Announcing IDA-99
Intelligent Data Analysis · 1998
IDA-99 will take place in Amsterdam from 9th to 11th August 1999, and is organized by Leiden University in cooperation with AAAI and NVKI.It will consist of a stimulating program of tutorials, invited talks by leading international experts in intelligent data analysis, contributed papers, poster sessions, and an exciting social program.We plan to have a special issue of the Intelligent Data Analysis journal with extended versions of a number of papers presented during the symposium. ObjectiveFor many years the intersection of computing and data analysis contained menu-based statIstics packages and not much else.Recently, statisticians have embraced computing, computer scientists are using statistical theories and methods, and researchers in all comers are inventing algorithms to find structure in vast online datasets.Data analysts now have access to tools for exploratory data analysis, decision tree induction, causal induction, function finding, constructing customized reference distributions, and visualization; there are intelligent assistants to advise on matters of design and analysis.There are tools for traditional, relatively small samples and also for enormous datasets.In all, the scope for probing data in new and penetrating ways has never been so exciting.Our aim is for IDA-99 to bring together a wide variety of researchers concerned with extracting knowledge from data, including people from statistics, machine learning, neural networks, computer science, pattern recognition, database management, and other areas.The strategies adopted by people from these areas are often different, and a synergy results if this is recognized.IDA-99 is intended to stimulate interaction between these different areas, so that more powerful tools emerge for extracting knowledge from data and a better understanding is developed of the process of intelligent data analysis.It is the third symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis after the successful symposia Intelligent Data Analysis 97 (http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uklida97.html/)and Intelligent Data Analysis 95.