pkdd 98 pkdd 98 2nd european symposium principles data mining knowledge discovery nantes france september 2326 1998 http www sciences univnantes fr pkdd98 data mining knowledge discovery databases kdd emerged acombination many research areas databases statistics machinelearning automated scientific discovery inductive logic programming artificial intelligence visualization decision science high performance computing areas contribute specific ways kdd focuses value added creative combination contributing areas goal pkdd 98 provide european based forum interaction among theoreticians practitioners interested data mining interdisciplinary collaboration one desired outcome main longterm focus theoretical principles emerging discipline kdd especially kdd specific principles go beyond contributing area theoretical applied submissions sought reviewers assess contribution towards principles kdd addition usual requirements relevance novelty clarity significance applied papers go beyond individual application presenting explicit method promises degree generality within one stages discovery process preprocessing mining visualization use prior knowledge knowledge refinement evaluation theoretical papers demonstrate proposed theoretical contribution advances discovery process following nonexclusive list exemplifies topics interest data knowledge representation data mining beyond relational databases new forms data organization data reduction prior domain knowledge use discovered knowledge combining query systems discovery capabilities statistics probability data mining discovery probabilistic networks modelling knowledge uncertainty discovery exceptions deviations statistical significance largescale search problems overfit logic based perspective data mining inference knowledge data exploring different subspaces first order logic rough sets data mining boolean approaches data mining inductive logic programming mining real databases pattern recognition data mining use tolerance similarity relations data mining kdd motivated discretization data discovery approximate schemes reasoning data man machine interaction data mining visualization data visualization knowledge interface design interactive data mining human computer contributions artificial intelligence contributions kdd representing knowledge hypotheses spaces search knowledge complexities combining many methods one system data mining distributed multiagent systems high performance computing data mining hardware support kdd parallel discovery algorithms complexity distributed data mining scalability high dimensional datasets concept learning concept discovery expanding autonomy machine learners embedding learning methods kdd systems conceptual clustering knowledge discovery applications scientific discovery systems databases scientific hypothesis evaluation transfers kdd hypothesis spaces scientific discovery applied kdd differences data handled fields kdd applications scientific databases decomposition large data tables quality assessment data mining results multi criteria knowledge evaluation benchmarks metrics system evaluation statistical tests kdd applications usefulness risk assessment decisionmaking applications data mining knowledge discovery medicine diagnosis prognosis control theory predictive adaptive control model identification engineering diagnosis mechanisms processes public administration marketing finance data mining web text heterogeneous data natural social science prediction intervention use knowledge fraud detection interaction symbolic kdd methods neural nets interpretation knowledge accumulated trained nn hybrid nn symbolic kdd systems nn architectures higher transparency interpretability submitted papers english exceed 10 singlespaced pages 12pt font excluding title page including tables figures bibliography submissions exceeding limit reviewed separate title page begin title authors affiliations surface email addresses abstract 200 words 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