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A -- BASIC RESEARCH WORK SOL IPO-97 POC Lew Reff, Industrial Partnership Office, MS C334, (505) 665-6702, FAX (505) 665-0154. The University of California, which operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under contract to the Department of Energy, solicits interest from companies wishing to license, develop and market Parallel Data Mining Agents (PADMA) software which is an agent based architecture for parallel/distributed data mining. PADMA is a flexible system that will exploit data mining agents of the particular application in hand, such as: Detecting Disease Outbreaks or Tracking Financial Trajectories. PADMA is not specialized for any particular kind of data mining domain, the current implementation uses agents specializing in unstructured text document classification. The software offers good response time using scaleable data mining and data accessing operations. Any organization with interests in the above subject must respond with a statement of intent describing the organization's technical expertise, manufacturing and marketing capabilities, financial resources (e.g., annual report or corporate resume) and motivation for participating in this program. The statement must be dated within fourteen (14) calendar days of the date of this notice. (0133)

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