July 29th, 2009
Hello readers,
just a short note: The accepted papers and tool presentations of the KESE workshop (Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering) are now online at https://ai.ia.agh.edu.pl/wiki/kese:kese2009.
This year the KESE Workshop is co-located with the 32nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Paderborn (Sep 15th, 2009).
We selected seven contributions from the submissions and we think, it is gonna be an interesting event. We will start the workshop at lunch time, so that there will be a chance to visit one of the KI tutorials in the morning. Further, we are planning to have a social meeting the evening just before the workshop. So if you want to attend, then simply drop me a note.
Best wishes, joba
Hello readers,
just a short note: The accepted papers and tool presentations of the KESE workshop (Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering) are now online at https://ai.ia.agh.edu.pl/wiki/kese:kese2009.
This year the KESE Workshop is co-located with the 32nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Paderborn (Sep 15th, 2009).
We selected seven contributions from the submissions and we think, it is gonna be an interesting event. We will start the workshop at lunch time, so that there will be a chance to visit one of the KI tutorials in the morning. Further, we are planning to have a social meeting the evening just before the workshop. So if you want to attend, then simply drop me a note.
Best wishes, joba
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July 24th, 2009
Dear All,
due to requests from the industry 
– there is now also a blog entry in addition to the announcement on the usual forums and mailing lists.
So, according to our 2-month release cycle version 1.9 of the semantic data mining environment VIKAMINE has been released on 23rd of July, 2009. See the download page for the new version. This release includes many bugfixes, algorithmic improvements, and provides new exciting features for handling continuous target variables. Additionally, VIKAMINE can now directly be integrated with a data warehouse.
So, go and download VIKAMINE NOW at the project site: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/vikamine
For more information, consult the web site at: http://vikamine.sourceforge.net
ROCKIT with VIKAMINE 1.9!
Martin
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June 17th, 2009
Hello,
due to multiple requests we decided to extend the KESE deadline for submissions to July 1st, 2009.
The 5th workshop on “Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering” will take place at the 32nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Paderborn this year (Sep 15th, 2009).
We solicit interesting submissions regarding the intersecting field between knowledge engineering and software engineering. Further, we organize a special issue in the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining (IJKEDM) of selected and revised papers. The official call for papers is attached.
Yours, joba
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June 11th, 2009
KnowWE Poster and Demo at the SemWiki09
Last week, Jochen and Joba were representing the ROKT group at the 4th Workshop of Semantic Wikis (SemWiki), that was co-located with the European Semantic Web Conference in Crete.
The workshop was heavily crowded by many people interested in the field – in fact, some people were even sitting on the floor!
The one-day workshop was packed with many intriguing talks in the morning and a poster/demo session in the afternoon. Since a lot of people were presenting their own Semantic Wiki systems (as we did with KnowWE ), the participants wanted to see the systems running in the demo session.
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June 3rd, 2009
And the oscar goes to ...
Dear All,
the first VIKAMINE feature challenge has been completed successfully!
We would like to thank all the contributors for many suggestions and feature requests.
It has been a difficult job to determine the final ranking of the submitted ideas and suggestions. However, the committee of experts has finally decided. The three best proposals selected are:
- One-click mode for iterative subgroup-analysis in subpopulations.
(Volker B.)
- Automatic interval-based segmentation of ordinal variables in subgroup mining.
(Stephanie B.)
- Web-service-like loading of a dataset from URL.
(Alex P.)
Again, we wish to thank all participants, and we look forward to the our next challenge!
Note also, that the first anniversary of VIKAMINE (the VIKAMINE 1.0 release) is coming close, and the next release (VIKAMINE 1.9) is just around the corner!
Happy mining, Martin
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May 25th, 2009
Hello folks,
the 5th workshop on “Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering” will take place at the 32nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Paderborn this year (Sep 15th, 2009).
We solicit interesting submissions from you regarding the intersecting field between knowledge engineering and software engineering. Further, we plan to have a special issue in an international journal of selected and revised papers. The official call for papers is attached (the deadline for paper submissions is approaching!).
Yours, joba
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May 23rd, 2009
VIKAMINE 1.8
Today is the VIKAMINE release day, so VIKAMINE 1.8 is now out and available!
Please see the download page for the new version.
* This release includes several bugfixes, and provides new improved features for handling continuous target variables.
* Furthermore, the scalability of the exhaustive optimal discovery methods has been improved significantly using optimistic estimate functions (try the Piatetsky-Shapiro quality function together with SD-Map!).
* Additionally, we have simplified the zoomtable visualization, and have added a novel “introductory” overview visualization for beginners.
* A further feature considers the import of Apache Log data – therefore you can now perform advanced web-log analysis and mining using VIKAMINE as well!
Download VIKAMINE
Web Site: http://vikamine.sourceforge.net
Project: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/vikamine
Happy mining, Martin
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May 23rd, 2009
FLAIRS-22
Today, the Rokt-Trek came back from the famous FLAIRS Conference, where, for example, ROKT-approaches for textual subgroup mining and quality evaluation and validation of intelligent systems using data mining have been presented.
While the conference provided for a stimulating forum for discussion and further research opportunities, the special track sessions, for example, the DERIS (Design, Evaluation, and Refinement of Intelligent Systems), data mining and case-based reasoning tracks were especially interesting. The poster session also provided for lively and inspiring scientific discussions!
Best, Martin
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May 7th, 2009
VIKAMINE, the versatile visual semantic data mining environment, is now also being applied for social network analysis and community mining!
The ROCKIT special interest group, a subgroup of ROKT, is currently working on social network analysis, community mining, semantic data mining, text mining and information extraction, sequential mining, and other advanced knowledge extraction techniques using VIKAMINE.
As we have experienced with respect to our social network analysis application, the VIKAMINE environment is very scalable – even considering rather large amounts of data! Additionally, we have added new exciting features for improving the efficiency even more. These will be available in the new upcoming version that will be available on our usual release day, next on May 23rd.
Happy mining, Martin
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