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|Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 15:44:08 EST
|From: stan
|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.
|
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| Classes
| -------
good, bad.
| Attributes
| ----------
duration: continuous
wage increase first year: continuous
wage increase second year: continuous
wage increase third year: continuous
cost of living adjustment: none, tcf, tc
working hours: continuous
pension: none, ret_allw, empl_contr
standby pay: continuous
shift differential: continuous
education allowance: yes, no
statutory holidays: continuous
vacation: below average, average, generous
longterm disability assistance: yes, no
contribution to dental plan: none, half, full
bereavement assistance: yes, no
contribution to health plan: none, half, full