he was the
TEKES visiting professor at the Laboratory of Computing and Information
Science in Helsinki University of Technology, and in 1998 and 1999 Dr.
Girolami was a research fellow at the Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal
Processing in the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako-Shi, Japan. He has
been a visiting researcher at the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
(CNL) of the Salk Institute. Mark holds a degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Glasgow (1985), and a PhD in Computing
Science from the University of Paisley (1998).
Alex Freitas (University of Kent) Are we really
discovering interesting knowledge from data?
Alex Freitas is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent. He has
authored two research-oriented books about data mining and is a member of
the editorial board of two journals: the Intelligent Data Analysis - an
International Journal and the International Journal on Data Warehousing and
Mining. He has been a member of the program committee of the PKDD
conferences since 1999. His main research interests are data mining,
biologically-inspired algorithms and bioinformatics.
The Symposium will end with a plenary session to discuss future directions
and opportunities.
Organising Committee:
George Smith (Chair)
University of East Anglia
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Frans Coenen
University of Liverpool
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Alex Freitas
University of Kent
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Website url: UKKDD’06
<http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/Research/kdd/ukkdd06/ukkdd06.html>http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/Research/kdd/ukkdd06/ukkdd06.html
Registration Fee includes: coffee/tea on arrival and during break periods,
lunch, and a copy of the Symposium proceedings.
BCS / SGAI Member
£35.00 Non-member £40.00
To register for the Symposium please use the
<http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/Research/kdd/ukkdd06/regform.pdf>registration
form. Any enquiries regarding registration should be sent to:
Dr Beatriz de la Iglesia: School of Computing Sciences, UEA, Norwich, NR4 7TJ;
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592961, Fax: +44 (0)1603 593345.
Dr George D Smith
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing Sciences
UEA Norwich
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
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Fax: 01603 593345
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