Research paper

%Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 15:44:08 EST %From: stan <[email protected]> %Message-Id: <[email protected]> %To: [email protected] % %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, ([email protected]) % -- 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. % %--------------------------------------------------------------------------- @relation labor-neg-nominal % Classes % ------- % good, bad. % Attributes % ---------- @attribute duration { 1, 2, 3 ,unknown } @attribute "wage increase first year" { low, medium, high ,unknown } @attribute "wage increase second year" { low, medium, high ,unknown } @attribute "wage increase third year" { low, medium, high ,unknown } @attribute "cost of living adjustment"{ none, tcf, tc ,unknown } @attribute "working hours" { sub35, sub40, equal40 ,unknown } @attribute pension { none, ret_allw, empl_contr ,unknown } @attribute "standby pay" { 2, 4, 8, 12, 13 ,unknown } @attribute "shift differential" { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 10, 11, 25 ,unknown } @attribute "education allowance" {yes, no ,unknown } @attribute "statutory holidays" { 9, 10, 11, 12,13,15 ,unknown } @attribute vacation { "below average", average, generous ,unknown } @attribute 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