Prognosis-based Decision Support in Medicine A Divide and Conquer Approach 1 Ammen Abu-Hanna1 and Nicolette de Keizer1,2 Department of Medical Informatics, AMC-University of Amsterdam Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) Foundation http://www.stichting-nice.nl Space Partitioning for Instance Reduction in Lazy Learning Algorithms M.C. Ainslie and J.S. Sanchez Dept. de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Jaume I, Campus Riu Sec, E-12071 Castello, Spain E-mail: sanchez@uji.es Feeding Data Mining Paolo Avesani, Emanuele Olivetti, and Angelo Susi ITC-IRST, Via Sommarive 18 - Loc. Pant`e, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy favesani,olivetti,susig@irst.itc.it Describing Decision Support, Data Mining, and Text/Web Mining Studies in SolEuNet Marko Bohanec, Bojan Cestnik, Marko Grobe1nik, Dunja Mladenić Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Mario Alves, A1ipio Jorge LIACC, Oporto, Portugal Sleve Moyle Oxford University, Oxford, UK S-fold Meta-Combiner for Unknown Values Processing: Case Study for Various Values of S Ivan Bruha 1 1 McMaster University, Dept. Computing & Software Hamilton, Ont., Canada L8S4K1 bruha@mcmaster.ca Data Mining for Decision Support in Marketing: A Case Study in Targeting a Marketing Campaign Bojan Cestnik1, 5, Nada Lavrač1, Filip Železny2, Dragan Gamberger3, Ljupčo Todorovski1, Miro Kline4 1 Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic 3 Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia 4 Kline&Kline, Ljubljana, Slovenia 5 Temida, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 Czech Subgroup Visualization: A Method and Application in Population Screening Dragan Gamberger 1, Nada Lavrač 2, Dietrich Wettschereck 3 1Rudjer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia dradan.gamberger@irb.hr 2Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia nada.lavrac@ijs.si 3University of Applied Sciences, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany dietrich.wettschereck@fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de Combined Data Mining and Decision Support Approach to the Prediction of Academic Achievement Silvana Gasar 1, Marko Bohanec 2,3, Vladislav Rajkovi _ 4,2 1High School Jesenice, Ruparjeva 2, SI-4270 Jesenice, Slovenia silvana.gasar@telesat.si 2Institute Jožef Stefan, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 3University of Ljubljana, School of Public Administration Ljubljana, Slovenia marko.bohanec@ijs.si 4University of Maribor, Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Kranj, Slovenia vladislav.rajkovic@fov.uni-mb.si A Post-processing Environment for Browsing Large Sets of Association Rules 1 Alipio Jorge1 , Joăo Poças2, Paulo Azevedo3 1 LIACC/FEP, Universidade do Porto, Portugal amjorge@liacc.up.pt 2 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Portugal joao.pocas@ine.pt 3 Universidade do Minho, Portugal pja@di.uminho.pt Combination of Task Description Strategies and Case Base Properties for Meta-Learning Christian Köpf and Ioannis Iglezakis DaimlerChrysler AG, Research & Technology, RIC/AM, P.O.-Box 2360, D-89013 Ulm, Germany {christian.koepf,ioannis.iglezakis}@daimlerchrysler.com Supporting the Need for the Incremental Mining of a Large National Medical Dataset by Epidemiologists Tim Langford, Peter A. Flach Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, U.K.. {langford, flach}@cs.bris.ac.uk Rule induction for subgroup discovery with CN2-SD Nada Lavrač1, Peter Flach2, Branko Kavšek1, and Ljupco Todorovski1 1 Institute Jožef Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia {Nada.Lavrac,Branko.Kavsek,Ljupco.Todorovski}@ijs.si 2 University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Peter.Flach@bristol.ac.uk Large and Tall Buildings: A case study in the application of Decision Support and Data Mining Steve Moyle1, Marko Bohanec2,3, and Eric Ostrowski4 1 Oxford 3 University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK steve.moyle@comlab.ox.ac.uk 2 Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia University of Ljubljana, School of Public Administration, Sloveniamarko. bohanec@ijs.si 4 EC Harris, London, UK eric.ostrowski@echarris.com Committee-Based Selective Sampling with Parameters Set by Meta-Learning Miloslav Nepil and Luboš Popelinsky KD Group at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic {nepil,popel}@fi.muni.cz Characterising Dataset with Tree Structure for MetaLearning Yonghong Peng1 Peter A Flach1 Carlos Soares2 Pavel Brazdil2 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK {yh.peng,peter.flach}@bristol.ac.uk 2 LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal {csoares,pbrazdil}@liacc.up.pt Meta-Learning for Stacked Classification Alexander K. Seewald Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Wien, Austria alexsee@oefai.at Problem Dispatching Policies for Collaborative Case-Based Reasoning Simon C. K. Shiu and Feng Zhang Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China {csckshiu | cszhangf}@comp.polyu.edu.hk A Comparative Study of Some Issues Concerning Algorithm Recommendation using Ranking Methods Carlos Soares and Pavel Brazdil LIACC/Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, R. Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal, {csoares,pbrazdil}@liacc.up.pt Collaborative Data Mining and Data Exchange: A Case Study Olga Štepankova, Jiri Klema, Petr Mikšovsky Department of Cybernetics, CTU Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic, {step,klema,miksovsp}@labe.felk.cvut.cz Qualitative Clustering of Short Time-Series: A Case Study of Enterprises Reputation Data Ljupčo Todorovski1, Bojan Cestnik2, Miro Kline3, Nada Lavrač1, and Sašo Džeroski1 1 Department or Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovania {Ljupco.Todorovski, Saso.Dzeroski, Nada.Lavrac}@ijs.si 2 Temida, Grassellijeva 20, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Bojan.Cestnik@temida.si 3 Kline & Kline, Smrekarjeva 21, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia kline-kline@siol.si Combining Data Mining and Artificial Neural Networks for Decision Support Sérgio Viademonte and Frada Burstein School of Information Management and Systems Monash University PO 197 Caulfield East 3145 Victoria, Australia {sergio.viademonte;frada.burstein}@sims.monash.edu.au Factor Analysis Optimization: Applied on Natural Language Knowledge Discovery Robert J. Watts1, Alan L. Porter, Ph.D.2, Donghua Zhu, Ph.D.3 1 U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, Advanced Vehicle Technologies, Warren, Michigan 2 Search Technology, Inc.,Technology Policy & Assessment Center, Georgia Tech. Georgia 3School of Management & Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China A KDDSE-independent PMML Visualizer Dietrich Wettschereck _ University of Applied Sciences, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Grantham Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany, dietrich.wettschereck@fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de Feature Selection with Labelled and Unlabelled Data Shaomin Wu and Peter A. Flach Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, U.K {shaomin,flach}@cs.bris.ac.uk Model Selection for Dynamic Processes Shaomin Wu and Peter A. Flach Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, U.K {shaomin,flach}@cs.bris.ac.uk