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KDD Cup 1998: Results

Participants

Last year, the CUP enjoyed worldwide participation of 45 data mining tools. This year, it is enjoying worldwide participation of 57 contestants. 18 of the 57 participants have elected to stay anonymous. The software status of those that elected anonymity is as follows:
  • 4 Commercial
  • 4 Freeware
  • 10 Research Prototype.
The following 39 participants wish to be identified.

SOFTWARE/TOOL/RESEARCH PROTOTYPE VENDOR/INSTITUTION
APN (Adaptive Probabilistic Networks)
BAYDA/PRO


BNB (Boosted Naive Bayes Classifier)
BPSOM
CARRL
DataBase Mining Marksman
DataDetective
DataLamp
Discovery Board
DMZ


DTI v5.0
Enterprise Miner
Fragment-Potential


GainSmarts
ICL
IGLUE
Information Network
JABC
JAM

JAWS
Kepler
KnowledgeMiner
KnowMan DataMiner(research version)
LPDT
MineSet
Mixtures of Trees

Model 1
ModelQuest Enterprise
Otis

PolyAnalyst
QS
Rdt/Db

SENN Sales
The Shrunken-Belly Method

TILDE
Tutti 0.1
WARMR
WhiteCross HeatSeeker

WizWhy
Berkeley/SRI/Stanford

Complex Systems Computation Group (CoSCo), University of Helsinki
University of California San Diego

Eindhoven University of Technology
Austrian Research Institute for AI
HNC Software Inc.
Sentient Machine Research
University of East Anglia
Rutgers University
Yongwon Lee, Lockheed Martin ATC (tool not affiliated with Lockheed Martin ATC.)
ECCI-University of Costa Rica
SAS Institute
QueryObject Systems, NY &
Institute for Information
Transmission Problems, Moscow
Urban Science Applications, Inc.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
CRIL
Tel Aviv University
University of Constance, Germany
Florida Institute of Technology & Columbia University
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Dialogis Software & Services GmbH
Frank Lemke, Script Software
Intellix / Riso National Laboratory

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
Unica Technologies, Inc.
AbTech Corp.
Randy Kerber, NCR (tool not affiliat with NCR)
Megaputer Intelligence Ltd.
Iona Corp.
Informatik LS VIII, Universitaet Dortmund
Siemens Nixdorf Business Service
Edward Malthouse, Northwestern University
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Tampere University of Technology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
MRJ Technology Solutions/WhiteCross
WizSoft

Winners
  1. The GOLD MINER award goes to:
    Urban Science Applications, Inc. with their software GainSmarts.
    (See Urban Science Story)
  2. The SILVER MINER award goes to:
    SAS Institute, Inc. with their software Enterprise Miner.
  3. The BRONZE MINER award goes to:
    Quadstone Limited with their software Decisionhouse.
    (See Quadstone Story)