% Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 15:44:08 EST % From: stan % 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 % [true false] % 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 [true , false] % 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 % [true , false] % 16 empl_hplan : employer's contribution towards the health plan % [none, half, full] % % 8. Missing Attribute Values: None % % 9. Class Distribution: % % 10. 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