Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No.20 Saturday, Nov 15, 2003 Contents Meeting Announcements CFP: Special issue of MLJ: PGMs for Classification EPIA03: Call for Participation CFP: Workshops on SIAM Conference on Data Mining CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Career Opportunities PhD Assistantship Opportunities in Computer Science at U Vermont The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Please send submissions for distribution to: ml@isle.org. For requests to be added, removed, or to change your email address, send email to: ml-request@isle.org. To keep mailings to a manageable size, please keep submissions brief. For meeting announcements, do highlight the meeting Web site and the goals of the event but omit information such as the program committee and talk schedules. Also, only first calls for papers/participation and brief change of deadline announcements will be included. The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: CFP: Special issue of MLJ: PGMs for Classification Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:19:29 +0100 (MET) CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Machine Learning Journal: Probabilistic Graphical Models for Classification http://www.sc.ehu.es/isg We would like to invite authors to submit their works on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) for supervised and unsupervised classification for a special issue of Machine Learning Journal. Submissions must conform with the standards of originality, relevance and quality of Machine Learning, as they will be subject to the regular reviewing process. Submissions based on work published in previous conferences must represent a significant expansi= on over the prior publication. * Topics of Interest. A non-exhaustive list of the topics of interest is as follows: - PGMs and extensions thereof for supervised and unsupervised classification in discrete, continuous and mixed domains - PGM classification learning algorithms (structural and parametric) - Accuracy assessment, and model validation and interpretation in PGMs - Feature selection and extraction for PGMs - (Semi)automatic identification of the number of clusters in PGM learning - Discretization of continuous variables for PGM learning - Prior knowledge incorporation in PGM classification learning algorithms - Synergies between supervised and unsupervised PGM classifiers - Applications of PGM classifiers * Important Dates: Reception of papers: February 29, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2004 Reception of revised versions: September 30, 2004 * Co-editors: P. Larra=F1aga, J.A. Lozano, J.M. Pe=F1a, I. Inza For more information see the homepage at: http://www.sc.ehu.es/isg ------------------------------ From: Salvador Abreu Subject: EPIA03: Call for Participation Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:10:45 +0000 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence -- EPIA'03 Beja, Portugal December 4--7, 2003 http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/ Call for Participation The 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA'03, will continue in the tradition of previous editions of the conference and will be organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA, http://www.appia.pt/). It will maintain its international character and continue to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research on different aspects of Artificial Intelligence. To promote motivated discussions among participants, the coming conference will proceed along the lines of the previous edition and be structured as a set of thematic workshops. There will 8 invited lectures and 49 paper presentations. Besides the parallel sessions corresponding to each workshop, there will be plenary sessions for the invited lectures. Workshop papers are published by Springer-Verlag in the LNAI series. EPIA'03 will be held in Beja, in the Alentejo "Golden Plains" region, in the south of Portugal and is hosted by University of Evora and the Beja Polytechnic Institute. Details on each workshop, conference programme, registration and accomodation are available on the conference site, http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/ . WORKSHOPS - EKDB (International Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Data Bases) - ALEA (Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms) - CLPS (Workshop on Constraint and Logic Programming Systems) - NLTR (Natural Language and Text Retrieval) - MAAII (Multi-Agents and AI for the Internet) IMPORTANT DATES Low rate registration: November 15, 2003 Conference: December 4-7, 2003 For more information, please see http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/ ------------------------------ From: Aleksandar Lazarevic Subject: CFP: Workshops on SIAM Conference on Data Mining Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:21:34 -0600 (CST) CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS WORKSHOPS AT THE FOURTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING Hyatt Orlando Near Walt Disney Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA, April 24, 2004 URL: http//www.siam.org/meetings/sdm04 Technical Paper Deadline: January 21, 2004 The Fourth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining will provide several workshops on topics of current interest in data mining on April 22, 2004. WORKSHOP ON CLUSTERING HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA AND ITS APPLICATIONS www.cs.utexas.edu/users/inderjit/sdm04.html WORKSHOP ON MINING SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING DATASETS http://www.cs.colorado.edu/%7Emburl/MSD04/ WORKSHOP ON HIGH PERFORMANCE AND DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/%7Eagrawal/hpdm04.html WORKSHOP ON BIOINFORMATICS www.ist.temple.edu/sbw04 WORKSHOP ON DATA MINING IN RESOURCE CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS ic.arc.nasa.gov/siam/ WORKSHOP ON LINK ANALYSIS, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND PRIVACY PRESERVING DATA MINING Please check the conference web site (www.siam.org/meetings/sdm04) for more details. IMPORTANT DATES: Technical Paper Submission Deadline: January 21, 2004 Acceptance notification to the authors: February 20, 2004 Camera-ready workshop papers: March 15, 2004 ------------------------------ From: cimca Subject: CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:26:47 +1100 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce 12-14 July 2004 Gold Coast, Australia http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic04/index.htm Jointly with nternational Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 12-14 July 2004 Gold Coast, Australia http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca04/index.htm International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2004 provides a medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of intelligent agent, web technologies and Internet commerce. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and Internet commerce. Conference Topics Include (but not limited to): - Intelligent Agents - Knowledge Management - Intelligent Business Agents - Agent Architectures - Environments and Languages - Adaptation and learning for agents - Human and agent interaction - Interface agents - Mobile agents - Virtual agent-based marketplaces - Agents and uncertainty - The privacy issues for agents - Automated shopping and trading agents - Agent-oriented services - Social implications for agent - Conceptual modelling & Ontologies for agents - Agents and e-commerce - Legal aspects of agents in e-commerce - Performance measurement of e-commerce agents - Rational information agents and electronic commerce - Web Technologies - Web data mining and information retrieval - Agent-based trade-and mediating services - Teaching on Web - Virtual trading institutions - Knowledge Discovery - Intelligent Information Systems - Knowledge Clustering & Classification - Internet Commerce - E-commerce applications of Knowledge Representation - Reasoning Techniques - Electronic Payment Systems - Internet Marketing - Intranets and Extranets - Electronic Payment Systems - Electronic Data Interchange - Supply Chain Management - Electronic Payment Systems - Internet-based Electronic Commerce - Virtual Communities/Community Networks - Logistics Issues for Electronic Commerce - Business Reengineering Issues for Electronic Commerce - Government Electronic Procurement & Service Delivery - Legal & Security Issues for Electronic Commerce - Requirements Engineering for Electronic Commerce PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or postal address: E-mail submission of draft papers: iawtic@ise.canberra.edu.au Postal Submission of draft papers: IAWTIC'2004 Secretariat School of Computing University of Canberra ACT, Canberra, 2614, Australia Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Papers should be written in English. The name and affiliation of authors should be omitted on the paper. A separate page must be included with each extended abstract paper, containing, the names, affiliations, postal address and e-mail addresses of authors as well as the address of contact author. E-mail submission of papers are encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES - 14 March 2004 Submission of papers - 30 April 2004 Notification of acceptance - 21 May 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers - 12-14 July 2004 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 27th February 2004. CIMCA'04 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. INVITED SESSIONS Keynote speakers from academia and industry will be addressing the main issues of the conference. VISITS AND SOCIAL EVENTS Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information either contact iawtic@ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic04/index.htm ------------------------------ From: Xindong Wu Subject: PhD Assistantship Opportunities in Computer Science at U Vermont Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:30:40 -0500 (EST) PhD Assistantship Opportunities Department of Computer Science University of Vermont (UVM) 351 Votey Building Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA The Department of Computer Science (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/) at UVM announces up to 6 assistantships for PhD studies in 2004-05, in the form of Graduate Research Assistantships (GRAs) and Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs). These assistantships are for incoming students studying towards the PhD degree in Computer Science. The Department offers fields of study in both traditional and interdisciplinary areas such as bioinformatics and ecological modeling. Our faculty is involved in the forefront of research in knowledge and data engineering (such as data mining, database systems, pattern recognition, and knowledge-based systems), software engineering and verification (including programming languages), and computational sciences (comprising computational biology, discrete modeling, and numerical methods). Our faculty in Computer Science participates in various interdisciplinary research activities involving on-campus entities such as the UVM College of Medicine (http://www.med.uvm.edu), the UVM Bioinformatics Core (http://bioinformatics.uvm.edu/bioinformatics.html) and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics (http://www.uvm.edu/giee/). We encourage applicants who are interested in and have a strong background in interdisciplinary studies. *Up to 3 (interdisciplinary) GRAs are specially designated for PhD students who will be involved in interdisciplinary areas.* QUALIFICATIONS: The successful applicants must possess a Bachelor's degree and show satisfactory test scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general section. International applicants must submit a TOEFL test score of 600 or higher. Applicants with a BS degree in a field other than Computer Science are especially encouraged to apply for the interdisciplinary GRA positions. FURTHER INFORMATION: Tel: +1-802-656-3330 Email: csgrad-info@cs.uvm.edu Web: http://www.cs.uvm.edu/gradinfo/PhD-guide.shtml ONLINE APPLICATION: http://www.uvm.edu/~gradcoll Choose "Online Application" and Computer Science PhD Program. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications accepted until February 1, 2004 for Fall 2004 assistantship opportunities. ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 15, No. 20 ************************************