Association for Computing Machinery
ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining

 

 

KDD-2000

Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining

August 20-23, 2000
Boston, MA, USA

Informed Knowledge Discovery: Using Prior Knowledge in Discovery Programs

Bruce Buchanan

University Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Philosophy, Medicine, and Intelligent Systems

University of Pittsburgh

 

Abstract:

Informed knowledge discovery uses background information about a domain to guide a discovery program toward finding interesting and novel relationships in a database.  Background knowledge may be of several forms including relationships already found, semantic categories, causal preconditions, and taxonomic relationships.  Recent work on discovery in science will illustrate these concepts but we will also argue for the domain-independence of the heuristics used.

 

Biography:

Bruce Buchanan has worked in artificial intelligence since joining the Dendral project at Stanford in 1966. He was one of the principals in the development of the Dendral, Meta-Dendral, Mycin, and Protean programs at Stanford, and has continued working on symbolic learning and data mining since joining the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1988, where he is now University Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Philosophy, Medicine, and Intelligent Systems.  He is a member of the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine and is currently President of the AAAI.

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