DM: PKDD'99 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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            PKDD'99 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 
                  http://lisp.vse.cz/pkdd99
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3rd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE 
OF KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES
September 15-18, 1999, Prague, Czech Republic 

PKDD is one of the most important events in the field of Knowledge
Discovery in Databases (KDD) and attracts both researchers and
practitioners from all over the world. PKDD'99 conference in Prague is
the third in the series of PKDD  conferences: in 1997 it was held in
Trondheim, Norway, and in 1998 in Nantes, France. 

The scientific program of the conference includes:
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- 6 tutorials,
- Invited lectures:
     R. Wirth (DaimlerChrysler  AG, Ulm, Germany):
              CRISP-DM: Towards a Standard Process Model 
              for Data Mining,
     W. Lehner (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA):
              Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology 
              for Business Intelligence Applications,
- 28 oral presentations, 
- 48 poster presentations,
- Discovery Challenge,
- Demonstrations and exhibitions of software. 


The social program of the conference includes:
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- Welcome Party in Questenberg Palace near Prague Castle
- Trip to Kutna Hora (UNESCO World Heritage, an ancient mining town)  
   including a visit of former silver mines.

Registration:  
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late: by August 23
on site: after August 23 

You can learn more about the goals, the program and 
regisration of the conference at the internet address 

http://lisp.vse.cz/pkdd99/.