|Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 15:44:08 EST|From: stan <stan@csi2.UofO.EDU>|Message-Id: <8811152044.AA23067@csih.UofO.EDU>|To: aha@ICS.UCI.EDU||1. Title: Final settlements in labor negotitions in Canadian industry||2. Source Information|   -- Creators: Collective Barganing Review, montly publication,|      Labour Canada, Industrial Relations Information Service,|	Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0J2, Canada, (819) 997-3117|	The data includes all collective agreements reached|        in the business and personal services sector for locals|        with at least 500 members (teachers, nurses, university|        staff, police, etc) in Canada in 87 and first quarter of 88.   |   -- Donor: Stan Matwin, Computer Science Dept, University of Ottawa,|                34 Somerset East, K1N 9B4, (stan@uotcsi2.bitnet)|   -- Date: November 1988| |3. Past Usage:|   -- testing concept learning software, in particular|      an experimental method to learn two-tiered concept descriptions.|      The data was used to learn the description of an acceptable|      and unacceptable contract.|      The unacceptable contracts were either obtained by interviewing|      experts, or by inventing near misses.|      Examples of use are described in:|	Bergadano, F., Matwin, S., Michalski, R.,|	Zhang, J., Measuring Quality of Concept Descriptions, |	Procs. of the 3rd European Working Sessions on Learning,|	Glasgow, October 1988.|	Bergadano, F., Matwin, S., Michalski, R., Zhang, J.,|        Representing and Acquiring Imprecise and Context-dependent|	Concepts in Knowledge-based Systems, Procs. of ISMIS'88,|	North Holland, 1988.|4. Relevant Information:|   -- data was used to test 2tier approach with learning|from positive and negative examples||5. Number of Instances: 57 ||6. Number of Attributes: 16 ||7. Attribute Information:|   1.  dur: duration of agreement |       [1..7]|   2   wage1.wage : wage increase in first year of contract |       [2.0 .. 7.0]|   3   wage2.wage : wage increase in second year of contract|       [2.0 .. 7.0]|   4   wage3.wage : wage increase in third year of contract|       [2.0 .. 7.0]|   5   cola : cost of living allowance |       [none, tcf, tc]|   6   hours.hrs : number of working hours during week|       [35 .. 40]|   7   pension : employer contributions to pension plan|       [none, ret_allw, empl_contr]|   8   stby_pay : standby pay|       [2 .. 25]|   9   shift_diff : shift differencial : supplement for work on II and III shift|       [1 .. 25]|  10   educ_allw.boolean : education allowance |       [yes no]|  11   holidays : number of statutory holidays |       [9 .. 15]|  12   vacation : number of paid vacation days|       [ba, avg, gnr]|  13   lngtrm_disabil.boolean : |       employer's help during employee longterm disabil|       ity [yes , no]|  14   dntl_ins : employers contribution towards the dental plan|       [none, half, full]|  15   bereavement.boolean : employer's financial contribution towards the |       covering the costs of bereavement|       [yes , no]|  16   empl_hplan : employer's contribution towards the health plan|       [none, half, full]||8. Missing Attribute Values: None||9. Class Distribution:||10. Exceptions from format instructions: no commas between attribute values.||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|  Classes|  -------good, bad.|  Attributes|  ----------duration:			continuouswage increase first year:	continuouswage increase second year:	continuouswage increase third year:	continuouscost of living adjustment:	none, tcf, tcworking hours:			continuouspension:			none, ret_allw, empl_contrstandby pay:			continuousshift differential:		continuouseducation allowance:		yes, nostatutory holidays:		continuousvacation:			below average, average, generouslongterm disability assistance:	yes, nocontribution to dental plan:	none, half, fullbereavement assistance:		yes, nocontribution to health plan:	none, half, full