Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 15
Saturday, September 6, 2003
Contents
Meeting Announcements
Workshop on Computational Intelligence
Computational Intelligence Journal: Business Agents...
CFP - Interaction between humans and Autonomous Systems
Career Opportunities
Ph.D. student position at OGI
Miscellany
ICML-2003 papers are now on-line
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From: Vasant Honavar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Workshop on Computational Intelligence
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:38:48 -0500 (CDT)
Computational Intelligence Workshop
John Vincent Atanasoff Symposium on Advanced Computing
October 30 - November 1, 2003
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-1040
Call for Abstracts and Call for Participation
A workshop on Computational Intelligence will be held at Iowa State
University during October 30 to November 1, 2003. This workshop is
part of Symposium to be held to commemorate John Vincent Atanasoff,
one of the inventors of the digital computer. Details of the symposium
can be found at www.iastate.edu/JVA-2003/
The symposium includes four workshops.
The Computational Intelligence features invited talks by
Pierre Baldi, University of California at Irvine
Joseph Halpern, Cornell University
James Hendler, University of Maryland
Ramesh Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Pazzani, National Science Foundation
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Satinder Singh, University of Michigan
Stephen Smale, University of California at Berkeley
Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard Sutton, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
The symposium will also feature a student poster session. To
participate in the poster session(s), authors should prepare and
submit a brief abstract in accordance with the formatting guidelines
posted on the symposium website.
The abstracts are due by September 15 (hard deadline) regardless of
the deadlines given on the symposium website.
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From: "Ali A. Ghorbani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Computational Intelligence Journal: Business Agents...
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:03:42 -0300 (ADT)
Announcing a special Issue of
Computational Intelligence
Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB)
http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb
Agent technology is one of the most promising tools to conduct
business via the Internet. E-business increasingly uses Web Services
or agents acting on behalf of human buyers and sellers. Such Business
Agents can profit from the machine-interpretable product and service
descriptions provided by the Semantic Web. Cross-fertilized techniques
from AI (e.g., Intelligent Agents) and the Internet (e.g., the
Semantic Web) are thus explored by numerous organizations world-wide,
including W3C, OASIS, DARPA, NRC, IST, and INTAP. Web ontologies -
consisting of taxonomies and/or rules - constitute the centerpiece of
the new AI-Internet synthesis.
This special issue aims to address research in extending Web
techniques by AI or transferring AI techniques to the Web in an
attempt to create intelligent business agents. The objective behind
this special issue is to report on state-of-the art of theoretical and
methodological developments for E-business, Agents, Web Systems, the
Semantic Web and novel uses of AI techniques in the Web and extending
Web techniques by AI.
Topics of interest:
Topics related to agents and e-business are welcome. Topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to:
Adaptive business agents
Trust, privacy, security of business agents
Application areas for rules (e.g., P3P, XACML, ebXML, DRM, etc.)
Architectures: methodologies, frameworks, mobility of Business agents
Belief logics and planning for multiple agents
Description logics and Web ontologies (e.g., DAML+OIL, OWL)
Distributed deduction for the Semantic Web
E-Business architectures in the Semantic Web
Extended Horn logics and rule markup techniques (e.g., RuleML) Arial,
Inference engines: deduction and induction
Knowledge management and e-business agents
Large-Scale E-Business Agent-Based Systems
Lessons learned from implemented systems
Natural language interfaces for business agents
Negotiations: bargaining, auctions, and trust
Product and service codes/registries (e.g., UNSPSC/UDDI)
Semantic Web approaches and architectures
Semantic Web Services
Web agents for producers and consumers
Submission Instructions:
Researchers interested in contributing paper(s) should send them
electronically to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please observe the Computational
Intelligence submission
guidelines(http://www.cs.unb.ca/basweb/ci_special_issue/ci_guidelines.pdf.
Paper lengths should not exceed 15 pages in Computational Intelligence.
Important Dates:
Submission date: November 14, 2003
Notification of acceptance: February 13, 2004
Camera ready copies: April 9, 2004
For more information, see http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb
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From: "James P. Gunderson, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP - Interaction between humans and Autonomous Systems
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:40:19 -0600
AAAI-SSS Symposium on Interaction Between Humans and Autonomous
Systems over Extended Operation
Overview
Autonomous systems are needed to reduce human workload, to increase
efficiency, and to perform routine, monotonous, challenging, or
dangerous operations for which humans are not cognitively or
physically well suited. A key challenge for fielding such systems is
supporting effective interaction between humans and these autonomous
systems as situations and objectives change over extended operation.
As the lifecycle of deployed autonomous systems lengthens, the need to
support enhanced capabilities for human-interaction increases. This
symposium will explore possible designs for enhanced capabilities such
as human supervisory monitoring, response to unforeseen circumstances,
requests for assistance, warnings for safety hazards, degraded
performance, or departure from original objectives.
Interaction between humans and autonomous systems for effective
extended operations entails balancing the needs to (1) detect and
eliminate unproductive, annoying, or harmful interaction, (2) initiate
needed interaction, (3) allow for graceful degradation in the absence
of desired interactions, (4) produce efficient and meaningful
interaction content, and (5) meet coordination and information needs
on both sides. In this symposium we will look at designing autonomous
systems to address these needs, covering research issues such as:
adjustable autonomy
learning from past experiences
neglect tolerance
teamwork and human-agent teaming as well as human supervision of
agents
coordination among potentially distributed humans and autonomous
systems
human-computer interaction (and human-agent / human-robot)
visibility into autonomous system state and operations
designs for models in autonomous systems
reprioritizing goals, and accepting and responding to new goals
on the fly
differences in long-term versus short-term autonomous system
operation
The objective of this symposium is to gain insights into design
challenges for human interaction by exploring both the similarities
and differences across research applications such as control
automation, robotics, and software agent-based systems. Presentations
from these areas as well as human-computer interaction, psychology,
sociology, and cognitive science will be encouraged to provide the
best possible crossover of concepts, techniques, and methodologies
among disciplines. This symposium continues and extends the topic of
the very successful 2003 Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with
Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments.
Submissions:
Potential participants should submit a 2-page abstract or 6-page paper
electronically to James Gunderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] by the symposium
deadline. Papers should focus on the issues of effective interaction
between humans and autonomous systems across changing situations and
objectives over extended operation.
Critical Dates:
Submission of abstract: Oct. 03, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: Nov. 07, 2003
Final paper Submission: Jan 30, 2004.
For more information see:
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/2004/sss-04.html
and
http://www.gamma-two.com/sss04.html
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From: Melanie Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ph.D. student position at OGI
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:14:11 -0700
Ph.D. Student Position with Professor Melanie Mitchell at the Oregon
Graduate Institute
I have an opening for one graduate research assistant to work on a
project applying machine learning methods, including evolutionary
algorithms, to image analysis. The applications will be primarily in
biomedical domains. Two major aspects of the research will be (1) how
to best combine different machine learning methods and (2) how to
automatically incorporate prior knowledge and contextual information
in image analysis.
Applicants must be willing to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Computer
Science and Engineering at the OGI School of Science and Engineering,
Oregon Health & Science University, near Portland, Oregon. The
department web pages can be found at http://www.cse.ogi.edu.
Proficiency in C, C++, Java, or another high-level programming
language is required. Background in machine learning, evolutionary
computation, image processing and/or computer vision is highly
desirable. The assistantship will cover tuition and stipend.
To apply, send a resume with your research interests, list of relevant
course work or experience, programming experience and languages, and
any other information you think would be relevant, and the names and
contact information of at least two professors or scientists who will
act as references. Please send this information in electronic form to
Melanie Mitchell at the e-mail address above.
Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
Students of any nationality may apply. OGI is an equal opportunity
employer and particularly welcomes applications from women and
minority candidates.
OGI is located 12 miles west of downtown Portland. Portland offers a
superb quality of life, with extensive cultural amenities and
spectacular natural surroundings, including close proximity to
mountains, beaches, and wilderness areas.
Melanie Mitchell
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University
20000 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, OR 97006
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ICML-2003 papers are now on-line
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:10:28 -0700
The published papers from ICML-2003 (the Twentieth Int'l Conf on
Machine Learning) are now on-line:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/icml03/titlesAndAuthors.html
The published proceedings can also be ordered from AAAI Press:
http://aaai.org/Press/Proceedings/ICML/2003/icml03.html
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