Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 14 Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Contents Calls for Papers/Participation 2004 IEEE Intl Conf on Advances in Intelligent Systems Intelligent User Interfaces 2005: Initial program SDM05: Final call for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Call for Papers - IIS:IIPWM'05 ACL-2005 Preliminary Call for Papers Career Opportunities Full Professor for Intelligent Systems Stipends available for MSc Intelligent Systems Miscellaneous Announcements New Book: Pattern Recognition Algorithms for Data Mining The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Please send submissions for distribution to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For requests to be added, removed, or to change your email address, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To keep mailings to a manageable size, please keep submissions brief. For meeting announcements, do highlight the meeting Web site and the goals of the event but omit information such as the program committee and talk schedules. Also, only first calls for papers/participation and brief change of deadline announcements will be included. The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2004 IEEE Intl Conf on Advances in Intelligent Systems Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:35:31 +0200 FINAL Call for papers - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications (AISTA2004) AISTA 2004 --> 2004 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications November 15-18, 2004 --> Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg http://aista.tudor.lu/aista2004 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of extended summaries: September 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance: September 26, 2004 Camera-ready paper due: October 24, 2004 AISTA Conference: November 15-18, 2004 AIMS and SCOPE: The International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications - AISTA'2004 aims at bringing together theoreticians and practitioners of Intelligent Systems from Luxembourg and around the world to exchange ideas, present their recent results and discuss possible collaborations. FURTHER INFORMATION See AISTA 2004 IEEE International Conference page http://aista.tudor.lu/aista2004 ------------------------------ From: Eric Schwarzkopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Intelligent User Interfaces 2005: Initial program Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:48:27 +0200 (CEST) IUI 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES January 9-12, 2005 Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California, U.S.A. http://www.iuiconf.org Here is a quick reminder of the submission deadline for long and short papers for IUI 2005: MONDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2004, 11:59 pm PDT (San Diego time) You can become an important part of this program by submitting a high-quality long paper. Each long paper will be presented in the same type of plenary session as the invited talks and the panel discussion. One or two long papers will receive an Outstanding Paper Award. For work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper, please consider a short paper submission. For more information, see the conference web site (http://iuiconf.org). Hoping to hear from you by 20 September! John Riedl and Anthony Jameson IUI 2005 program cochairs Eric Schwarzkopf IUI 2005 publicity chair ------------------------------ From: Philip Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SDM05: Final call for Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:21:21 -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 . ------------------------------ From: IIS:IIPWM'05 Conference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Call for Papers - IIS:IIPWM'05 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:40:14 +0300 CALL FOR PAPERS INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2005 New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining Gdansk, Poland, June 13-16, 2005 http://iipwm.ipipan.waw.pl Scope: http://iipwm.ipipan.waw.pl/2005/scope.html Papers on artificial immune systems, search engines, computational linguistics, knowledge discovery, and related subjects are particularly encouraged. Publication: http://iipwm.ipipan.waw.pl/2005/publication.html We envisage publication in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. The volume will contain full papers, as well as papers accepted for poster presentation. Important Dates: October 18, 2004 - paper submission deadline June 13, 2005 - the Conference starts Paper Submission and Publication: http://iipwm.ipipan.waw.pl/2005/forauthors.html Conference Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Ordona 21 01-237 Warsaw, Poland phone: ++48 22 8362841 fax: ++48 22 8376564 ------------------------------ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ACL-2005 Preliminary Call for Papers Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:11:08 EDT ACL-05 Preliminary Call For Papers 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 25-30, 2005 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 43rd Annual Meeting hosted jointly with the North American Chapter of the ACL. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; lexical semantics and ontologies; word segmentation, tagging and chunking; parsing, generation and summarization; language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding; linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language; language-oriented information retrieval, question answering, and information extraction; machine learning for natural language; corpus-based modeling of language, discourse and dialogue; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; applications, tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Submission will be electronic using the paper submission software to be made available at http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005. The papers must be submitted no later than 5pm US Eastern time January 14, 2005 (10pm GMT January 14, 2005). Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: January 14, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2005 Camera ready papers due: May 2, 2005 ACL-05 Conference: June 25 - 30, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Int. Center for Computational Logic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Full Professor for Intelligent Systems Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:37:58 +0200 The Faculty of Computer Science of the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany, will appoint a new Full Professor (C4) for Intelligent Systems on the 1st October 2005. The successful applicant will represent the area of intelligent systems. In particular, the applicant should be prepared to represent and develop an area where sensor information is applied to guide intelligent systems in the natural world. The applicant should have an international reputation in at least one of the following subject areas, or related specialisations: Perception, Communication, Autonomy, Machine Learning and Uncertainty. The teaching responsibilities include teaching in German and English on the subjects covered by the faculty. Furthermore, the applicant is expected to participate in the undergraduate education and in general events with other faculties, and also participate in the self-administration of the faculty and the Technische Universitaet. Assuming that internationally recognised theoretical/systematic research achievements from at least one of the above topics is satisfied, value will be placed on experience with large projects in international cooperations, experience in the application of scientific results, notable teaching ability and either a habilitation or comparable academic achievements. The applicant should also meet the employment requirements described in the Saechsiches Hochschulgesetz (Saxony education law) from 11th July 1999. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Applications from the severely handicapped are considered preferentially compared to applicants of similar ability. Applications should be made with a photograph, and be supported with a chronological curriculum vitae, description of scientific and professional development, list of scientific works, a choice of three essential publications and authenticated copies of the certificate of the highest academic degree obtained, and submitted by 30th September 2004 to: TU Dresden, Dekan der Fakultaet Informatik, Herrn Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. A. Schill, 01062 Dresden, Germany. For more information please contact Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universitaet Dresden [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 351 463 38340 ------------------------------ From: Stefan Wermter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Stipends available for MSc Intelligent Systems Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:11:21 +0100 Stipends available for MSc Intelligent Systems We are pleased to announce that for eligible EU students we have obtained funding to offer a bursary for our MSc Intelligent Systems October 2004 entry worth up to 9.000 EURO as fee waiver and stipend. ***Please forward to students who may be interested.*** The School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland is delighted to announce the launch of its new MSc Intelligent Systems programme for October 2004. Building on the School's leading edge research in intelligent systems this masters programme will be funded via the ESF scheme (see below). Intelligent Systems is an exciting field of study for science and industry since the currently existing computing systems have often not yet reached the various aspects of human performance. "Intelligent Systems" is a term to describe software systems and methods that simulate aspects of intelligent behaviour. The intention is to learn from nature and human performance in order to build more powerful computing systems. The aim is to learn from cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, engineering, and linguistics for building more powerful computational system architectures. In this programme a wide variety of novel and exciting techniques will be taught including neural networks, intelligent robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, vision, evolutionary genetic computing, data mining, information retrieval, Bayesian computing, knowledge-based systems, fuzzy methods, and hybrid intelligent architectures. The Bursary Scheme applies to this Masters programme commencing October 2004 and we have obtained funding through the European Social Fund that enables the University to waive the normal tuition fee and provide a bursary for eligible EU students, together up to 6000 pounds or about 9000 Euro. For further information in the first instance please see: http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/Teaching_frame.html http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/courses/progmode.php?prog=3DG550A&mode=3DFT&mode2=3D&dmode=3DC For information on applications and start dates contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0191 515 2758 For academic information about the programme contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ From: Dr Pabitra Mitra fc cse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New Book: Pattern Recognition Algorithms for Data Mining Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:12:15 +0530 (IST) We are pleased to announce the publication of the book: Pattern Recognition Algorithms for Data Mining: Scalability, Knowledge Discovery, and Soft Granular Computing by Sankar K. Pal and Pabitra Mitra, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, Boca raton, FL, May 2004. For more details visit the link: http://www.crcpress.com/ And search for the book title. The book addresses different pattern recognition tasks in a unified framework with both theoretical and experimental results.Tasks covered include data condensation, feature selection, case generation, clustering/classification, and rule generation and evaluation. This volume presents various theories, methodologies, and algorithms, using both classical approaches and hybrid paradigms. The authors emphasize large data sets with overlapping, intractable, or nonlinear boundary classes, and data sets that demonstrate granular computing in soft frameworks. Organized into eight chapters, the book begins with an introduction to concepts from pattern recognition, data mining, and knowledge discovery. The authors analyze the tasks of multi-scale data condensation and dimensionality reduction, then explore the problem of learning with support vector machines. They conclude by highlighting the significance of granular computing for different mining tasks in a soft paradigm. ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol. 16, No. 14 ************************************