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Machine Learning List: Volume 18, Number 6
Friday, September 1, 2006
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Contents
Calls for Papers and Participation
Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
Conference on Semantics and Digital Media
Matching Systems Participation
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Dialogue Systems
Special Issue on CBR in the Health Sciences
11th International Conference on User Modeling
Foundations of Genetic Algorithms
Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks
Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
Chapters on Computational Methods of Feature Selection
Interactive Mobile and Computer-Aided Learning
Workshop on Learning for Architectures and Compilation
EVO* 2007
Intelligent User Interface
ECML/PKDD 2008/2009
Career Opportunities
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Machine Learning at UCL
Postdoctoral Position at Carnegie Mellon University
Postdoctoral Position in Computational Sensorimotor Integration
Research Vacancies at University of Cyprus
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Date: Jul 9, 2006
From: Pascal Hitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
Hyderabad, India, January 8, 2007
http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy07/
Submission Deadline: September 26,2006
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Date: Jul 10, 2006
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Conference on Semantics and Digital Media
CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS
First International Conference on Semantics and Digital
Media Technology (SAMT 2006)
Former European Workshop on the Integration of knowledge,
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT)
Athens, Greece, December 6-8, 2006
http://samt2006.org/
Paper/Poster/Demo Submission Deadline: September 1, 2006
Camera-Ready Deadline: November 3, 2006
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Date: Jul 12, 2006
From: pavel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matching Systems Participation
THE OAEI'06 CAMPAIGN
CALL FOR MATCHING SYSTEMS PARTICIPATION
Athens, GA, November 5, 2006
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/
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Date: Jul 20, 2006
From: Riccardo Bellazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 07)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-11, 2007
Web site: http://www.aimedicine.eu/aime07
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 23, 2007
Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2007
Camera-ready Deadline: April 17, 2007
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Date: Jul 24, 2006
From: Ingrid Zukerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Dialogue Systems
Call for Papers
20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Hyderabad, India, in January 6-12, 2007
5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in
Practical Dialogue Systems
Hyderabad, India, January 8, 2007
Paper Submission Deadline: September 25, 2006
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Date: Jul 25, 2006
From: Stefania Montani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Special Issue on CBR in the Health Sciences
Call for Papers
Applied Intelligence Special Issue on CBR in the Health Sciences
http://faculty.washington.edu/ibichind/ai07/
Paper Submission Deadline: October 15, 2006
Camera-ready Deadline: February 15, 2007
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Date: Jul 27, 2006
From: George Paliouras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 11th International Conference on User Modeling
11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM2007)
Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007
Paper/Poster Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: November 6, 2006
Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: November 6, 2006
Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission Deadline: December 28, 2006
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Date: Aug 1, 2006
From: Marc Toussaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms
Call for Papers
Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA IX)
Mexico City, Mexico, January 7-11, 2007
http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2007/index.html
Extended Abstracts Deadline: September 20, 2006
Registration Deadline: September 20, 2006
Full Papers Submission Deadline: December 1, 2006
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Date: Aug 1, 2006
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks
Call for special sessions
15th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 07)
Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning
Bruges, Belgium, April 25-27, 2007
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann/
Proposal Deadline: August 31, 2006
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Date: Aug 10, 2006
From: Michael Fitzgerald Nowlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
Call for papers to special issues:
Optimizing Web-based Query and Information Retrieval
December 31, 2006
Web-based e-Learning Systems
March 31, 2007
Current Trends in Web Engineering Design and Applications
July 31, 2007
Usability Engineering and Human-Computer Interactions for
Web-based Systems
October 31, 2007
Grid Computing and Web-based Systems
January 31, 2008
http://www.idea-group.com/ijitwe
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Date: Aug 14, 2006 1:20 AM
From: Hiroshi Motoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Chapters on Computational Methods of Feature Selection
Call for Book Chapters on Computational Methods of Feature Selection
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2006
Camera-ready Deadline: April 15, 2007
The book will be published by Chapman and Hall/CRC Press,
and edited by Huan Liu and Hiroshi Motoda.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/Book2007/instructions.html.
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Date: Aug 15, 2006
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Interactive Mobile and Computer-Aided Learning
Call for Papers
2nd International Conference on Interactive Mobile
and Computer-Aided Learning (IMCL 2007)
Amman, Jordan, April 18-20, 2007
www.imcl-conference.org
Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2006
Deadline for Workshops/Tutorials/Thematic sessions: December 5, 2006
Deadline for Author Registration: January 10, 2007
Camera-Ready Deadline: March 5, 2007
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Date: Aug 20, 2006
From: John Cavazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Workshop on Learning for Architectures and Compilation
Call for Papers
First Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches
Applied to Architectures and Compilation (SMART '07)
Ghent, Belgium, January 28, 2007
http://www.hipeac.net/smart-workshop.html
Co-located with International Conference on High Performance
Embedded Architectures & Compilers (HiPEAC 2007)
Ghent, Belgium, January 28-30, 2007
http://www.hipeac.net/conference/
Submission Deadline: October 20, 2006
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Date: Aug 28, 2006
From: Leonardo Vanneschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EVO* 2007
Call for Papers
EVO* 2007 including EuroGP, EvoCOP,
EvoBIO and Evo Workshops
Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April, 2007,
http://www.evostar.org
Submission Deadline: November 1,2006
Camera-ready Deadline: January 8, 2007
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Date: Aug 28, 2006
From: Fang Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007)
Hawaii, USA, January 28-31, 2007
http://iuiconf.org
Short and Long Paper Deadline: September 18, 2006, 11:59 pm PDT
Tutorial Proposal Deadline: August 4, 2006, 11:59pm PDT
Workshop Proposal Deadline: August 14, 2006, 11:59pm PDT
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Date: Aug 9, 2006 6:23 PM
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ECML/PKDD 2008/2009
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
European Conference on Machine Learning
and European Conference on Principles and Practice of
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2008)
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
European Conference on Machine Learning
and European Conference on Principles and Practice of
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2009)
The purpose of this call is to invite groups interested in
hosting the next events in the ECML/PKDD conference series.
The ECML/PKDD conferences have been co-located since 2001,
and proposals that continue this tradition will be strongly
preferred. ECML/PKDD 2006 (http://www.ecmlpkdd2006.org/)
will take place in Berlin, September 18-22,2006, ECML/PKDD 2007
(http://www.ecmlpkdd2007.org/) will take place in Warsaw,
Poland, September 17-21,2007.
All proposals will be presented and discussed at the business
meeting of ECML/PKDD 2006 in Berlin, which takes place on
Thursday, September 21, 2006. The community will then decide
upon the location and the chairs of the meeting in 2008, and
will discuss and provide feedback on expressions of interest
for organizing the meeting in 2009. Prior to the presentation
at the community meeting in Berlin, the ECML/PKDD Steering
Committee and the conference chairs of ECML/PKDD 2006 and
2007 will review the proposals and may provide informal feedback
to the organizers.
FORMAT OF PROPOSALS
Expressions of interest are informal and should briefly
describe the planned event, the location, and the organizing
committee.
Full proposals should address the following issues:
1. Proposed Dates
The conference should be scheduled for five days
(two days reserved mostly for workshops and tutorials;
three days for paper sessions and invited talks), preferably
in fall 2008.
2. Local Parameters
- Accessibility - Is it easy and inexpensive for people
(especially graduate students) to travel to the conference
site? (Compute mean airfares from Europe, but also North
America, and Asia. Include ground transportation from relevant
airports to the site.)
- Meeting Rooms, AV Equipment, etc. - What are the physical
facilities like? Consider rooms for plenary sessions, parallel
sessions, workshops, tutorials, and poster sessions. What are
the charges, if any, for using them?
- Meals and Lodging - Is there low-cost, quality housing available
for attendees (especially graduate students)? How far from the
meeting rooms? Where will attendees eat? Please estimate costs
for meals and lodging.
- Demo facilities - Will there be computing equipment and space
available to support demos?
- Other features - You may mention any other aspects of the site or
the region that are relevant.
3. Local ML/KDD Community. Is there a local ML or KDD group/community
that will be involved in the organization and funding?
4. Opportunities to co-locate with other conferences.
5. Organizational and Institutional Support. Is there a conference
office that can help with local arrangements?
Proposals should be addressed to the program chairs of ECML/PKDD
2006 (E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Submission Deadline: September 5, 2006
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Date: Aug 8, 2006
From: Yee Whye Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Machine Learning at UCL
The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit invites applications
for postdoctoral training fellowships in machine learning and
related areas. The Unit is especially keen to recruit researchers
with expertise in graphical models, Bayesian statistics, nonparametric
methods, kernel methods, semi-supervised learning, reinforcement
learning, game theory or machine learning applied to neural data,
natural language processing, machine vision or bioinformatics.
The Unit is a world-class centre for theoretical neuroscience and
machine learning. Yee Whye Teh will join the faculty in January 2007.
For further details of our research please see:
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/research.html
The Unit provides a unique environment in which a critical mass of
theoreticians interact closely with each other and with other
world-class research groups in related departments at University
College London. The Unit's visitor and seminar programmes enable
staff and students to engage with leading researchers from across
the world.
Candidates must have a strong analytical background and demonstrable
interest and expertise in statistical machine learning.
Stipend according to experience and achievement. Funding for the
fellowships is available for up to two years.
Applicants should send in pdf, plain text or Word format a CV, a
statement of research interests, and the names and full contact
details (including e-mail addresses) for three academic referees to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applicants are directed to further particulars about the positions
available from: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/; academic
enquiries can be directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/
Closing date for applications: September 14, 2006
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Date: Aug 10, 2006
From: Bruce McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Postdoctoral Position at Carnegie Mellon University
The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
has an opening for a post-doc in a new project focused on
the development of usable technologies that empower lay users
to effectively control privacy and security policies in
pervasive computing environments. This is an interdisciplinary
project that involves interacting with a number of faculty and
students and combines the development and evaluation of learning
and dialog technologies with the use of human-centered design
methodologies.
Prospective candidates are expected to have done graduate
work/have some familiarity with one or more of the following areas:
Learning and dialog technologies (e.g. conversational case-based
reasoning)
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
Web Security and Privacy
Human Computer Interaction
Candidates are expected to be capable of working under limited
supervision and should have strong communication skills. They
are also expected to have strong Java programming skills and
have experience collaborating with others in the context of
large-scale software development projects. Actual work is expected
to involve a mix of conceptual design, software development and
field evaluation with human subjects. The successful candidate is
expected to publish papers in top level conferences and journals
along with other faculty and students.
Initial appointments are for one year with option of renewal. The
start date is negotiable and can be anytime during the second half
of 2006, with a preference for an early start.
Carnegie Mellon offers competitive salaries and benefits.
Interested candidates should forward their resume along with the
names of three references by email, fax, or snail mail to:
Prof. Norman Sadeh
ISR, School of Computer Science
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 USA
Fax: +1-412-291-1110
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sadeh/
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Date: Aug 10, 2006
From: Konrad Koerding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Postdoctoral Position in Computational Sensorimotor Integration
An enthusiastic and well-qualified post-doctoral researcher is
required to work in the wide area of computational sensorimotor
integration in the laboratory of Konrad Koerding at the Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago. The research
in the laboratory focuses on the question how people combine
information from several sensors to allow them to move efficiently.
Towards this aim new Bayesian models are developed and tested using
human psychophysics. The successful applicant will be expected to work
on computational models and experimental studies in humans.
Applicants should have a PhD and skills relevant to machine learning,
Bayesian statistics or computational neuroscience and an interest
in the way the nervous system solves computational problems; however,
applicants with a strong background in psychophysics who wish to learn
computational approaches will also be considered. Experience with
Matlab would be very advantageous.
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) boasts a large
concentration of researchers that address various questions
about movement in healthy and patient populations. The
department of physiology hosts many scientists probing the
neural basis of movement.
Informal inquiries can be addressed by email to Professor Konrad
Koerding ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For more information about the
environment see the Web Pages of the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago (www.ric.org), the Northwestern Department of Physiology
(www.physio.northwestern.edu) and the Northwestern Department of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (www.northwestern.edu/pmr/).
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is an Affirmative
Action - Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for
all positions, and employees are treated during employment without
regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age,
marital or veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical
condition, disability, sexual orientation, or any other legally
protected status to the extent required by law. The Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago embraces diversity in its work force. The
position is available from October 2006 for one year in the
first instance.
Applicants should supply:
- one-page statement of research interests
- Copy of CV (two if sent by post)
- Names and contact details of three references
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Date: Aug 24, 2006
From: George Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Research Vacancies at University of Cyprus
The Department of Computer Science intends to announce shortly
a number of vacancies at the level of Research Associate (RA).
These RAs will join the research group of the Software Engineering
and Internet Technologies (SEIT) Lab (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit)
and will be assigned to the EU funded project MUSIC (Self-Adapting
Applications for Mobile Users in Ubiquitous Computing Environments).
MUSIC is an Integrated Project, funded by FP6 IST, with a duration
of 42 months and a budget of 14.5 MEUROs. It's purpose is to develop
an open-source framework facilitating the development of adaptive,
reconfigurable software. The project is expected to commence in
October 2006.
Each position is for one year, renewable annually up to the end
of the project. The salary depends on qualifications and previous
experience and ranges between 11,000 - 20,000 CY pounds per annum
(1 CY = 1.75 EUR).
These posts are suitable for both holders of a doctorate degree
who wish to pursue a post doc and for graduates who wish to pursue
a Ph.D. For the former case, the prospective candidate should have
a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a number of good quality publications.
For the latter case, the prospective candidate should have a B.Sc.
and preferably also a M.Sc. in Computer Science and evidence of
commitment to research. In both cases, the candidate should be
sufficiently familiar in one or more of the following areas:
Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Mobile
Systems, Component-Based Software Development and Middleware
Platforms, Internet and Service-Oriented Computing.
Potential candidates are encouraged to send a full CV to
Professor George A. Papadopoulos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at
their earliest convenience.
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