Machine Learning List: Vol. 13, No. 5 Thurs, Oct 4, 2001 Contents Calls for Papers and Meeting Announcements special issue on Medical Data Mining (AI in Medicine) call for participation FLAIRS-02 Special Track on IIS 1st CFP Springer Book Series on Knowledge Systems: Call for Book Proposals ICML 2002 call for papers DATA MINING 2002 - Call for Papers AAAI-2002 Workshop Program Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 02 Int. Machine Learning Conf. 2003, Call for Proposals Call for Papers, 15th International FLAIRS Conference ISMIS 2002 [CFP] ACE2002: Agent Construction and Emotions Workshop CFP Extension: WSES: NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY COMP. CFP: Special Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Learning Jobs Scholarships in Computational Intelligence PhD Student Bursary: Learning Classifier Systems, Univ. of the West of England Other MLNET ended online proceedings of workshops at ICCBR 2001 Torch: a new machine learning library in C++/GPL The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Please send submissions for distribution to: ml@isle.org. For requests to be added, removed, or to change your email address, send email to: ml-request@isle.org. In general, submissions should be no more than a few full-screens of text. For meeting announcements, highlight the conference or workshop web page and give a summary description of the goals of the event. Information such as the list of program committee members, talk schedules, and registration forms are unnecessary and should not be included. Job adds are usually no more than a few full-screens so they should fit naturally. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Calls for Papers and Meeting Announcements ------------------------------ From: iba@apres.stanford.edu Subject: special issue on Medical Data Mining (AI in Medicine) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal special issue on Medical Data Mining. Guest editors: Jules Berman, PhD, MD, BermanJ@mail.nih.gov Krzysztof Cios, PhD, DSc, Krys.Cios@cudenver.edu William Moore, MD, PhD, webmaster@netautopsy.org Contributions describing data mining research on large, heterogeneous medical datasets are sought for the November, 2002, issue of AIM. Articles dealing with the design, implementation and testing of novel protocols ensuring the anonymization, deidentification or secure exchange of medical data are also welcome. Email inquiries concerning this announcement to any of the guest editors to discuss the possible submission, and to obtain Instructions for Authors, are strongly encouraged. Full articles must be submitted by October 31, 2001, to Krzysztof Cios. If number of acceptable articles is large a double issue will be published. Krzysztof (Krys) Cios University of Colorado at Denver Krys.Cios@cudenver.edu http://isl.cudenver.edu/cios ------------------------------ From: Jude Shavlik Subject: call for participation Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:15:28 -0500 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2001) October 21-23, 2001 Victoria, British Columbia http://www.k-cap.org K-CAP 2001 will bring together disparate research communities whose members are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be (or eventually can be) useful for reasoning. This conference will promote multidisciplinary research that will result in a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture. INVITED SPEAKERS John McCarthy, Stanford University "Phenomenal Data Mining" Ken Forbus, Northwestern University "Knowledge Capture for Bootstrapping Intelligent Systems" Steve Lawrence, NEC Research Institute "ResearchIndex: Inside the World's Largest Free Full-Text Index of Scientific Literature" INVITED TUTORIALS "Programming by Example: Intelligent Interfaces for Teaching New Behavior to a Machine" Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab "Knowledge Engineering with CommonKADS in Perspective" Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam Hans Akkermans, Free University of Amsterdam "The Semantic Web" Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam Frank van Harmelen, Free University of Amsterdam Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Bremen CONFERENCE SCHEDULE A detailed schedule for the conference is posted at http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2001/schedule.html. CONFERENCE LOCATION The conference will be held at the Laurel Point Inn, in Victoria, British Columbia. Located on Victoria's Inner Harbour, this resort-style waterfront hotel offers state-of-the-art meeting facilities and is within walking distance of historical, entertainment, and shopping sites in the downtown area. More details about the hotel and travel are available at http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2001/venue.html ------------------------------ From: Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis Subject: FLAIRS-02 Special Track on IIS 1st CFP Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:12:46 +0300 FLAIRS-2002 SPECIAL TRACK on INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (URL: http://mmlab.ceid.upatras.gr/aigroup/flairs02/) 15th Florida Artficial Intelligence Research Society Conference May 16-18, 2002, Crown Plaza Pensacola Grand Hotel, Pensacola, Florida, USA CALL FOR PAPERS The Special Track (ST) seeks for quality papers on systems, methods and techniques that integrate an AI technology/methodology with another AI or non-AI technology/methodology. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Integrations of Neural Nets with Expert Systems Knowledge-Based Neural Networks Knowledge Extraction from Neural Networks Fuzzy Expert Systems Neurofuzzy systems Case-based Reasoning Integrations Genetic Algorithms Integrations Integrations of Data Mining and Databases Integrations of Data Mining and Knowledge Management Intelligent Decision Support Systems PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCESSING Submissions must be original work and should not exceed 5 single-spaced double-column pages (10pt letter size). Please, indicate correspondence author (e-mail is required). All papers will be refereed. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: October 26th, 2001 Notification of acceptance: January 11th, 2002 Camera ready copy due: February 23th, 2002 ------------------------------ From: Xindong Wu Subject: Springer Book Series on Knowledge Systems: Call for Book Proposals Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:28:04 -0600 (MDT) Springer Book Series on Knowledge Systems ========================================= Home Page: http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kaim.html Call for Book Proposals *********************** AIMS AND SCOPE The Springer book series on Knowledge Systems aims to report and encourage new developments in all topic areas related to knowledge systems, such as knowledge engineering, data mining, ontologies, agents, Web-based knowledge representation, knowledge management, and knowledge-based software engineering. It publishes books that may comprise (1) collected works on advanced topics in Knowledge Systems with influential papers selected from various journals and conferences, and (2) research and tutorial monographs on emerging topics. Each book proposal in the book series will be reviewed by the Series Editorial Board with possible additional reviewers. The book series focuses on knowledge systems, including their theoretical foundations, infrastructure, enabling technologies and emerging applications. INFORMATION FOR PROPOSERS If you are interested in writing or editing a book to be published within the Springer Knowledge Systems series, please complete the Springer book proposal form (available at http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kaim/AQ.doc or by e-mail to xwu@emba.uvm.edu) and submit it to the Series Editor by e-mail at xwu@emba.uvm.edu with the following information. - A 500-word summary of the nature and scope of the book - A draft table of chapter/section headings - A sample chapter or two if available - Names and e-mail addresses of 3 potential reviewers for the book topic. These people should not be associated with the proposal and should be qualified to provide a technical assessment of the subject. - Proposer(s)' current CV's with listings of representative publications ------------------------------ From: Claude Sammut Subject: ICML 2002 call for papers Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:10:37 +1000 Call for Papers The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning 8 - 12 July 2002 University of New South Wales Sydney Australia The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002) will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia from 8 - 12 July 2002. The conference will bring together researchers to exchange ideas and report recent progress in the computational study of learning. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: 1 February 2002 Acceptance decisions mailed to authors: 22 March 2002 Revised copies of conditionally accepted papers due: 15 April 2002 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers (conditional and unconditional) due: 19 April 2002 TOPICS FOR SUBMISSION ICML-2002 welcomes submissions on all facets of machine learning and especially solicits papers on problem areas, research topics, learning paradigms, and approaches to evaluation that include: * the role of learning in natural language and speech, vision, planning and scheduling, design and configuration, logical and spatial reasoning, motor control, and more generally on learning for performance tasks carried out by intelligent agents; * the discovery of scientific laws and taxonomies, the construction of componential and structural models, and learning at multiple levels of temporal and spatial resolution; * novel applications of machine, particularly those that require non-standard techniques; * computational models of human learning, exploratory research that describes novel learning tasks, work that integrates familiar methods to demonstrate new functionality, and agent architectures in which learning plays a central role; We also welcome submissions on all the traditional topics of Machine Learning. FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference will be co-located with COLT and ILP. The two conferences will span the week starting 8 July, 2002, with one overlap day of joint session. ICML will include a one-day program of workshops and tutorials. This will be followed by three days of talks, poster sessions, and informal gatherings designed to foster discussion of research in machine learning. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit papers using the same format and length as will be required for the final proceedings version. Detailed instructions, as well as templates for LaTeX and Word are available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002/format.html Submission will be entirely electronic by transferring papers to the ICML-2002 submission site. Authors must submit papers in postscript or pdf format to ensure our ability to print them out for review. ICML-2002 allows simultaneous submission to other conferences, provided this fact is clearly indicated on the submission form. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings only if they are withdrawn from other conferences. Simultaneous submissions that are not clearly specified as such will be rejected. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For additional information, see the web site for the conference at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002 which will provide additional details as they become available. If you have questions about ICML-2002, please send electronic mail to Claude Sammut at icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au. ------------------------------ From: Alessandro.Zanasi@metagroup.com Subject: DATA MINING 2002 - Call for Papers Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:37:24 +0200 INTRODUCTION Data Mining 2002 is the third in the series on `Data Mining Methods and Applications'. The conference provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners, to share state-of-the-art research results and applicative experiences, with an expected special focus on CRM, Competitive Intelligence and HR. A special session on Text Mining will be organized and chaired by N.Milic (Microsoft Research) and P.Coupet (TEMIS). WHO SHOULD ATTEND The conference aims to bring together researchers, developers, users and practitioners from academia and research, industry and government organizations. LOCATION Bologna (Italy) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna and houses over 400,000 inhabitants. Situated on the South-Eastern side of the Po Valley on the foothills of the Apennines, it is only one hour by train from Florence and two hours by train from Venice. The international airport is approximately 15 minutes (3 miles) from the hotel by car or taxi. Few European cities show such a contrast between picturesque medieval times and busy modern commercial life as vividly as Bologna. Characterised by long porticoes, mediaeval towers, XIII - XVII century palaces, monumental churches and the warm red colour of the brick buildings, this is interspersed with old arcade streets lined with busy shops, modern theatres and office buildings. EXHIBITION FACILITIES There will be mini-exhibition space available for organisations wishing to exhibit hardware, software, products, services and literature relating to the theme of the conference. Further details are available from the Conference Secretariat. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the topics outlined and others falling within the scope of the meeting. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to the Conference Secretariat as soon as possible and no later than 8th January 2002. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted, must be presented at the conference. Each submitted paper is subject to a separate registration. TOPICS Data Mining Methodologies and Techniques Data Warehousing Web Mining Text Mining Structure Mining and Context Mining Visualisation in Data Mining Parallel Processing Techniques Applications in Science and Engineering Applications in Finance, Business and Industry Applications in Health and Medicine Case Studies TIME SCHEDULE Submit Abstract (300 words): 8th January 2002 Submit Camera Ready Final Paper: 21st May 2002 ------------------------------ From: "Berthe Y. Choueiry" Subject: AAAI-2002 Workshop Program Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:17:48 -0500 (CDT) AAAI 2002 Workshops Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence July 28 - August 1, 2001, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Important dates: Proposals received no later than October 12, 2001. Notification of the committee's decision by October 26, 2001. Organizers producing call for participation due November 16, 2001. List of attendees made by organizers due March 15, 2002. Working notes (if produced by AAAI) received by May 24, 2002. Workshop dates July 28 - 29, 2002 For further information about the 2002 Workshop Program, consult the following: http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/2002/ ------------------------------ From: Lourdes Pena Subject: Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 02 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:11:07 +0200 (MET DST) *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The MICAI Program Committee invites submissions of technical papers for the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence which is to be held in Mexico, in April 22-26, 2002. MICAI is the merging of the Mexican Meeting on AI (RNIA) and the International Symposium on AI (ISAI) and will be run as an international conference with an international Programme Committee. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. The scientific program includes invited lectures, paper presentations, tutorials, panels and workshops. The conference is devoted to all areas of Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical/foundational issues and applications as well. Important dates: Sumission Deadline: October 15th, 2001 Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: December 1st, 2001 Camera-Ready Copy: December 30th, 2001 For more information visit: http://www.cs.cinvestav.mx/~micai2002 ------------------------------ From: Raymond Mooney Subject: Int. Machine Learning Conf. 2003, Call for Proposals Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:46:01 -0500 (CDT) 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING (ICML) CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will be held in 2003. The purpose of this call is to invite groups interested in organizing and hosting the conference to submit proposals. The group selected to run the conference will be given full authority and responsibility for producing the conference. Full instructions on submitting a proposal may be found at this URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/election/icml03-cfp.html Interested parties must notify me of their intent to submit a proposal by November 15, 2001. The deadline for submitting the proposal is December 15, 2001. The final decision will be made by the board of the new International Machine Learning Society, whose election is currently in progress. - Ray Mooney ------- Raymond J. Mooney Title: Professor Department of Computer Sciences Phone: (512) 471-9558 Taylor Hall 2.124 Fax: (512) 471-8885 University of Texas E-mail: mooney@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78712-1188 WWW: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mooney USA ------------------------------ From: SIMMONS Subject: Call for Papers, 15th International FLAIRS Conference Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:39:32 -0500 In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence The Fifteenth International FLAIRS Conference seeks high-quality paper submissions in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to, neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision, data mining, education, expert systems, genetic algorithms, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and management, learning, logic, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning, robotics, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, and verification/validation. Papers will be refereed. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding published by AAAI Press. Select papers will receive best-paper awards. Authors may be invited to submit a revised copy of their paper to a special issue of an international AI journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: Monday, October 29, 2001 Author notification: Monday, January 7, 2002 Camera ready copies: Monday, March 4, 2002 Conference date: May 16-18, 2002 Conference location: Pensacola, Floriday For further information including deadlines, conference dates and location, paper submission guidelines, special tracks, workshops, reservation information, please reference the conference website at: http://www.flairs.com or you may contact me at: simmons@cis.usouthal.edu Gene Simmons Program Co-chair ------------------------------ From: "Mohand Said Hacid" Subject: ISMIS 2002 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:14:28 -0500 (EST) Call for Papers ISMIS 2002 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems Lyon, France, June 27-29, 2002 http://lisi.insa-lyon.fr/~ismis2002 INTRODUCTION The ISMIS series of conferences is an established and prestigeous forum for the exchange of the latest research results in building intelligent systems. Held every year and half in an attractive location, the conference provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. The previous events were held in Knoxville, Charlotte, Turin, Trondheim, Zakopane, and Warsaw. ISMIS 2002 will be held in Lyon, one of Europe's cultural perls. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: November 8, 2001 Research and Industry & application paper submission: November 15, 2001 Demo, panel, and Workshop submission: November 22, 2001 Notification: January 15, 2002 Camera-ready copy due: March 1, 2002 CONFERENCE THEME The scope of ISMIS is intended to represent a wide range of topics of concern to scholars applying advanced techniques to areas as diverse as decision support, automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, planning, databases, information retrieval, etc. ISMIS provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. The focus of the work is on research in Intelligent systems. The conference addresses issues involving solutions of problems which are complex to be solved through conventional approaches and which require the simulation of intelligent thought processes, heuristics and applications of knowledge. The integration of these multiple approaches in solving complex problems is of particular importance. ISMIS provides a forum and a means for exchanging information for those interested purely in theory, those interested primarily in implementation, and those interested in specific research and industrial applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST ISMIS 2002 invites submissions of original research contributions, as well as proposals for panels and workshops. Contributions for industry and applications sessions and software demonstrations also are solicited. The conference covers a broad range of topics, including the use of conventional approaches, as well as new challenges for advanced techniques for intelligent systems in any possible domain. This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Intelligent Multimedia Intelligent Information Retrieval Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Representation and Integration Learning and Knowledge Discovery Logic for Artificial Intelligence Methodologies (modeling, design, validation, performance evaluation). Soft Computing In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change, manufacturing, health care, etc. SUBMISSION Details on the submission process are available on the ISMIS 2002 web site: http://lisi.insa-lyon.fr/~ismis2002 ------------------------------ From: Rodrigo Ventura Subject: [CFP] ACE2002: Agent Construction and Emotions Date: 24 Sep 2001 11:18:59 +0100 **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** ACE2002: Agent Construction and Emotions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Symposium at the 16th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2002) April 2-5, 2002, Vienna, Austria, EU Paper submission deadline: November 16th, 2001 * Phenomena of natural intelligence are based on genetic evolution and adaptation of individuals. The former determines characteristics at the time of instantiation (conception), while the latter occurs during lifetime interaction with the environment. This year's edition of the ACE symposium is aimed at these three issues: * The overall role of emotions in agent construction; * Descriptive and prescriptive approaches; * Design-time and run-time aspects. The goal of this symposium is to offer a platform for the exchange of ideas and to foster further research. In this context, submissions are welcome addressing topics including, but not limited to: + Agent construction - building emotion-based agents that exhibit inteligent behavior; + Autonomy - building autonomous agents to cope with complex and unpredictable environments; + Adaptivity - tuning of pre-existing structures; + Learning - creation of new structures related to relevant aspects of the environment, "representations"; + Social Capabilities - e.g. control over shared resources including other individuals; communication; coordination; + Formal approaches - How to set the theoretical foundations of emotion-based agents; + Experimental approaches - What experiments show the relevance of emotions in intelligent behavior. SUBMISSION DETAILS: For details on how to prepare the draft final paper, see the submission guidelines for the main EMCSR conference published on the EMCSR 2002 homepage (http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/). IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline .............. NOVEMBER 16, 2001 Notification of acceptance/rejection ... DECEMBER 14, 2001 Camera-ready copies due ................ January 18, 2002 Please consult for latest information. ------------------------------ From: Peter Stone Subject: Workshop CFP Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:26:08 -0400 AAAI Spring Symposium on Collaborative Learning Agents http://www.research.att.com/~pstone/Workshops/2002aaai/ March 25-27,2002 Stanford University, California Call for Papers/Participation DESCRIPTION: Recent advances in the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) field have generated optimism that widely applicable solutions to large, distributed problems may be at hand. However, before the field can deliver on that promise, the challenge of how to control such systems to address a pre-specified goal (e.g., minimize throughput of packets in data routing, win the game in soccer) in a decentralized, adaptive manner with minimal detailed hand-tuning needs to be met. In this workshop we focus on two crucial properties that would allow a MAS to meet those challenges: 1- The agents need to work collectively so that as a group, their behavior solves the overall problem; and 2- Both the agents and their collaborative structure need to be adaptive. The first property is crucial in large problems (e.g., internet routing), and inherently distributed problems (e.g., planetary exploration rovers, constellations of satellites), in that it enables a modular approach to the problem. The importance of the second property lies in how the agents interact with one another and the environment. Because both the environment and the response of other agents to changes in that environment will modify the ``background'' state one agent perceives before choosing its actions, it is imperative that adaptivity be built in to those agents. Our focus in this workshop will be to address the design of systems that are intended to solve large, distributed computational problems with little to no handtailoring through the collective and adaptive behavior of the agents comprising that system. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: We encourage submissions in the following areas: 1- Off-equilibrium behavior of Multi-Agent Systems; 2- Learning agents in collaborative environments; 3- Selfish agents that cooperate "unintentionally"; 4- Formation of teams or coalitions of agents; 5- Behavior changes in ``team player'' agents; 6- Adaptivity in the interaction structure for the agents; 7- Scaling in collaborative Multi-Agent Systems; 8- Applications/limitations of economic principles; 9- applications/limitations of game theory; IMPORTANT DATES: 10/15/2001: Submissions due. 11/16/2001: Notification of Acceptance sent. 12/17/2001: Camera-ready copies due. 3/25-27/2002: Symposium. Those interested in participating should E-mail the URL of either a -- brief statement of interest (1 page), -- complete paper (8 page) including keywords and authors' complete addresses to pstone@research.att.com and kagan@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. Papers and statements of interest should be in one of the following formats: postscript, pdf, HTML. For further information visit the following URL: http://www.research.att.com/~pstone/Workshops/2002aaai ------------------------------ From: "WSES CI NEWSLETTER (Computational Intelligence)" Subject: Extension: WSES: NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY COMP. Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 03:00:03 +0300 NEW DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: after the request of many WSES members, we prolong the deadline to: OCTOBER 25, 2001. The NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION is: OCTOBER 30 for authors that sent their paper before September 30 and NOVEMBER 15 for the authors that sent their paper after September 30, 2001 After the general success of the previous WSES conferences in Computational Intelligence (or if you prefer Soft Computing) in the exotic Tenerife (see the comments of our WSES participants in the web), we would like to invite each of you to contribute or simply to attend the 2002 WSES triplet of conferences NNA, FSFS, EC. Of course, all the accepted papers will be published not only in the usual conference proceedings, but also in the luxurious WSES Press International Books. Some special issues have been already scheduled in collaborating journals! Also, you will attend plenary lectures from the leaders of our area as well as social and cultural activities of high academical standards! 3rd WSES NNA (NEURAL NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS) 3rd WSES FSFS (FUZZY SETS AND FUZZY SYSTEMS and 3rd WSES EC (EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION) Interlaken, Switzerland, February 11-15, 2002 Members of the Scientific Committee: see at: http://www.worldses.org/wses/conferences/2002/interlaken/nna http://www.worldses.org/wses/conferences/2002/interlaken/fsfs http://www.worldses.org/wses/conferences/2002/interlaken/ec ------------------------------ From: Michael PICHAT Subject: CFP: Special Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Learning Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:27:18 +0200 EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS http://www.esscs.org Special Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Learning Clichy (Paris, France), 17-19 January 2002 TOPIC The ESSCS attempts to promote the multidisciplinary study of all aspects of cognition. Learning is one of the nodal points of cognition and raises many integrative issues with regard to the study of cognitive systems. This is the first special workshop on this topic organised by the ESSCS. The spirit of the workshop is deliberately chosen to encourage researchers from various fields to discuss with each other about the challenges and opportunities offered by a cross disciplinary approach to learning. SCOPE Contributions are invited on all aspects of learning, in human, animal, and artificial systems. More specifically the following subdisciplines of cognitive sciences are involved: - Psychology (cognitive, clinical, developmental, ergonomics) - Artificial intelligence (general aspects) - Neurosciences (associative memory, neural networks, etc.) - Linguistics (also computational), language disorders - Educational and Instructional sciences - Philosophy, History of concepts. SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions will be peer-reviewed and considered on the basis of their relevance over a variety of subdisciplines of cognitive sciences. This will imply that papers that exclusively report on experimental results, without a theoretical basis or interpretation, will not be accepted. In case of doubt, please take up contact with the organisers. Papers that have been accepted can also be submitted to a special issue of Cognitive Systems, the international peer-reviewed journal of the ESSCS. Submissions (in English) should be sent in the form a 300 words abstract. Desired presentation form is to be indicated (oral, poster, oral or poster). Submissions should be sent as an email attachment (please both in RTF and DOS formats) to both G. Dalenoort (G.J.DALENOORT@ppsw.rug.nl) and M. Pichat (michael.pichat@univ-paris8.fr) by the 30th of October 2001. Acceptance will be notified within a week, upon which registration payment is required. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop: 17-19 January 2002 Submission deadline: 30th October 2001 Notification of acceptance: 7th November 2001 Registration fee deposit deadline: 15th November 2001 Accommodation fee deposit deadline: 15th November 2001 ------------------------------ Jobs ------------------------------ From: Ramesh Rayudu Subject: Scholarships in Computational Intelligence Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:20:03 +1200 Transpower - C-fACS Scholarships for Ph.D. and Masters Studies Centre for Advanced Computational Solutions (C-fACS) Lincoln University New Zealand PhD and Masters Scholarships are available at the Centre for Advanced Computational Solutions (C-fACS), Lincoln University, to work on projects related to development of intelligent systems in power transmission networks. The scholarship holders will work with C-fACS and Transpower research and development staff to build working architecture and its extensive testing on the transmission networks. We are looking for highly motivated graduates in electrical engineering or computing or applied mathematics with exceptional academic records. Strong interests in Intelligent Computational Systems are necessary, and successful candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers worldwide through C-fACS. Ability to interact and communicate with professionals in industry is a definite plus. Ph.D. scholarships are worth $18,000/pa for three years, and Masters scholarships $12,000/pa for two years. Initially we will offer one Ph.D. scholarship and one Masters scholarship. To apply, send your CV along with a covering letter to: Transpower - C-fACS Scholarships Centre for Advanced Computational Solutions AMAC Division PO Box 84 Lincoln University Canterbury, New Zealand For further information, contact Dr.Ramesh Rayudu (email: Ramesh.Rayudu@transpower.co.nz or phone 64 03 3253623) or Prof. Don Kulasiri (email:Don@cfacs.co.nz or phone: 64 03 325 3859). ------------------------------ From: Alwyn Barry Subject: PhD Student Bursary: Learning Classifier Systems, Univ. of the West of England Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:39:14 +0100 PhD Student Bursary Call for Applications A Ph.D. studentship in Learning Classifier Systems is available at the University of the West of England, U.K. within the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Members of the Faculty have made a considerable contribution to many fields within Evolutionary Computation, and the successful candidate will be joining a strong team of Learning Classifier System researchers. The subject of the research is the autonomous development of interacting hierarchical populations of rules within Learning Classifier Systems. This work builds on previous research conducted within the Faculty, both on hierarchy within LCS and on the application of LCS to real-world control problems. As a PhD student, the successful candidate will be expected to make an original research contribution, and should have a good first degree/masters in an area relevant to one of the research topics listed above. The ideal candidate will have programming knowledge in a modern programming language (Java, C++, etc.). Applications are welcome from all candidates with a good command of English (normally IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 600), regardless of nationality. However, travel costs to and within the United Kingdom are not paid. For more details, please contact: Alwyn Barry Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K. alwyn.barry@uwe.ac.uk ------------------------------ Other ------------------------------ From: Maarten van Someren Subject: MLNET ended Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:04:06 +0200 (MET DST) For two and a half year MLNET, a network of excellence funded by the European Commission has been coordinating research, development and education in Machine Learning, Knowledge Acquisition and Case-Based Reasoning in Europe. MLNET has now ended. The information system developed in MLNET (see www.mlnet.org) is still in place but at the moment is not updated and extended anymore. The system contains information about persons, groups, projects, datasets, tools, example applications, etc. with a focus on Europe. A prototype training system for Machine Learning, with examples can be found at www.mlnet.org under "training". Another legacy is a document, the Technological Roadmap, that describes current and expected developments in Machine Learning. If you are interested in a free copy, send an email with your address to maarten@swi.psy.uva.nl with your post address and indicate that you would like a copy of the MLNET Roadmap. MLNET collaborated with other networks to facilitate the development of Computational Intelligence. One of the results of this can be found at www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/coil/. One of the documents is a "roadmap" for Computational Intelligence and Learning. An electronic version can eb found at www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/coil/roadmap/. A hardcopy can be obtained from the email address above. The European Commission funded a new network on Adaptive Systems. This network is called EUNITE and information can be found at www.eunite.org. Negotiations are underway about a network on Knowledge Discovery. It is expected that KDNET will take over and extend the MLNET Information Service. When this becomes active it will be announced on this mailinglist. - maarten van someren, ex-coordinator ... tel. +31 20 525 6791; secr. 525 6789 fax: +31 20 525 6896 ------------------------------ From: Gresse von Wangenheim Subject: online proceedings of workshops at ICCBR 2001 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:50:05 +0100 ONLINE PROCCEDINGS of the WORKSHOPS at the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 31 July 2001 http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/papers/2001/AIC-01-003/ The online proceedings of the workshops organized at the ICCBR 2001 conference are available now online. The proceedings cover the 5 workshops organized: 1. Case-Based Reasoning Approaches for Process-Oriented Knowledge Management Co-Chairs: Carsten Tautz (Carsten.Tautz@tecinno.com) and Kurt D.Fenstermacher (kurtf@bpa.arizona.edu) http://bpa.arizona.edu/~kurtf/iccbr/ 2. Case-Based Reasoning Authoring Support Tools Co-Chairs: Agnar Aamodt (agnar.aamodt@idi.ntnu.no), David Patterson (wd.patterson@ulst.ac.uk) and Barry Smyth (barry.smyth@ucd.ie) http://nikel.infj.ulst.ac.uk/ICCBRWorkshop.htm 3. Case-based Reasoning in Electronic Commerce Chair: Robin Burke (rburke@fullerton.edu) http://www.ics.uci.edu/~burke/research/cbrec/cfp.html 4. Creative Systems: Approaches to Creativity in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Co-Chairs: Carlos Bento (bento@dei.uc.pt) and Amilcar Cardoso (amilcar@dei.uc.pt) http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/CS01CfP/ 5. Soft Computing in Case-Based Reasoning Chair: Simon Shiu (csckshiu@inet.polyu.edu.hk) http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/soft-cbr ------------------------------ From: Samy Bengio Subject: Torch: a new machine learning library in C++/GPL Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:19:30 +0200 (MEST) We would like to announce the availability of yet another machine learning library, written in C++ under the GPL license. This new library is named "Torch" and has been written mainly by Ronan Collobert, also known for his widely used SVMTorch package for SVMs. Other contributors include Samy Bengio and Johnny Mariéthoz. Currently, the main features of Torch are the following: - A lot of things in gradient-machines, that is, machines which could be learned with gradient descent. This includes Multi-Layered Perceptrons, Radial Basis Functions and Mixtures of Experts. In fact there are a lot of small "modules" available (Linear, Tanh, SoftMax...) that you can plug as you want to get what you want. - Support Vector Machine, in classification and regression (mostly the same code as in SVMTorch but now integrated in the Torch library). - A Distribution package which includes for the moment Kmeans, Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). - A few non-parametric models such as K-nearest-neighbors, Parzen Regression and Parzen Density Estimator. - Tools to do either "train/test" experiments or K-fold cross-validation - A lot of measurers (to print for instance the mean squared error or the classification error of as many datasets as wanted, during training or testing). - A few typical "main.cc" examples to understand how to create your own experiments such as mlp.cc (train and test an MLP), gmm.cc (maximize the likelihood of a GMM), hmm.cc (maximize the likelihood of an HMM), mixture_softmax (train and test a mixture of experts). This library is intented to provide the state-of-the-art of the best algorithms in machine learning. Therefore, if you know C++, are working in machine learning, and want to develop your own algorithms or use well-known machine learning algorithms, Torch is for you! Visit the official Torch website at http://www.torch.ch to know more about Torch and/or download it. Note that, of course, Torch is and will always be under development... Note also that it was designed for Unix and Linux systems... Have fun! Samy Bengio Research Director. Machine Learning Group Leader. IDIAP, CP 592, rue du Simplon 4, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland. tel: +41 27 721 77 39, fax: +41 27 721 77 12. mailto:bengio@idiap.ch, http://www.idiap.ch/~bengio ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 13, No. 5 ***********************************