Automated Learning and Discovery State-of-the-Art and Research Topics in a Rapidly Growing Field

This report summarizes the CONALD meeting, which took place June 11-13, 1998, at Carnegie Mellon University. CONALD brought together an interdisciplinary group of scientists, concerned with decision making based on data. This report is organized in two parts. The first part (pages 1-6) summarizes the CONALD meeting and highlights its main outcomes, beyond the individual workshop level. The second part (pages 7-30) summarize the results obtained in the individual workshops, discussing in depth promising research topics. This report is available through the Web at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ conald. CONALD was supported financially by the National Science Foundation under grant number IIS-9813354, which is gratefully acknowledged. Further financial support from CALD’s coorporate members is gratefully acknowledged: Caterpillar, Inc., Exxon Paramins, Giant Eagle, Inc., KeyBank, Mellon Bank, Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., VSI Satech, and Westinghouse Science & Technology Center