Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 12
Friday, August 6, 2004
Contents
Calls for Papers/Participation
KDD-2004 invited talks, early registration
Call for participation: EpiRob04, Genoa, Italy
Evolutionary Computer Vision & Image Understanding
ICGI-2004
SDM 2005: Call for Papers & Workshop/Tutorial Proposals
CFP: Intl Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining
ECCBR 2004 Call for Participation
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From: KDD 2004 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDD-2004 invited talks, early registration
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:21:32 -0700 (PDT)
The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA from
August 22 through 25, with an optional trip to Rainier National Park
on August 26.
Early registration deadline is Friday July 16. After that date
registration fees increase by approximately $100.
Visit the conference web site at http://www.kdd2004.com or
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004/
KDD is the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and
data mining. The conference will provide a forum for academic researchers
and industry and government innovators to share in their results and
experience. The program will include keynote presentations, oral paper
presentations, poster presentations, workshops, tutorials, and panels,
as well as the KDD Cup competition.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS:
Technical papers
- Research track: 40 presentations and 45 posters
- Industry/Gov. track: 13 presentations and 13 posters
Tutorials (at no additional cost)
- Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time Series Databases
- Junk E-mail Filtering
- Mining Unstructured Data
- Online Mining Data Streams
- Graph Structures in Data Mining
- Data Quality and Data Cleaning: An Overview
Workshops
- 6th Workshop on Web Mining and Web Analysis (WebKDD 2004)
- 5th Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD 2004)
- 4th Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD 2004)
- 3rd Workshop on Mining Temporal and Sequential Data
- 3rd Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM 2004)
- 3nd Workshop on Data Mining Standards (DM-SSP 2004)
- "Link Discovery" Workshop (LinkKDD 2004)
- Mining for and from the Semantic Web (MSW 2004)
CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will take place at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle.
The city of Seattle is located beside an inlet to the Pacific Ocean,
and is particularly beautiful city in the summer. Some of the top
sightseeing activities near the conference site include: the Space
Needle, Pike Place Market, Pacific Science Center, Experience Music
Project, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Art Museum,
Pioneer Square, Boeing Tour, Ballard Locks, University of Washington
and the International District. A day trip to Mount Rainier is
available the day after the conference.
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From: Georgi Stojanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for participation: EpiRob04, Genoa, Italy
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:34:41 +0200
EpiRob04
Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics
- Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems -
University of Genoa, Italy
August 25-27, 2004
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
www.epigenetic-robotics.org
This workshop focuses on combining developmental psychology,
neuroscience, biology, and robotics with the goal of understanding
the functioning of biological systems.
The final program of the 4th Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics 2004 -
EpiRob04 - is available at www.epigenetic-robotis.org a and the
organizing committee cordially invites you to participate.
EpiRob04 will take place in Genoa, Italy, 25-27 August 2004 and
is sponsored by the NICT (National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology), Japan, and co-sponsored by LIRA-Lab,
DIST, University of Genoa, Italy.
Please send any questions to the workshop co-chairs:
Giorgio Metta ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or
Luc Berthouze ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Stefano Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:38:18 +0200
CALL FOR PAPERS
PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Special Issue on
Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Understanding
http://cienciascomp.cicese.mx/CallxPapersPRL.htm
Guest Editors
Gustavo Olague, CICESE Mexico
Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France
Stefano Cagnoni, Univ. degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2004
In recent years, evolutionary algorithms and other bio-inspired
approaches have been shown to be tools that can be used effectively
in the development of systems (software or hardware) for computer
vision, graphics and robotics. We strive to provide a high-quality
special issue on behalf of the pattern recognition community that
illustrates the state of the art in evolutionary computer vision and
image understanding.
We are soliciting papers on these topics to appear in a special issue
of Pattern Recognition Letters. Papers appropriate to this issue will
have theoretical and experimental evaluation of vision algorithms as
their central focus, with the application cutting across the following
areas, but which are not necessarily limited to:
- LOW-LEVEL VISION. Evolutionary optimization, adaptation and learning
algorithms for edge detection, image segmentation, figure-ground
separation, texture analysis, feature selection, shape-from-shading,
denoising and surface reconstruction.
- HIGH-LEVEL VISION. Evolutionary computation for object recognition,
scene analysis, indexing and search of model/image databases, and
high-level learning of symbolic descriptions.
- ACTIVE VISION. Evolutionary computation for autonomous vision-guided
navigation, path planning, sensing strategies, sensor integration,
visual servoing, vergence and gaze control, hand-eye coordination,
active tracking and vision-guided task planning.
- NEURAL VISION. Evolutionary computation for learning, adaptation and
optimization of neural network structure and topology for computer
vision problems.
All submitted papers will be reviewed according to the guidelines and
standards of Pattern Recognition Letters. All submissions will be peer
reviewed for originality, significance, technical content and relevance
to the special issue. A digital manuscript, as well as five hard copies
(not exceeding 20 double-spaced pages in 12 pt size font including
figures and tables), describing previously unpublished and original
research should be submitted to reach the guest editor on or before
September 30, 2004.
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From: Menno van Zaanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ICGI-2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:02:35 +0200
ICGI-2004
ACCEPTED PAPERS - REGISTRATION - STUDENT GRANTS
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS - OMPHALOS COMPETITION
7th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
Emphasizing Innovative Applications
NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece
October 11-13, 2004
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are happy to announce that the reviewing process for ICGI-2004 is
over and the list of accepted papers is available at:
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04/common/Accepted.htm
We have received many interesting papers, covering the whole range
from theory to applications of grammatical inference, and we are
looking forward to an exciting conference!
The registration process has started and you can find the registration
form with related guidelines at:
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04/common/Registration.htm
Additionally, we would like to remind you that there are travel grants
available for students. The deadline for applying for these grants has
been extended to July 20.
The conference will also include a session for demonstrating working
systems and tools. In order to participate in this session, please send
a two-page description of your system to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by
August 21.
Finally, we would like to remind you that the Omphalos grammatical
inference competition is still open, with various tasks that have not
been solved yet. For information have a look at the Omphalos site:
http://www.irisa.fr/Omphalos/
See you in Athens in October 2004!!
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From: Philip Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SDM 2005: Call for Papers & Workshop/Tutorial Proposals
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:13:53 -0400 (EDT)
CALL FOR PAPERS
and
WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
http//www.siam.org/meetings/sdm05
Newport Beach, California, USA
April 21-23, 2005
The Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining will provide
a forum for the presentation of peer-reviewed recent results in all
aspects of data mining. The conference program will also include
keynote talks and tutorials by leading experts, as well as several
workshops on topics of current interest.
Proceedings of the conference will be available both online at the
SIAM Web site and in hard copy form. The online proceedings of the
last SIAM data mining conference, which was held in Orlando, FL, is
available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm04.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Technical Paper Deadline: October 4, 2004
Workshops & Tutorials Proposals Deadline: September 3, 2004
Further details can be found at: http//www.siam.org/meetings/sdm05 .
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From: Lei Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: Intl Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:01:55 -0700
International Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining
Interfacing Machine Learning and Statistics
Tempe, Arizona (the Grand Canyon State) on December 10, 2004
The workshop website: http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/workshop04
Knowledge discovery and data mining is a multidisciplinary effort to
mine nuggets of knowledge from data. The increasingly large data sets
from many application domains have posed unprecedented challenges;
in the meantime, new types of data are evolving such as Web, text,
and microarray data. Research in computer science, engineering, and
statistics confront similar issues in feature selection, and we see
a pressing need for the interdisciplinary exchange and discussion of
ideas. We anticipate that the resulting collaboration will lead in
ultimately new directions and generate breakthroughs. While some
progress has been made in this direction, a chasm divides these
disciplines, each of them content with their limited views and slow
to recognize accomplishments of those "across the street".
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different
disciplines and further the collaborative research in feature
selection. Feature selection is an essential step in successful data
mining applications. Feature selection has practical significance in
many areas such as statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning,
and data mining (including Web, text, image, and microarrays). The
objectives of feature selection include: building simpler and more
comprehensible models, improving data mining performance, and helping
to prepare, clean, and understand data. Some representative workshop
topics and associated research issues are, but not limited to, the
following.
Feature ranking
Subset selection
Dimensionality reduction
Feature construction
Improving data mining performance
Issues with data types and sizes
Selection for labeled and unlabeled data
Modeling variable and feature selection
Evaluation measures
Search methods
Selection bias
Sampling methods
Model selection
Case studies and applications
Streaming data reduction
Comparative studies
Integration with data mining algorithms
Emerging challenges
Extended Abstract Format, Important Dates, and Submission
An abstract (maximum 2 pages) should be submitted in PDF or WORD
format (submission details available on the workshop website) The
font should be no smaller than 11pt. The deadline for submission is
October 11, Monday. The accepted abstracts will be published on CDs
as well as on the workshop website. Presentations will be considered
for a special issue in a prestigious journal.
More information can be found at the workshop website
http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/workshop04 .
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From: ECCBR Chair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ECCBR 2004 Call for Participation
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:38:32 +0200
Call for Participation
7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
Madrid, Spain
30th August to 2nd September
http://www.idt.mdh.se/eccbr/
ECCBR 2004 is the 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning.
This four day event will be held at the Universidad Complutense de
Madrid (UCM) in Madrid, Spain. The program will start with the ECCBR
Industry Day the 30th August and four workshops on 31st August,
followed by the two day conference of invited talks, presentations
and posters on both theoretical and applied research in CBR.
Presentations will range widely across subjects concerning case-based
reasoning (e.g., adaptation, applications, case knowledge maintenance,
e-commerce, interactive systems, knowledge acquisition, knowledge
management, learning, multiagent collaborative systems, representations,
similarity, soft computing, textual CBR) that should interest both
practitioners and researchers alike. The accepted papers are listed
on the conference website, and outlines of Industry Day and the
workshops. The conference site also lists suggested accommodations,
conference organization details, travel hints and other related
information.
Please see the conference Web site for the registration form and
additional details: http://www.idt.mdh.se/eccbr/
For e-mail contacts please use [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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