Machine Learning List: Vol. 13, No. 8 Saturday, Dec 8, 2001 Contents Calls for Papers and Meeting Anouncements Call for Papers: TIME'02 [Manchester, UK; July 2002] CFP: 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in CS - Las Vegas, June 24-27, 2002 CFP ECAI+PAIS+STAIRS: AI Conferences in Lyon, 21-26 july 2002 Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) 2002 CALL For PAPERS ICML2002 Call for Proposals for Tuorials CFP: Special session Trends in Global Optimization SEAL'02-ICONIP'02-FSKD'02 First Call for Papers CFP: ISMB'02 GMBV 2002: call for papers CfP: ACM TOIT Special Issue on Machine Learning for the Internet 6th ICCNS: Call for Abstracts Job Announcements Computer Science Faculty Positions at Univ of Vermont 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 Anouncements ------------------------------ From: Michael Fisher Subject: Call for Papers: TIME'02 [Manchester, UK; July 2002] Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:14:03 GMT Call For Papers 9th International Symposium on TEMPORAL REPRESENTATION AND REASONING (TIME-2002) http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/img/TIME-2002/ Manchester, UK 7-9 July, 2002 The purpose of this symposium is to bring together active researchers from distinct research areas involving representation of, or reasoning with, time. As with previous meetings in this respected series, one of the main goals of this symposium will be to bridge the gap between theoretical and applied research in temporal representation and reasoning. Thus, we especially encourage submissions concerning temporal aspects within areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Temporal/Spatial Databases and Applications of Temporal Logic in Computer Science in order to achieve a multi-disciplinary perspective on the topic and to benefit from cross-fertilisation of ideas. Track1: Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI - temporal aspects of agent-based systems - temporal constraint reasoning - reasoning about actions and change - temporal languages for planning - temporal languages and architectures - ontologies of time - expressive power versus tractability - belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge - temporal learning and discovery - time and nonmonotonism - time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling,...) - time in human-machine interaction Track 2: Time Management in Databases - temporal data models - temporal database design - temporal query languages - indexing of temporal data - temporal database systems - spatio-temporal databases - constraint databases - temporal data mining - time in multimedia databases - time in web applications - time in federated and heterogeneous systems Track 3: Temporal Logic in Computer Science - modal temporal logic - first order temporal logics - expressiveness, decidability, and complexity issues - specification and verification - synthesis and execution - model checking algorithms - temporal theorem proving - temporal languages and architectures - temporal logics for distributed systems - temporal logics of knowledge - hybrid systems - tools and practical systems PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions must be received by Friday 22 February, 2002. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: 22 February, 2002 Notification of Acceptance: 8 April, 2002 Camera Ready Copy Due: 22 April, 2002 TIME-2002 Symposium: 7-9 July, 2002 ------------------------------ From: hra@cs.uga.edu Subject: CFP: 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in CS - Las Vegas, June 24-27, 2002 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:13:43 -0500 (EST) C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science (13 Joint Int'l Conferences) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 24-27, 2002 You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a technical session. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The thirteen conferences are: .... 11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA) .... (a link to each conference's URL is available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) IMPORTANT DATES: Feb. 22, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 24-27, 2002: All 13 Int'l Conferences: PDPTA'02 + CISST'02 + IC-AI'02 + IC'02 + METMBS'02 + CIC'02 + ERSA'02 + VLSI'02 + IKE'02 + CMSRA'02 + ICMLA'02 + ICWN'02 + SERP'02 Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. ------------------------------ From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Yannick_Pri=E9?= Subject: CFP ECAI+PAIS+STAIRS: AI Conferences in Lyon, 21-26 july 2002 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:19:16 +0100 ECAI 2002: 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence *** Submission deadline: January 18, 2002 *** STAIRS 2002: First European Starting AI Researcher Symposium *** Submission deadline: March 1, 2002 *** *********************************************************************** ** 15th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ECAI-2002) ** *********************************************************************** The ECAI 2002 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the Technical Programme of the 15th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IMPORTANT DATES 18 Jan 2002 Deadline for paper summaries 22 Jan 2002 Deadline for papers 22 April 2002 Notification of acceptance 10 May 2002 Camera-ready copies of papers 24-26 July 2002 Technical programme at ECAI 2002 Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, Full CFP and additional details: http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/ecai/cfp.html *********************************************************************** ** FIRST EUROPEAN STARTING AI RESEARCHER SYMPOSIUM (STAIRS-2002) ** *********************************************************************** Affiliated to ECAI'2002, Lyon, July 22-23, 2002 AIMS AND SCOPE STAIRS'2002 is the first European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, an international meeting aimed at AI researchers, from all countries, at the beginning of their career: PhD students or people holding a PhD for less than one year. It offers them: 1.a first experience on submitting and presenting a paper in an international forum with a broad scope and thorough selection process; 2.the opportunity to gather knowledge and exchange ideas related to their research problems and approaches, and to attend ECAI at a reduced cost; 3.information on European research careers and mobility. STAIRS'2002 will be held in Lyon, in the period immediately preceeding ECAI'2002. WEB PAGE Additional information about STAIRS'2002 will be found on the symposium web pages: http://stairs2002.univ-lyon1.fr/ IMPORTANT DATES Title and abstract due to the PC co-chairs March 1, 2002 Paper submission deadline March 6, 2002 Notification of acceptance sent to authors April 19, 2002 Camera-ready copies due to the PC co-chairs May 6, 2002 Symposium venue July 22-23, 2002 TOPICS Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, .... ------------------------------ From: ITS Subject: Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) 2002 CALL For PAPERS Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:37:20 -0500 ITS 2002 CALL For PAPERS Due to a certain number of demands or suggestions related to the event of September 11 we have extended the deadlines for the call for papers. This will let you enough time to prepare or improve the submission. Please consult the ITS 2002 deadlines of the different Conference events http://www.itsconference.com ITS 2002. ------------------------------ From: ICML 2002 Subject: ICML2002 Call for Proposals for Tuorials Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:39:26 +1100 (EST) Call for Tutorial Proposals International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002) The ICML-2002 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be presented at the Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002). ICML-2002 tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference, 9 Jluy, at the University of New South Wales, the site of all ICML events. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at the conference should submit a proposal as outlined below. ICML tutorials will provide conference participants with an opportunity to learn about important advances in the science and practice of machine learning. Tutorials will cover both recent advances that are of broad interest, and more mature topics that may be unfamiliar to a significant portion of the field. Tutorials are included in the registration fees of all participants, and will be an integral part of the conference. Each tutorial will last two hours. Topics We seek tutorial proposals on core techniques and areas of knowledge that should be broadly known within the machine learning community. We are interested in tutorials that summarize recent technical advances in a core area of machine learning or that summarize techniques recently introduced from other fields. We are also interested in tutorials that educate the community about more mature techniques from machine learning and statistics that are still unfamiliar to part of the community. Finally, we are interested in tutorials that present basic knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between machine learning and another field of science that could offer unique technical insights or opportunities for innovative applications of machine learning. Proposals Proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, the likely quality of the presentation materials, and the speakers' teaching ability. We encourage tutorials taught by two-person teams because the added perspective of a second presenter can provide richer, more balanced coverage of an area. Proposals should be 3-5 pages long and contain at least the following information: * Description -- A short paragraph summarizing the topic of the tutorial. * Goal -- Who is the target audience? What will the audience learn? Why do they need to know it? * Prerequisites -- What knowledge are audience members assumed to have before entering the tutorial? * Content -- Detailed outline of the topics to be presented. If possible, provide samples of past tutorial slides or teaching materials. * Presenters -- The name, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each presenter. In addition, indicate presenters' background in the tutorial area. Submission Deadlines 1 March 2002 Proposals due 15 March 2002 Notification of acceptance 29 March 2002 Abstracts due 31 May 2002 Tutorial notes due Proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chair and members of the organizing committee. Please submit electronic submissions in text, PostScript or PDF to: Tatjana Zrimec tatjana@cse.unsw.edu.au Additional Information http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002/ ------------------------------ From: Andries Engelbrecht Subject: CFP: Special session Trends in Global Optimization Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:28:25 +0200 (SAST) CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Trends in Global Optimization ICONIP'02: International Conference on Neural Information Processing SEAL'02: Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning FSDK'02: International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery November 18-22, 2002, Singapore Looking at the dynamics of life and all processes involved, whether that be natural or man made, a clear objective is shown which follows the main principle of natural evolution: continuous improvement to ensure survivability in a complex and competing environment. Optimization is key to the ``survivability'' of processes in many fields, including operational research, artificial intelligence, computer science, business management, medicine, engineering, and many more. Global optimization have the objective to best solutions to complex optimization tasks. Much research has been done that produced very good optimization algorithms, but mostly from the traditional operational research environment. The objective of this special session is to focus on new developments in global optimization from the computational intelligence environment, including artificial neural networks, evolutionary computing, fuzzy systems and swarm intelligence. The focus will be on new theoretical analysis of current global optimization algorithms, introducing new algorithms and novel applications to solve complex real-world problems. Theoretical analysis submissions are expected to address problems such as convergence proofs, coping with multiple minima and dynamic changing objective functions, scalability, etc. You are invited to submit a full paper for this special issue. Papers should be submitted electronically to the organizer of the session (contact details are given below) in pdf format. Instructions on the format of the the submission can be found at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2002 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2002 Camera-ready copy due: 15 August 2002 ------------------------------ From: "ICONIP '02-SEAL '02-FSKD'02" Subject: SEAL'02-ICONIP'02-FSKD'02 First Call for Papers Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:10:56 +0800 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02) 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) November 18 - 22, 2002, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef CALL FOR PAPERS SEAL'02, ICONIP'02, and FSKD'02 will be jointly held in Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not only feature the most up-to-date research results in neural information processing, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely- related areas. Registration to any one of the conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and a tour to one of the major attractions in Singapore. Important Dates Paper/Summary Deadline : April 30, 2002 Notification of Acceptance : July 15, 2002 Camera-Ready Copy Due : August 15, 2002 For More Information, please visit the conference home page. ------------------------------ From: Russ Greiner Subject: CFP: ISMB'02 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:39:11 -0700 The International Society for Computational Biology presents ISMB02 -- the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology http://www.ismb02.org Edmonton, Canada 3-7/Aug/2002 The ISMB-2002 Conference provides a general forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics. It is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scientists from molecular biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. Its scope includes the development and application of advanced computational methods for biological problems at the levels of sequences, cells, organs, and organisms. The conference will feature original, refereed papers, which will be published as a supplementary issue of Bioinformatics and indexed in the Medline database. As in previous years, there will also be introductory tutorials, posters, software demonstrations, a job fair, and an exhibition of hardware and software vendors. Key dates: Paper submission deadline: 22/Jan/02 Poster submission deadline: 25/Mar/02 Meeting: 3-7/Aug/02 ISMB will be co-located with several other major conferences in the related fields of artificial intelligence, database design and data-mining; (AAAI/IAAI-2002, KDD-2002, UAI-2002, ...); see http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/Edmonton2002/ for details. ISMB is sponsored by the International Society of Computational Biology http://www.iscb.org/ For more information, please see http://www.ismb02.org. ------------------------------ From: aecp@diku.dk Subject: GMBV 2002: call for papers Date: 6 Dec 2001 12:07:03 -0000 GMBV 2002: First Workshop on Generative-Model-Based Vision 2 June 2002 in conjunction with ECCV 2002 Call for Papers The workshop aims at bringing together people working in different areas of computer vision, who share an interest in the generative-model approach, i.e. building vision algorithms on the basis of a statistical model of image generation. Both regular papers and review papers are of interest. Some topics of interest include: o Linear and semi-linear models of images and textures o Independent Component Analysis and extensions, as applied to images o Applications of the Kalman filter and related methods to vision o Applications of Gibbs sampling and Condensation to vision o Statistically-based methods in shape recovery o Active contours o Active appearance models o Models of background images for target detection and tracking Further details are available at: http://www.diku.dk/users/aecp/GMBV Deadline for paper submission: 15 February 2002 ------------------------------ From: Marco Maggini Subject: CfP: ACM TOIT Special Issue on Machine Learning for the Internet Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 17:46:21 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue on Machine Learning for the Internet Machine learning methods are becoming increasingly important for the development of several internet related technologies. Tasks such as intelligent searching, organizing, retrieving, and filtering information on the Web are extremely challenging and still much too easy for humans than they are for computers, except that humans are unable to scale up with the enormous amount of available data. Explicit coding of rules in this domain is typically very hard, and even if possible, would require exceptional coordination efforts. In particular, the fast dynamics of the information available on the Internet requires new approaches for indexing. The organization of information in Internet portals is becoming hardly manageable by humans. The users' surfing of the Internet can be made easier by personalized tools like search engines optimized for a specific Web community or even for the single user. For example, finding relevant documents by querying a search engine with a set of keywords may be difficult unless a proper ranking scheme is used to order the results. In this case, techniques based on user profiles, on topic selection and on the use of the Web topology can help in defining authoritative sources of information with respect to the given query and interests. Searching, organizing and retrieving information from the Web poses new issues that can be effectively tackled by applying machine learning techniques. Learning algorithms can be used to devise new tools which improve the accessibility to the information available on the Web. Learning is particularly useful to automate those tasks in which it is quite easy to collect examples while coding a set of explicit rules is impractical. Papers are invited on applications of machine learning to all aspects of Internet technology. These include (but are not limited to): * Automated creation of web directories * Automatic extraction of information from Web pages * Automatic security management * Categorization of web pages * Design and improvement of web servers through prediction of request patterns * Focused crawling * Information retrieval for the design of thematic search engines * Models and laws that characterize the web structure * User modeling for the personalization of Web services SUBMISSIONS Authors are requested to send an intention of submission (with authors, title and abstract) as an email message in plain text to acm-toit@dsi.unifi.it by May 1, 2002. Then, papers must be submitted in electronic format as an attachment to the same email address before May 15, 2002. Preferred formats are PDF and PostScript (compressed with gzip or zip). Manuscripts must not exceed 50 single-column, double-spaced pages (including figures and tables) and must be written in English and set in 10 or 11 point font. Please do not send papers directly to guest editors' email addresses. IMPORTANT DATES Intention of submission: May 1, 2002 Submission deadline: May 15, 2002 Notification: August 1, 2002 ------------------------------ From: Cynthia Bradford Subject: 6th ICCNS: Call for Abstracts Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:00:18 -0500 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Tutorials: May 29, 2002 Meeting: May 30 - June 1, 2002 Boston University http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ This interdisciplinary conference focuses on two fundamental questions: How Does the Brain Control Behavior? How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible. Contributed talks will be presented on each of the three conference days. Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on two of the conference days. All posters will be up all day, and can also be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Session Topics: * vision * spatial mapping and navigation * object recognition * neural circuit models * image understanding * neural system models * audition * mathematics of neural systems * speech and language * robotics * unsupervised learning * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) * supervised learning * neuromorphic VLSI * reinforcement and emotion * industrial applications * sensory-motor control * cognition, planning, and attention * other Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 31, 2002. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February 28, 2002. A meeting registration fee must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information below for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Registration fees of accepted Abstracts will be returned on request only until April 19, 2002. http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ ------------------------------ Job Announcements ------------------------------ From: Xindong Wu Subject: Computer Science Faculty Positions at Univ of Vermont Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 12:53:01 -0500 (EST) University of Vermont Faculty Positions in Computer Science After a successful search for two faculty members in 2001, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont invites applications for two additional tenure-track faculty, commencing with the 2002-03 academic year. The University of Vermont, one of the top public national universities (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/natudoc/natudoc_pubs.htm), is located in Burlington, Vermont. It offers a supportive research environment in a relatively small city that repeatedly has drawn national attention for offering a high quality of life. The greater Burlington area includes 125,000 people, and is situated on the shores of Lake Champlain between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Burlington and the surrounding area provide an environment rich in cultural, family, and sporting activities. The Department of Computer Science offers programs in the College of Engineering and Mathematics and the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a joint program with the School of Business Administration. Position 1: Associate or Assistant Professor. Candidates in networking and systems, software engineering, programming languages, human-computer interaction or parallel/distributed computing are most sought. Candidates in any area of computer science will be considered seriously. Our faculty are involved in the forefront of research in knowledge and data engineering, software engineering, and computational sciences. We are seeking to complement and further strengthen our existing research and teaching activities in these areas. Position 2: Assistant Professor in COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY. A new concentration in computational biology has been established in the Colleges of Medicine, Agricultural and Life Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics, and Arts and Sciences. Candidates with research interests or experience in computational biology or bioinformatics are invited to apply. Through a major Department of Energy grant that commenced in July 2000, the startup package includes summer support, seed research grant, and reduced teaching obligations. Candidates for either position should have a strong research record, hold a doctorate in Computer Science or a closely related field, and have broad teaching abilities and interests. Current teaching responsibilities typically consist of three computer science courses per year with average enrollments of 25 students. These responsibilities will be reduced to two courses per year for the first two years for successful position 2 candidates. Please send a letter of interest indicating the position sought, a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching experience and interests, a statement of research interests and aspirations to, and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent to Chair, Faculty Search, Position (1 or 2), Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405. Complete applications received by January 21, 2002 will be fully considered. For more information about the Department and the University please see http://www.cs.uvm.edu or send email to cssearch@cs.uvm.edu. The University of Vermont is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and members of minority groups. ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 13, No. 8 ***********************************