Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 19 Saturday, November 1, 2003 Contents Meeting Announcements IEEE Data Mining '03: Call for Participation CFP: Int'l Conf on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04) CFP: 18 Int'l Conferences in CS & CE in 2004 CFP Epigenetic Robotics 2003 ECAI'04 Workshops Call 8th ICCNS: Call for Abstracts Career Opportunities Faculty Positions in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Miscellaneous Announcements Software Agents for Business Automation jmlr-announce: Special Issue on Learning Theory ML List Policy Change on Calls for Participation 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 ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Xindong Wu Subject: IEEE Data Mining '03: Call for Participation Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:53:12 -0400 (EDT) IEEE Data Mining 2003: Call for Participation The 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) to be held at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Melbourne, Florida, USA November 19 - 22, 2003, invites you to attend. * On-line registration (and other information) is available at http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-03.html Register by October 17 to get the early-bird rate! * Registration includes a half-day tour of the NASA Kennedy Space Center! * Be sure to book hotel rooms by October 31 at 5pm for discounted rates (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm/hotel-03.shtml) ICDM received a total of 501 paper submissions this year, from which 58 regular papers, 61 short papers, and 9 industry-track papers were selected for presentation. Conference highlights include the following. * Five Invited Speakers: - Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University, USA. "Sequential Supervised Learning: General Methods for Sequence Labeling and Segmentation" - Usama M. Fayyad, DMX Group, LLC, USA. "Grand Challenges on the Road to Practical Data Mining Systems" - Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland. "Global Structure from Sequences" - Gene W. Myers, University of California, Berkeley, USA. "Pattern Discovery for Genomics" - Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA. "Real-Time Monitoring and Surveillance using Data Stream Mining" * Four Tutorials: November 19, Morning - Chris Ding, "Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Methods" - Ronen Feldman, "Information Extraction: Theory and Practice" November 19, Afternoon - Alexander Hinneburg and Daniel Keim, "Advances in Clustering and Applications" - Aleksandar Lazarevic, Jaideep Srivastava, and Vipin Kumar, "Data Mining for Security Applications" * Six Full-Day Workshops (November 19): - Clustering Large Data Sets - Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC '03) - Foundations and New Directions in Data Mining - Frequent Itemset Mining Implementations (FIMI '03) - Privacy Preserving Data Mining (PPDM) - VDM@ICDM2003: The 3rd International Workshop on Visual Data Mining * One Panel: "Security and Data Mining: Funding Priorities and Opportunities" Panel Chair: Michael J. Pazzani, National Science Foundation, USA. * 128 Technical Paper Presentations (November 20 - 22, 2003): There are sessions on Association Analysis, Bayesian Networks, Clustering, Databases and Datamining, Feature Selection, Mining Sequential and Hierarchical Data, Mining User Behavior, Spatial and Temporal Tasks, Support Vector Machines, Nearest-Neighbor Methods, Privacy-Preserving Datamining, Linkage-based Methods, Rule-Based Methods, Text Mining, Visualization, Image Processing, Issues in Supervised Learning, and Applications. ------------------------------ From: Rajarshi Das Subject: CFP: Int'l Conf on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:15:20 -0400 Call For Papers International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04) http://www.autonomic-conference.org In conjunction with the 13th International World Wide Web Conference Sheraton Hotel, New York, NY, May 17-18, 2004 OVERVIEW & GOALS The increasing complexity of integrating, deploying and managing computing systems is beginning to overwhelm the capabilities of software developers and system administrators. The only viable long-term solution is to create computer systems that manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that is sometimes referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenge of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, and new architectures that support effective integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing is to bring together researchers in diverse fields who are addressing important aspects of self-management in computing systems. In so doing, we hope to establish a unified community that can work together to realize the ultimate vision of large-scale self-managing systems. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing; particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Specific self-managing system components, such as storage, server, client, database, or network elements. Emphasis should be placed on interactions with other components, or techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components. * AI and other generic technologies for self-managing components including statistical, machine learning, and optimization techniques, planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, fault diagnosis, policies, sensing, and monitoring. * General architectures for individual components or for autonomic computing systems as a whole, based on Open Grid Services, Web Services, or more novel paradigms based on biological, economic, social, or other analogies. * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for autonomic computing. Support for building individual components of autonomic computing systems or applications. * Technologies that support inter-element interactions, such as service-level agreements, negotiation protocols and algorithms, and conversation support. * System-level technologies or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems, such as dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, provisioning, and health monitoring. * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection. * Human interaction with autonomic systems, including user studies, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, theoretical investigations of coupled feedback loops, robustness, and other related topics. PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS Full papers (up to 8 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to self-managing systems, as indicated above. Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical quality, and exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the ICAC-04 review process. Posters are not subject to any of these restrictions. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via the ICAC-04 conference web site at http://www.autonomic-conference.org, and should use IEEE CS format. Appropriate style files can be found at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/. PUBLICATION Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press, to be distributed at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submissions: January 12, 2004 * Poster submissions: February 9, 2004 * Author notification: February 16, 2004 * Final manuscripts due: March 8, 2004 * Conference: May 17-18, 2004 For further details: ICAC-04: www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: ac04@caip.rutgers.edu Autonomic Computing: www.research.ibm.com/autonomic ------------------------------ From: Hamid Arabnia Subject: CFP: 18 Int'l Conferences in CS & CE in 2004 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:35:19 -0400 (EDT) C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (18 Joint Int'l Conferences) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 21-24, 2004 You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below) and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The names of technical session/workshop organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the proceedings/books as Associate Editors. Any help in distributing this announcement would be most appreciated. The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering is composed of the following 18 conferences - each event is the premier conference for presentation of advances in their respective subjects. All conferences will be held simultaneously (same location and dates: June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, USA): 1. The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04) 2. The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'04) 3. The 2004 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'04) 4. The 2004 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'04) 5. The 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'04) 6. The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04) 7. The 2004 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'04) 8. The 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'04) 9. The 2004 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'04) 10. The 2004 International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'04) 11. The 2004 International Workshop on Wearable Computers (IWWC'04) 12. The 2004 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'04) 13. The 2004 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'04) 14. The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'04) 15. The 2004 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'04) 16. The 2004 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'04) 17. The 2004 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'04) 18. The 2004 International Conference on Algorithmic Mathematics and Computer Science (AMCS'04) Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines. You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconference chair whose address appears below (The chair may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/IMCSE2004 - currently under construction.) CONFERENCES CONTACT: H. R. Arabnia, PhD General Chair, The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (IMCSE2004) The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by the due date (who may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). E-mail submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax submissions are also acceptable.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, & Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) & a maximum of 5 keywords. IMPORTANT DATES: Feb. 16, 2004: Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 22, 2004: Notification of acceptance April 21, 2004: Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 21-24, 2004: 2004 Int'l Multiconference in CS & CE Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Each technical session will have at least 6 paper presentations (from different authors). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings. After the conference, some sessions will be considered for publication in appropriate journals as Special Issues with the session proposer as the Guest Editor of the journal. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred. For further details, see http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/IMCSE2004 (currently under construction.) ------------------------------ From: "Georgi Stojanov" Subject: CFP Epigenetic Robotics 2003 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:49:17 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org August 25-27, 2004 Location: LIRA-Lab, University of Genoa Genoa, Italy Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2004 This workshop focuses on combining developmental psychology, neuroscience, biology, and robotics with the goal of understanding the functioning of biological systems. Epigenetic systems, either natural or artificial, share a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment. Epigenetic robotics includes the two-fold goal of understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration between neural and engineering sciences and, simultaneously, that of enabling robots and artificial systems to develop skills for any particular environment instead of programming them for specific environments. To this aim, psychological theory and empirical evidence should be used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models should be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology. We encourage the submission from different disciplines such as robotics, artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, biology or neurophysiology, as well as interdisciplinary work bridging the gap between science and engineering. Subject Areas include, but are not limited to: * The role of motivations, emotions, and value systems in development; * The development of: concepts, consciousness and self-awareness, emotion, imitation, intentionality, intersubjectivity, joint attention, learning, motivation, non-verbal and verbal communication, self, sensorimotor schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference, social learning, social relationships, social understanding (mind reading, theory of mind), value systems; * Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure, and experience; * Related issues in algorithms, robotics, simulated robots, and embodied systems; * Strong AI (true intelligence and autonomy) versus weak AI; * Related issues from human and nonhuman empirical studies. For summaries of the papers from the latest workshops see: Zlatev and Balkenius (2001), Prince (2002), and Berthouze and Prince (2003). Please send any questions to the workshop co-chairs: Giorgio Metta (pasa@dist.unige.it) and Luc Berthouze (Luc.Berthouze@aist.go.jp). SUBMISSIONS Papers not exceeding eight (8) pages should be submitted electronically (PDF or Postscript) as attachment files to Luc Berthouze (Luc.Berthouze@aist.go.jp). Extended abstracts (maximum two pages) can also be submitted, and will be presented as posters (extended abstracts should also be submitted in PDF or Postscript as attachments to Luc Berthouze (Luc.Berthouze@aist.go.jp). Further instructions to authors will be posted on the workshop web page: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org IMPORTANT DATES March 1st, 2004: Deadline for submission of papers and posters April 21st, 2004: Notification of acceptance for papers and posters May 21st, 2004: Deadline for camera ready-papers & posters August 25-27, 2004: Workshop For further details, see http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org ------------------------------ From: Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Subject: ECAI'04 Workshops Call Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:44:41 +0100 ECAI 2004 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Valencia (Spain), August 22-27th, 2004 http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The ECAI 2004 Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held on 22-23 August 2004, immediately preceding the main ECAI 2004 conference. The scope of the proposal should be consistent with the conference themes as described in the ECAI 2004 Call for Papers (http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004). To encourage interaction, the workshops will be kept small. Attendance should be limited to active participants only. Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. Thus, although the format of workshop presentations are to be determined by their organizers, ample time should be allotted for general discussions. Proposals for workshops should contain: - A title and brief description of the workshop topic and content. - The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time. If the workshop is part of a series, please list previous workshops. - The names, postal addresses, phone number and email addresses of the Workshop Organizing Committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field but not all at the same institution. The name of one member of the Workshop Organizing Committee who is designated the contact person. - The desired workshop length (half or full day), and an estimate of the audience size. - A schedule for organizing the workshop and a preliminary agenda. - A description of special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure, etc.) Please submit your workshop proposals by e-mail to the ECAI 2004 Workshop Chair (ecai04wc@dsic.upv.es). ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Workshop organizers will be responsible for: - Producing and distributing a Call for Participation in the workshop open to all members of the AI community. The Call for Participation should make clear that all workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECAI 2004 conference and that the number of participants is limited. It should also make clear the process by which the Workshop organizing Committee will select the participants. - Reviewing requests to participate in the workshop and selecting the participants. - The production of camera-ready copy for the workshop proceedings in accordance with guidelines supplied by the Workshop Chair. - Providing a provisional list of workshop participants. - Workshops must be financially self-supporting. The conference organizers will establish workshop registration rates so as to provide the room, audio-visual equipment, Internet access, snacks for breaks, and the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Dec 1, 2003 Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposal. Dec 22, 2003 Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposal. Jun 15, 2004 Workshop proceedings (camera/web-ready) Aug 22-23, 2004 Workshop dates CONTACT INFORMATION Workshop Chair Jose Miguel Benedi Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (e-mail: ecai04wc@dsic.upv.es) ------------------------------ From: "Cynthia Bradford" Subject: 8th ICCNS: Call for Abstracts Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:24:57 -0500 Call for Abstracts EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS May 19 - 22, 2004 Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ Sponsored by Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems with financial support from the Office of Naval Research This interdisciplinary conference is attended each year by approximately 300 people from 30 countries around the world. As in previous years, the conference will focus on solutions to the questions: HOW DOES THE BRAIN CONTROL BEHAVIOR? HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY EMULATE BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE? The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. The conference includes tutorial and invited lectures, and contributed lectures and posters, by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. Single-track oral and poster sessions enable all presented work to be highly visible. Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on two of the conference days. Posters will be u all day, and can also be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Session Topics: * vision * image understanding * audition * speech and language * unsupervised learning * supervised learning * reinforcement and emotion * sensory-motor control * cognition, planning, and attention * spatial mapping and navigation * object recognition * neural circuit models * neural system models * mathematics of neural systems * robotics * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) * neuromorphic VLSI * industrial applications * other Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 30, 2004. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February 27, 2004. 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 16, 2004. Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides in a single-spaced, single-column format with a font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title of Abstract; corresponding author and presenting author name, address, telephone, fax, and email address; requested preference for oral or poster presentation; and a first and second choice from the topics above, including whether it is biological (B) or technological (T) work [Example: first choice: vision (T); second choice: neural system models (B)]. Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead, slide, VCR, and LCD projector facilities will be available for talks. Abstracts which do not meet these requirements or which are submitted with insufficient funds will be returned. Accepted Abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings volume. No longer paper will be required. The original and 3 copies of each Abstract should be sent to: Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA. For further details, including confirmed invited speakers, registration information, and student fellowships information, see http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ ------------------------------ From: "Thomas G. Dietterich" Subject: Faculty Positions in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:42:36 -0800 The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University is recruiting faculty in machine learning and related areas including vision, speech, natural language processing, robotics, and so on. Our school already includes several faculty members in these areas: * Bruce D'Ambrosio (Graphical Models) * Tom Dietterich (Machine Learning; Reinforcement Learning; Pattern Recognition) * Jon Herlocker (Intelligent Information Access; Collaborative Filtering) * Luca Lucchese (Camera Calibration) * Larry Marple (Signal Interpretation) * Eric Mortensen (Computer Vision, Image Processing) * Prasad Tadepalli (Reinforcement Learning) Full details are available at http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/faculty/03-04cs.html ------------------------------ From: ABA Subject: Software Agents for Business Automation Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:19:42 -0400 (EDT) Special Issue: "SOFTWARE AGENTS FOR BUSINESS AUTOMATION" Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 95-198, Summer 2003 ELSEVIER Journal "Electronic Commerce Research and Applications" (Guest editor: Hanh Pham) http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/papers/J2/ TABLE OF CONTENTS: "An Agent-Based Business Automated System With Self-Adjusting Visibility For Reliability", Pages 97-113 Hanh Pham and Yiming Ye "TMS Agents: Enabling Dynamic Distributed Supply Chain Management", Pages 114-132 Tom Wagner, Valerie Guralnik and John Phelps "Supply Web Co-Ordination By An Agent-Based Trading Network With Integrated Logistics Services", Pages 133-146 Andreas Gerber, Christian Russ and Matthias Klusch "Designing Intelligent Agents To Support Universal Accessibility Of E-Commerce Services", Pages 147-161 E. Pontelli and T. C. Son "Explorations In Evolutionary Design Of Online Auction Market Mechanisms", Pages 162-175 Dave Cliff "Reducing Complexity In Winner Determination For Combinatorial Ascending Auctions", Pages 176-186 Chihiro Ono, Satoshi Nishiyama and Hiroki Horiuchi "Pricing With Local Interactions On Agent-Based Electronic Marketplaces", Pages 187-198 Benoit Leloup ------------------------------ From: "David 'Pablo' Cohn" Subject: jmlr-announce: Special Issue on Learning Theory Date: 24 Oct 2003 10:16:07 -0700 The Journal of Machine Learning Research (www.jmlr.org) is pleased to announce publication of the Special Issue on Learning Theory, guest edited by Ralf Herbrich and Thore Graepel: Introduction to the Special Issue on Learning Theory Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel; pp. 755-757. On the Performance of Kernel Classes Shahar Mendelson; pp. 759-771. Path Kernels and Multiplicative Updates Eiji Takimoto, Manfred K. Warmuth; pp. 773-818. Tracking Linear-threshold Concepts with Winnow Chris Mesterharm; pp. 819-838. Generalization Error Bounds for Bayesian Mixture Algorithms Ron Meir, Tong Zhang; pp. 839-860. On the Rate of Convergence of Regularized Boosting Classifiers Gilles Blanchard, Gábor Lugosi, Nicolas Vayatis; pp. 861-894. Concentration Inequalities for the Missing Mass and for Histogram Rule Error David McAllester, Luis Ortiz; pp. 895-911. The papers in this issue are available electronically at http://www.jmlr.org in PostScript and PDF formats. The papers of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 are also available electronically from the JMLR website, and in hardcopy from the MIT Press; please see http://mitpress.mit.edu/JMLR for details. ------------------------------ From: Machine Learning List Subject: ML List Policy Change on Calls for Participation Date: 01 Nov 2003 In addition to first calls for papers, the ML List now also includes first calls for participation. As with calls for papers, please keep submissions brief by highlighting the meeting Web site and event goals but omitting information such as program committee members and talk schedules. ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 15, No. 19 ************************************