Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 12 Monday, July 19, 2003 Contents Meeting Announcements CFP: AI+MATH 04 WSCG'2004 Conference ECAI 2004 First Announcement Machine Learning Reductions Workshop EvoIASP2004: CALL FOR PAPERS CFP: ICDM Workshop on Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC03) 4th Intl. Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Career Opportunities postdoc opportunities at Johns Hopkins Research Software Developer with Ornarose, Inc. Sr. machine learning scientist postdoc position Miscellany Publication of the first book on Gene Expression Programming Stipends for MSc Intelligent Systems 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. To keep mailings to a manageable size, please keep submissions brief. 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The series was started by Martin Golumbic and the editorial board of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence serves as the permanent Advisory Committee. The objective of the Symposium is to foster interactions between mathematics, theoretical CS, and artificial intelligence. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts around 100 participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for active scientific exchange. The Symposium includes invited speakers, special topic sessions, and presentations of submitted papers. INVITED SPEAKERS: Robert Bixby, ILOG Inc. Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel An additional speaker to be announced at a later date SPECIAL TOPIC SESSIONS: Preferences Organizer: Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Portfolio Design for Combinatorial Problems Organizers: Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, Cornell, USA Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory Organizers: Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford, USA Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors must email either Adobe PDF (pdf) or Postscript (ps) files of their extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, 12pt font, single column format) to vanbeek@uwaterloo.ca to be received by October 3, 2003. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 3, 2003. Final versions of accepted extended abstracts, for inclusion in the conference volume, are due by November 28, 2003. Full versions of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be published in a special volume in the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, J.C. Baltzer Scientific Publishing Co. SPONSORS: The Symposium is partially supported by the Annals of Math and AI and Florida Atlantic University. ORGANIZERS: General Chair: Martin Golumbic, University of Haifa, Israel Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University, USA Program Co-Chairs: Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto, Canada Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chair: George Katsirelos, University of Toronto, Canada For further information, see http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai ------------------------------ From: "Vaclav Skala" Subject: WSCG'2004 Conference - Call for Papers - Plzen, Prague, Czech Rep. Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:21:38 +0200 W S C G ' 2004 http://wscg.zcu.cz February 2 - 6, 2004 http://wscg.zcu.cz (formerly the Winter School of Computer Graphics) The 12-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2004 at the University of West Bohemia, Plzen, close to Prague - the Golden European City Czech Republic Honorary Chair: Tosiyasu L. Kunii, University of Hosei, Tokyo, Japan Conference Co-Chairs Roberto Scopigno, ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Keynote speakers: Agreements pending Deadline for uploading files: October 9, 2003 24:00 GMT (London time) Accepted papers and posters will be published in proceedings with ISBN Selected full papers will be published in The Journal of WSCG Vol. 12. No 1-3, ISSN 1213-6972 Post-conference IEEE proceedings with extended papers are expected to be published. Information for authors * Deadline for contributions changed: October 9, 2003 24:00 GMT (London time) * Format A4 (strictly), max. 8 pages, additional material up to 5 MB (video as MPEG, AVI and similar files, color plates etc. can be submitted, please, no video tapes) Topics included * Computer graphics and scientific visualization, * computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition, * fundamental algorithms and computational geometry, * graphical human computer interface and graphical interaction, * geometric modeling and computer aided geometric design, * rendering and virtual reality, * animation and multimedia, medical imaging, * object oriented graphics, WWW technologies, * parallel and distributed graphics, CAD/CAM, DTP systems * GIS systems and Geoinformatics, * applications and related fields. The International Program Committee and Reviewing Board members review all papers peer-to-peer carefully and anonymously. Proceedings are indexed/abstracted in: ISI, Inspec (IEE) and others Unique opportunity - to visit the Golden City - PRAGUE - to taste the best beer all over the world - Pilsner Urquell - to take a part at the event, where West and East meet Organizer and conference secretariat Prof.Vaclav Skala http://wscg.zcu.cz c/o Computer Science Department University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, Box 314, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic e-mail: skala@kiv.zcu.cz Subject: INFO WSCG 2004 Tel./fax: +420-37-763-2457 For details, please see http://wscg.zcu.cz select WSCG'2004 ------------------------------ From: Lorenza Saitta Subject: ECAI 2004 First Announcement Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:01:01 +0200 First Announcement ECAI 2004 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Valencia (Spain), August 22-27th, 2004 General Information The 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004) will be held in Valencia, Spain, on August 22 through 27, 2004. The conference will be hosted by the Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion (DSIC) of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. ECAI is the more and more becoming a key reference point for assessing a worldwide State-of-the-Art in Artificial Intelligence. The conference brings together researchers from academy, software developers and users from industry and public organizations, offering them invaluable occasions to meet and exchange ideas, thus contributing to making real the upcoming Information Society. Along with refereed paper presentations and invited talks by prestigious speakers, the conference will offer, on August 22 through 24, 2004, workshops and tutorials on most advanced topics. Following an established tradition, the Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2004) will run in parallel with ECAI. Its aim is to give an overview of the most significant real-world applications of Artificial Intelligence. The Programme Committee Chairman of PAIS 2004 is Padraig Cunningham (ecai04pais@cs.tcd.ie) For the second time, after the success at ECAI 2002, ECAI 2004 will also co-locate the Second STarting AI Researchers Symposium (STAIRS 2004), which aims to bring together doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI researchers, giving them a real opportunity for cross-fertilization between the experience of established leaders and the learning desire of the next generation. The STAIRS 2004 Program Committee co-chairs are Eva Onaindia (stairs04pc@dsic.upv.es) and Steffen Staab (stairs04pc@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paper Submission Submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit to the ECAI 2004 Program Chair (see below) a brief summary of their paper by Friday, February 13, 2004, followed by their full paper by Wednesday, February 18, 2004 (23:59 CET). The strongly preferred submission method for summaries is to use the web-based summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract of the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords to the ECAI 2004 Program Chair, Lorenza Saitta (by e-mail or postal mail, see addresses below). The summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number. The strongly preferred submission method for full papers is electronically, by e-mail. Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions in hardcopy may also be made if electronic submission is problematic for the authors. In that case, six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2004 Program Chair, Lorenza Saitta. The deadline for receipt of papers is 18 February 2004 (23:59 CET) for both electronic and hardcopy submissions. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. The papers will undergo an anonymous reviewing process. Notification to the authors is expected to start on May 2, 2004. ECAI 2004 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions only apply to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that "this paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal". It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style, except that author names should be omitted, and replaced by the tracking number. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. Overlengthy submissions will be rejected without review. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Guidelines on the format of submissions will be available on the ECAI 2004 web page soon. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2004 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IOS Press on paper and as a CD-ROM. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is May 31, 2004. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. As ECAI 2004 includes PAIS 2004 as a subconference, paper submission dates and procedures for PAIS are the same as for ECAI; please, do not submit papers directly to the Program Chair of PAIS. As papers submitted to PAIS shall undergo a separate review process handled by the Program Committee of PAIS, authors should clearly mark in the title page that it is a PAIS submission. Submission of Workshop and Tutorial propoals Proposals submission for Workshops (deadline: November 1, 2003) and Tutorials (deadline: December 1, 2003) should be sent electronically (PDF files) to the respective Chair Persons. All the details of the submission process will appear in the Conference Web pages at URL: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/ For further inquiries about ECAI or PAIS, please contact: ecai04@dsic.upv.es For further inquiries about STAIRS, please contact: stairs04@dsic.upv.es Important Dates: Paper abstract submission : 13 February 2004 Full paper submission : 18 February 2004 Notification of acceptance : 2 May 2004 Final paper due : 31 May 2004 Workshop proposals : 1st November 2003 Tutorial proposals : 1st December 2003 For further information, please see http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/ ------------------------------ From: John Langford Subject: Machine Learning Reductions Workshop Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:50:35 -0400 Date: September 11 & 12, 2003 Location: TTI-Chicago University of Chicago Campus Chicago, Illinois URL: http://www.tti-c.org/workshop/machine_learning_reductions.html Topic: Reductions, are constructs allowing us to transfer theory, algorithms, and expertise from one machine learning problem to another problem. From a theoretical point of view, reductions are particularly interesting because it appears that they often end up working well in practice. (and Risi notes: From a practical point of view, reductions are particularly interesting because it appears that they often end up working well in theory.) Examples of practical reductions include: 1. Boosting (Strong classification with weak classification). 2. Error Correcting Output Codes (multiclass classification with binary classification). 3. Various reductions of reinforcement learning to regression, classification, etc... 4. Canonical reductions of classification to density estimation from statistics. We are, of course, interested in reductions in a wider sense than just these examples. Obvious questions to address are: 1. What empirical evidence do we have for and against reductions? 2. How can we differentiate between "good" reductions and "bad" reductions? 3. Can we understand the difficulty of learning problems by their placement in a reduction hierarchy? 4. What is a mapping of available reductions? 5. What learning problems are unrelated by reduction? 6. What reduction are not possible? A focused workshop involving those who have worked on reductions might be very fruitful in addressing these questions and laying the groundwork for a coherent direction of research. Funding: TTI-Chicago has funds to cover costs up to $800 each for up to 20 people. The 20 will be allocated first-come-first-serve. Plan: Send jcl@cs.cmu.edu a title and abstract (and papers if possible) if interested in attending. Expect a preliminary schedule about August 3. ------------------------------ From: Stefano Cagnoni Subject: EvoIASP2004: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:55:28 +0200 CALL FOR PAPERS EVOIASP2004 Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing Coimbra, Portugal, 5 April 2004 Evolutionary algorithms have been shown to be tools which can be used effectively in the development of systems (software or hardware) for image analysis and signal processing in complex domains of high industrial and social relevance. EvoIASP is the first European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and signal processing (IASP) and gives European and non-European researchers in those fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the three scientific communities. The previous editions of the Workshop were held in Göaut;teborg, Sweden (1999), Edinburgh, UK (2000), Como, Italy (2001), Kinsale, Ireland (2002), and Colchester, UK (2003). The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, and is one of the activities of EvoIASP, the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Computation for Image Analysis and Signal Processing. It will be part of EvoWorkshops2004 and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2004, the European Conference on Genetic Programming, and EvoCOP2004, the 4th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems, evolvable vision and signal processing hardware, evolutionary pattern recognition, hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing including evolutionary components, theoretical developments, comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications, time series analysis by means of EC techniques. Submissions Send your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf) to the programme chair, Stefano Cagnoni, in gzipped PostScript or pdf format by email no later than November 14, 2003. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by December 19, 2003. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by January 16, 2003. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 14 November 2003 Notification of acceptance: 19 December 2003 Camera ready papers due: 16 January 2004 Workshop: 5 April 2004 For more details, see: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2004/evoiasp ------------------------------ From: Philip Chan Subject: CFP: ICDM Workshop on Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC03) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:39:07 -0400 (EDT) CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC03) (at IEEE ICDM03) www.cs.fit.edu/~pkc/dmsec03/ November 19, 2003 Melbourne, Florida, USA Computer security is a broad field that encompasses issues both theoretical and practical aspects. It is of incredible importance to a wide variety of practical domains ranging from the banking industry to multi-national corporations, from space exploration to the intelligence community and so on. Of interest to this workshop are methods that address two aspects of computer security. The first relates to how computers can be used to secure the information contained within an organizations. Issues of critical importance here could include the detection and/or prevention of unauthorized access or attacks on computers and networks local to an organization or entity. The second relates to how computers can be used to detect hostile activity (surveillance) in a sensitive area (such as in an airport). It is likely that such techniques will require data mining techniques that work hand-in-hand with state-of-the-art computer vision techniques. The workshop seeks papers relating to this topic. Sample topics could be from among (clearly not limited to only these): * Novel intrusion detection systems (e.g. signature/anomaly based) * Secure methods towards intrusion prevention and information assurance * Novel architectures for intrusion detection systems * Systems support for intrusion detection/prevention automated surveillance * Surveillance centric data mining * Novel applications of existing intrusion detection methods * Practical experiences with real-life security problems * Resource-centric (network,application,operating system) computer security * Theoretical methods relevant to intrusion detection and security problems (e.g. dealing with skew, noise, correlating multiple models, feature construction and selection, impact of sampling). * Distributed and scalable online methods for computer security IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submissions due: August 22, 2003 by 8AM EST. * Notification to authors: September 30, 2003. * Final papers due: October 15, 2003. * Workshop Date: Nov. 19 2003. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Philip Chan, Florida Tech * Vipin Kumar, U. of Minnesota * Wenke Lee, Georgia Tech * Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State U. SUBMISSION AND OTHER INFORMATION For more details on paper submission and other information, please visit the workshop webpage at: www.cs.fit.edu/~pkc/dmsec03/ ------------------------------ From: Subject: 4th Intl. Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:27:43 +0100 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CLIMA IV Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems January 6-7, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~jleite/climaIV/index.htm Post-Proceedings will be published in Springer Verlag LNAI Submission Deadline: September 19th Co-located with the 7th LPNMR and the 8th AIMATH Over recent years, the notion of agency has claimed a major role in defining the trends of modern research. Influencing a broad spectrum of disciplines such as Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy and many more, the agent paradigm virtually invaded every sub-field of Computer Science, not least because of the Internet and Robotics. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are communities of problem-solving entities that can perceive and act upon their environments to achieve their individual goals as well as joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many technologies and concepts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computing. There is a full spectrum of MAS applications that have been and are being developed; from search engines, educational aids to electronic commerce and trade. Although commonly implemented by means of imperative languages, mainly for reasons of efficiency, the agent concept has recently increased its influence in the research and development of computational logic based systems. Computational Logic, by virtue of its nature both in substance and method, provides a well-defined, general, and rigorous framework for systematically studying computation, be it syntax, semantics, procedures, or implementations, environments, tools, and standards. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about multi-agent systems in a formal way. This is clearly a major challenge for computational logic, to deal with real world issues and applications. Following the workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Logic Programming affiliated with ICLP'99, the first CLIMA workshop took place in London, UK, affiliated with CL'2000. The 2001 edition of CLIMA, took place in Paphos, Cyprus, affiliated with ICLP'01. CLIMA'02 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was affiliated with ICLP'02 and part of FLOC'02. We solicit unpublished papers that address formal approaches to multi-agent systems. The approaches as well asbeing formal must make a significant contribution to the practice of multi-agent systems. Relevant techniques include, but are not limited to, the following: * Nonmonotonic reasoning in MAS * Planning under incomplete information in MAS * Logical foundations of MAS * Usage of abduction in MAS * Representation of knowledge and belief in MAS * Knowledge and belief updates in MAS * Temporal reasoning for MAS * Theory of argumentation for MAS * Negotiation and co-operation for MAS * Communication languages for MAS * Distributed constraint satisfaction in MAS * Modal logic approaches to MAS * Logic based programming languages for MAS * Distributed theorem proving for MAS * Logic based implementations of MAS * Decision theory for MAS * Logic based agents for the Internet SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Please refer to the workshop web pages for further instructions concerning the submission procedures. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: September 19th, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: October 17th, 2003 * Final version due: November 13th, 2003 * CLIMA IV: January 6-7th, 2004 PROCEEDINGS Post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Informal proceedings will be available at the workshop and online. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: * Jurgen Dix, The University of Manchester, UK (dix@cs.man.ac.uk) * Joao Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (jleite@di.fct.unl.pt) INQUIRIES: Please send program suggestions and inquires to either of the organizers. ------------------------------ From: Jason Eisner Subject: postdoc opportunities at Johns Hopkins Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Johns Hopkins University seeks to hire outstanding postdoctoral researchers immediately at its Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). Candidates should have previous experience in quantitative approaches to machine learning, speech, language, or other AI domains. Strong computational and mathematical skills are required. CLSP is a leading center for research on speech and language. It specializes in formal and quantitative approaches such as probabilistic modeling, unsupervised machine learning, and grammar formalisms. Our core faculty presently include: Luigi Burzio Cognitive Science Bill Byrne Electrical & Computer Engineering Jason Eisner Computer Science Bob Frank Cognitive Science Fred Jelinek Electrical & Computer Engineering Sanjeev Khudanpur Electrical & Computer Engineering Paul Smolensky Cognitive Science David Yarowsky Computer Science We are looking for postdocs to contribute to one or more of the following long-term projects funded by NSF and/or DoD. Postdocs participating in these highly visible projects can expect to gain considerable research experience in speech and language technology. Speech Recognition * MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives * ASR for Rich Transcription of Conversational Mandarin Machine Translation * Improving Statistical Translation Models Via Text Analyzers Trained from Parallel Corpora Algorithmic Infrastructure * Weighted Dynamic Programming and Finite-State Modeling for Statistical NLP Applicants are invited to email us a CV, a one-page statement of research interests, a list of three references, and a cover letter that briefly summarizes qualifications. Applications may be sent to Sue Porterfield at sec@clsp.jhu.edu (fax to +1 410 516 5050 if email is not possible). Johns Hopkins University is located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Our URL is http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/. ------------------------------ From: "Dave Lewis" Subject: Research Software Developer with Ornarose, Inc. Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:29:44 -0500 Ornarose Inc. has an opening for a Research Software Developer in Northern New Jersey or Chicago, IL. This is a short-term (5 to 6 month) position with an SBIR-supported startup company. Developer will be responsible for implementation and testing of algorithms for supervised and unsupervised learning. Work includes data set cleanup, experimentation, and measuring resource demands of algorithms. Requirements: * B.S. or advanced degree in computer science, statistics, or related field. 5+ years professional software development experience. 2+ years professional experience with machine learning, numerical optimization, or related field. Experience with text processing is also desirable, as is experience with designing and running computational experiments. * C and Perl proficiency. C++ proficiency is desirable. Unix/Linux experience. Windows experience desirable. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and communicate effectively when working from home. Candidates should send a resume in ASCII or PDF to job2003a@ornarose.com. Ornarose, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Because the position begins immediately, the candidate must be eligible to work legally in the United States throughout 2003. ------------------------------ From: "Juhn Maing" Subject: Sr. machine learning scientist Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:54:05 -0700 JOB POSTING: SENIOR MACHINE LEARNING SCIENTIST UtopiaCompression (UC) is an early-stage, intelligent imaging solutions company. UC's core offering is an intelligent image compression technology, which was recognized in 2002 as one of the top emerging technologies in the US by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (http://jazz.nist.gov/atpcf/prjbriefs/prjbrief.cfm?ProjectNumber=00-00-4936). Job Description UtopiaCompression is looking for a highly qualified candidate with extensive experience and knowledge in machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery. The candidate is required to have an MS or Ph.D. in the areas mentioned above from a highly reputable university. Post-doctorate and/or industry experience is strongly preferred. The ideal candidate will be thoroughly versed in the latest research, methods, developments and theories in machine learning and data mining as well as possess in-depth experience applying them to commercial, scientific or industrial applications. The candidate is also required to be a visionary, highly creative and a great problem solver capable of proposing solutions to multiple problems in parallel, and mentoring and guiding R&D engineers in developing and implementing the solutions. Permanent residents or US citizens are preferred. This position is ideally suited for full-time employment, but part-time, contract and contract-to-hire arrangements may also be considered. Skills & Qualifications 1 - In-depth knowledge and experience in statistical analysis, reasoning and learning (e.g., Bayesian learning, estimation maximization and maximum likelihood algorithms, and feature extraction problems), (statistical) combinatorial optimization and learning (e.g., simulated annealing, genetic programming), neural networks, inductive and rule generation learning, fuzzy reasoning, (numeric) decision tree learning, search methods, (image) data mining and understanding, etc. Candidates are expected to have knowledge and working experience in various learning regimes. For instance, in the case of layered neural nets dexterous familiarity with the back propagation algorithm, radial basis functions, etc., in decision tree learning working experience in information gain measure, category utility function, tree pruning, etc. 2 - Dexterous familiarity with various machine learning and statistical software tools. 3 - Fluency in software analysis, design and development using C programming environment. Candidates must be well versed and experienced in C. Working experience in C++ (and Java) is a plus. 4 - Knowledge and working experience with image compression techniques, and image analysis and processing is a big plus. Contact: Juhn Maing Product Manager UtopiaCompression Tel: 310-473-1500 x104 Email: juhn@utopiacompression.com ------------------------------ From: "David Wild" Subject: postdoc position Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 04:36:57 -0700 Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow The Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences is seeking a highly creative and motivated postdoctoral research fellow to participate in the following research area: Development of Bayesian network models and machine learning methods for protein structure prediction. This project is part of a collaborative effort to develop a community resource to enable the emerging science of structural genomics. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computational biology, computer science, machine learning, theoretical physics, applied mathematics, or a similar quantitative field and a strong interest in molecular biology. KGI is located 35 miles east of Los Angeles, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains. Its campus is contiguous with those of the other Claremont Colleges, which together with surrounding educational institutions in Southern California provide a rich intellectual and cultural environment. The position forms part of a collaborative research project between KGI, UCL, UCSD and the Burnham Institute. The successful candidate will be based at KGI and work in close collaboration with the Gatsby Unit for Computational Neuroscience at University College London. Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter and CV, and ask for at least two letters of recommendation to be sent to Dr. David Wild at: Keck Graduate Institute, 535 Watson Drive, Claremont, CA 91711. Email: david_wild@kgi.edu. ------------------------------ From: "Candida Ferreira" Subject: Publication of the first book on Gene Expression Programming Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:40:55 +0100 I am pleased to announce the publication of the book: Gene Expression Programming: Mathematical Modeling by an Artificial Intelligence by Candida Ferreira, 2002. 272 pp. ISBN 972-95890-5-4 In this first book on gene expression programming the author describes thoroughly the basic gene expression algorithm and numerous modifications to this new algorithm, providing all the implementation details so that anyone with elementary programming skills will be able to implement it themselves. As a powerful meta-language, gene expression programming touches all the fields of computer intelligence and everyone who faces challenging problems and cannot solve them using either traditional mathematical approaches or sophisticated machine learning techniques can benefit from the practical understanding of this new powerful technique. The book is self-contained and can be used by people with little knowledge of calculus and no prerequisites associated with knowledge of any programming language are required. The book provides an introduction to this new exciting field of computer intelligence, including a large body of previously unpublished materials such as: o data mining o classifier systems o parameter optimization o evolution of Kolmogorov-Gabor polynomials o times series prediction o evolution of linking functions o multicellular systems o automatically defined functions o user defined functions o complete neural network induction The book also discusses some important and controversial evolutionary topics that might be refreshing to both evolutionary computists and evolutionary biologists. For further information and to order online, please go to: http://www.gene-expression-programming.com/gep/Books/index.asp ------------------------------ From: Stefan Wermter Subject: Stipends for MSc Intelligent Systems Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:23:49 +0100 Stipends available for MSc Intelligent Systems The School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland is delighted to announce the launch of its new MSc Intelligent Systems programme for October 2003. Building on the School's leading edge research in intelligent systems this masters programme will be funded via the ESF scheme (see below). Intelligent Systems is an exciting field of study for science and industry since the currently existing computing systems have often not yet reached the various aspects of human performance. "Intelligent Systems" is a term to describe software systems and methods, which simulate aspects of intelligent behaviour. The intention is to learn from nature and human performance in order to build more powerful computing systems. The aim is to learn from cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, engineering, and linguistics for building more powerful computational system architectures. In this programme a wide variety of novel and exciting techniques will be taught including neural networks, intelligent robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, vision, evolutionary genetic computing, data mining, information retrieval, Bayesian computing, knowledge-based systems, fuzzy methods, and hybrid intelligent architectures. Programme Structure The following lectures/modules are available (at least modules with * are intended to be available for the Oct. 2003 cohort entry) Neural Networks * Intelligent Systems Architectures * Learning Agents * Evolutionary Computation Cognitive Neural Science * Knowledge Based Systems and Data Mining * Bayesian Computation Vision and Intelligent Robots * Natural Language Processing * Dynamics of Adaptive Systems Intelligent Systems Programming * Funding up to 6000 pounds (about 9.000Euro) for Eligible Students The Bursary Scheme applies to this Masters programme commencing October 2003 and we have obtained funding through the European Social Fund (ESF). ESF support enables the University to waive the normal tuition fee and provide a bursary of £ 75 per week for 45 weeks for eligible EU students, together up to 6000 pounds or 9000 Euro. For further information in the first instance please see: http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/Teaching_frame.html http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/courses/progmode.php?prog=G550A&mode=FT&mode2=&dmode=C For information on applications and start dates contact: gillian.potts@sunderland.ac.uk Tel: 0191 515 2758 For academic information about the programme contact: alfredo.moscardini@sunderland.ac.uk ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 15, No. 12 ************************************