[UAI] ECML PKDD 2012 - Call for Participation - Mid Registration Deadline: August 31
*** ECML PKDD 2012 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** MID REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 31 *** The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) will take place in Bristol, UK from September 24th to 28th, 2012. ECML-PKDD is the prime European scientific event in machine learning and data mining. It will feature presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials on the first and last days, a discovery challenge, and a DINe track with demo, industry, and 'nectar' talks. http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/keynote-talks/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/schedule/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/workshops/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/tutorials/ The mid registration deadline with reduced registration fee is August 31st, 2012. Accommodation is booked directly with the hotels: reduced rates are available on a first-come-first-serve basis and some block bookings will be released soon, so please act now to avoid disappointment! http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/registration/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/hotels/ We look forward to welcoming you in Bristol this September. Peter Flach, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol ECML-PKDD 2012 General and Programme Chairs ecmlpkdd2...@cs.bris.ac.uk ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2012 - Call for Participation - Early Registration: July 31
*** ECML PKDD 2012 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** EARLY REGISTRATION: JULY 31 *** The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) will take place in Bristol, UK from September 24th to 28th, 2012. ECML-PKDD is the prime European scientific event in machine learning and data mining. It will feature presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials on the first and last days, a discovery challenge, and a DINe track with demo, industry, and 'nectar' talks. http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/keynote-talks/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/workshops/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/tutorials/ The list of accepted research track papers can be accessed at http://ecmlpkdd2012.webfactional.com/ . The early registration deadline with reduced registration fee is July 31st, 2012. Accommodation is booked directly with the hotels: reduced rates are available on a first-come-first-serve basis, so please act now to avoid disappointment! http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/registration/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/hotels/ We look forward to welcoming you in Bristol this September. Peter Flach, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol ECML-PKDD 2012 General and Programme Chairs ecmlpkdd2...@cs.bris.ac.uk ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2012 Discovery Challenge on Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification
ECML/PKDD 2012 Discovery Challenge: Third Challenge on Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification Web site: http://lshtc.iit.demokritos.gr/ Email: lshtc_i...@iit.demokritos.gr This year's discovery challenge hosts the third edition of the successful PASCAL challenges on large scale hierarchical text classification. The challenge comprises three tracks and it is based on two large datasets created from the ODP web directory (DMOZ) and Wikipedia. The datasets are multi-class, multi-label and hierarchical. The number of categories ranges between 13,000 and 325,000 roughly and the number of documents between 380,000 and 2,400,000. The tracks of the challenge are organized as follows: 1. Standard large-scale hierarchical classification a) On collection of medium size from Wikipedia b) On a large collection from Wikipedia 2. Multi-task learning, based on both DMOZ and Wikipedia category systems 3. Refinement-learning a) Semi-Supervised approach b) Unsupervised approach In order to register for the challenge and gain access to the datasets you must have an account at the challenge Web site. *** Please note that participants can now upload intermediary results on the web site and track the progress of their work! Important dates: - March 30, start of the challenge - April 20, opening of the evaluation - June 29, closing of evaluation - July 20, paper submission deadline - August 3, paper notifications Organizers - Ion Androutsopoulos, AUEB, Athens, Greece - Thierry Artieres, LIP6, Paris, France - Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Paris, France - Eric Gaussier, LIG, Grenoble, France - Aris Kosmopoulos, NCSR Demokritos AUEB, Athens, Greece - George Paliouras, NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece - Ioannis Partalas, LIG, Grenoble, France ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] 2nd Call for Workshops, Tutorials and Papers at ECML PKDD 2012
2nd Call for Workshops, Tutorials and Papers at ECML PKDD 2012 ECML PKDD 2012: The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases September 24-28, 2012 - Bristol, UK http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/ --- Tutorials and Workshops --- ECML PKDD is the prime European scientific event in the fields of Machine Learning and Data Mining. The first and last day of the program are dedicated to workshops and tutorials on related topics. In this message, we call for proposals for workshops or tutorials. Candidate organizers should submit their proposal to either the workshop chairs or the tutorial chairs before or on March 9, 2012. For more information, please check the following detailed calls: - for workshops: http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/calls/call-for-workshops/ - for tutorials: http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/calls/call-for-tutorials/ Proposal deadline: Friday, March 9, 2012 Proposals for workshops or tutorials should be sent by email to: - ecmlpkdd2012worksh...@cs.bris.ac.uk (workshop proposals) - ecmlpkdd2012tutori...@cs.bris.ac.uk (tutorial proposals) Arno Knobbe Carlos Soares ECML PKDD 2012 Workshop Chairs Alessandro Moschitti and Siegfried Nijssen ECML/PKDD 2012 Tutorial Chairs --- Papers --- The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and other innovative application domains. Submissions are invited on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. For more information, please check the following detailed call: http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/calls/call-for-papers/ Key Dates - Abstract submission deadline: Thu 19 April 2012 - Paper submission deadline: Mon 23 April 2012 - Early author notification: Mon 28 May 2012 - Regular author notification: Fri 15 June 2012 - Camera-ready submission: Fri 29 June 2012 Contact You can contact the Program Committee Chairs at ecmlpkdd2012pccha...@cs.bris.ac.uk . Nello Cristianini, Tijl De Bie and Peter Flach (Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Bristol, UK) - Follow ECML PKDD 2012 - - Twitter: @ECMLPKDD2012 - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4257980 - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ECML-PKDD-2012/298600073514446 ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Call for Workshops and Tutorials at ECML PKDD 2012
Call for Workshops and Tutorials at ECML PKDD 2012 http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/ ECML PKDD is the prime European scientific event in the fields of Machine Learning and Data Mining. The first and last day of the program are dedicated to workshops and tutorials on related topics. In this message, we call for proposals for workshops or tutorials. Candidate organizers should submit their proposal to either the workshop chairs or the tutorial chairs before or on March 9, 2012. For more information, please check the following detailed calls: - for workshops:http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/calls/call-for-workshops/ - for tutorials:http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/calls/call-for-tutorials/ Proposal deadline: Friday, March 9, 2012 Proposals for workshops or tutorials should be sent by email to: -ecmlpkdd2012worksh...@cs.bris.ac.uk (workshop proposals) -ecmlpkdd2012tutori...@cs.bris.ac.uk (tutorial proposals) Arno Knobbe Carlos Soares ECML PKDD 2012 Workshop Chairs Alessandro Moschitti and Siegfried Nijssen ECML/PKDD 2012 Tutorial Chairs ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Call for papers: ECML-PKDD 2012
ECML-PKDD 2012 - The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases September 24-28, 2012 Bristol, UK http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/ * Key Dates - Abstract submission deadline: Thu 19 April 2012 - Paper submission deadline: Mon 23 April 2012 - Early author notification: Mon 28 May 2012 - Regular author notification: Fri 15 June 2012 - Camera-ready submission: Fri 29 June 2012 * Call For Papers The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and other innovative application domains. Submissions are invited on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. The overriding criteria for acceptance will be a paper’s: - potential to inspirethe research community by introducing new and relevant problems, concepts, solution strategies, and ideas; - contribution to solving a problem widely recognized as both challenging and important; - capability to address a novel area of impactof machine learning and data mining. Other criteria are scientific rigour and correctness, challenges overcome, quality and reproducibility of the experiments, and presentation. * Proceedings and Special Journal Issues The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a significantly extended version of their paper to two post-conference special issues of the journals Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/10618 and Machine Learning http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10994. * Submissions All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled online via the CMT conference management toolkit at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDD2012/. The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The maximum length of papers is 16 pages in this format. Overlength papers will be rejected without review. Papers submitted should report original work; ECML-PKDD 2012 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. To minimize the impact of this constraint, a significant proportion of rejected papers will be notified at the early notification date. * Reviewing process Papers submitted to ECML-PKDD 2012 will normally be reviewed by three referees. The review process is single-blind (reviewer identities unknown to authors) and there will be no opportunity for author rebuttal. This decision was made to minimize reviewer workload and to concentrate it in time, which may ultimately result in better quality reviews and decisions. If necessary, a discussion will take place among the reviewers of a paper until a decision is reached. * Contact You can contact the Program Committee Chairs at ecmlpkdd2012pccha...@cs.bris.ac.uk mailto:ecmlpkdd2012pccha...@cs.bris.ac.uk. Nello Cristianini, Tijl De Bie and Peter Flach (Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Bristol, UK) ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2011 WORKSHOPS CFP
ECML PKDD 2011 WORKSHOPS CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/workshops.php Athens, Greece, September 5 and 9, 2011 The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will take place in Athens, Greece from September 5th to 9th, 2011. The combined event will comprise a wide program of workshops, to be held on Monday and Friday, September 5 and 9, immediately preceding and following the main ECML PKDD 2011 conference. Workshop NEMO Finding patterns of human behaviors in NEtworks and MObility data http://kdd.isti.cnr.it/nemo/ Chairs Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, - CCNR, Northeastern University, USA Michele Berlingerio,KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy Dino Pedreschi, KDD Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy Dashun Wang, CCNR, Northeastern University, USA Sponsor and Award Chair Mirco Nanni, KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy Contact e-mails michele.berlinge...@isti.cnr.it dashunw...@gmail.com Workshop DMLG Machine Learning and Data Mining in and around Games http://www-kd.iai.uni-bonn.de/dmlg11/ Chairs Tom Croonenborghs, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen Kurt Driessens, Maastricht University Olana Missura, University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS Contact e-mail dmlg2...@iais.fraunhofer.de Workshop PlanSoKD Planning to Learn and Service-Oriented Knowledge Discovery http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/events/plansokd2011/ Chairs Jorg-Uwe Kietz, University of Zurich, Switzerland Simon Fischer, Rapid-I, Germany Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Vid Podpecan, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Contact e-mail j...@ifi.uzh.ch Workshop MultiClust Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings http://dme.rwth-aachen.de/en/MultiClust2011 Chairs Emmanuel Muller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany Stephan Gunnemann, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Ira Assent, Aarhus University, Arhus, Denmark Thomas Seidl, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Contact e-mails emmanuel.muel...@kit.edu guennem...@cs.rwth-aachen.de i...@cs.au.dk se...@cs.rwth-aachen.de Workshop ISEW Intelligent Techniques in Software Engineering http://sweng.csd.auth.gr/~isew11/ Chairs Ioannis Stamelos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece Stamatia Bibi, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece Contact e-mails stame...@csd.auth.gr sb...@csd.auth.gr Workshop CoLISD Collective Learning and Inference on Structured Data http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/CoLISD/CoLISD.html Chairs Balaraman Ravindran, Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Kristian Kersting, Department of Knowledge Discovery, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Sriraam Natarajan, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC Indrajit Bhattacharya, Department Dept of CSA, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India S. Shivashankar, Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai, India Contact e-mail ecml.colisd.cha...@gmail.com Workshop DM-FGP Data Mining in Functional Genomics and Proteomics: Current Trends and Future Directions http://cajalbbp.cesvima.upm.es/ecmlpkdd11 Chairs Prof. J.M. Pena UPM, Spain Dr. A. Fazel Famili NRC, Canada Contact emails fazel.fam...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca jmp...@fi.upm.es Workshop MUSE Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/muse2011/ Chairs Martin Atzmueller, Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel, Germany Andreas Hotho, Data Mining and Information Retrieval Group, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Contact e-mails atzmuel...@cs.uni-kassel.de ho...@cs.uni-kassel.de Workshop KD-HCM Knowledge Discovery in Health Care and Medicine http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~hrangwal/kd-hcm/ Chairs Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, USA. Andrea Tagarelli, University of Calabria, Italia. Nikil Wale, Pfizer, USA. George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA. Contact e-mail kdhcmchairs2...@gmail.com ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2011 - Call for Demonstrations
== ECML PKDD 2011 - Call for Demonstrations The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases == We also invite submissions for demos of working systems based on state-of-the-art machine learning and data mining technology. At ECML PKDD 2011 a special demonstration session will be held, an exciting and highly interactive way to showcase the state of the art in machine learning and knowledge discovery software. Accepted demonstration papers (4 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. The focus will be on innovative prototype implementation or systems that apply machine learning techniques and knowledge discovery process in practical settings. We especially encourage submissions in the fields of web, medicine, biology, neuroscience, engineering, and government. Submissions will be judged by a committee of technical experts with expertise in machine learning, data mining, and software engineering. Selection criteria include the relevance of the contribution, its interest and usefulness for attendees, and its technical difficulty. Accepted contributions: At least one of the authors must register for and attend the conference in order to present the demonstration (details about demonstrations to be given with the acceptance notification). Submissions Each demonstration should be accompanied by a short paper of at most 4 pages (including figures and screenshots, if needed). The paper must be in English and must be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Please submit your paper electronically by May 6 to de...@ecmlpkdd2011.org. In this accompanying paper, please try to answer the following questions: What makes your piece of software unique and special? What are the innovative aspects or in what way/area does it represent the state of the art? For whom is it most interesting/useful? (an ML or KDD researcher, a graduate or undergraduate student in these areas, an industrial practitioner, etc.). If there are similar/related pieces of software: What are the advantages and disadvantages compared to related software? Important Dates Submission deadline: 6 May 2011 Notifications: 6 June 2011 Final versions due: 12 June 2011 Demo Track Organisation Michelangelo Ceci (Univ. Bari, Italy) Spiros Papadimitriou (Google Research, USA) Program Committee To Be Decided Contact If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Demo Chairs, Michelangelo Ceci and Spiros Papadimitriou, via de...@ecmlpkdd2011.org. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2011 - 2nd Call for Papers
ECML PKDD 2011 - The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases September 5-9, 2011 Athens, Greece http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/ Key Dates * Abstract submission deadline: April 5, 2011 Paper Submission deadline:April 12, 2011 Paper Acceptance Notification:June 3, 2011 Paper Camera Ready: June 12, 2011 Call For Papers *** The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and other innovative application domains. We invite submissions on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining. We especially encourage submissions of papers that describe the application of machine learning and data mining methods to real-world problems, and highlight new research challenges in new domains such as the web, medicine, biology, neuroscience, engineering, government fields. Submissions that demonstrate both theoretical and empirical rigor are also highly encouraged. Proceedings and Special Journal Issues ** The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series). A selection of papers will be published in two post-conference special issues of the Springer Verlag journals Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning. Submissions *** All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled online via the Microsoft CMT. The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The maximum length of papers is 16 pages in this format. Papers submitted should report original work; ECML PKDD 2011 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. Papers submitted to ECML PKDD 2011 will normally be reviewed by minimum of two referees. The review process will be double blind. Student submissions should be clearly indicated on the submission form. Conference Organization *** General co-Chairs Prof. Aris Likas (Univ. of Ioannina, Greece) Prof. Yannis Theodoridis (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Program Commitee chairs Prof. Dimitris Gunopulos (Univ. of Athens, Greece) Dr. Thomas Hofmann (Google Research) Prof. Donato Malerba (Univ. of Bari, Italy) Prof. Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece) Venue * ECML PKDD 2011 will take place in Athens, Greece. Athens is the capital of Greece, standing at a strategic point in southeastern Europe, with unique historical and cultural assets and a location of exceptional natural beauty, privileged with a perfect weather climate. Conference Web Page Social Networking *** Please visit regularly the conference web page to get the latest updates in the conference: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org You may want to join the relevant FACEBOOK group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ECML-PKDD-2011/111315008934900 or follow us on TWITTER at: http://www.twitter.com/ECML_PKDD_2011 ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2011 - Call for Demonstrations
== ECML PKDD 2011 - Call for Demonstrations The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases == We also invite submissions for demos of working systems based on state-of-the-art machine learning and data mining technology. At ECML PKDD 2011 a special demonstration session will be held, an exciting and highly interactive way to showcase the state of the art in machine learning and knowledge discovery software. Accepted demonstration papers (4 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. The focus will be on innovative prototype implementation or systems that apply machine learning techniques and knowledge discovery process in practical settings. We especially encourage submissions in the fields of web, medicine, biology, neuroscience, engineering, and government. Submissions will be judged by a committee of technical experts with expertise in machine learning, data mining, and software engineering. Selection criteria include the relevance of the contribution, its interest and usefulness for attendees, and its technical difficulty. Accepted contributions: At least one of the authors must register for and attend the conference in order to present the demonstration (details about demonstrations to be given with the acceptance notification). Submissions Each demonstration should be accompanied by a short paper of at most 4 pages (including figures and screenshots, if needed). The paper must be in English and must be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Please submit your paper electronically by May 6 to de...@ecmlpkdd2011.org. In this accompanying paper, please try to answer the following questions: What makes your piece of software unique and special? What are the innovative aspects or in what way/area does it represent the state of the art? For whom is it most interesting/useful? (an ML or KDD researcher, a graduate or undergraduate student in these areas, an industrial practitioner, etc.). If there are similar/related pieces of software: What are the advantages and disadvantages compared to related software? Important Dates Submission deadline: 6 May 2011 Notifications: 6 June 2011 Final versions due: 12 June 2011 Demo Track Organisation Michelangelo Ceci (Univ. Bari, Italy) Spiros Papadimitriou (Google Research, USA) Contact If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Demo Chairs, Michelangelo Ceci and Spiros Papadimitriou, via de...@ecmlpkdd2011.org. ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2011 - Call For Discovery Challenge Data/Tasks
Call For Discovery Challenge Data/Tasks ECML-PKDD 2011: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases September 5-9, 2011, Athens, Greece -http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/ The organizing committee of ECML-PKDD 2011 invites the submission of proposals for the tasks and datasets to be used in ECML-PKDD Discovery Challenge 2011. The Discovery Challenge provides a venue for the collaborative exploration and evaluation of novel and interesting tasks in the areas of Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery. The outcome of the Discovery Challenge will be presented in a dedicated workshop on the first or the last day of the conference, where the winning and other selected participations will be presented. * Proposal Guidelines Submitted proposals should be self-contained and should include at least the following information: - Title and abstract of the proposed challenge. - Contact information of organizer(s). - General description of the proposed challenge. - Description of the dataset used in the proposed challenge. - Description of at least two tasks in which the Discovery Challenge participants will compete. - Description of the evaluation procedure and metrics. - Short biography of organizers, mentioning relevant experience. The submitted proposals should also consider the following points: - The dataset should be made publicly available after the end of the challenge to facilitate future use and repeatability of experiments. - The dataset should be sufficiently large. - The tasks should address novel and interesting research problems, which do not require significant domain-specific knowledge from participants. - The evaluation procedure should be described clearly. We encourage organizers to seek awards and prizes for the winning participants in order to attract participation. The acceptance of a proposed Discovery Challenge, however, does not depend on the provision of an award or prize. * Important Dates Mar 21, 2011: Discovery Challenge proposal deadline. Mar 28, 2011: Notification of acceptance. Apr 11, 2011: Discovery Challenge announcement: Description of tasks, dataset and metrics become available. Jul 10, 2011: Submission of Discovery Challenge results and reports in appropriate format. Jul 21, 2011: Notification of acceptance. Jul 28, 2011: Submission of Camera Ready Copy for selected submissions. Sep 5 or 9, 2011: Discovery Challenge workshop at ECML-PKDD 2011. * Submission of Proposals Discovery Challenge proposals should be submitted in PDF form by email to both Discovery Challenge chairs. All submissions will be acknowledged by email. * Contact information If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to your proposals. Alexandros Kalousis (alexandros.kalou...@unige.ch), University of Geneva Vassilis Plachouras (vplachou...@aueb.gr), Athens Univ. of Economics and Business ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] Joint call for tutorials and workshops at ECML PKDD 2011
ECML PKDD 2011 http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/ Joint call for tutorials and workshops The ECML PKDD 2011 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held on the first and last days of the conference, which will take place in Athens, Greece from September 5th to 9th, 2011. We invite proposals for half-day tutorials and half-day or full-day workshops. Combination of workshops and tutorials are also welcome. The scope of the proposal should be consistent with the conference themes as described in the ECML PKDD 2011 Call for Papers. Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss current topics in machine learning and/or data mining in a small and interactive atmosphere. Workshops can concentrate in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and social aspects of machine learning and data mining. Multidisciplinary workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities are welcome. Workshops are expected to cover a full day (3.5h + 3.5h, incl. two breaks of 30 minutes), except for joint workshops/tutorials, in which case a half day tutorial (3.5h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (3.5h incl. one 30 minute break) is possible. The general idea is that for some events, it may be preferable to have a general introduction to a topic, presented by experienced presenters, before more technical or novel work is presented. Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction on core techniques and areas of knowledge that enjoy broad interest within the machine learning and the data mining community. We are interested in tutorials on established or emerging research topics within the field itself, but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or application areas. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad enough to provide a gentle introduction to the chosen research area, but it should also cover the most important contributions in depth. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its content can be covered in a half day slot (3.5h incl. a 30 minute break). Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenter's own work or commercial presentations are not eligible. ** Important dates ** --- The following deadlines are important for the workshop/tutorial organizers: - Workshop/tutorial proposal deadline: March 1, 2011 - Workshop/tutorial acceptance notification: March 17, 2011 - Workshop websites and call for papers online: April 1, 2011 - Workshop/tutorial proceedings (camera-ready): July 28, 2011 Workshops are free to determine their own schedules, but we advise the following deadlines: - Workshop paper submission deadline: June 7, 2011 - Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 1, 2011 - Workshop paper camera-ready deadline: July 21, 2011 ** Contact ** --- In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to your proposals, The ECML PKDD 2011 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Fosca Giannotti, Bart Goethals, Katharina Morik and Maguelonne Teisseire Please send emails to tutorialsandworksh...@ecmlpkdd2011.org For more information, please check the ECML PKDD 2011 webpage http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/ ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2011 - Call For Papers
ECML PKDD 2011 - The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases September 5-9, 2011 Athens, Greece http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/ Key Dates * Abstract submission deadline: April 5, 2011 Paper Submission deadline:April 12, 2011 Paper Acceptance Notification:June 3, 2011 Paper Camera Ready: June 12, 2011 Call For Papers *** The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and other innovative application domains. We invite submissions on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining. We especially encourage submissions of papers that describe the application of machine learning and data mining methods to real-world problems, and highlight new research challenges in new domains such as the web, medicine, biology, neuroscience, engineering, government fields. Submissions that demonstrate both theoretical and empirical rigor are also highly encouraged. Proceedings and Special Journal Issues ** The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series). A selection of papers will be published in two post-conference special issues of the Springer Verlag journals Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning. Submissions *** All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled online via the Microsoft CMT. The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The maximum length of papers is 16 pages in this format. Papers submitted should report original work; ECML PKDD 2011 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. Papers submitted to ECML PKDD 2011 will normally be reviewed by minimum of two referees. The review process will be double blind. Student submissions should be clearly indicated on the submission form. Conference Organization *** General co-Chairs Prof. Aris Likas (Univ. of Ioannina, Greece) Prof. Yannis Theodoridis (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Program Commitee chairs Prof. Dimitris Gunopulos (Univ. of Athens, Greece) Dr. Thomas Hofmann (Google Research) Prof. Donato Malerba (Univ. of Bari, Italy) Prof. Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece) Venue * ECML PKDD 2011 will take place in Athens, Greece. Athens is the capital of Greece, standing at a strategic point in southeastern Europe, with unique historical and cultural assets and a location of exceptional natural beauty, privileged with a perfect weather climate. Conference Web Page Social Networking *** Please visit regularly the conference web page to get the latest updates in the conference: http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org You may want to join the relevant FACEBOOK group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ECML-PKDD-2011/111315008934900 or follow us on TWITTER at: http://www.twitter.com/ECML_PKDD_2011 ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
