[UAI] Greetings from UCLA Causality Blog
Friends in causality and uncertainty, Below are a few items you might find to be of some interest and possibly some challenge. 1. A new book containing a collection of recent articles on causation and uncertain reasoning, some tutorial in nature, is now available from College Publications (2010.) Title: Heuristics, Probability and Causality, Editors: R. Dechter, H. Geffner and J. Halpern For table of contents, preface and more information please click on: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/TRIBUTE/pearl-tribute2010.htm As you can see, I have had a natural indirect effect on the cover design, but zero controlled direct effect. 2. A symposium on causality and related topics by some of the contributors to Heuristics, Probabilities and Causality was held at UCLA on March 12. Videos of lectures, by: C. Hitchcock, S. Greenland, T. Richardson, J. Robins, R. Scheines, J. Tian, Y. Shoham and J. Pearl, can be viewed here: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/TRIBUTE/tribute-videos.htm Videos of additional lectures will be posted in the near future. 3. Recent entries on our Causality-Blog include: 3.1 An open letter from Judea Pearl to Nancy Cartwright concerning Causal Pluralism, a topic central to a discussion of her book Hunting Causes which appeared recently in Economics and Philosophy 26:69-77. (Posted May 31, 2010), and 3.2 A lively discussion by T. Richardson, J. Robins and J. Pearl on the structure of the causal hierarchy and the scientific roll of untestable counterfactual assumptions. (Posted May 3 and May 15, 2010) Both are posted on http://www.mii.ucla.edu/causality/. 4. A recent posting on my web-page is a paper titled: The Mediation Formula: A guide to the assessment of causal pathways in non-linear models which explains why traditional methods of mediation analysis yield distorted results when applied to discrete data, even when correct parametric models are assumed and all parameters are known precisely. The Mediation Formula circumvents these difficulties. http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r363.pdf 5. Another posting of potential interest is Technical Report R-364, by T. Kyono (Master Thesis), titled: Commentator: A Front-End User-Interface Module for Graphical and Structural Equation Modeling. It take a DAG as input and prints (1): all identifiable direct effects, (2) all identifiable causal effects, (3) all (minimal) sets of admissible covariates, (4) all instrumental variables, and (5) (almost) all testable implications of a model. The source code is available upon request. http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r364.pdf 6. Finally, I have received inquiries regarding a slide that I used at NYU, in which an instrumental variable poses as an innocent confounder and, upon adjustment, amplifies, rather than reduces confounding bias. The moral of the story was (and is) that outcome assignment is safer to model than treatment assignment. The pertinent paper is R-356, or http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r356.pdf 7. As always, your thoughts are welcome and will surely be put into some good cause when conveyed to other blog readers. Best ===Judea Pearl UCLA http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/csl_papers.html ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Post-doctoral vacancies at the University of Nottingham
Research Associate/Fellow in Computer Science (3 years) Transitional Fellow in Computer Science - Senior Postdoc (5 years) University of Nottingham - Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute Horizon is a Digital Economy Research Institute that focuses on the role of 'always-on always with you' ubiquitous computing in the Digital Economy. Horizon has a vacancy for a Research Associate/Fellow with expertise in data modelling and analysis, who will work closely with the Intelligent Modelling and Analysis group (http://ima.ac.uk) within Computer Science and provide a critical link between the two activities. The position will require knowledge of, and hands-on experience in, intelligent analysis of real-world data and knowledge in the presence of uncertainty and noise. Rare event detection and real-time analysis may be of particular interest. Methodologies may include Fuzzy Reasoning or bio-inspired computing, but the research will also require knowledge of statistical research methods. Additionally, Horizon is looking for two senior post-doctoral Transitional Fellows. As a Horizon Transitional Fellow in Computing you will be initially focussed on the Horizon research agenda, and over five years transition to the normal duties of a Lecturer within the School of Computer Science. Candidates should have a PhD and a track record of internationally leading research. Key computing research challenges within Horizon include: mobile and ubiquitous computing; networking and distributed systems; data modelling and analysis. Candidates should have skills and experience in one or more of these fields and be keen to bring their expertise into the interdisciplinary team addressing the overall socio-technical challenges of the future Digital Economy. Further details are available from: Research Associate/Fellow: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABE881/research-associate-fellow-in-computer-science/ Transitional Fellows: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABE879/transitional-fellow-in-computer-science-two-posts/ Closing date for both vacancies: 5 July 2010. -- Professor Uwe Aickelin School of Computer Science The University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK. tel: +44 (0)115 95 14215 e-mail: uwe.aicke...@nottingham.ac.uk web: http://www.aickelin.com This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] WPMSIIP 2010: 2nd announcement
== WPMSIIP 2010 (6-10 Sept 2010, Durham, UK) --- 2nd Announcement == General information --- The Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, organizes a workshop on principles and methods of statistical inference with interval probability, jointly with the interval probability research group of Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. The workshop runs from Monday 6 September until Friday 10 September 2010. This workshop is a follow-up to two earlier WPMSIIPs held in Durham, UK, May 2008, and Munich, Germany, September 2009. Programme and Aims -- Day Subject Led by ---+-+ Mon 6th research presentationsmatthias.troff...@gmail.com Tue 7th prior-data conflict gero.wal...@stat.uni-muenchen.de Wed 8th sequential decisions nathan.hunt...@durham.ac.uk Thu 9th classificationr.j.cross...@durham.ac.uk Fri 10thopen topics frank.coo...@durham.ac.uk The major aim of the WPMSIIP workshop is to stimulate discussion of ongoing research in imprecise/interval probability theories, providing a platform to discuss unsolved problems and to address unanswered questions. The first day of WPMSIIP overlaps with the SIPTA summer school and will be a day of research presentations (by summerschool participants) aimed at a general audience. For the remainder of the week, we intend to have a day for prior-data conflict, which naturally requires imprecise probability for a proper treatment, and raises interesting fundamental questions. The following day will be devoted to sequential decisions, including but not limited to philosophical issues which arise when looking at sequential problems with imprecision, and algorithmic approaches for solving them. The topic for one further day will be imprecise classification, where we will also invite practitioners with interesting classification problems with the idea to set out an agenda for future research. The last day of the workshop is reserved for participants to present other work on open topics, with emphasis on challenging open questions and with ample time reserved for discussions. Registration Everyone, including PhD students, is welcome to participate and/or to present their views on one or more of the above topics, on one or more days! If you want to join the workshop, please send an email to Frank Coolen, or the appropriate session organizer, with a brief explanation of your intended contribution, preferably before Friday 30 July 2010. For more information, visit: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/users/matthias.troffaes/wpmsiip2010/ Best wishes, The organizing committee Thomas Augustin Frank Coolen Richard Crossman Nathan Huntley Matthias Troffaes Gero Walter ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] NIPS 2010 Call For Demonstrations
= NIPS 2010 DEMONSTRATIONS = http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForDemonstrations Demonstration Proposal Deadline: Monday September 20, 2010 The Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2010 http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/ has a Demonstration Track running in parallel with the evening Poster Sessions, December 6-8, 2010, in Vancouver, Canada. Demonstrations are an opportunity to showcase: • Hardware technology • Software systems • Neuromorphic and biologically-inspired systems • Robotics or other systems, which are relevant to the technical areas covered by NIPS (see Call for Papers http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForPapers) . Demonstrations must show novel technology and must be live, preferably with some interactive parts. A demonstration is not just another poster presentation or a slide show, the action part is important. Submissions: Submission of demo proposals at the following URL: https://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/DemoForm.php You will be asked to fill a questionnaire and describe clearly: • the technology demonstrated • the elements of novelty • the live part • the interactive part • the equipment brought by the demonstrator • the equipment required at the place of the demo Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, live action, potential for interaction. Demonstration chair: Isabelle Guyon d...@clopinet.com ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ACM IUI 2011 Second Call for Papers
We are very pleased to announce the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI11) Palo Alto, California, USA, February 13-16 2011. Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier conference for reporting on the study of user interfaces with intelligent devices. This topic is of increasing importance as the consumer is interfacing with a wide variety of devices with embedded computation and connectivity and the computer is fading into the background. IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We're also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. Please follow the development of the conference at Twitter: iui2011 Facebook: ACM IUI Conference 2011 Linkedin: ACM IUI Conference 2011 Buzz: acmiui2011 http://www.iuiconf.org/ (coming soon) We are inviting proposals and research papers in several categories: ***Important Dates*** Long Short Paper submissions Friday, 10 September 2010, 11:59pm US PDT Long and Short Paper final notification: Friday, 5 November 2010 Long paper rebuttals starts Friday, 15 October 2010 Rebuttal process ends Friday, 22 October 2010 Long and Short Paper final notification: Friday, 5 November 2010 Long Short Paper camera-ready due Friday, 26 November 2010 Intention to submit workshop proposal Friday, 16 July 2010 Workshop proposals due Friday, 30 July 2010 Conference Co-Chairs: Pearl Pu (EPFL, Switzerland) Michael Pazzani (Rutgers University, USA) Program Co-Chairs: Elisabeth Andre (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany) Doug Riecken (IBM, USA) papers2011 at iuiconf.org Workshop Co-Chairs: Joyce Chai (Michigan State University, USA) Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO, Australia) workshops2011 at iuiconf.org Demonstrations Chair: Li Chen (Baptist University, Hong Kong) demos2011 at iuiconf.org Treasurer: Tessa Lau (IBM, USA) treasurer2011 at iuiconf.org Publicity Chair: Jill Freyne (CSIRO, Australia) publicity2011 at iuiconf.org Why submit to IUI? Unlike traditional AI, our focus is not so much to make the computer smart all by itself, but to make the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, we're more willing to consider solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding, brain computer interfaces or gesture recognition. The IUI conference gives you a chance to present and to see work in an intimate, focused, no-nonsense event. It is large enough to be diverse and lively (we expect around 200 people), but small enough to avoid the impersonal atmosphere of conferences with thousands of people. The vast majority of the attendees are actively involved with conceiving and developing cutting-edge interfaces leading to a high and fast impact of research results presented at IUI. It brings together people from academics, industry, and nonprofits. As an ACM conference, papers appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. There will also be a journal publication path for selected papers. It's a single track conference, so you don't have to miss anything. IUI topics include, but are not limited to: Intelligent Interaction with Devices Intelligent interactions with handheld devices Sensor- and actuator systems for user interfaces Location- and context aware information systems Tangible interaction with smart artifacts Ubiquitous displays environments Smart environments Novel, intelligent interaction systems Modeling and prediction of user behavior Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces Natural user interfaces User-adaptivity in interactive systems Personalization and recommender systems Planning and plan recognition IUI Design Knowledge-based approaches to IUI design and generation Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction Example-based and demonstration-based interfaces Smart use of sensing technologies for IUI Design User studies User studies concerning intelligent interfaces Evaluation methods and evaluations of implemented IUI Smart technologies for remote usability testing and experience sampling Processing of human-generated input Recognition and interpretation of user input (face, body, speech, physiology, text) Analysis of psychological user states, such as attention and affect Analysis of conversational cues, such as grounding and turn taking Intelligent sensing platforms Synchronization and fusion of Multimodal Input Generation presentation of system output Smart visualization tools Intelligent authoring systems
[UAI] Deadline Extended: Joint Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning
++apologies for cross-posting++ * THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (RecSysTEL) Barcelona, Spain, 29-30 September 2010 Organised jointly by - 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010) - 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010) http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/recsystel2010/ * KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Joseph Konstan, GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota (USA) * Kris Jack, Mendeley.com (UK) AIM TOPICS Technology enhanced learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test socio-technical innovations that will support and enhance learning practices of both individuals and organisations. It is an application domain that generally addresses all types of technology research development aiming to support of teaching and learning activities. Information retrieval is a pivotal activity in TEL, and the deployment of recommender systems has attracted increased interest during the past years. Recommendation methods, techniques and systems open an interesting new approach to facilitate and support learning and teaching. There are plenty a resource available on the Web, both in terms of digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other learners, experts, tutors) that can be used to facilitate teaching and learning tasks. The challenge is to develop, deploy and evaluate systems that provide learners and teachers with meaningful guidance in order to help identify suitable learning resources from a potentially overwhelming variety of choices. The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on topics related to the design, development and testing of recommender systems in educational settings as well as present the current status of research in this area and create cross-disciplinary liaisons between the RecSys and EC-TEL communities. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of TEL as an application area for recommender systems, as well as expose participants to the challenges of developing such systems in a TEL context. Topics include but are not limited to: * User tasks to be supported by recommender systems in TEL * Focus of recommendation in TEL * Requirements for the deployment of TEL recommender systems * Publicly available data sets for TEL recommender systems * Recommendation algorithms and systems for TEL * Transfer of successful algorithms and systems from other application areas * Evaluation criteria and methods for TEL recommender systems IMPORTANT DATES 1 July 2010: Submissions ***EXTENDED*** 16 July 2010: Notifications 1 August 2010: Camera-ready of accepted papers 29-30 September 2010: RecSysTEL Workshop in Barcelona DATATEL CHALLENGE Published datasets in recommender systems, such as the MovieLens and EachMovie ones, are very often used in experimental testing of new recommendation algorithms. Very few datasets are publicly made available online for TEL applications. Thus, it is not possible yet for TEL recommender systems' researchers to apply and benchmark their algorithms on existing, public datasets. To this end, the dataTEL Theme Team of the European STELLAR Network of Excellence (http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/groups/9405/datatel/) is sponsoring the dataTEL Challenge: a call for TEL datasets that invites research groups to submit existing datasets from TEL applications that can be used as input for TEL recommender systems (e.g. ratings, tags, bookmarks). The winner of the dataTEL Challenge will receive a best TEL dataset award. More about the dataTEL Challenge: http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/recsystel2010/datatel.htm SUBMISSIONS The Workshop accepts a variety of submission types: * Full papers: 12 pages * Short papers: 6 pages * System/service demos: 2 pages * TEL Data Sets: 2 pages and data set file(s) Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission is available through the EasyChair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsystel2010 If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before you can access the RecSysTEL'10 page. Workshop paper formatting should fully comply with the Springer LNCS format. For detailed instructions: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 For TEL Data Set submissions, please refer to the dataTEL Challenge instructions: http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/recsystel2010/datatel.htm PUBLICATION Workshop proceedings will be published in a seperate volume. In addition, authors of best full papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their manuscripts for a Special Issue in a prestigious international journal such as the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. STEERING COMMITTEE * Jesus G. Boticario, aDeNu - Spanish National University for Distance
[UAI] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2010)
IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2010) December 12-15, 2010 Berkeley, CA www.slt2010.org Call for Papers The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop will be held between December 12-15, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. SLT 2010 is co-sponsored by ACL and ISCA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. *** New at SLT 2010 *** - Free pre-workshop tutorials. - Best paper awards (SLT best paper awards and ATT sponsored best student paper award) and oral presentation session for awarded papers. - The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 (http://www.dialrc.org/sdc) will be organized as a special session during SLT 2010. *** Keynote Speakers *** Michael Jordan, U. California, Berkeley Chris Manning, Stanford U. James W. Pennebaker, U. Texas, Austin *** Tutorial Speakers *** Philip Koehn, U. Edinburgh Mike Riley and Cyril Allauzen, Google *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission: July 16, 2010 Notification: September 1, 2010 Workshop: December 12-15, 2010 *** For sponsorship opportunities, please visit *** http://www.slt2010.org/Sponsorship.asp Workshop Topics: - Spoken language understanding - Spoken document summarization - Machine translation for speech - Spoken language based systems - Spoken language generation - Question answering from speech - Human/computer interaction - Educational/healthcare applications - Speech data mining - Information extraction - Spoken document retrieval - Multimodal processing - Spoken dialog systems - Spoken language systems - Spoken language databases - Assistive technologies - Natural Language Processing Organizing Chairs: Dilek Hakkani-Tur, ICSI Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington Technical Chairs: Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal Tim Paek, Microsoft Research Area Chairs: Julia Hirschberg, Columbia U. Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Andreas Stolcke, SRI/ICSI Ye-Yi Wang, Microsoft Research Finance Chair: Gokhan Tur, SRI International Advisory Board: Mazin Gilbert, ATT Labs Srinivas Bangalore, ATT Labs Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento Demo Chairs: Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech. Publicity Chair: Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM Benoit Favre, U. Le Mans Panel Chairs: Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech. Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U. Publication Chair: Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas Local Organizers: Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International Murat Akbacak, SRI International Sibel Yaman, ICSI Arindam Mandal, SRI International Europe Liaisons: Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh Asia Liaisons: Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Registration now open for 3rd GATE training course
The third GATE training course will take place in Montreal, Canada, from August 30th to September 3rd 2010. This event will follow the format of the earlier May 2010 course, but with the addition of a new training track covering linked data and ontologies. GATE is an open-source text mining framework and a set of free multi-lingual text mining components, including named entity recognition, information extraction, parsing, ontologies, semantic annotation, sentiment analysis, and business intelligence. GATE has been used successfully both in research and by companies working on the next generation knowledge management solutions. It helps with extracting knowledge from unstructured content and web data, monitoring your competitors, and staying on top of blogs and twitter. Further details on the material to be covered: https://gate.ac.uk/family/training.html Registration, travel and accommodation: https://gate.ac.uk/conferences/montreal-2010/index.html If you are a researcher using GATE or a company looking to train their staff in semantic annotation, you may also be interested in our optional certification exam. We also offer companies a sponsorship package; please contact me for details. We look forward to welcoming you in Montreal! ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] PAKM Verteiler CfP: OKM2010 Workshop, in conjunction with EKAW2010
(Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) __ Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, please find attached the Call for Papers for the Open Knowledge Models - Workshop (http://www.openmodels.at/web/EKAW2010-OpenKnowledgeModels), which will take place in conjunction with the EKAW2010 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal from 11th October-15th October 2010. Please excuse multiple postings. We look forward to receving you contributions. Sincerely yours, The Workshop Organizaers -- The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription: You are subscribed to the following list: PAKM Verteiler using the following email: u...@cs.orst.edu You may automatically unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL: http://tools.dke.univie.ac.at/verteiler/mail.cgi/u/pakm01/ If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address. Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism. You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen: http://tools.dke.univie.ac.at/verteiler/mail.cgi/list/pakm01 If you're still having trouble, please contact the list owner at: mailto:p...@dke.univie.ac.at The following physical address is associated with this mailing list: Vienna, Austria Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail http://tools.dke.univie.ac.at/verteiler/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/ CfP_OKM2010_at_EKAW2010.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] 2nd CFP: Privacy and Security issues in Data Mining and Machine Learning
Apologies for multiple postings: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: PSDML 2010 * Privacy and Security in Data Mining and Machine Learning * - With ECML/PKDD 2010 @ Barcelona, Spain, September 24, 2010. - Submission deadline: 28 June 2010 - Info: http://tinyurl.com/psdml-2010 Introduction The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists and practitioners who conduct cutting edge research on privacy and security issues in data mining and machine learning to discuss the most recent advances in these research areas, identify open problem domains and research directions, and propose possible solutions. We invite interdisciplinary research on cryptography, data mining, game theory, machine learning, privacy, security and statistics. Moreover, we welcome both mature contributions and interesting preliminary results and descriptions of open problems on emerging research domains and applications of privacy and security in data mining and machine learning. * Core themes and topics of interest * The workshop invites original submissions in any of the following core subjects. For each subject we provide an indicative list of topics of interest. A. Data privacy and security issues. 1. Privacy-preserving data publishing and anonymity. 2. Privacy-aware data fusion, integration and record linkage. 3. Privacy evaluation techniques and metrics. 4. Auditing and query execution over private data. 5. Privacy-aware access control. B. Theoretical aspects of machine learning for security applications. 1. Adversarial classification, learning and hypothesis testing. 2. Learning in unknown and/or partially observable stochastic games. 3. Special learning problems in security applications (i.e. learning with distribution shifts, semi supervised learning, learning in large datasets). 4. Distributed inference and decision making for security. 5. Game-theoretic topics related to security applications. C. Privacy-preserving data mining, machine learning and applications. 1. Emerging research domains in privacy-preserving mining and learning (e.g., stream mining, social network analysis, graph analysis). 2. Application-specific privacy preserving data mining and machine learning. 3. Knowledge hiding approaches for privacy preserving learning and mining. 4. Secure multiparty computation and cryptographic approaches. 5. Statistical approaches for privacy preserving data mining. D. Security applications of machine learning. 1. Cryptographic applications of machine learning. 2. Intrusion detection and response. 3. Biometric authentication, fraud detection. 4. Statistical analysis and classification of malware. 5. Spam filtering and captchas. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Remembering Marco Ramoni
Marco Ramoni died at the age of 47 on Tuesday, June 8th in Boston. He had been somewhat ill for weeks, but succumbed quickly to heart failure. He is survived by his widow, Rachel. Marco's biography is colorful, and long despite those relatively few years he was with us. After a difficult childhood in Italy, his academic career took him from his doctoral work at the University of Pavia to McGill University, to the Open University in Milton Keynes, and finally to Harvard Medical School. Marco was a philosopher, an engineer, a software developer, an entrepreneur, a teacher, and in his spare time, a fiction writer and saxophonist. Marco was at his best when working in collaboration, at once both catalyst and source for intellectually productive and socially satisfying group effort. In his last years, his most visible work applied Bayes nets to genomics and predictive medicine, in projects he undertook together with a distinguished roster of co-workers. Never narrow, Marco also recently attracted media attention for his part in collaborative work to translate biomedical monitoring displays into music - perhaps violins for heartbeats, and clarinets for breaths, and so forth. This is an idea whose initial whimsy is soon overtaken by an appreciation of its tough-minded engineering practicality; a signature Marco project. Marco would have no patience with a note that discussed only work. He lived large, and in that, too, Marco was best in collaboration. He was an absurdly generous host, and always a welcome guest. Whenever death comes at so conspicuously a young age, thoughts of what might have been are inevitable. We can be consoled by how much Marco there actually was, even if there ought to have been decades more. Marco himself gets the last riff, together with his fellow musicians... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNa9wzLC2k ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] 1st CFP: ISWC'10 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010)
Apologies for cross-postings -- CALL FOR PAPERS -- The Fifth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2010) http://om2010.ontologymatching.org/ November 7 or 8, 2010, ISWC'10 Workshop Program, Shanghai, China BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2010 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies and linked data. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open linked data); Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Ontology matching patterns; Instance matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2010 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20100 Contributors to the OAEI 2010 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/. *TENTATIVE* IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: September 1, 2010: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 27, 2010: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 12, 2010: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 7 or 8, 2010: OM-2010, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Ming Mao SAP Labs, USA 6. Isabel Cruz The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Besana, Universite de Rennes 1, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Jérôme David, INRIA LIG, France AnHai Doan, Kosmix, USA Alfio Ferrara, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Tom Heath, Talis, UK Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
[UAI] ICDM 2010 workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare
Dear Colleagues, We are writing to invite you to submit your papers to the ICDM 2010 (http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/icdm10/) workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare (http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~xlli/BioDM.html), which will be held in Sydney Australia on December 14 2010. ICDM, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, is one of the premier conferences in the field of Data Mining. By co-locating with ICDM 2010, we hope the workshop will bring better awareness of interesting and challenging biological and medical problems that inspire new data mining solutions, and attract the participation of researchers in the areas of data mining and machine learning who are interested in the real-world applications of data mining in computational biology and healthcare. 1. Introduction Scientists in biology and healthcare are facing a growing flood of biological and clinical data that they need to digest in their research. However, their ability to generate large amounts of biological and clinical data may soon surpass their capacity to analyze and make sense of the data generated in a timely fashion. As scientists begin to translate their genomic research from bench to bedside, meaningful observations and discoveries will have to be drawn from diverse data such as DNA microarrays, protein sequences, protein-protein interactions, biological pathways, bio-images, electronic medical records, and biomedical literature. Data mining is well positioned to help the biologists and clinicians draw meaningful observations and discoveries from the vast array of biomedical data that are now available for analysis. However, there are challenges to be addressed. For example, the algorithms need to be able to handle a high level of noise and incompleteness in the data (e.g. protein interactions have high false positive and false negative rates), process computationally intensive tasks effectively (e.g. large scale interaction graph mining), address privacy issues (e.g. patients medical records), and integrate multiple heterogeneous data sources. The mission of this workshop is to disseminate the latest research challenges, results, and practice of novel data mining approaches in biology and healthcare. We seek submissions of cross-disciplinary research works using data mining and machine learning techniques (data cleansing, data integration, data selection, data transformation, knowledge representation, association mining, clustering, classification, semi-supervised learning, regression, graph mining, text mining, outlier detections, and visualization) to address the challenging issues in biological and clinical data analysis. In addition to bioinformatics applications for computational biology problems, we also seek submissions that describe applications of data mining techniques in healthcare (e.g. disease diagnosis prognostics, drug targets identification, biological markers detection, bio-image analysis, disease pathway analysis, and medical data mining). We especially welcome submissions that highlight new dat a mining problems and algorithms that are inspired by the emerging trend of translational research in post-genome computational biology and healthcare. 2. The topics of interest The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Biological and clinical data cleansing, integration and management Computational evolutionary biology and comparative genomics Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data mining Biological network mining, pathway discovery and simulation Disease gene prediction and bio-marker detection Computational drug discovery Semantic web and ontologies for biomedical applications Bio- and medical text mining Bio- and medical image mining Machine learning and statistics in healthcare Privacy-preserving medical data mining 3. Important Dates July 23, 2010: Due date for paper submission September 20, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance October 11, 2010: Camera-ready versions of accepted papers December 14, 2010: Workshop 4. Submissions Paper submissions are limited to a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, which is the same as the camera-ready format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines). All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. A double blind reviewing process will be adopted. Authors should therefore avoid using identifying information in the text of the paper. You are strongly encouraged to print and double check your PDF file before its submission, especially if your paper contains Asian/European language symbols (such as Chinese/Korean characters or English letters with European fonts). All papers should be submitted through the ICDM Workshop Submission Site
