Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 9
Saturday, 7 June 2003
Contents
Calls for Papers
AIEDAM Special Issue, November 2004, Vol.18 No.5
VLDB/MDDE-2003 - Submission Deadline: June 9, 2003
CFP: ML Special Track at FLAIRS 2004
ITCLS 2003 Call for Papers and Participation
Deadline Extensions
Deadline extension for WEBKDD 2003
CEC2003 Extended Deadline
deadline Eur. Web Mining Forum 2003 extended
Calls for Participation
Call for Participation: ICCBR'03
UM'03 Call for Participation
Call for participation: June 23-26, 2003, CS & CE
Career Opportunities
Postdoc position at CMU
2 Immediate Openings for Research Programmers for Genetic...
Senior Lectureship/Lectureship in Computer Science (Constraints)
Machine Learning Researcher (iKuni)
Researcher Positions (Columbia University)
Miscellaneous Other Announcements
Computational Linguistics Group website (University of Oxford)
Transformation-Based Learning Bibliography
Online behavioral data from comScore and WRDS
software available to researchers (SLIPPER, WHIRL)
New Book on Learning Theory
Machine Learning patent applications
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From: Alex Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AIEDAM Special Issue, November 2004, Vol.18 No.5
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:45:27 +0100
AIEDAM Special Issue, November 2004, Vol.18 No.5
Learning and Creativity in Design
Edited by: A. H. B. Duffy and F.M.T. Brazier
Learning and creativity in design are two related activities. Can the
interrelations between the activities be defined? What is the nature
of these inter-relationships? Does creativity necessarily result in
new knowledge and/or learning? Can creativity be supported by
computational means? Can learning be supported by computational means?
IF so, can such computational systems support design practice? Can
automated design be considered to be creative? Can learning from past
design manipulations be considered to be creative?
The Learning and Creativity in Design Workshop at AID'02, held at
Cambridge University, provided a forum to discuss and attempt to
answer some of these questions, together with identifying the latest
trends, and challenge areas of learning to support design
creativity. The goal of this special issue is to further this area of
research by presenting answers to some of the above questions through
a snapshot of the latest research to produce an insightful
understanding of the subject of learning and creativity in design. The
state-of-the-art of research in the area, and its computational
support, can also be obtained through identifying the key challenges
and issues.
Related papers are invited, but not limited to, one or more of the areas
listed below:
* The links between learning and creativity in design.
* The nature of creativity and learning.
* Creativity and learning in team design.
* Techniques, knowledge and approaches to computationally supported
creativity and learning.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two
reviewers, and a selection for publication made on the basis of these
reviews.
Further details about registration of interest, submission, etc, can
be found at the Special Issue information page:
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/SpecialIssues/Duffy-Brazier.html
Information about the format and style required for AIEDAM papers can
be found at www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/
Important dates:
Submission deadline for full papers: 1 September 2003
Notification and reviews to authors: 9 January 2004
Revised version submission deadline: 1 March 2004
Final notification and re-reviews: 3 May 2004
Final version submission deadline: 7 June 2004
Publication: November 2004
Guest editors:
Please direct enquiries to the guest editors:
Alex Duffy
Computer Aided Design Centre
Dept. Design Manufacture and Engineering Management
University of Strathclyde
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frances Brazier
Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems Group
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chabane Djeraba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VLDB/MDDE-2003 - Submission Deadline: June 9, 2003
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:39:22 +0200
3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering
(MDDE-2003)
www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/recherche/sic/djeraba/mdde03/mdde-2003.html
September, 8th 2003, Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with
29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-2003)
http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de/
OBJECTIVES
The 3rd international Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document
Engineering is aimed to bring together experts from all aspects of
multimedia data and document engineering, including experts in data
mining, documents engineering, digital media content analysis,
multimedia databases and domain experts from diverse applied
disciplines with potential in multimedia data and document
engineering. Particularly, the workshop will address the following
questions:
- What are the problems and the applications addressed by multimedia
data and document engineering?
- What are the specific issues in knowledge extraction from multimedia
data and documents composed of image, sound and video?
- What are the advanced architectures for multimedia data and document
storage and retrieval?
- What are suitable representations and formats that can facilitate
multimedia data and document management?
- How can the existing database and data mining techniques be adapted
and enhanced for knowledge discovery from unstructured complex
multimedia data and documents?
Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following
topics:
- Analysis, indexing and retrieval of multimedia data and documents
- Models and languages for documents and semi-structured data
- Semantic modeling and retrieval
- Content description definition languages and metadata
- Mining from semi structured data (video, image, audio, web
documents)
- Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval
- Video analysis and content exploration
- Video genre classification
- Multimedia database management systems
- Relevance ranking of video clips for queries
- Query processing and optimization
- Multimedia Standardization Models (MPEG7, MPEG4, SMIL)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: June 9, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2003
Camera-ready papers due: July 20, 2003
Workshop: September 8, 2003
PROGRAM CHAIR
Sadiye Guler, Northrop Grumman Information Technology / TASC, USA
SUBMISSIONS
Only electronic submission is accepted. The submission deadline is
June 9, 2003. Please follow the instructions given below. Papers will
be reviewed using a double blind review process and accepted papers
will appear in MDDE'03 proceedings. Proceedings will be distributed to
all participants at the workshop. If you have any questions or
problems regarding the submission process, please send e-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject MDDE03.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
1. Prepare your manuscript, in English, using one of the two provided
style files, either LaTeX (in tar gzipped format) or Microsoft Word
97/2000 (in Zip format). The submitted manuscript should correspond
to the full paper and be no longer than 8 (double-column) pages.
2. Create a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of your manuscript.
3. Send your manuscript in PDF to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Larry Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: ML Special Track at FLAIRS 2004
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:42:17 -0500
Call for Papers
Special Track on Machine Learning
http://www.cs.ccsu.edu/~markov/flairs2004-ml/
at the 17th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2004)
http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004
May 17-19, 2004
The Palms South Beach Hotel (http://www.thepalmshotel.com)
Miami Beach, FL
The Machine Learning track at FLAIRS-2004 is intended to provide an
international forum for discussing the latest results in the area of
Machine Learning (ML). It will be organized within the framework of
the FLAIRS conference that traditionally brings together researchers
and practitioners from a wide range of AI related areas. As a core AI
topic, ML always responds to the general AI trends. The current AI
developments related to Security and to the World Wide Web are no
exception. Accordingly the track will focus on modern ML approaches
to Security, Agent and Web related learning. All traditional ML
approaches will also be included.
Specifically we invite submissions that fall within the following
topics: Abduction, Analogy, Agent learning, Applications of machine
learning, Automated knowledge acquisition, Computational learning
theory, Conceptual clustering, Explanation-based learning, Function
approximation, Inductive logic programming, Instance-based learning,
Instructable agents, Learning from relational data, Knowledge
intensive learning, Machine learning of natural language, Machine
learning for security, Mixed-initiative learning, Multi-agent
learning, Multistrategy learning, Ontology learning, Reinforcement
learning, Statistical approaches, Web related learning.
Along with the Security, Agent and Web learning, papers describing
real-life applications of ML are especially encouraged. High quality
papers in any other area of Machine Learning are also welcomed.
Papers related to Planning, Problem Solving and Scheduling may better
fit into another special track at FLAIRS-2004, Machine Learning for AI
Planning, Problem Solving, and Scheduling (check the FLAIRS-2004
special track page for more information about this track).
Submission Guidelines
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI
formatting guidelines
<http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/authorinstructions.pdf>. The
papers should not exceed 5 pages and are due by October 24, 2003. The
papers should not identify the author(s) in any manner. Authors should
indicate the special track if one exists that closely matches the
topic of their paper. All submissions will be done electronically via
FLAIRS web submission system, which will be available through the
conference web site.
Conference Proceedings
Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press.
Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial
Intelligence Tools <http://www.worldscinet.com/ijait/ijait.shtml>
(IJAIT) to be published in 2005.
FLAIRS-2004 Invited Speakers
* Justine Cassell, MIT
* Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University
* Jim Hendler, University of Maryland
* Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
Important Deadlines
* Paper submissions due: October 24, 2003
* Notification letters sent: January 7, 2004
* Camera ready copy due: February 6, 2004
Further Information
* Questions regarding the ML track should be addressed to the track
co-chairs:
Lawrence Holder ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Zdravko Markov ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the
FLAIRS-2004 program co-chairs:
Valerie Barr ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Zdravko Markov ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* General questions concerning the conference should be addressed to
the FLAIRS-2004 conference chair:
Ingrid Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Conference Web Sites
* Machine Learning special track web page:
http://www.cs.ccsu.edu/~markov/flairs2004-ml/
* FLAIRS-2004 conference web page: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004/
* Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ITCLS 2003 Call for Papers and Participation
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:48:27 +0200
Call for Papers and Participation
COLOGNET Workshop on
Implementation Technology for Computational Logic Systems
(ITCLS 2003)
Satellite Workshop of FME 2003 Symposium
9 September 2003, Pisa, Italy
http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Conferences/ITCLS-2003/
CoLogNet, the European Network of Excellence in Computational Logic is
organizing the Second Workshop on Implementation Technology for
Computational Logic Systems (ITCLS) as a satellite workshop of Formal
Methods 2003, to take place in Pisa. The previous edition was held in
September 2002 in Madrid, affiliated with Logic-based Program
Development and Transformation (LOPSTR'02), and co-located with the
International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS'02) and the
APPIA-GULP-PRODE Joint Conference on Declarative Programming (AGP'02).
The workshop is a forum open to both academia and industry and whose
aim is to present and discuss work (possibly in progress) related to
the topics mentioned below. The ITCLS workshop builds on the tradition
of the series of workshops on Implementations of Logic Programming
Systems held in the context of COMPULOG NET, the former Network of
Excellence in Computational Logic, but opens up its scope to a broader
use of logic and formal methods within computational systems.
ITCLS 2003 focuses on implementation techniques from the different
areas addressed by CoLogNet. The aim is to bring together researchers
from fields such as automated reasoning, formal methods and theorem
proving, natural language processing, constraint logic programming,
inductive logic programming, non-monotonic logic programming, etc. in
order to share common problems and solutions regarding implementation
and usability issues which arise in formal and logic-based
computational systems.
Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Implementation techniques for all aspects of the implementation of
systems related to computational logic and formal systems,
including:
+ Formal Methods and its relationship with Computational Logic,
+ Compiling Specifications,
+ Theorem Proving,
+ Non-monotonic Reasoning, Higher Order, Linear Logics,
+ Logic Programming,
+ Constraint Programming, and
+ Natural Language Processing
* Environments for computational logic and formal systems, including:
+ User-interfaces and User-needs,
+ Software Development,
+ Debugging and Visualization Techniques, and
+ Interfaces to Other (possibly Computational Logic) Systems
PROGRAMME
The workshop will take place during the afternoon and evening of
September 9th. The programme will consist of an invited talk (to be
announced later) and the presentation of the accepted papers.
SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES
Authors are invited to contribute to the workshop by submitting
extended abstracts (6 pages maximum) or full papers (12 pages maximum)
on the workshop themes. Limits are strict, and the llncs format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) must be used.
Submissions are to be sent in PS or PDF format to the organizing
committee by emailing them to:
colognet-ws-submission_at_clip.dia.fi.upm.es (substitute _at_ by the @
symbol to send email). Submissions originally prepared with LaTeX are
highly encouraged, as this will help in preparing the final
proceedings, which will be available at the workshop in printed form,
as well as electronically.
The table below highlights the important dates:
Submission deadline: July 7
Notification to authors: July 28
Camera-ready copies: August 15
Workshop: September 9
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jesus Correas, UPM, Madrid, Spain
Manuel Hermenegildo, UPM, Madrid, Spain
Manuel Carro, UPM, Madrid, Spain
Christian Schulte, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Please address any question directly related to the workshop to
colognet-ws_at_clip.dia.fi.upm.es (substitute _at_ by @).
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From: Osmar Zaiane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deadline extension for WEBKDD 2003
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:23:19 -0600 (MDT)
To align with the other workshops at ACM SIGKDD, the WEBKDD organizers
has agreed to extend the paper submission deadline to June 9th, 2003.
WEBKDD 2003
Call for Papers
The Fifth WEBKDD Workshop:
Web Mining as a Premise to Effective and Intelligent Web Applications
http://db.cs.ualberta.ca/webkdd03/
In conjunction with
The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
August 24-27, 2003 - Washington, DC, USA
Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2003
For more details, see the workshop web site:
http://db.cs.ualberta.ca/webkdd03/
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From: "CEC Publicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CEC2003 Extended Deadline
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:17:11 +0100
2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Canberra, Australia, 8th - 12th December 2003
****************************************************
NEW Submission deadline: 23rd June 2003
****************************************************
An extended opportunity to take a Summer break next Winter, and join
us at one of the premier international conferences in the field.
The annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) covers all
topics in evolutionary computation: from combinatorial to numerical
optimization, from supervised to unsupervised learning, from
co-evolution to collective behaviors, from evolutionary design to
evolvable hardware, from molecular to quantum computing, from ant
colony to artificial ecology, etc.
CEC 2003 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Society, the
Evolutionary Programming Society, the IEAust, and the IEE.
For more information about CEC 2003, please check
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cec_2003. The submissions site is
http://ieee-nns.org/conferences/cec2003/review/upload.php.
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From: Maarten van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: deadline Eur. Web Mining Forum 2003 extended
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:23:24 +0200 (MET DST)
1st European Web Mining Forum: deadline extended
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Workshop at ECML/PKDD-2003,
22 September 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ewmf03/
NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 13 JUNE
NEW DEADLINE FOR FULL PAPERS: 18 JUNE
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for Participation: ICCBR'03
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 23:11:43 +0200
Call for Participation
Fifth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
Trondheim, Norway
June 23rd - 26th, 2003
http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr03/
We are happy to welcome you to ICCBR-2003 at the shore of the Trondheim
Fjord. ICCBR is the major international meeting on all aspects of case-based
reasoning (CBR). This four-day conference will be held at the main campus of
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), close to downtown
Trondheim.
Trondheim is a city in the midle part of Norway, about 500 kilometers north
of Oslo, facing the Trondheim Fjord to its north. It is one of the larger
cities in Norway, and also one of the oldest, and a frequent host of
international meetings.
Presentations will cover a wide set of topics concerning case-based
reasoning (e.g., adaptation, applications, case library maintenance,
cognitive science, creative reasoning, data mining, e-commerce, interactive
systems, knowledge management, knowledge acquisition, multiagent
collaborative systems, relational representations, similarity, soft
computing, textual CBR) that should interest both practitioners and
researchers alike. A rough program schedule is posted at the conference WWW
site (see above), which also lists suggested accommodations, conference
organization details, a registration form, and other useful information.
The four-day program will include:
* Day 1: Industry day.
- Focus: Presentations of deployed applications.
- Includes an Exhibition by some industry participants/sponsors
* Days 2-4:
- 3 Invited Talks: David Leake, Hector Muñoz-Avíla, Ellen Riloff
- Appx. 20 Oral paper presentations
- Appx. 30 Poster presentations
- 5 (mostly parallel) workshops
A. Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences (submission deadline
April 4th)
B. Long-Lived CBR Systems (submission deadline March 21st)
C. Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning (submission deadline April
6th)
D. Applying CBR to Time Series Prediction (submission deadline March
21st)
E. From Structured Cases to Unstructured Problem Solving Episodes
For Experience-Based Assistance (submission deadline April 6th)
* Social/Other events:
- Opening Reception.
- Dinner with a view, in a rotating restaurant at the top of a 85 meter
tower.
- Conference Dinner on a small island, a short boat trip out in the fjord.
- Barbecue at the fjord
The early registration deadline to ICCBR 2003 has been extended, and
is now set at May 30th.
Please see the conference WWW site at http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr03/
for additional details. We are looking forward to seeing you in
Trondheim!
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From: Ayse S Goker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UM'03 Call for Participation
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:31:16 +0100 (BST)
UM'03 Call for Participation
9th International Conference on User Modeling
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003/
June 22 to June 26, 2003
University of Pittsburgh Conference Center
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
UM03 is being organized under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc.:
http://www.um.org/
Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in
LNAI-LNCS.
The International User Modeling Conferences are the events at which
research foundations are being laid on the personalization of computer
systems. In the last 15 years, the field of User Modeling has produced
significant new theories and methods to analyze and model computer
users in short and long-term interactions. A user model is an explicit
representation of properties of individual users or user classes. It
allows the system to adapt its performance to user needs and
preferences. Methods for personalizing human-computer interaction
based on user models have been successfully developed, applied and
evaluated in a number of domains, such as information filtering,
e-commerce, adaptive natural language and hypermedia presentation and
tutoring systems.
New trends in HCI create new and interesting challenges for User
Modeling. While consolidating results in traditional domains of
interest, the User Modeling field now also addresses problems of
personalized interaction in mobile, ubiquitous and context-aware
computing and in user interactions with embodied, autonomous
agents. It also considers adaptation to user attitudes and affective
states.
Previous successes in User Modeling research reflect the cooperation
of researchers in different fields, including artificial intelligence,
human-computer interaction, education, cognitive psychology and
linguistics. The International User Modeling Conferences are
characterized by active participation of people from these areas and
by lively discussions in a pleasant environment. UM'03 is the latest
in a conference series begun in 1986, and follows recent meetings in
Sonthofen (2001), Banff (1999), Sardinia (1997), Hawaii (1996) and
Cape Cod (1994).
For more information about the conference, including the invited
speakers, conference programme, tutorials, workshops, and doctoral
consortium, please visit the conference Web site at
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003
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From: Hamid Arabnia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for participation: June 23-26, 2003, CS & CE
Conferences, Las Vegas
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:42:32 -0400 (EDT)
Call For Participation
The 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science
and Computer Engineering
(15 Joint Int'l Conferences)
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
June 23-26, 2003
You are invited to attend The 2003 International Multiconference in
Computer Science and Computer Engineering (15 Joint Conferences)
to be held in Las Vegas, June 23-26, 2003.
The 15 Joint Conferences are:
1. The 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'03)
2. The 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science,
Systems, and Technology (CISST'03)
3. The 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IC-AI'03)
4. The 2003 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'03)
5. The 2003 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
Applications (ESA'03)
6. The 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'03)
7. The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
Technologies and Applications (MLMTA)
8. The 2003 International Conference on Mathematics and
Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences
(METMBS'03)
9. The 2003 International Conference on Communications in
Computing (CIC'03)
10. The 2003 International Conference on Engineering of
Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'03)
11. The 2003 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'03)
12. The 2003 International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Engineering (IKE'03)
13. The 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering
Research and Practice (SERP'03)
14. The 2003 International Conference on Security and Management
(SAM'03)
15. The 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03)
A link to each conference's URL is available from
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences
To register (online registration), you would need to select
"Registration" written in red (or go to:
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/2003/forms.html )
To reserve a hotel room at Monte Carlo Resort (the site of the
conferences), you would need to call the hotel: 1-800-311-8999 (from
USA) or 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777 (from outside USA).
Conference attendees will have full access to all conferences sessions
(all 15 events). There are also 4 tutorials planned (which are free
to conference attendees).
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From: Yiming Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Postdoc position at CMU
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 13:51:09 -0400
We have an opening for a postdoctoral position in the RADAR (after
Radar O'Reilly) project at the Carnegie Mellon University, sponsored
by DoD research grant entitled "Enduring, Personalized, Cognitive
Assistant" (EPCA). This is a two-year position, starting immediately,
under the supervision by Professor Yiming Yang in the Language
Technology Institute and the Computer Science Department at the
Carnegie Mellon University.
The research will be focused on machine learning approaches to
intelligent email handling. The technical approaches include
hierarchical categorization (on personalized folders), adaptive
filtering, message prioritization based on the importance of the
topic, the authority of the sender, the urgency of deadlines, the cost
of generating an answer, and so forth. We will not focus on spam
filtering. We are looking for a new PhD with good text categorization
research background and publication records, and strong programming or
good = system building skills.
Interested applicants should email a resume and/or any questions to
Professor Yiming Yang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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From: "John Koza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 Immediate Openings for Research Programmers for Genetic
Programming Research at Genetic Progamming Inc. in California
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 10:33:43 -0700
2 Immediate Openings for Research Programmers for Genetic Programming
Research at Genetic Progamming Inc. in California
Genetic Programming Inc. is a small privately funded corporation using
a beowulf cluster computer system consisting of 1,000 Pentium
processors to do research in applying genetic programming to produce
human-competitive results. Our current focus is on automating the
invention process and generating useful, patentable, and
human-competitive inventions by means of genetic programming. Our
group publishes and presents numerous research papers each year at
various scientific conferences and journals (both in the field of
genetic and evolutionary computation and in the fields of the work). A
good overview of the type of work we do can be seen on the home page
of Genetic Programming Inc. at www.genetic-programming.com and the
home page of John R. Koza at Stanford University is
http://www.smi.stanford.edu/people/koza.
Our current genetic programming system is written in Java and the
simulators we work with are typically written in C.
The RESEARCH PROGRAMMER position requires the ability to discuss and
contribute ideas on how to approach the new problems; to write, debug,
and run the necessary programs in the context of our existing software
and hardware system; to analyze the results (and refine the code); and
to participate in the writing up of the results for
publication. Although actual programming will consume less than half
of the time, the person in this position must be able to efficiently
and accurately write a large amount of code. Thus, excellent
programming skills and productivity are a must. This position calls
for at least a B.S. degree and at least two years experience in Java
and/or C doing academic or corporate research programming. A Master's
degree is preferable and a PhD degree would be even more
desirable. The successful candidate is expected to have expertise in
some specific science or engineering domain in order to advance the
aim of applying genetic programming to that domain. The possibilities
for domain areas are very open-ended and include, but are not limited
to, analog circuit design, controller design, finite element analysis,
shape optimization, operations research, mechanical design, signal
processing, applied mathematics, chemical engineering, bioinformatics,
biochemistry, computational biology, genomics, protein structure
prediction, genetic networks, metabolic pathways, etc. Experience
with, or knowledge of, genetic programming, genetic algorithms, or
evolutionary computation, machine learning, neural networks,
artificial intelligence, artificial life, DNA computing, etc. is a
plus, but not required. The position offers competitive compensation
and benefits. Compensation will be appropriate for the level of
education and experience.
Please include all relevant information, date available, and several
references.
Our offices are located 3 blocks from the Cal Train station and San
Jose Light Rail Station in downtown Mountain View,
California. Downtown Mountain View is an attractive and lively area
with about 40 restaurants and various other businesses.
Genetic Programming Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Because we
desire to fill these positions immediately, the candidate must
currently possess the legal ability to work in the United States.
John R. Koza
Genetic Programming, Inc.
P. O. Box K
Los Altos, CA 94023-4011 USA
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.genetic-programming.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Senior Lectureship/Lectureship in Computer Science (Constraints)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:54:46 +0100
Below is an advertisement for an academic position that you may be
interested in. If interested, please note the following:
- Closing date for applications: 20th June, 2003
- Applicants must apply formally as specified at:
http://www.ucc.ie/appointments/academic/compsciad.html
UCC is home to the Cork Constraint Computation Centre: www.4c.ucc.ie.
Gene Freuder
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
SENIOR LECTURESHIP/LECTURESHIP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CONSTRAINTS)
University College Cork (UCC) has a long tradition in computing:
George Boole, the inventor of Boolean Algebra, was the first Professor
of Mathematics. The Department of Computer Science offers degrees at
BSc, MSc and PhD levels. The Department has an active research
programme in a range of areas, and most recently has attracted
research funding for constraints, foundations of computing,
knowledge-based systems, networking, distributed/parallel computing
and security. The Department is home to a Science Foundation Ireland
(SFI) Research Fellow, and two SFI Research Investigators.
In conjunction with the appointment of Professor Eugene Freuder as SFI
Research Fellow, applications are now invited for the above permanent
academic position. Applications are invited from candidates with a
background in Computer Science, relevant experience in academia and/or
industry, and with research interests in the area of Constraints. The
successful candidate will be expected to teach across a broad range of
Computer Science courses, contribute to the research activities of the
Department, and to attract external research funding.
The Department of Computer Science is one of the largest at UCC, with
nearly 30 full-time academic staff, and is set to continue growing its
research activity significantly in line with strategic plans. The
Department will be housed in a new Information Technology building -
the top infrastructure priority for the University. The 16K square
meter building is designed to encourage a spirit of innovation and
collaboration, and will provide world-class teaching and research
facilities, an industry center for incubating campus companies, and
laboratories for research groups funded by SFI and other sources.
The University is located in Cork, the second largest city of the
Republic of Ireland. Cork is a port city, built on islands in the
valley of the River Lee, with coastline, hills and sandy beaches
within easy reach. The city has an International Airport and also has
car-ferry connections to the United Kingdom and France.
For informal discussion contact: Professor Cormac J. Sreenan,
Department of Computer Science, University College Cork,
Ireland. Tel.: +353-21-4902795 / Fax: +353-21-4274390 / Email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.cs.ucc.ie
To apply, or for further details contact:
http://www.ucc.ie/appointments/ or Department of Human Resources,
University College Cork, Ireland. Tel.: +353 21 4903057; Fax: +353 21
4276995; Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salary scales:
Senior Lectureship (Equiv. to US Associate Prof.) EURO 55,798 96
79,060 pa [new entrants]
Lectureship (Equiv. to US Assistant Prof.) EURO 26,985 96 68,193 pa
[new entrants]
Closing date for applications: 20th June, 2003.
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From: Pat Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine Learning Researcher (iKuni)
Date: 6/2/2003 2:23PM
iKuni Inc.
Machine Learning Researcher
Seeking candidates with a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and a strong
inclination towards applied research.
iKuni is located in Palo Alto, CA. We focus on the application of
machine learning to games to generate unique and personalized in-game
characters.
For more information, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Pat Langley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Researcher Positions (Columbia University)
Date: 6/2/2003 2:23PM
Columbia University
Center for Computational Learning Systems
Researcher Positions
The new Center for Computational Learning Systems is seeking highly
qualified researchers in machine learning and data mining, especially
in the areas of bioinformatics; natural language, speech, and text;
and systems security. An ideal candidate will have both theoretical
strength and experience with applications to one or more of these
specific areas, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the proven ability to
develop and lead a successful research program. Candidates should have
a Ph.D. in Computer Science or engineering discipline related to their
research area. Candidates at all levels should have a strong record
of publication.
If currently at a university, candidates for Senior Research Scientist
positions are expected to have a strong record of attracting research
grant support and supervising graduate research. If at an industrial
lab, SRS candidates should have management experience, patents and
previous success at technology transfer. SRS candidates would
typically have received prizes and been elected as a fellow or officer
of a professional society.
Research Scientist candidates are expected to have the promise of
growing to meet the requirements of a Senior Research Scientist. If
from academia candidates are expected to have a strong record of
attracting grant support and supervising graduate research. If from
industry candidates should have a strong record of successful research
and technology transfer along with management experience.
For Associate Researcher positions, candidates are expected to have
demonstrated innovation and excellence in research, at least some
publications in top journals and conferences, and the promise of
growing to meet the requirements of a Senior Research Scientist.
Center members will be expected to seek support for their research,
and will have considerable autonomy in creating their own research
programs. The Center aims to provide support services that will allow
researchers to do their best work. Members will supervise Columbia
grad students in their projects. Members have the opportunity to teach
but teaching is not required. Joint projects with CS as well as
interdisciplinary activities with other Columbia University
departments are strongly encouraged. Appointments to the Center will
be for fixed renewable terms. Hiring is not necessarily synchronized
with the academic year.
Qualified applicants should submit a CV and statement of research
experience and goals to:
Center for Computational Learning Systems
Columbia University
500 West 120th Street, Room 510
New York, NY 10027
Electronic applications can be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Columbia University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity
employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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From: "peetm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Computational Linguistics Group website (University of Oxford)
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 11:57:06 +0100
The new Computational Linguistics Group (CLG) at the University of
Oxford is pleased to announce that its website is now up and running:
it may be found at www.clg.ox.ac.uk.
The main section of the website is dedicated to the 'CL Forum' - a
modern, threaded, message-board. The board, of course, has sections
on Computational Linguistics, AI, and Machine Learning. We hope that
visitors will find it both a popular and useful resource - and a great
way to discuss their field of research and interest with likeminded
people (or machines!)
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
addr: Computational Linguistics Group
University of Oxford
The Clarendon Institute
Walton Street
Oxford
OX1 2HG
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Transformation-Based Learning Bibliography
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:09:18 +0200
Hi All,
For a couple of years now, I've been compiling a bibliography of
papers about the theory, use and implementation of
Transformation-Based Learning (a machine learning method, invented by
Eric Brill, which have been used to learn rules for many natural
language processing tasks).
The relevant URL is:
http://www.ling.gu.se/~lager/Mutbl/bibliography.html
I'd like to keep the bibliography up-to-date, so if you can suggest
corrections and additions, please mail them directly to me, and I see
to it that they get included.
Thanks,
Torbjörn Lager
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From: "Fader, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Online behavioral data from comScore and WRDS
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:20:02 -0400
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) and comScore Networks have
established a partnership to make two extraordinary online data
resources available to the academic community. comScore captures the
complete online behavior of a panel of 1.5 million worldwide Internet
users, not only including Web-wide surfing activity, but also complete
details of actual purchase transactions across virtually every
e-commerce site.
WRDS provides a web-based interface for instantly accessing and
extracting data from leading business-oriented databases using a
desktop PC. Currently licensed by over 75 of the world's top business
schools, WRDS provides approximately 1.5 terabytes of research data
from a wide range of providers.
The comScore/WRDS partnership includes two key datasets that
collectively support a wide range of research and teaching
requirements.
First there is netScore, a commercially available audience measurement
database that reports activity of the top 10,000 Web sites, from a
total worldwide level down to 78 local U.S. markets. It includes
dozens of aggregate measures describing visitor trends, site usage
intensity and demographic breakdowns. It is delivered via an
easy-to-use Web-based reporting tool, and is updated on a weekly
basis.
Additionally, WRDS will have comScore data available at the user
session level. This dataset will include individual-level surfing and
purchasing activity for about 100,000 comScore panelists over a
six-month period across all Web sites. It will provide useful details
about each browsing session as well as in-depth information about
every online purchase transaction made by each panelist.
For more information about accessing these databases if your school is
a WRDS subscriber, or details about how to become one if you aren't,
please go to http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/demo/comscore/index.shtml.
Peter Fader, Professor of Marketing
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
749 Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340
phone: 215.898.1132
fax: 215.898.2534
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.petefader.com
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From: "William W. Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: software available to researchers
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:11:19 -0400
Two learning systems written back when I was at AT&T Labs are now
available for research purposes, via Rutgers University.
-SLIPPER: http://software.cs.rutgers.edu/slipper/slipper_license.html
-WHIRL: http://software.cs.rutgers.edu/whirl/whirl_license.html
SLIPPER is a rule-learning system based on boosting. The code is based
on William Cohen's widely-used RIPPER learning system. Like RIPPER,
SLIPPER is fast, robust, and easy to use. SLIPPER also supports
set-valued features, which makes it useful for text categorization
using a "bag of words" representation of text.
WHIRL is a representation system that combines some of the properties
of relational databases, and some of the properties of statistical
ranked-retrieval systems. WHIRL can also be used as a
nearest-neighbor text classifier.
More background information on SLIPPER and WHIRL can be found at
http://wcohen.com/slipper/ and http://wcohen.com/whirl/
My thanks to Haym Hirsh for repeatedly flogging the legal teams at
AT&T and Rutgers to make this possible.
- William
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William W. Cohen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wcohen.com
Senior Research Scientist
CALD, Carnegie Mellon University
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From: Johan Suykens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Book on Learning Theory
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 13:29:22 +0200
-Announcement New Book on Learning Theory-
J.A.K. Suykens, G. Horvath, S. Basu, C. Micchelli, J. Vandewalle (Eds.)
Advances in Learning Theory: Methods, Models and Applications,
NATO Science Series III: Computer & Systems Sciences, Volume 190,
IOS Press Amsterdam, 2003, 436pp. (ISBN: 1 58603 341 7)
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/natoasi/book.html
http://www.iospress.nl/site/html/boek-1722819779.html
Book edited at the occasion of the NATO-ASI (Advanced Study Institute)
on Learning Theory and Practice (Leuven July 2002)
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/natoasi/ltp2002.html
For more details, please refer to the book Web site.
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From: Raul Valdes-Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine Learning patent applications
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:17:07 -0400
Hi, MLL readers may wish to see a hierarchical clustering of all
2001-present U.S. patent applications that mention Machine Learning:
http://vivisimo.com/search?v:file=ML_Patent_Apps
[data source: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html]
Cordially,
Raul
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Raul Valdes-Perez
Vivisimo, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Organized information
from anywhere, any time,
in any language."
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