Machine Learning List: Vol. 14, No. 3 Saturday, Jun 8, 2002 Contents Calls for Papers and Meeting Announcements NIPS*2002 call for papers NIPS*2002 call for workshops NIPS*2002 call for demos CFP: spec. issue, Evolutionary Computation on Memetic Algorithms Submission Deadline Extension: FSKD'02-ICONIP'02-SEAL'02 Call for Tutorials (IEEE Data Mining 2002) Submission Deadline Extension: CFP of PKAW 2002 CFP: Genetic & Evolutionary Comp. for Signal Proc. & Image Analysis Call for Workshop Proposals (IEEE Data Mining 2002) CFP, Special issue: IEEE TEC on DM & KD: evolutionary algorithms CFP: Compuational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation Job Announcements Research Studentship in Knowledge Discovery: Deadline May 20th 2 Open Positiosn: Informatics and Medical Informatics 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. 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Job adds are usually no more than a few full-screens so they should fit naturally. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zoubin Ghahramani Subject: NIPS*2002 call for papers Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 03:21:30 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic Monday, December 9 -- Saturday December 14, 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nips.cc Submissions are solicited for the sixteenth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference, which brings together cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing and computation. The conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. It is single track and highly selective. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorial presentations (Dec.9), and following it there will be two days of focused workshops on topical issues at Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (Dec.13-14). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: NIPS accepts only electronic submissions. Full submission instructions will be available at the web site given below. NIPS accepts submissions in postscript and PDF format. The electronic submission process will begin on June 9, 2002. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SUBMISSIONS MUST BE LOGGED BY MIDNIGHT JULY 1, 2002, PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME. The LaTeX style files, the electronic submission page, and other conference information are available on the web at http://nips.cc ------------------------------ From: Zoubin Ghahramani Subject: NIPS*2002 call for workshops Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 04:09:15 +0100 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic Post-Conference Workshops December 13 and 14, 2002 Whistler/Blackcomb Resort, BC, Canada http://nips.cc Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2002 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, workshops on various current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 13 and 14, 2002, in Whistler, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit workshop proposals. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are encouraged and preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are particularly encouraged. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Analysis, Bayesian Networks, Benchmarking, Brain Imaging, Computational Complexity, Computational Molecular Biology, Control, Genetic Algorithms, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Hybrid Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Hybrid HMM/ANN Systems, Implementations, Independent Component Analysis, Mean-Field Methods, Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Methods, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Recurrent Nets, Robot Learning, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Sensory Biophysics, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Support Vectors, Speech, Time Series, Topological Maps, and Vision. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS/NIPS2001/prevconf.html. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest via email by August 9, 2002. Proposals should be emailed as plain text to nips-workshop-proposal@cs.unm.edu. Please do not use attachments, Microsoft Word, postscript, html, or pdf files. Questions may be addressed to nips-workshop-admin@cs.unm.edu. Information about the main conference and the workshop program can be found at http://nips.cc/. ------------------------------ From: Zoubin Ghahramani Subject: NIPS*2002 call for demos Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 04:10:51 +0100 *** New at NIPS: Demonstrations Track *** CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic Monday, December 9 -- Saturday December 14, 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nips.cc For the first time, the Neural Information Processing Systems conference will include a separate track for demonstrations. The demonstrations will take place in parallel with the poster sessions at the NIPS*2002 conference. Example areas of interest for the demonstrations track include but are by no means limited to the following: Analog and digital VLSI Neuromorphic Engineering Computational sensors and actuators Robotics bioMEMS (microelectromechanical systems) Biomedical instrumentation Neural prostheses Photonics Real-time multimedia systems Large-scale neural emulators Software demonstrations of novel algorithms SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All proposals for demonstrations will be reviewed by the Demonstrations Co-Chairs. Interested parties should submit a brief description of their proposed demonstration via email by August 9, 2002. Proposals should include a title, description of the device or system to be demonstrated, main results, novelty and significance of the work, any related publications, and estimated space requirements for the demonstration. Please include the name, address, email address, phone and fax numbers for all co-authors on the submmitted work, and indicate whether a related paper has also been submitted to NIPS*2002. Proposals should be emailed to shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch, and should be in plain ascii text, postscript or pdf. Questions may be addressed to shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch. ------------------------------ From: Jim Smith Subject: CFP: spec. issue, Evolutionary Computation on Memetic Algorithms Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:33:31 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS Evolutionary Computation Journal (MIT Press) Special Issue on Memetic Evolutionary Algorithms Guest Editors: William Hart, Natalio Krasnogor and Jim Smith Memetic Evolutionary Algorithms (MEAs) are a class of meta-heuristics that combine the population-based global search of evolutionary algorithms with local search heuristics, usually (but not always) applied to each member of the population as part of the evolutionary cycle. A number of recent studies have shown that these hybrid algorithms can produce results that eclipse either algorithm on its own, whether in terms of solution quality or of time taken to reach optimal solutions. Research into MEAs has also provided a means of studying issues such as the roles of learning within an evolutionary context, Baldwinian and Lamarkian models of adaptation and genotype to phenotype mappings (i.e. development). The purpose of this special issue is to highlight and explore some of the recent theoretical and practical advances in this field. Original high-quality papers are sought which address issues including, but not restricted to: - Theoretical methods and models for analysing and predicting the behaviour of MEAs - Local search as a model for "life-time learning" within the evolutionary cycle - Novel hybridisation methods - The use of hybrid techniques within multi-objective or co-evolutionary search - Applications of MEAs and performance comparisons with other optimisation techniques The Deadline for submission of papers is 31st December 2002 PAPER SUBMISSION Manuscripts should be approximately 8,000 to 12,000 words in length and formatted for 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper, single-sided and double-spaced. The first page should include the title, abstract, key words, and author information (name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address). The text of the paper should begin on the second page and continue on consecutively numbered pages. Papers should be no longer than 30 pages including references. References should follow the APA format both in text and in the reference list. Figures and tables should be mentioned in the text and numbered consecutively along with a brief title. Colour figures are not permitted. To ease the reviewing process, figures and tables should be embedded in the text. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. Submitted papers must be either in postscript or in PDF and should be mailed to james.smith@uwe.ac.uk If hard copies are sent, please provide five (5) copies (not faxes) for reviewing to: Dr Jim Smith Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY, UK ------------------------------ From: hepu@spock.bf.rmit.edu.au Subject: Submission Deadline Extension: FSKD'02-ICONIP'02-SEAL'02 Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:41:38 +1000 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02) 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02) November 18 - 22, 2002, Orchid Country Club, Singapore ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Home Page: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef Mirror Page: http://www.cic.unb.br/~weigang/nef ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** (NEW!) Submission Deadline: June 30, 2002 *** FSKD'02, ICONIP'02, and SEAL'02 will be jointly held in Orchid Country Club, Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not only feature the most up-to-date research results in fuzzy sys- tems, knowledge discovery, neural information processing, and evolu- tionary computation, 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 tours to two of the major attractions in Singapore, i.e., Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island. Many well- known researchers will present keynote speeches, panel discussions, invited lectures, and tutorials. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit electronic files (postscript, pdf or Word format) through the conference home page. Papers should be double-column and use 10 pt Times Roman or similar fonts. The final version of a paper should not exceed 5 pages in length. A selected number of accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in edited books and peer-reviewed journals, such as "Soft Computing" and "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag. ------------------------------ From: icdm02@kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp Subject: Call for Tutorials (IEEE Data Mining 2002) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 22:06:15 +0900 ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan December, 9 - 12, 2002 Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02 Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02 IEEE ICDM 2002: Call for Tutorials ********************************** The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '02) will include tutorials providing in-depth background on specific subjects in data mining. The recency of the data mining field, and the variety of disciplines that are represented, lead to many possibilities for good tutorials: * End-to-end descriptions of the practical application of data mining technology (i.e., applications that may be "typical" for a paper, but provide an example of issues faced in a data mining project that would generalize to problems faced by the conference attendees) in emerging data mining application areas such as bioinformatics, medical applications, electronic commerce, Web Intelligence and Business Intelligence. * Surveys of new and developing research areas in data mining (e.g., areas of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia, Web, distributed, scientific data mining, data pre- processing, data reduction, data sampling, feature selection, feature transformation, man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining). * Short courses on areas of machine learning, databases, or statistics that may be "old hat" to specialists in that discipline, but are new to a majority of the conference attendees. (e.g., an introduction to Hidden Markov Models). * An in-depth coverage of a past research breakthrough that is now becoming a mature technology. The topics of interest fall within those described in the conference Call for Papers (Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02 Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02). IMPORTANT DATES June 30, 2002: Tutorial submissions. July 31, 2002: Acceptance notices. August 31, 2002: Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts. December 9, 2002: ICDM '02 tutorials. ------------------------------ From: Hiroshi Motoda Subject: Submission Deadline Extension: CFP of PKAW 2002 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 20:04:17 +0900 Please note that the deadline of the paper submission for PKAW2002 has been extended to 14th June 2002. Call for Papers PKAW 2002: The 2002 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop in PRICAI 2002 August 18-19, 2002 National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan The objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, discovering, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge-based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition from human experts. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of data overload. Our ability to analyze and understand massive datasets lags far behind our ability to gather and store the data. A new generation of computational techniques and tools are required to support the acquisition of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of data. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop. Topics of Interest: Papers are invited in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to): a.. Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge acquisition process and the use of knowledge in knowledge engineering b.. Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition c.. Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition and knowledge maintenance d.. Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods e.. Active mining (*) f.. Knowledge discovery and machine learning g.. Knowledge modeling and ontologies h.. Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge i.. Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with wider information systems or decision support systems j.. Software agents for knowledge acquisition k.. Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as the Internet (*) The topic of active mining comes from a new project that is highly related to knowledge acquisition: Active Mining Project, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research in the Priority Area sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture that has started in 2001. This project explores the mechanisms of 1) active information collection where necessary information is effectively searched and preprocessed, 2) user-centered active mining where various forms of information sources are effectively mined, and 3) active user reaction where the mined knowledge is easily accessed and prompt feedback is made possible. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: We encourage submission in Springer Lecture Notes Series format. The length of papers is recommended to be 10 to 15 pages long with this format. (See the Springer LNCS home page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) For submission, authors should send an e-mail to Takahira Yamaguchi with the paper title, name of all authors and the paper body (as one of PDF, PS and Word files). The subject should be: "PKAW2002 submission". IMPORTANT DATES: * June 14, 2002: Submission deadline of papers * July 14, 2002: Notification of acceptance of papers. * July 28, 2002: Deadline for camera-ready papers * August 18-19, 2002: Workshop ------------------------------ From: Stefano Cagnoni Subject: CFP: Genetic & Evolutionary Comp. for Signal Proc. & Image Analysis Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:42:27 +0200 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for Signal Processing and Image Analysis Genetic and evolutionary computation has provided effective tools (genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary strategies, etc.) for the development of software or hardware solutions of complex problems of high industrial and social relevance. Many applications, ranging from design of low-level algorithms to design of specific hardware for signal processing and image analysis have been shown to benefit from evolutionary techniques. The aim of this special issue is to bring together contributions about the latest developments in evolutionary computation for signal processing and image analysis, along with review papers and tutorials on some of its aspects. The special issue will offer a broad overview of the potential and the accomplishments of evolutionary computation techniques in those fields. The whole spectrum of signal processing/image analysis applications will be addressed, from low-level 1-D signal processing to high-level image or multi-dimensional signal analysis. Therefore, topics of interest for the issue include (but are not limited to): - reviews and tutorials on any aspects of signal processing and image analysis by means of evolutionary computation techniques, - applications of evolutionary computation to real-life problems involving signal analysis and processing, - evolvable image analysis and signal processing hardware, - evolutionary pattern recognition, - hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing including evolutionary components, - comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in image analysis and signal processing, - time series analysis by means of evolutionary computation techniques. Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the Journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP web submission system at http://asp.hindawi.com, according to the following timetable. Manuscript due: June 30, 2002 Acceptance notification: December 31, 2002 Final Manuscript due: March 15, 2003 Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2003 ------------------------------ From: icdm02@kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp Subject: Call for Workshop Proposals (IEEE Data Mining 2002) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 23:54:23 +0900 ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan December, 9 - 12, 2002 Web Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02/ Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02/ ******************************************* IEEE ICDM 2002: Call for Workshop Proposals ******************************************* As an important part of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '02), the ICDM '02 workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in data mining. It will provide a venue for several topical workshops on specific data mining research and/or application problems. ICDM '02 workshops will foster the discussion of exciting research directions and works in progress through paper presentations, round table and panel discussions, and invited talks. Suggested topics for workshops include, but are not limited to, the following: o Data Mining for Bioinformatics/Medicine o Second Generation Methods/Systems in Data Mining o Data Mining in Electronic Commerce o Data Mining for Web/Business Intelligence o Multimedia Data Mining o Preprocessing/Postprocessing Techniques o Management/Refinement of Discovered Knowledge o Performance Evaluation in Data Mining o Security and Privacy Issues in Data Mining o Scientific Discovery Workshop chairs define the focus and structure of each workshop. Responsibilities include (1) writing the call for papers and publicizing it, (2) selecting the workshop organizing and program committees, (3) deciding the workshop program content, and (4) coordinating the production and distribution of the workshop notes. IMPORTANT DATES: June 30, 2002: Workshop proposals are due. July 15, 2002: Notification of workshop proposal acceptance. A workshop proposal should include the following information: (1) Workshop title (2) Workshop organizers with full contact information (3) Description of the workshop including objectives, content, and format of the workshop (4) List of potential attendees (5) List of potential authors of workshop contributions Suggested Timeline for Workshop Chairs July 26, 2002: Workshop call for papers has been sent out. September 13, 2002: Workshop paper submissions due. October 11, 2002: Workshop paper acceptance notices. October 25, 2002: Camera-ready version of workshop papers due. December 9, 2002: Workshop takes place. ------------------------------ From: "Dr. Ashish Ghosh" Subject: CFP, Special issue: IEEE TEC on DM & KD: evolutionary algorithms Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:34:06 +0530 Call For Papers Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary Algorithms Data mining (DM) consists of extracting interesting knowledge from real-world, large & complex data sets; and is the core step of a broader process, called the knowledge discovery from databases (KDD) process. In addition to the DM step, which actually extracts knowledge from data, the KDD process includes several preprocessing (or data preparation) and post-processing (or knowledge refinement) steps. The goal of data preprocessing methods is to transform the data to facilitate the application of a (or several) given DM algorithm(s), whereas the goal of knowledge refinement methods is to validate and refine discovered knowledge. Ideally, discovered knowledge should be not only accurate, but also comprehensible and interesting for the user. The total process is highly computation intensive. The idea of automatically discovering knowledge from databases is a very attractive and challenging task, both for academia and for industry. Hence, there has been a growing interest in data mining in several AI-related areas, including evolutionary algorithms (EAs). The main motivation for applying EAs to KDD tasks is that they are robust and adaptive search methods, which perform a global search in the space of candidate solutions (for instance, rules or another form of knowledge representation). Intuitively, the global search performed by EAs can more effectively discover interesting patterns that would have been missed by the greedy search performed by many KDD methods. The EA community has been publishing KDD-related articles in a relatively scattered manner in journals dedicated to knowledge discovery and data mining or evolutionary computing. The objective of this issue is to assemble a set of high-quality original contributions that reflect and advance the state-of-the-art in the area of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary Algorithms. The special issue will emphasize the utility of different evolutionary computing tools to various facets of KDD, ranging from theoretical analysis to real-life applications. Manuscripts should be prepared as per the format of the journal available at its web site (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/tc/nnc/pubs/tec/). Submission should be made to the guest editors (electronic submissions in postscript or PDF are preferred) at ash@isical.ac.in or alex@ppgia.pucpr.br. All submissions will be peer reviewed as per the norm of the IEEE Tr. on Evolutionary Computation. If the submission is sent by regular mail, authors are requested to send six copies of their manuscripts to one of the following address: http://www.isical.ac.in/~ash http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~alex Important dates: a.. Manuscript submission: August 31, 2002 b.. Notification of review reports for revision (if any): December 31, 2002 c.. Final version submission: February 28, 2003 d.. Publication of the issue: as per IEEE-TEC schedule= ------------------------------ From: CIMCA Subject: CFP: Compuational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 22:39:54 +1000 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 12-14 February 2003 Vienna, Austria http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca03/index.htm Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic03/index.htm The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on 12-14 February 2003. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, draft papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Extended draft papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: CIMCA'2003 Secretariat School of Computing University of Canberra Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia E-mail: cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au E-mail submission is preferred. Extended draft papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. IMPORTANT DATES 20 September 2002 Submission of draft papers 28 October 2002 Notification of acceptance 22 November 2002 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 12-14 February 2003 Conference sessions SPECIAL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All proposals should be sent to the conference chair on or before 22nd October 2002. CIMCA'03 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information either contact cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca03/index.htm ------------------------------ From: Max Bramer Subject: Research Studentship in Knowledge Discovery: Deadline May 20th Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:44:16 +0100 UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND MATHEMATICS RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY Applications are invited for a research studentship in Knowledge Discovery in the School of Computing and Mathematics. This is an internally-funded post available for three years from September 2002. Nationality restrictions do not apply to this post. The successful candidate will receive an annual maintenance grant equivalent to the EPSRC 'home student' rate, in addition to the payment of the University's tuition fees. The project will be supervised by Max Bramer, Professor of Information Technology (http://www.btinternet.com/~max.bramer). Projects may potentially be in any area of Knowledge Discovery, but some topics of particular interest are: 1. Generating Predictive Models for Rare Classes 2. Constructive Induction 3. Automatic Discretisation of Continuous Attributes 4. Hybrid Classifiers 5. Combining symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques for Data Mining 6. Text/Web Mining Applicants should normally have a first or upper second class honours degree or the equivalent in Computer Science or other relevant subject. They should send a brief CV plus an outline of their proposed project by email to Max.Bramer@port.ac.uk to arrive by Monday May 20th at the latest. Please give any dates when you would not be available for interview in Portsmouth up to mid- June. Max Bramer Professor of Information Technology, University of Portsmouth,UK http://www.btinternet.com/~max.bramer http://www.bcs-sges.org Email (preferred address): Max.Bramer@bcs.org.uk ------------------------------ From: Silvia Miksch Subject: 2 Open Positiosn: Informatics and Medical Informatics Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 21:06:04 +0200 Open Postdoctoral and PhD Researcher Positions Available in Vienna, Austria We kindly invite researchers who are interested in Medical Informatics, in particular in Temporal Data Abstraction, Protocol-Based Care, Process Modeling, Intensive Care and Neonatology to apply for two granted research positions, which are available at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. These two positions will enlarge the Asgaard group located at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems. The new granted project is part of the research field dealing with Task-Specific Problem-Solving Methods for Medical Plan Management: From Plan Design to Information Visualization To get more Information about the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems visit http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/. To get more Information about the Asgaard group visit http://www.asgaard.tuwien.ac.at/. The two positions available are planned to be filled for >*three*< years - these three years are already guaranteed - with two fully employed persons at the Postdoctoral or/and PhD Researcher Positions' level. The income for a PhD Researcher is 26.750 including tax each year (approx. 15.429, 29 after tax reduction) and the income for Postdoctoral Researcher 44.270 including tax each year (approx. 23.141,36 after tax reduction) Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the project, one person should have a computer science background while the other should have a medical background. Each of them must be acquainted to the other field too, since the computer scientist has to closely cooperate with physicians and the medical person has to run complex computer experiments and encode knowledge in Asbru. To apply for one of these positions, you should have: * graduated in Computer Science, Medical Informatics, Medicine focusing on Intensive Care and Neonatology (or similar fields), * intend to do a PhD research. * speak and write fluently English; German is appreciated, but not required. If you are interested in one of these positions, please apply via email to silvia@asgaard.tuwien.ac.at (Silvia Miksch). Your application you should include: * Curriculum vitae * Publication list, including talks, diploma thesis, etc. * A personal statement, why you in fact apply for this position * Contact information (Email, URL, street address, phone, etc.) * URLs to places you have previously worked. Further information is available from Silvia Miksch, e-mail: silvia@asgaard.tuwien.ac.at. Closing date: 20 June 2002 ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 14, No. 3 ***********************************