Authors are invited to email postscript files of their papers to
terano@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp or to send Four copies of them to

     Prof. Takao Terano (PAKDD-2000)
     Graduate School of Systems Management, 
     The University of Tsukuba, Tokyo
     3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan
     Tel.: +81-3-3942-6855  
     Fax.: +81-3-3942-6829
     Email: terano@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp

Electronic submission is highly preferred. Papers must be received by
October 10, 1999.  Notification of acceptance will be emailed to the
first (or designated) author by December 15, 1999. Camera-ready copy of
accepted papers will be due January 15, 2000.

Format: The paper should consist of a cover page with title, authors'
names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word summary,
up to 5 keywords and a body not longer than ten pages with a single
space. It is recommended that the authors use the style file of
Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) to
minimize the possible conflict of paper length when preparing the
camera ready.