Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 10 Saturday, June 21, 2003 Contents Meeting Announcements CFP: FLAIRS 2004 special track on neural network applications CFP: Fourth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (2004) SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Microarray Data Mining 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 ads are usually no more than a few full-screens so they should fit naturally. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ingrid Russell" Subject: CFP: FLAIRS 2004 special track on neural network applications Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:21:52 -0400 Call for Papers FLAIRS Special Track on Neural Network Applications http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/irussell/ST04.html A special track held as part of FLAIRS 2004 The 17th International FLAIRS Conference The Palms South Beach Hotel Miami Beach, FL May 17-19, 2004 Papers are being solicited for a special track on Neural Network Applications at the 17th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2004). The special track will be devoted to the applications of Neural Networks with the aim of presenting new and important contributions in this area. These application areas include, but are not limited to, the following: a. Vision b. Pattern Recognition c. Control and Process Monitoring d. Biomedical Applications e. Robotics f. Speech Recognition g. Diagnostic Problems h. Telecommunications i. Power Systems j. Signal Processing k. Image Processing Submission Guidelines Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts by October 24, 2003. Submissions should be no more than 5 pages (3400 words) in length, including figures, and contain no identifying reference to self or organization. Papers should be formatted according to AAAI Guidelines. Submission instructions can be found at FLAIRS-04 website at http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004. Notification of acceptance will be mailed around January 7, 2004. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit the final camera-ready copies of their full papers by February 6, 2004 for publication in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Authors may be invited to submit a revised copy of their paper to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Important Dates a. Paper submissions due: October 24, 2003 b. Notification letters sent: January 7, 2004 c. Camera ready copy due: February 6, 2004 Further Information Questions regarding the special track should be addressed to: Tony Pipe Voice: +44-117-344-2818 Fax: +44-117-344-3800 email: Anthony.Pipe@uwe.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: Aleksandar Lazarevic Subject: CFP: Fourth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (2004) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:08:33 -0500 (CDT) CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING Hyatt Orlando Near Walt Disney Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA, April 22-24, 2004 URL: http//www.siam.org/meetings/sdm04 The field of Data Mining has seen a tremendous increase of interest in recent months. Applications of Data Mining are mentioned often in the daily press, especially in the fields of security and forensics. Thus, these are exciting times for researchers and practitioners in the area. We hope that the research captured by these proceedings helps in advancing this important field. The next SIAM conference will be held in Orlando, FL, April 22-24, 2004. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining, including applications, algorithms, software, and systems. There will be peer reviewed, contributed papers as well as invited talks and tutorials. Best paper awards will be given in different categories. Proceedings of the conference will be available both online at the SIAM Web site and in hard copy form. In addition, several workshops on topics of current interest will be held on the final day of the conference. Hope to see you in Orlando next year. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Methods and Algorithms: Query/constraint-based data mining Probabilistic/statistical methods Mining spatial, temporal and heterogeneous data Trend and periodicity analysis Parallel/distributed/agent techniques Scalable algorithms Integration: mining, warehousing and OLAP Mining of data streams Data reduction/pre-processing Feature extraction and selection Post-processing Collaborative filtering/personalization Cost-based decision making Visual data mining Applications: Intelligence analysis Genomics, bioinformatics and biometrics Medical and health industry Text, video, and multi-media mining E-commerce and web data Financial data analysis Intrusion detection Remote sensing and earth sciences Astronomy Non-destructive evaluation Case studies / benchmarks Novel applications Human Factors and Social Issues: Languages/user interface for data mining Security / privacy of information Intellectual ownership Risk analysis CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory David Skillicorn, Queens University IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Due Date: September 15, 2003 Author Notification: December 15, 2003 Camera-ready Version Due Date: January 9, 2004 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted or be under review by another conference with a published proceedings or by a journal. The work may be either theoretical or applied, but should make a significant contribution to the field. Papers should have a maximum length of 12 pages (single-spaced, 2 column, 10 point font, and at least 1 margin on each side). Authors should use US Letter (8.5 x 11) paper size. Papers must have an abstract with a maximum of 250 words and a keyword list with no more than 6 keywords. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically in PDF or PostScript format. For LaTeX users, please use the template available at http://www.siam.org/tex/books/booktex.htm. For Microsoft Word users, please convert your document to the PDF format. ------------------------------ From: Osmar Zaiane Subject: SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Microarray Data Mining Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:53:47 -0600 (MDT) CALL FOR PAPERS SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Microarray Data Mining Guest editors: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets, UMass Lowell), Pablo Tamayo (MIT Whitehead Institute) Submission deadline: October 10, 2003. CFP: http://www.kdnuggets.com/publications/cfp-microarray-data-mining.html SIGKDD Explorations is the official newsletter of ACM SIGKDD (Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). This special issue invites submissions which explore analysis and mining of DNA Microarray data. Analyzing gene expression data from microarray devices has many important applications in medicine and biology, but presents significant challenges to data mining, including * analyzing data with very many attributes (genes) and relatively few examples (samples) * high likelihood of false positives due to chance * lack of absolute ground truth * assessing classifier certainty * abundance of biological knowledge and difficulty of integrating it * understanding the influence of many steps of data preprocessing on gene expression data * complexities of gene interaction We invite contributions that deal with data mining aspects of microarray data analysis, including topics mentioned above, and fall into one of the following areas: * disease classification/discrimination and outcome prediction * gene clustering * analysis of changes over time * biological knowledge integration in data analysis * biological knowledge discovery from data * application descriptions and case studies * surveys and descriptions of existing software for microarray data analysis Submissions should be made to Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, gps_#_acm.org (replace _#_ with @) in Microsoft Word or PDF format. Submissions are expected to be between 5 and 15 pages in length. More detailed submission instructions at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/instructions.htm Submissions will be reviewed by the guest editors, external reviewers and/or associate editors as appropriate. Important Dates: Submissions Oct 10, 2003 Reviews due back to authors Nov 10, 2003 Camera-ready due Dec 1, 2003 About the SIGKDD Explorations newsletter SIGKDD Explorations newsletter is sent to the ACM SIGKDD membership and to a world-wide network of libraries. The previous issues are available online at www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/. SIGKDD goal is to make Explorations a very informative, rapid publication, and an interesting forum for communicating with SIGKDD community. SIGKDD Explorations Editors are Usama Fayyad, Editor-in-Chief Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Editor Paul Bradley, Associate Editor ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 15, No. 10 ************************************