[26] | 1 | |Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 15:44:08 EST |
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| 2 | |From: stan <stan@csi2.UofO.EDU> |
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| 3 | |Message-Id: <8811152044.AA23067@csih.UofO.EDU> |
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| 4 | |To: aha@ICS.UCI.EDU |
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| 6 | |1. Title: Final settlements in labor negotitions in Canadian industry |
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| 7 | | |
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| 8 | |2. Source Information |
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| 9 | | -- Creators: Collective Barganing Review, montly publication, |
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| 10 | | Labour Canada, Industrial Relations Information Service, |
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| 11 | | Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0J2, Canada, (819) 997-3117 |
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| 12 | | The data includes all collective agreements reached |
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| 13 | | in the business and personal services sector for locals |
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| 14 | | with at least 500 members (teachers, nurses, university |
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| 15 | | staff, police, etc) in Canada in 87 and first quarter of 88. |
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| 16 | | -- Donor: Stan Matwin, Computer Science Dept, University of Ottawa, |
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| 17 | | 34 Somerset East, K1N 9B4, (stan@uotcsi2.bitnet) |
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| 18 | | -- Date: November 1988 |
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| 19 | | |
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| 20 | |3. Past Usage: |
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| 21 | | -- testing concept learning software, in particular |
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| 22 | | an experimental method to learn two-tiered concept descriptions. |
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| 23 | | The data was used to learn the description of an acceptable |
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| 24 | | and unacceptable contract. |
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| 25 | | The unacceptable contracts were either obtained by interviewing |
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| 26 | | experts, or by inventing near misses. |
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| 27 | | Examples of use are described in: |
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| 28 | | Bergadano, F., Matwin, S., Michalski, R., |
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| 29 | | Zhang, J., Measuring Quality of Concept Descriptions, |
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| 30 | | Procs. of the 3rd European Working Sessions on Learning, |
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| 31 | | Glasgow, October 1988. |
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| 32 | | Bergadano, F., Matwin, S., Michalski, R., Zhang, J., |
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| 33 | | Representing and Acquiring Imprecise and Context-dependent |
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| 34 | | Concepts in Knowledge-based Systems, Procs. of ISMIS'88, |
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| 35 | | North Holland, 1988. |
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| 36 | |4. Relevant Information: |
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| 37 | | -- data was used to test 2tier approach with learning |
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| 38 | |from positive and negative examples |
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| 39 | | |
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| 40 | |5. Number of Instances: 57 |
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| 41 | | |
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| 42 | |6. Number of Attributes: 16 |
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| 43 | | |
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| 44 | |7. Attribute Information: |
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| 45 | | 1. dur: duration of agreement |
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| 46 | | [1..7] |
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| 47 | | 2 wage1.wage : wage increase in first year of contract |
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| 48 | | [2.0 .. 7.0] |
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| 49 | | 3 wage2.wage : wage increase in second year of contract |
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| 50 | | [2.0 .. 7.0] |
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| 51 | | 4 wage3.wage : wage increase in third year of contract |
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| 52 | | [2.0 .. 7.0] |
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| 53 | | 5 cola : cost of living allowance |
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| 54 | | [none, tcf, tc] |
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| 55 | | 6 hours.hrs : number of working hours during week |
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| 56 | | [35 .. 40] |
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| 57 | | 7 pension : employer contributions to pension plan |
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| 58 | | [none, ret_allw, empl_contr] |
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| 59 | | 8 stby_pay : standby pay |
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| 60 | | [2 .. 25] |
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| 61 | | 9 shift_diff : shift differencial : supplement for work on II and III shift |
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| 62 | | [1 .. 25] |
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| 63 | | 10 educ_allw.boolean : education allowance |
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| 64 | | [yes no] |
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| 65 | | 11 holidays : number of statutory holidays |
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| 66 | | [9 .. 15] |
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| 67 | | 12 vacation : number of paid vacation days |
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| 68 | | [ba, avg, gnr] |
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| 69 | | 13 lngtrm_disabil.boolean : |
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| 70 | | employer's help during employee longterm disabil |
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| 71 | | ity [yes , no] |
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| 72 | | 14 dntl_ins : employers contribution towards the dental plan |
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| 73 | | [none, half, full] |
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| 74 | | 15 bereavement.boolean : employer's financial contribution towards the |
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| 75 | | covering the costs of bereavement |
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| 76 | | [yes , no] |
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| 77 | | 16 empl_hplan : employer's contribution towards the health plan |
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| 78 | | [none, half, full] |
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| 79 | | |
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| 80 | |8. Missing Attribute Values: None |
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| 81 | | |
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| 82 | |9. Class Distribution: |
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| 83 | | |
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| 84 | |10. Exceptions from format instructions: no commas between attribute values. |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | | Classes |
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| 89 | | ------- |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | good, bad. |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | | Attributes |
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| 94 | | ---------- |
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| 95 | |
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| 96 | duration: continuous |
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| 97 | wage increase first year: continuous |
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| 98 | wage increase second year: continuous |
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| 99 | wage increase third year: continuous |
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| 100 | cost of living adjustment: none, tcf, tc |
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| 101 | working hours: continuous |
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| 102 | pension: none, ret_allw, empl_contr |
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| 103 | standby pay: continuous |
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| 104 | shift differential: continuous |
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| 105 | education allowance: yes, no |
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| 106 | statutory holidays: continuous |
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| 107 | vacation: below average, average, generous |
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| 108 | longterm disability assistance: yes, no |
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| 109 | contribution to dental plan: none, half, full |
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| 110 | bereavement assistance: yes, no |
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| 111 | contribution to health plan: none, half, full |
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