Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 6
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Contents
Calls for Papers/Participation
AP2PC'2004: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
AAMAS-04 Workshop on Learning and Evolution in Agent Based Systems
PAKM2004: Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
Mass Customization and Personalization Forum 2004
AI-2004: 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ICDL 04: 3rd Int'l Conf. on Development and Learning
24th Urban Data Management Symposium
SASEMAS 2004: CFP
IEEE TEC: Special Issue on Analysis and Design of Representations
Other Meeting Announcements
CEC 2004 Contests
Deadline Extended: GECCO Workshop on Adaptation, Approximation, ...
Deadline Extended: GECCO Workshop on Self-organization in ...
Deadline Extended: LOFT6
ICML-04 Tutorial and Workshop Program
Career Opportunities
Career Opportunities
Program Leader: Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
Open Position---Fulltime Scientific Software Engineer
Miscellaneous Announcements
automatic clustering of all 702 MLJ articles
6th European Agent Systems Summer School: CFP
New issues of cognitive systems research
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From: "Gianluca Moro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AP2PC'2004: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:01:15 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Workshop on
AGENTS AND PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING (AP2PC 2004)
http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/
New York City, USA
July 19, 2004
to be held at AAMAS 2004
Third International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract: 1st April 2004
Paper submission: 6th April 2004
Acceptance notification: 1st May 2004
Workshop: 19th July 2004
Camera ready for
Post-proceedings: 31st August 2004
Publisher: Springer, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
OVERVIEW
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is attracting enormous media attention,
spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster,
Gnutella, and Morpheus. The peers are autonomous, or as some call
them, first-class citizens. P2P networks are emerging as a new
distributed computing paradigm for their potential to harness the
computing power of the hosts composing the network and make their
under-utilized resources available to others. This possibility has
generated a lot of interest in many industrial organizations which
have already launched important projects.
In P2P systems, peer and web services in the role of resources become
shared and combined to enable new capabilities greater than the sum of
the parts. This means that services can be developed and treated as
pools of methods that can be composed dynamically. The decentralized
nature of P2P computing makes it also ideal for economic environments
that foster knowledge sharing and collaboration as well as cooperative
and non-cooperative behaviors in sharing resources. Business models
are being developed, which rely on incentive mechanisms to supply
contributions to the system and methods for controlling free riding.
Clearly, the growth and the management of P2P networks must be
regulated to ensure adequate compensation of content and/or service
providers. At the same time, there is also a need to ensure equitable
distribution of content and services.
Although researchers working on distributed computing, MultiAgent
Systems, databases and networks have been using similar concepts for a
long time, it is only recently that papers motivated by the current
P2P paradigm have started appearing in high quality conferences and
workshops. Research in agent systems in particular appears to be most
relevant because, since their inception, MultiAgent Systems have
always been thought of as networks of peers.
The MultiAgent paradigm can thus be superimposed on the P2P
architecture, where agents embody the description of the task
environments, the decision-support capabilities, the collective
behavior, and the interaction protocols of each peer. The emphasis in
this context on decentralization, user autonomy, ease and speed of
growth that gives P2P its advantages, also leads to significant
potential problems. Most prominent among these problems are
coordination: the ability of an agent to make decisions on its own
actions in the context of activities of other agents, and scalability:
the value of the P2P systems lies in how well they scale along several
dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness,
traffic redistribution, and so on. It is important to scale up
coordination strategies along multiple dimensions to enhance their
tractability and viability, and thereby to widen the application
domains. These two problems are common to many large-scale
applications. Without coordination, agents may be wasting their
efforts, squander resources and fail to achieve their objectives in
situations requiring collective effort.
This workshop will bring together researchers working on agent systems
and P2P computing with the intention of strengthening this
connection. Researchers from other related areas such as distributed
systems, networks and database systems will also be welcome (and, in
our opinion, have a lot to contribute).
We seek high-quality and original contributions on the general theme
of agents and P2P computing. The following is a non-exhaustive list of
topics of special interest:
* Intelligent agent techniques for P2P computing
* P2P computing techniques for multi-agent systems
* The Semantic Web, Semantic Coordination Mechanisms and P2P systems
* Scalability, coordination, robustness and adaptability in P2P systems
* Self-organization and emergent behavior in P2P networks
* E-commerce and P2P computing
* Participation and Contract Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Systems
* Computational Models of Trust and Reputation
* Community of interest building and regulation, and behavioral norms
* Intellectual property rights in P2P systems
* P2P architectures
* Scalable Data Structures for P2P systems
* Services in P2P systems (service definition languages, service
discovery, filtering and composition etc.)
* Knowledge Discovery and P2P Data Mining Agents
* P2P data management
* Information ecosystems and P2P systems
* Security issues in P2P networks
* Pervasive computing based on P2P architectures (ad-hoc networks,
wireless communication devices and mobile systems)
* Grid computing solutions based on agents and P2P paradigms
* Legal issues in P2P networks
FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/
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From: "blaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:12:15 +0100
INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
Stanford University, U.S.A., September 6, 2004
http://idamap.org/idamap2004
Call For Papers
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: June 5, 2004
Notification: June 28, 2004
Camera-ready: July 30, 2004
GENERAL INFO
IDAMAP-2004 is the ninth workshop on intelligent data analysis in
medicine and pharmacology and will be held just prior to MEDINFO
Conference.
The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for
data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present
results of analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and
that somehow exploit expert knowledge of the problem domain. Typical
methods include data mining, temporal abstraction, machine learning,
and data visualization.
Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the
opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an
atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among
researchers and practitioners. The workshop is intended to be a
genuinely interactive event, thus ample time will be allotted for
general discussion.
The workshop will feature two invited talks. Michael Kattan from
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York will give a talk on
cancer prediction models and their utility in clinical practice, and
Marco Ramoni from Harvard Medical School in Boston will talk on
Bayesian networks for integrative genomics.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- data mining techniques, including machine learning, clustering,
neural networks, SVM, etc.
- other techniques for predictive modeling,
- data visualization,
- analysis of large data sets,
- relational data mining,
- interpretation of time-ordered data,
- knowledge representation and management,
- utility of background knowledge,
- integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within
biomedical information systems.
PROGRAM, SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION
The scientific program of the workshop will consist of presentations
of invited and accepted papers and panel discussion. Paper submissions
addressing the methodological issues relevant to the workshops as well
as papers describing particular biomedical applications or data
analysis tools are invited.
For details on registration, and submission and preparation of papers
see workshop's web page (http://idamap.org/idamap2004).
Accepted papers will be published as workshop notes. A subsequent
publication of selected and revised papers in peer-reviewed journal is
planned.
CONTACT PERSON
Blaz Zupan
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sandip Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AAMAS-04 Workshop on Learning and Evolution in Agent Based Systems
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:57:57 -0600 (CST)
AAMAS-04 Workshop on "Learning and Evolution in Agent Based Systems"
Researchers in machine learning and adaptive systems have been
addressing issues concerned with learning and adapting from past
experience, observation, failures, etc. Whereas most of this research
has focused on techniques for acquisition and effective use of problem
solving knowledge from the viewpoint of a single autonomous agent,
recent investigations have opened the possibility of application of
some of these techniques in multiagent settings.
The goal of this workshop is to focus on research that will address
unique requirements for agents learning and adapting to their
environment. Recognizing the applicability and limitations of current
machine learning research when applied to situated agents will be of
particular relevance to this workshop.
The workshop will also encourage presentation and discussion of ideas
relating to evolutionary learning and adaptation techniques in the
context of agent based systems. Expected contributions include both
evolutionary learning by individual agents as well as evolutionary
design of agent societies. Of particular interest is new models for
coevolving agent populations.
We solicit research contributions that address new learning
modalities, e.g., the use of communication to enhance learning.
Presentation of applications of learning in key multiagent problems
like negotiation, teamwork, trust, auctions, supply chains, etc. are
welcome.
We focus on three different ways in which machine learning can be used
to enhance the performance of an Agent Based System:
-- An agent can learn the preferences and changing priorities of
associated users.
-- An agent can learn about other agents in the environment in
order to compete and/or cooperate with them. An agent can learn from
other agents, taking advantage of their experiences and incorporating
these into its own knowledge base.
-- An agent can learn about other regularities in its environment.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We would particularly welcome new insights into these problems from
other related disciplines and thus would like to emphasize the
inter-disciplinary nature of the workshop. Among others, papers of
the following kind are welcome:
1) Evaluation of the effectiveness of individual learning strategies
(e.g., case-based, explanation-based, inductive, reinforcement), or
multistrategy combinations.
2) Characterization of learning and adaptation methods in terms of
modeling power, communication abilities, knowledge requirement,
processing abilities of individual agents.
3) Developing learning and adaptation strategies, or reward
structures, for environments with cooperative agents, selfish
agents, partially cooperative (will cooperate only if individual
goals are not sacrificed) and for environments that can contain
mixture of these types of agents.
4) Analyzing convergence properties of existing algorithms and
constructing algorithms that guarantee convergence and stability of
group behavior.
5) Evaluating effects of knowledge acquisition mechanisms on
responsiveness of agents or groups to changes in the agent
population in the environment.
6) Learning to work as an effective team by taking advantage of
complementary skills and resources.
7) Agents learning via passive or non-intrusive observation of user
behaviors or by mimicking other agents.
8) Evolving agent behaviors or co-evolving multiple agents with
similar/opposing interests.
9) Investigation of teacher-student relationships between agents or
between an agent and the associated user.
10) Applications of learning agents including agents that learn to
negotiate contracts, learning trustworthiness of other agents,
learn to detect security threats, etc.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
E-mail the URL of either a
-- brief statement of interest (1 page),
-- complete paper (3000 words maximum)
including keywords and authors' complete address to Sandip Sen at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Papers and statement of interest must either
be in postscript or pdf format. NOTE: You should send an URL for
retrieving the papers, not the actual paper (if this is a problem,
please contact Sandip Sen at [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for paper submission: April 19, 2004
Acceptance notice to participants: May 17, 2004
Camera-ready papers due: May 31, 2004
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From: "pakm2004" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PAKM2004: Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:51:00 +0100
5th International Conference on
Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management
www.dke.univie.ac.at/pakm2004
2-3 December 2004, Vienna, Austria
AIMS AND SCOPE:
To succed in a world characterisied by the accelerating pace of the
"internet age", organisations must efficiently leverage their most
valuable and underleveraged resource: the intellectual capital of
their highly educated, skilled, and experienced employees. The
compression of communication cycles and the omnipresence of
information forces enterprises to seek a faster return on knowledge -
knowledge that ages rapidly in a market place brimming with
innovation.
PAKM2004 addresses all aspects of Knowledge Management and their role
in next-generation business solutions. We seek original contributions
in the triangle of business and organization sciences, cognitive
science, and computer science that represent a true advancement beyond
the state-of-the-art of Knowledge Management:
a. Building and maintaining knowledge inventories
- knowledge directories
- automatic creation of semantic annotations
- skill management
b. Collaboration and knowledge sharing
- social and cultural aspects of knowledge sharing communities
- collaboration platforms
- integration of processes across organizational boundaries
c. Capturing and securing knowledge
- knowledge capturing within business processes
- lessons learned and debriefing
- organizational memories
d. Knowledge utilization
- content-oriented search through ontology-based sematic annotations
- integration of knowledge and business processes
- graphical user interfaces for retrieving and visualizing knowledge
e. Developing new knowledge
- innovation management
- ontology learning and development
- knowledge mining (from data, text and the Web)
f. Measurement
- measuring the benefits of knowledge management solutions
- benchmarking
- intellectual capital
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission of papers by August, 2, 2004
- Acceptance notices mailed by September, 20, 2004
- Final, camera-ready papers due by October, 25, 2004
CONTACT AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
Prof. Dr. Dimitris Karagiannis
Elena-Teodora Miron
University of Vienna
Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics
Department of Knowledge Engineering
Br=FCnner Str. 72
1210 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43-(0)1-4277-38481
Fax: +43-(0)1-4277-38484
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.dke.univie.ac.at/pakm2004
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?B?TWFya28gTeRraXDk5A==?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mass Customization and Personalization Forum 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:31:54 +0200
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mass Customization and Personalization Forum 2004
Implications to Management of Information Systems
(Side event of ECIS 2004)
THEME
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will play increasing
and essential strategic role in the present business environment. ICT
offer companies new ways to do business and new, emerging business
strategies require more and more from ICT.
One of the emerging business strategies is mass customization (MC),
that is, ability to use flexible processes and organizational
structures to produce varied and often individually customized
products and services at the price of standardized, mass-produced
alternatives. MC influences all industries from metal and electronic
industries through fashion industry to software industry and
everything between. Competitiveness in this environment demands the
integration of ICT potential with these new business strategies.
The theme of the workshop is 'Implications to Management of
Information Systems'. This theme brings into attention the IS
perspective to mass customization research, where information and
knowledge as well as their processing are emphasized. Researchers and
practitioners from different fields and different countries are
invited to contribute to this multi-discipline forum on Mass
Customization.
LOCATION
MCPF 2004 will be held in Turku School of Economics and Business
Admistration. Premises are located almost in city center.
Turku is the oldest city in Finland. The first record of the City of
Turku is in a Papal decree dated on the 23rd of January 1229. The City
houses over 170,000 people and the greater regional area about
300,000. Turku, with it's surroundings, is the fifth largest city in
Finland and, along with Helsinki and Tampere, it is among the most
significant regional areas in the country. The Turku area is well
known especially for its enchanting archipelago, top ranking food and
pharmaceutical companies. Turku also invests especially in
biotechnology.
Turku has excellent connections from the surrounding Europe. There are
several direct daily flights from Stockholm, which take about 40
minutes, and from Helsinki, which take about 35 minutes. Train
connections from Helsinki to Turku are available about once in hour
and take about one hour.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Researchers and practitioners from different fields and different
countries are invited to contribute to this multi-discipline forum on
Mass Customization. Please submit a 1-3 page extended abstract for
review by March 31, 2004. In your abstract you shoud define as clearly
as possible the empirical or conceptual leap forward you are seeking,
your methods, and the nature of your data. Abstracts will be reviewed
by an international review board. Full paper is due to 30 April 2004.
Important dates:
March 2004 Deadline for submission of the extended abstracts
March 2004 Notification on acceptance
30 April 2004 Deadline for submission of the full papers
30 April 2004 Early registration deadline
12-13 June 2004 MCP Forum 2004
For more detailed instructions, please look for:
www.fimcp.fi/forum/submission.php
For additional information, please contact organizers,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dianhui Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AI-2004: 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:43:29 +1100
AI-2004 First Call for Papers
The 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in
conjunction with the 7th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference,
Cairns Convention Centre, Queensland, Australia, 6th-10th December
2004 URL: http://ai2004.cqu.edu.au
AI-2004 will be the 17th ACS Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. This series of conferences attracts leading researchers
and practitioners from both Australia and overseas. The conference
focuses on all aspects of artificial intelligence, from theoretical
advances to the latest applied developments and, as such is of
interest to both researchers and practitioners. AI-2004 invites
authors to submit their original and unpublished work demonstrating
current research in any area of Artificial Intelligence.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Date: 1st July 2004
Acceptance Date: 15th August 2004
Final Submission Date: 15th September 2004
Paper Submission and Instructions for authors
Authors are invited to submit their complete manuscript in PDF format
online [http://ai2004.cqu.edu.au]. As in previous years, the
conference expects to publish the proceedings in the Springer Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The length of
submitted papers (excluding the title page) must be no more than 12
single-spaced, single-column pages including all figures, tables, and
bibliography. Instructions for preparing the manuscript can be found
at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers not
conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without
review. All papers will be peer reviewed by three members of the
international programme committee.
Special Sessions and Workshop/Tutorial
AI-2004 solicits Special Session and Workshop/tutorial proposals.
Please send proposals to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Special
sessions are intended to usher in in-depth discussions in specialist
areas relevant to the conference theme. The session organisers will
coordinate the associated review process and conference proceedings
will include all papers from the Special Sessions. To be placed on an
email list for further information, please email the secretariat.
For further details, please contact:
AI-2004 Conference Secretariat
Faculty of Informatics and Communication
Central Queensland University
Rockhampton Queensland 4702 Australia
Tel: +61 749232145 Fax: +61 749309729
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrea Chiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ICDL 04: 3rd Int'l Conf. on Development and Learning
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 02:23:58 -0800 (PST)
ICDL 2004 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 5 2004.
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING
SOCIAL BRAINS
The Salk Institute
October 20-22, 2004
San Diego, California
http://icdl.cc
The goal of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in
neuroscience, machine learning, robotics, and developmental
psychology, in order to gain new insights about learning and
development in natural organisms and robots. The scope of
developmental processes to be considered is broad, including
cognitive, social, emotional, and many other skills exhibited by
humans, and other animals. The theme of the conference this year will
be "Developing Social Brains", but other topics related to development
and learning are welcome.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submission deadline is May 5 2004. Papers for the meeting can be
submitted ONLY through the conference's web site at:
http://icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word summary
or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages).
SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEUROCOMPUTING
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their paper for publication in a special issue of the
Neurocomputing Journal, published by Elsevier Science B.V.
(http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom)
REVIEW PROCESS
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Papers
will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on the clarity with
which the work is described and the relevance to the goals of the
conference. All accepted papers not selected for oral talks as well as
papers explicitly submitted as poster presentations will be included in
one of three evening poster sessions. Authors will be notified of the
presentation format of their papers by the beginning of July.
For more information, visit http://icdl.cc
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From: Robert Laurini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 24th Urban Data Management Symposium
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:50:53 +0100
UDMS 2004
24TH URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM
October 27-29, 2004
CHIOGGIA, VENICE, ITALY
UDMS, the Urban Data Management Society, has organised international
symposia at various locations in Europe in order to promote the
development of information systems in local government since 1971.
An important aim of UDMS has been to provide a forum for people to
discuss new approaches, to consider new technologies and to share
practical experiences in the field of urban data management. The focus
has been on urban applications but regional and rural issues have
always been well represented and have grown recently in importance.
For the next symposium in Chioggia (near Venice, Italy), the
organising committee invites you to submit a paper concerning the
topics listed below.
Theme 1): Nature, Collection Exchange, Use and Maintenance of Urban
Data
Topics:
- Applications of high resolution remote sensing data
- The new era of cartography and maps: their transformation to
geographic/cartographic databases and the impact on many areas
- Integration of data from multiple sources (for example public
agencies/city authorities, etc.) and issues of scale,
terminology/ontology structure, formats, etc.
- Field data collection and quality control of urban data
- Underground urban assets: the way to collect, store & visualize
location, construction and condition data
- Data availability and transparency issues - barriers to decision
making
- Data interchange
Theme 2): Spatial Data Infrastructures
Topics:
- Spatial Data Infrastructures, especially at the regional and local
level
- Data Infrastructures for urban Location Based Services
Theme 3): E-Governance
Topics:
- Spatially-enabled e-governance
- GIS components of e-Government
Theme 4): Applications
Topics:
- Disaster and Risk Management
- Real time GIS, especially for environmental monitoring and control
- Location based computing and services
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Temporal GIS
Theme 5): Modelling
Topics:
- Three dimensional urban data modelling
- Agent-based urban models
Theme 6): Web-based and participatory systems
Topics:
- Community engagement: participation in gathering and using data;
benefits and problems; accessibility and relevance of data at the
community level
- Public Participation GIS
Theme 7): Urban Systems Technology
Topics:
- Local government enterprisedatabase with the capability for storing,
accessing and manipulating spatial data, the exploitation of these
capabilities in a web environment
- The use of open source software in local government
All accepted papers will be published and distributed to all
participants at the symposium.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2004
Paper delivered by: July 31, 2001
UDMS 2004 dates: October 27-29, 2004
SUBMISSION:
People interested to submit a paper for the event, are asked to
deliver an abstract of at least 1000 words with reference to the
theme/topic and a short Curriculum Vitae via our website www.udms.net
following the instruction provided or by e-mail as attached files in
Word-format, to the UDMS Executive Secretary Mrs Elfriede M. Fendel,
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], by April 30, 2004.
Papers should be written and presented in English.
All information concerning UDMS 2004 will be available at the UDMS web
site: http://www.udms.net.
For further information:
UDMS Executive Secretary
Mrs. Elfriede M. Fendel
Section GIS technology
OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies
Delft University of Technology
Jaffalaan 9
NL-2628 BX Delft
The Netherlands
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mike Barley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SASEMAS 2004: CFP
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:19:38 +1200
1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
SAFETY AND SECURITY IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
(www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/safeagent/2004)
Sponsored by THE BOEING CORPORATION
to be held at the 3rd International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)
(satchmo.cs.columbia.edu/aamas04/)
New York, USA
20 July 2004
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: April 1st 2004
Notifications: May 1st 2004
Camera-ready copy: May 30th, 2004
Workshop: Tuesday July 20, 2004
OVERVIEW
As agent technology begins to be deployed in applications where
incorrect or inappropriate agent behaviour can have harmful effects
ranging from embarrassment to financial cost to physical injury to
humans, safety and security are two central issues.
Multiagent systems are being designed for ever more demanding and
possibly hostile environments. For example, NASA has proposed
missions where multiagent systems, working in space or on other
planets, will need to do their own reasoning about safety issues that
concern not only themselves but also that of their mission. Likewise,
industry is interested in agent systems that can search for new supply
opportunities and engage in (semi-)automated negotiations over new
supply contracts. These systems should be able to securely negotiate
such arrangements and decide which credentials can be requested and
which credentials may be disclosed. Such systems may encounter
environments that are only partially understood and where they must
learn for themselves which aspects of their environment are safe and
which are dangerous.
On one side agents should act "safely": they should be robust enough
to to avoid damages due to unexpected events, or internal bugs in non
critical parts of their architecture. On the other side they should
act "securely": they should be robust enough to resist potentially
harmful effects due to malicious behavior of other agents. This
workshop aims to bring together researchers, academics, practitioners
and students interested in ways of ensuring that agent behaviour is
safe and secure.
While intelligent software agents and multiagent systems can provide
many advantages over conventional software systems, they are also
usually much more complex. Software agents often integrate such
activities as deliberately planning to achieve their goals,
dynamically reacting to unanticipated obstacles and opportunities,
communicating with other agents to share information and coordinate
actions, and even learning from and/or adapting to their environments.
Because agents are often situated in dynamic environments, these
activities must be carried out in a timely manner.
These aspects of agents make the process of verifying and validating
the safety and security of these systems much more difficult than for
conventional software systems. Hence, verifying reasonable behavior
from the agent and from multi agent systems requires new and different
techniques and perspectives. The process of verifying and validating
the safety of these systems is often complicated by the systems being
open to unknown agents. Little, if anything, might be known about
these agents. We need to be able to structure the system to handle
the situatin when these agents might have goals that are atagonistic
to the overall system goals. Moreover, even is the system is not open
to all agents, there may still be security concerns if different
agents are under the administrative control of different entities (eg
in multi-national space missions or orchestrated financial web
services).
INTENDED PARTICIPANTS
This workshop will be of interest to researchers and developers of
agent systems for a wide range of emerging applications. The workshop
will also be of interest to those that might use agent technology in
safety critical applications, since these are the people that must be
convinced of the safety and the security of these systems.
PROPOSED TOPICS
This workshop will explore issues related to the development and
deployment of "safe and secure agent and multiagent systems".
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Definitions of safety and security for single agents or entire
systems.
What does it mean for an agent to be "safe", or to be "secure" and to
"behave appropriately"? How can answers to the above questions be
lifted to multiagent systems?
- Verification/validation of agent and multiagent systems.
How can agents, working in complex, open systems, be shown to be
"safe" or "secure"? Can a multiagent system, that is composed of
"safe" agents, be itself "unsafe"? Can the composition of "secure"
agents lead to a "unsecure" system?
- User requirements.
Some obvious ones are that the user is safe from his agent performing
any "risky" actions, that the agent is "safe" (i.e., robust) in a
given environment, and that the multiagent society is safe from its
member agents performing "malicious" actions.
- Design, mechanisms and deployment.
Do old-style formal specification, declarative languages, and
user-friendly interfaces have roles to play for agent building
environments? What mechanisms can be used to ensure/improve the safety
or security of an agent and/or multiagent system?
- Autonomy and Autonomous Reasoning.
How can agents reason about their own safety? E.g., determining the
types and degrees of dangers inherent in different courses of action.
How can adjustable autonomy be used to ensure agents behave
reasonably?
- Learning/adaptive agents.
How can agents that are self-modifying be shown to be safe and to
avoid security related risks? In hostile environments, how can agents
learn what is safe and secure to do and what is not?
- Application areas.
Which application areas would most benefit from agent technology but
would also be very sensitive to safety or security issues?
For further details, visit
www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/safeagent/2004
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From: Franz Rothlauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IEEE TEC: Special Issue on Analysis and Design of Representations
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:36:37 +0100
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Special Issue on
Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~dirk/adoro/cfp.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
Successful and efficient use of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends
on the choice of the problem representation and the variation
operators. These choices cannot be made independently of each
other. The question whether a certain representation leads to better
performing EAs than an alternative representation, can only be
answered when the operators applied are taken into consideration. The
reverse is also true: deciding between alternative operators is only
meaningful in the context of a given representation. Clearly, this
choice is problem-dependent, but despite the importance of choosing
proper representation-operator combinations on the performance of EAs,
little general applicable theory and knowledge is available to help
understanding and guiding the construction of high-quality
representations and operators for solving problems successfully and
efficiently with EAs.
The aim of the special issue is to provide a clear view of the
state-of-the-art in the analysis and design of representations and
operators. We are therefore soliciting papers that discuss the
influence and importance of a proper choice of representations and
operators for EA design, ranging from theoretical analysis to relevant
and interesting real-life applications.
TOPICS:
- Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or
operators
- Interference between representations and operators
- Predictive performance measures for evaluating representation and
operator choices
- Practical guidelines to design representation/operator combinations
for a particular problem
- Redundant versus non-redundant problem representations
- High-locality versus low-locality representations
- Search space bias of representations and operators
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: November 30, 2004
- Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2005
- Delivery of final version: July 31, 2005
- Expected publication: February, 2006
FURTHER INFORMATION AND AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~dirk/adoro/cfp.html
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CEC 2004 Contests
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:07:58 -0500
CEC 2004 Contests
There is still time to participate in the CEC 2004 Contests!
Deadlines for entering are:
Plant Competition May 15 2004
Binary Series Prediction Competition May 22 2004
Prisoner's Dilemma May 15th 2004
Car Racing April 30th 2004
Evolved Art May 29 2004
Visit the competition's page at
http://www.cec2004.org/contests.htm
for descriptions of the contests and contact people
who will answer your questions. Some of our contests
are specially designed to be easy to enter, others
will be refereed by your colleagues at the conference.
You must attend the conference to win so please
remember to register. Preparing entries may take
time so check the pages soon.
Dan Ashlock,
Contests Chair
CEC 2004
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From: Jiri Ocenasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deadline Extended: GECCO Workshop on Adaptation, Approximation, ...
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:06:40 +0100 (MET)
The deadline for the GECCO-2004 workshop on Adaptation, Approximation,
and Learning in Evolutionary Computation is now extended. We heartily
invite your submissions.
More information can be found at
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/jirio/GECCO-2004/
IMPORTANT DATES (updated):
April 4 Paper submission (from 4 to 10 pages, only PDF accepted).
Please send your paper to Jiri Ocenasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
April 19 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection.
April 28 Camera ready paper (only PDF accepted).
June 27 Workshop in Seattle.
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From: "Ivan Garibay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deadline Extended: GECCO Workshop on Self-organization in ...
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:27:51 -0500
WORKSHOP ON
Self-organization in Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms:
Building complexity from simplicity
http://ivan.research.ucf.edu/SOEA.htm
* Papers submission deadline EXTENDED: April 16, 2004 *
Important Dates
Papers Due: April 16, 2004 (April 28 for one-page position statements)
Acceptance notices: April 19, 2004
Camera Ready: April 28, 2004
Workshop: June 27, 2004
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From: Wiebe van der Hoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deadline Extended: LOFT6
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:27:16 +0000 (GMT)
The deadline for submission of papers to be presented at the LOFT6
conference (Sixth conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game
and Decision Theory, Leipzig, Germany, July 16-18) is
March 31, 2004
For information on the submission procedure and general information
about the conference click the following link:
http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/loft6_call.html
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From: Johannes Fuernkranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ICML-04 Tutorial and Workshop Program
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:11:24 +0100
The 21st International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-04)
July 4-8, 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Tutorial and Workshop Program
The following workshops and tutorials will be held at the 21st
International Conference on Machine Learning:
TUTORIALS
Morning Tutorials
* M1: The Many Faces of ROC Analysis in Machine Learning
o Peter Flach (University of Bristol)
* M2: Bayesian Methods for Machine Learning
o Zoubin Ghahramani (University College London)
* M3: Spectral Clustering
o Chris Ding (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
* M4: Game-theoretic Learning
o Amy Greenwald (Brown University)
Afternoon Tutorials
* A1: Junk E-mail Filtering
o Geoff Hulten (Microsoft Research)
o Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Resarch)
* A2: Kernels for Structured Data
o Thomas Gärtner (Fraunhofer Institut AIS)
* A3: Probabilistic Logic Learning
o James Cussens (University of York)
o Kristian Kersting (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
* A4: Data Structures for Fast Statistics
o Alexander Gray (Carnegie Mellon University)
o Andrew Moore (Carnegie Mellon University)
The tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference, July
4th, 2004. Tutorial fees are included in the ICML registration, but
they can also be attended independent of the conference. More details
can be found at http://www.oefai.at/icml-04/tutorials.html
WORKSHOPS
* Predictive Representations of World Knowledge
Organizers:
o Rich Sutton (University of Alberta)
o Satinder Singh (University of Michigan)
* Relational Reinforcement Learning
Organizers:
o Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University)
o Robert Givan (Purdue University)
o Kurt Driessens (Catholic University of Leuven)
* Statistical Relational Learning
Organizers:
o Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University)
o Lise Getoor (University of Maryland)
o Kevin Murphy (MIT)
* Physiological Data Modeling - A Competition
Organizers:
o David Andre (Bodymedia, Inc.)
o Peter Stone (University of Texas, Austin)
The first three workshops will have the following joint paper
submission deadlines.
Apr 2, 2004 WS Paper submission deadline
Apr 16, 2004 Notification of participants
May 7, 2004 WS final paper deadline
The workshops will be held on July 8th, the last day of the
conference. Workshop fees are not included in the regular conference
fees. The workshops can also be attended independent of the main
conference. More details can be found at
http://www.oefai.at/icml-04/workshops.html.
------------------------------
From: Gianluca Bontempi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Career Opportunities
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:50:51 +0100
Open position for a professor at the Department of Computer Science of
ULB (Free University of Brussels)
The Faculty of Sciences of the Free University of Brussels (ULB)
announces the opening of a full-time position for a "chargé de cours"
(first professorial level) in Computer Science, starting October the
1st, 2004.
This is a tenured full-time permanent position within the Computer
Science Department. The position involves both teaching and research
and some commitment to administrative tasks. For candidates not fluent
in French, a temporary period of teaching in English may be granted.
Preference is given to candidates able to reinforce one of the
existing groups of the Computer Science Department, in one of the
following areas:
· Algorithms
· Combinatorial Optimization
· Stochastic modeling and machine-learning methods
Full details available at
http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/Vacances/vacance_CC_2004_en.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arun Sharma)
Subject: Program Leader: Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:07:21 +1100
NATIONAL ICT AUSTRALIA LIMITED
Australia's New Centre of ICT Excellence
PROGRAM LEADER, SYMBOLIC MACHINE LEARNING and KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION
National ICT Australia (NICTA) is seeking an outstanding Research
Program Leader to provide inspirational leadership for a Program in
Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition at its Sydney
Research Laboratory. The Program concentrates on symbolic approaches
to research in machine learning and knowledge acquisition and is
motivated by the need to make sense out of the explosion in data and
device complexity. The program currently has a strong group of early
career researchers in robotics and learning and has participation from
the machine learning and knowledge acquisition researchers in the
School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New
South Wales. The Program Leader will be expected to build on the
current strengths and broaden the research profile of the program.
The Program Leader will be responsible for:
* Providing research leadership for the Program;
* Contributing to the development of research priorities, research
training, supervision of PhD students, and collaborative project
formation;
* Attracting and hiring research staff for the program;
* Building linkages to other institutions, industry (both Australian
and international), relevant government agencies and promoting
commercialisation activities.
Further information, which details the information required from all
applicants, is available on the NICTA website
(http://www.nicta.com.au).
You may direct queries to:
Professor Arun Sharma
Director, Sydney Research Laboratory
National ICT Australia Limited
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +61 2 9385 7334
Applications for this position should be submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
by 15 April 2004.
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From: "Joseph Haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Open Position---Fulltime Scientific Software Engineer
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:51:54 -0500
Job title: Senior Scientist
Req. no. 0013
No. Positions: 1
Type: Full Time
Updated: March 24 2004
Responsibilities:
Seeking a senior computer scientist or computational linguist with
expertise in machine learning and natural language processing to join
a team of researchers and engineers developing innovative technology
in speech understanding.
Required Skills, Experience & Education:
Preferred Experience:
* M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or
related field.
* Solid industry experience writing production code in C/C++ and/or
Java.
* In-depth knowledge of machine learning techniques as applied to
natural language processing.
* Support vector machines.
* Speech recognition and synthesis.
* XML.
* Telephony
For more details, please contact:
Joseph P Haley
President
Corsair Solutions, Inc
29 Water St Suite 216
Newburyport,MA 01950
www.corsairsolutions.com
Phone: 978-465-0085
FAX: 978-465-0068
Cell: 978-430-1333
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From: Raul Valdes-Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: automatic clustering of all 702 MLJ articles
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:09:30 -0500
Greetings, here is an automatic clustering of all MLJ articles ever
published; 702 articles in total:
http://vivisimo.com/mlj
You can get alternative clusterings by clicking on the tabs:
- Keys (keywords)
- Who (authors)
- Where (affiliation/address)
You can enter an author or concept in the middle-left (Find in
Clusters) and see highlighted matches in the clusters, for some easy
ego-searching or people-checking.
This clustering, done in collaboration with Kluwer, is a parting gift
as I ended my service as MLJ editor.
Raul Valdes-Perez
President, Vivisimo Inc.
Adjunct Assoc Prof, CMU Comp Sci
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From: Wiebe van der Hoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 6th European Agent Systems Summer School: CFP
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:23:37 +0000 (GMT)
After successful summer schools on Agent Systems in Utrecht,
Saarbrucken, Prague, Bologna and Barcelona, AgentLink III organises
the
6th European Agent Systems Summer School
Liverpool, UK, 5 - 9 July 2004.
EASSS 2004 will consist of a mixture of introductory and advanced
courses delivered by internationally leading experts in the agent
field, and will cover the full range of theoretical and practical
aspects of agent-based computing.
EASSS'04 is open to anyone from research or industry, both AgentLink
members and non-members alike. A registration fee will be charged to
cover costs, but some support will also be available for PhD students.
There are several cheap connections from European cities to Liverpool,
and convenient intercontinental flights to London or Manchester.
For more information and registration:
http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2004/index.html
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From: Professor Ron Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New issues of cognitive systems research
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:51:19 -0500
New issues of COGSYS are now available:
Cognitive Systems Research
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 1-92 (March 2004)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6595-2004-999949998-477744
Cognitive Systems Research Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 1-92 (March 2004)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Measurement and the explanation of adaptive and novel behaviors in real
and artificial creatures, Pages 3-39
Tony Savage
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-49Y98GB-1/1/377a64b17e66f20cb54bdfa975817109
Collaborative discovery in a simple reasoning task, Pages 41-62
Kazuhisa Miwa
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B4PS1K-1/1/91f1ee47d880d80b96a20d3d30a74a68
Top-down versus bottom-up learning in cognitive skill acquisition, Pages
63-89
Ron Sun and Xi Zhang
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B4XNFS-1/1/7355a40f04b5fec0d36494e2d947db08
Cognitive Systems Research
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 93-168 (June 2004)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6595-2004-999949997-489549
Cognitive Systems Research Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 93-168 (June 2004)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Neural coding strategies and mechanisms of competition, Pages 93-117
M. W. Spratling and M. H. Johnson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B8K8K1-1/1/ed991cedac96d6afcf0fbd5177af09bf
A symbolic model of human attentional networks, Pages 119-134
Hongbin Wang , Jin Fan and Todd R. Johnson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4BMC5RR-1/1/586352b2e5ee4da2711b2655f3114b87
Cognitive paradigms: which one is the best?, Pages 135-156
Carlos Gershenson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B4PS1K-2/1/6f37de20de6e2aa94ee0c30a6b19867c
Review of Pointing: Where Language, Culture and Cognition Meet, S. Kita
(Ed.);
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003; ISBN 0-8058-4014-1, Pages 157-165
David A. Leavens
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4BMC5RR-2/1/3e6f9639425654d46a7da63c262faf6d
If you have questions, please locate Help Desk at
http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/contacts.
See the following Web page for submission, subscription, and other
information regarding Cognitive Systems Research:
http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/journal.html
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