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        Receiving Dates for New Databases and Domain Theories
            UCI Repository of Machine Learning Databases
                           Since March 1990
  		        Chris Merz (Site Librarian)
                     Patrick M. Murphy (former Site Librarian)
                    and David W. Aha (Off-Site Assistant)
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Date:    Database:
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4/6/90   From Richard Forsyth: artificial domain -- the Zoology database
4/26     Original spectrometer (IRAS) database from John Stutz
5/9      Shavlik's dna promoter sequence database, including the domain theory
5/9      Sigillito's secondary dna structure database
5/9      Sigillito's Pima Indians database (diabetes diagnoses) 
5/9      Sigillito's ionosphere database
5/13     Nick Flann's 6 chess-oriented domain theories
5/15     Richard Forsyth's flags database
5/15     Richard Forsyth's BUPA medical research database (liver disorders)
6/25     F. Bergadano's (et al) mechanical analysis database (See MLC-1990)
6/28     Connectionist-bench contents:
         -- Nettalk data, protein-folding data, sonar data, vowel data
         -- I have not yet modified their original documentation 
         -- See undocumented/connectionist-bench
         -- We may already have the protein-folding data; not sure
6/30     Shavlik's promoter gene sequence data, but this time in a fully 
         documented form.  See molecular-biology/pomoter-gene-sequences.
7/5      The experts' rules (i.e., a domain theory) for the thyroid disease
         database donated earlier by Ross Quinlan.  See undocumented/quinlan.
7/5      Kinship database (See Hinton 1986 & Quinlan 1989/1990).  See kinship.
8/8      Pittsburgh Bridges database in /bridges (donated by Yoram Reich).
8/8      Fitting contact lenses database in /lenses (donated by Benoit Julien).
8/15     352 Case Studies in Function-Finding (donated by Cullen Schafer)
1/16/91  Letter-Recognition Database (donated by David Slate)
2/18     Othello Domain Theory - generating features (donated by Tom Fawcett)
3/8      Second Data Generation Program in /dgp-2 (donated by Powell Benedict)
8/15     Image segmentation data (donated by Carla Brodley)
8/19     Tic-Tac-Toe Endgame database (donated by David W. Aha)
9/26     PUMPS-DATA-SET (via A. Giordana)
12/19    Splice-junction gene sequence database (donated by Geoffrey Towell)
1/15/92  Protein Secondary Structure Domain Theory (Shavlik & Maclin)
3/19/92  Japanese Credit Screening Data & Domain theory (from Chiharu Sano)
5/29/92  Lung Cancer Database (donated by Stefan Aeberhard)
7/16/92  Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database (donated by Olvi Mangasarian)
7/18/92  Wine Recognition Database (donated by Stefan Aeberhard)
8/7/92   A New Thyroid Database (donated by Stefan Aeberhard)
8/24/92  Credit Card Approval Database (donated by Ross Quinlan)
8/24/92  Standard Attribute Audiology Database (donated by Ross Quinlan)
8/25/92  Quadraped Animals data generator (donated by John H. Gennari)
10/3/92  MONK-S Problems (donated by Sebastian Thrun)
10/5/92  Artificial Characters Database & DT (donated by Attilio Giordana)
10/15/92 Statlog Project databases (donated by Ross King)
1/4/93   Student Loan Relational Database & Domain Theory (donated by
         Michael Pazzani)
1/18/93  ANN Thyroid Database (donated by Randolf Werner)
6/15/93  Postoperative Patient Data (donated by Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse)
5/19/93  Servo Data (donated by Ross Quinlan)
6/6/93   Auto-Mpg Data (originally from the CMU StatLib library)
6/6/93   (Boston) Housing Data (originally from the CMU StatLib library)
8/5/93   Waste Water Treatment Plant Data (donated by Javier Bejar and 
         Ulises Cortes)
8/5/93   Space Shuttle Databases (2) (donated by David Draper)
8/30/93  AIM-94 Medical Databases (2) (donated by Serdar Uckun)
1/15/94  Balloons Database (donated by Michael Pazzani)
5/13/94  Balance Scale Database (donated by Tim Hume)
6/2/94   Trains Database (donated by David Aha & Eric Bloedorn)
6/5/94   Moral Reasoner Database (donated by James Wogulis)
6/14/94  German Credit Database (from Statlog project)
7/5/94   Qualitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSARs) (Ross King)
7/5/94   C++ code to modify artificial character database (Scott Derrick)
7/5/94   King-Rook-vs-King (donated by Michael Bain and Arthur van Hoff)
9/12/94  Isolet Database (donated by Tom Dietterich)
9/14/94  MUSK Databases (2) (donated by Tom Dietterich)
9/27/94  Sponge Database (donated by Javier Bejar and Ulises Cortes)
9/27/94  Badges Database (donated by Haym Hirsh)
11/7/94  Document Understanding Database (donated by Donato Malerba)
2/4/95   Connect-4 Database (donated by John Tromp)
10/6/95  Costs data (donated by Peter Turney)
10/6/95  Vowel Context Database (donated by Peter Turney)
10/16/95 Mobile Robots (donated by Michael Goebel)
12/1/95  East-West (Trains) Competions (donated by Peter Turney)
2/1/96   Diagnostic and prognostic breast cancer (Wisconsin) databases
         (donated by Nick Street)