|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.
|
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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