INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING (ICML) 2013
CALL FOR SITE PROPOSALS
In the summer of 2013, the 30th International Conference on Machine
Learning (ICML-2013) will be held. The purpose of this call is to
invite groups interested in hosting the conference to submit proposals
by May 31, 2011.
Proposals from eastern North America are particularly encourgaged,
however, proposals from elsewhere in North America will also be given
serious consideration (since ICML-2012 will be in Edinburgh, UK).
Proposals should address the following issues:
1. Proposed Dates. The conference should be scheduled for four days
(one day reserved for workshops and tutorials; three days for paper
sessions, poster sessions, and invited talks). The conference
prefers dates in the range from June 15 to July 15, but other dates
will be considered, particularly if they permit co-location with
other conferences.
2. Locale Parameters.
- Accessibility. Is it easy and inexpensive for people (especially
graduate students) to travel to the conference site? (Compute
mean airfares from Europe, North America, and Asia. Include ground
transportation from relevant airports to the site.)
- Meeting Rooms, AV Equiment, etc. What are the physical
facilities like? Consider rooms for plenary sessions, parallel
sessions, workshops, tutorials, and poster sessions. Is there
highly visible space for sponsors and publishers who want to set
up displays? What are the charges, if any, for using the various
rooms/locations?
- Meals and Lodging. Is there low-cost, quality housing available
for attendees (especially graduate students)? How far from the
meeting rooms? Where will attendees eat? Please estimate costs
for meals and lodging.
- Demo facilities. Will there be computing equipment and space
available to support demos?
- Internet access. Is wired or wireless internet access available?
At what cost?
- Other features. You may mention any other aspects of the site or
the region that are relevant.
3. Local Machine Learning Community. Is there a local ML
group/community that can help with organization and funding?
4. Opportunities to co-locate with other conferences. In the past, we
have co-located with COLT, UAI, and KDD. There is strong interest
in co-locating with these conferences and also with other
conferences including ISMB (Intelligent Systems in Molecular
Biology), EMNLP (Empirical Methoers in Natural Language
Processing), CoNLL (Conference on Natural Language Learning), IUI
(Intelligent User Interfaces), and CVPR (Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition).
5. Organizational and Institutional Support. Is there a conference
office that can help with local arrangements?
6. Budgetary Issues. Is any financial support available from the
hosting institution and/or local industry? What is a rough estimate
of the expected conference registration fees (including a student
rate)?
Proposals (in PDF) should be emailed by May 31, 2011 to:
Raymond J. Mooney,
President, International Machine Learning Society (IMLS)
[email protected]
The IMLS governing board will rank proposals according to cost and
accessibility, proposed dates, opportunities for co-location,
attractiveness of the location, and experience of the host group.
Note that IMLS chooses the Program Chair and General Chair as a
decision separate from the choice of the site. The site proposal
should propose a Local Arrangements Chair and other relevant
supporting positions (e.g., Volunteers Coordinator, Registration
Chair).
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