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Machine Learning List: Volume 20, Number 4
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Contents
Call for Workshop Proposals
Conference on Logic Programming
Call for Papers
Pacific Rim International Conference on AI
European Symposium on Time Series Prediction
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
SGAI International Conference on AI
Algorithmic Learning Theory
Workshop on Sparse Optimization and Variable Selection
Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning
Conference on Logic Programming
Machine Learning for Health-Care Applications
Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
Workshop on Nonparametric Bayes
Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology
Morpho Challenge 2008
Probabilistic Reasoning Evaluation and a Call for Benchmarks
New Website
Reinforcement Learning CFP page
Career Opportunities
AI/Machine Learning Engineer Opportunity
Machine Learning Researcher, Canada
Post-Doctoral Research
Postdoc in Statistical Learning in Paris, France
Machine Learning and Computational Biology
PhD Studentship
Smart Technology Research Centre, UK
Music Generation, UK
Fellowships
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Nominations
International Neural Networks Society
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Date: Mar 31, 2008
From: ICLP 08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Conference on Logic Programming
Call for Workshop Proposals
24th International Conference on Logic Programming
Udine, Italy, December 9-13, 2008
http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it/
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008
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Date: Mar 19, 2008
From: Motoda, Hiroshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pacific Rim International Conference on AI
Second Call for Papers
10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/PRICAI-08/
Paper Submission Deadline: May 26, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: August 15, 2008
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Date: Mar 20, 2008
From: Amaury Lendasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: European Symposium on Time Series Prediction
First Call for Papers
European Symposium on Time Series Prediction
Haikko, Porvoo, Finland, September 17-19, 2008
http://www.haikko.fi/kokoukset/en_GB/presentation/
Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2008
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Date: Mar 20, 2008
From: Osmar R. Zaiane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Call for Papers
14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 24-27, 2008
http://webmining.spd.louisville.edu/webkdd08/
Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: June 20, 2008
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Date: Mar 24, 2008
From: Max Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SGAI International Conference on AI
Second Call for Papers
28th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Cambridge, UK, December 9-11, 2008
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2008/
Paper Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008
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Date: Mar 26, 2008
From: Thomas Zeugmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Algorithmic Learning Theory
Call for Papers
19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
Budapest, Hungary, October 13-16, 2008
http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT08/alt08.jhtml
Paper Submission Deadline: May 18, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: July 20, 2008
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Date: Mar 26, 2008
From: Irina Rish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Workshop on Sparse Optimization and Variable Selection
Call for Papers
ICML/UAI/COLT 2008 Workshop on Sparse Optimization
and Variable Selection
Helsinki, Finland, July 9, 2008
http://irina.rish.googlepages.com/icml08sparse
Paper Submission Deadline: May 5, 2008
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Date: Mar 27, 2008
From: William Klement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning
Call for Papers
ICML 2008 3rd Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning
Helsinki, Finland, July 5-8, 2008
http://icml2008.cs.helsinki.fi/
Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2008
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Date: Apr 3, 2008
From: ICLP 08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Conference on Logic Programming
Call for Papers
24th International Conference on Logic Programming
Udine, Italy, December 9-13, 2008
http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: September 15, 2008
Workshop Proposal Deadline: June 2, 2008
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Date: Apr 6, 2008
From: Csaba Szepesvari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine Learning for Health-Care Applications
Call for Papers
Workshop on Machine Learning for Health-Care Applications
Helsinki, Finland, July 9, 2008
http://rlai.cs.ualberta.ca/openpages2/MLHealth
Extended Abstract submission Deadline: May 1, 2008
Full Papers Deadline: June 20, 2008
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Date: Apr 6, 2008
From: Kenji Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine Learning and Applications
Call for Papers
Special Session on Applications of Machine Learning in
radiotherapy of The 7thh International Conference
on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 08)
San Diego, California, USA, December 11-13, 2008
http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla08/
Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: October 1, 2008
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Date: Apr 10, 2008
From: NP Bayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Workshop on Nonparametric Bayes
Call for Abstracts and Participation
Workshop on Nonparametric Bayes 2008
held at ICML/UAI/COLT 2008
Helsinki, Finland, July 9, 2008
http://npbayes.wikidot.com
Abstracts Submission Deadline: May 2, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline: June 20, 2008
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Date: Apr 15, 2008
From: allan tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And Pharmacology
Call for papers
Intelligent Data Analysis in bioMedicine And
Pharmacology (IDAMAP 2008)
Washington, DC, USA, November 7, 2008
http://idamap.org/idamap2008
Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: September 25, 2008
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Date: Apr 20, 2008
From: PC-Chairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Probabilistic Reasoning Evaluation and a Call for Benchmarks
Call for Papers
Probabilistic Inference as part of the UAI workshop
on Evaluating and Disseminating Probabilistic Reasoning Systems
Helsinki, Finland, July 9, 20089 July 2008
http://graphmod.ics.uci.edu/uai08/
Call for Participation
Probabilistic Inference Evaluation which will include both Bayesian
http://graphmod.ics.uci.edu/uai08/Evaluation
Call for Benchmarks
http://graphmod.ics.uci.edu/uai08/FileFormat
Submission Deadline: May 9, 2008
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Date: Apr 17, 2008
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Morpho Challenge 2008
Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis - Morpho Challenge 2008
http://www.cis.hut.fi/morphochallenge2008/
Challenge Starts: April 2008
Deadline for Analyses submission: June 15, 2008
Workshop Paper Deadline: August 1, 2008
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Date: Mar 19, 2008
From: tamar Elhanany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reinforcement Learning CFP page
A new reinforcement learning Call-for-Papers web page has been
established at: http://mil.engr.utk.edu/nmil/cfps. The page has been
designed to serve as an up-to-date resource for CFPs pertaining to
events that have reinforcement learning as one of their topics of
interest.
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Date: Mar 27, 2008
From: David Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AI/Machine Learning Engineer Opportunity
Sr. Research Engineer (Artificial Intelligence/Statistical Analysis)
Contact: David L. Allen, Principal Olympic Search
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Research Engineer to
design, spec and built our recommendation and profiling
engines. This will involve research, analysis, and
implementation of algorithms and data elicitation methods
that improve recommendation and profiling information as
user behavior is analyzed and their explicit feedback is
gathered. The data sources will be explicit preferences
set by the user as well as data gathered about the user
while they are using our service (video), providing implicit
feedback through what they watch and explicit feedback
through positive and negative reinforcement triggers.
The Company
LeenbackTV is currently in stealth. We will soon be
delivering a unique, compelling and engaging TV-like
entertainment experience leveraging the vastness of
on-demand video available on the Internet.
Responsibilities:
* Listen to and analyze feedback with rapid iteration.
* Invent new algorithms for content discovery and ad placement
* Use statistical methods and machine learning to characterize
user preference and behavior
* Evaluate, investigate and implement data mining strategies
and classification methodologies
* Interface with founders/CEO and other engineering staff to
design, spec and develop the recommendation and profiling engines
Skills & Qualifications:
* Software engineering experience: the ability to develop
and integrate scalable, maintainable systems & processes
* 2+ yrs of experience related to data analysis, profiling,
behavior analysis, collaborative filtering, relationship
mapping, statistical analysis, semantic clustering, symbolic
systems, machine learning techniques, personalized search,
Bayesian statistics and/or computational linguistics
* Experience with OOP/OOD either Java or C++
* Experience with SQL a plus
* Excellent communications skills and the ability to work
independently or as a team contributor
* The ability to create and develop new ideas
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Date: Apr 16, 2008
From: William Macready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine Learning Researcher, Canada
Machine Learning Researcher
D-Wave Systems Inc. is seeking a machine learning researcher to
develop and prototype supervised learning algorithms for image
recognition and other problems. The successful candidate will
develop algorithms leveraging a new high performance superconducting
processor technology. The work will be carried out in collaboration
with the machine vision group at Google.
http://www.dwavesys.com/
Required Qualifications:
* A Ph.D. in machine learning or equivalent experience
* Experience in optimization methods for both continuous
and discrete problems
* Experience prototyping algorithms in C/C++, Matlab, Java, etc
* Up-to-date understanding of the latest machine learning
approaches
* Strong mathematical foundations
Desired Qualifications:
* Experience with each of the following:
* supervised and semi-supervised learning
* Machine vision algorithms
* Experience solving real-world problems is highly desired
* Familiarity with Monte-Carlo methods
Interested applicants should send a resume including
references to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Apr 3, 2008
From: Bruce Denby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Postdoc in Statistical Learning in Paris, France
The ANR Ouisper Project (Oral Ultrasound Synthetic Speech
Source, http://www.neurones.espci.fr/ouisper/index.htm)
is looking for an excellent candidate for a CNRS
postdoctoral position, available immediately, who can
apply statistical learning techniques to help us improve
the recognition rate of phonetic units detected in
ultrasound and optical images of the vocal tract.
Job location: Laboratoire d'Electronique de l'ESPCI,
Paris, France, UMR 7084
Duration: 1 year, renewable
Salary: from 2164 per month, according to experience
Contact: Bruce Denby, Professor, UPMC/LE-ESPCI, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Apr 9, 2008
From: Alberto Paccanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine Learning and Computational Biology
Applications are invited for one postdoctoral
position at the Department of Computer Science
of Royal Holloway, University of London.
Further details and an application form are available at
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/Ads/CompScie4949.html or
from the Personnel Department, Royal Holloway,
University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
tel: +44 (0)1784 414241; fax: +44 (0)1784 274900.
Please quote the reference KB/4949
Application Deadline: May 8, 2008
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Date: Apr 14, 2008
From: Bogdan Gabrys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Smart Technology Research Centre, UK
GWR PhD Studentships
Smart Technology Research Centre
School of Design, Engineering and Computing
Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Two 3 year, fully funded PhD studentships are available
on exciting research projects at the Computational
Intelligence Research Group (CIRG) within the Smart
Technology Research Centre (STRC) at Bournemouth University,
United Kingdom.
For further details please contact Prof Bogdan Gabrys,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or visit the following www pages:
http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/PhD_Studentships_2008.html
http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/PhD_Studentships_2006.html
Interested candidates should follow the application procedure listed
on the School of Design, Engineering and Computing web pages:
http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/postgraduate_research.html
http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/bgabrys/PhD_Studentships_2008.html
Further details concerning the studentships and application
procedure can be also obtained from the School of DEC
Research Administrator -
Ms Jo Sawyer, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +44 (0)1202 965985
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Date: Apr 16, 2008
From: Robin Laney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Music Generation, UK
Studentship: Music Generation
The department of computing at the Open University has
a competitive studentship available for full time PhD
study. One of the topics covers stochastic generation
of music. Suitable students will have either previous
experience of computer music generation in general,
or alternatively some knowledge of statistical NLP
techniques with some general music experience, such
as playing an instrument.
The position is competitive, so please contact me
at the earliest opportunity if you wish to apply.
Closing date is April 30, 2008
http://www.computing.open.ac.uk/research-degrees/studentships
Please feel free to contact me informally for more information
by email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or phone (+44(0)1908 654342)
Dr Robin Laney,
Open University
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Date: Mar 25, 2008
From: King, Robin Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008 DATA SCIENCE SUMMER INSTITUTE: CALL FOR STUDENTS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis (MIAS)
Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Department of Computer Science, is offering paid opportunities
for students to attend the 2008 Data Sciences Summer Institute
(DSSI) in Urbana, Illinois. The DSSI is an intense eight-week
immersion into the exciting field of Information Science, and
consists of the following integrated components: Mathematical
Foundations, Specialized Tutorials, Research Projects, and a
Guest Speaker series. Most DSSI activities will occur in the
Computer Science Department. You may learn more about both the
MIAS Center at http://mias.uiuc.edu and the DSSI at
http://mias.uiuc.edu/dssi/summer_institute
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Date: Apr 12, 2008
From: Professor Ron Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: International Neural Networks Society
Call for Nominations
International Neural Networks Society
http://www.inns.org/awards_program.asp
Nomination Deadline: May 1, 2008
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