Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 21 Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Contents Meeting Announcements MBR04 Call for papers Int'l Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies CFP: Fourth Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems ICML-04 Call for Workshop Proposals CFP: NLIS 2004 ICML-2004 Call for Papers ISDA'04 - First Call for Papers KES'2004 International Conference UAI 2004 Call for Papers ECML/PKDD 2004: Preliminary Call for Papers AI'2004 Preliminary CFP: Student Research Workshop at ACL-04 COLT 2004 Call for papers CfP - STAIRS 2004 - 2nd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium CFP: Artificial Life IX Int'l Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-04) [Summary] [ICGI] ICGI-2004 Call for papers CFP: NAFIPS-04 conference Career Opportunities SVM and neural network research position Post-doc in Machine Learning at Oregon State University Faculty positions at UBC Ph.D. Fellowships in Ecosystem Informatics (IGERT) Senior and Junior Researcher Positions in Machine Learning Statistical Signal Processing / Machine Learning Research Miscellaneous Announcements colocate with ijcai-05 New Journal: Knowledge, Rationality and Action 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: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MBR04 Call for papers Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:46:42 -0800 MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION MBR'04 Pavia, Italy, December 16-18, 2004 Chairs: Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian Up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html Paper Submission Deadline May 1st, 2004 GENERAL INFORMATION From Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 December 2004 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). The conference continues the theme of the Conferences "Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98 and "Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values" MBR'01 The previous volumes derived from those conferences are: L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4 L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-46292-3 (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000). PROGRAM The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and engineering, including computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine the role of abduction, visualization, and simulation in model-based reasoning from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to model-based reasoning in science and engineering from the following list: - abduction - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning - simulative modeling - the role of diagrammatic representations - computational models of visual and simulative reasoning - causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction - visual analogy - thought experimenting - logical analyses related to model-based reasoning - manipulative reasoning - distributed model-based reasoning - embodiment in model-based reasoning - model-based reasoning and technological innovation INVITED SPEAKERS The list of the invited speakers who already accepted to give a presentation at MBR04 is available in the Conference WEB SITE http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS All submitted papers will be carefully refereed. The precise format of the conference will be fixed after we have an idea of the number of accepted papers. We expect approximately 40 contributed presentations some of 40 and others of 20 minutes. There will be several invited papers of 1 hour. A selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject to additional refereeing) in a book which will constitute an advanced handbook for researchers in this area. The book will be published by an international publishing house. Moreover another selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject to additional refereeing) in special issues of suitable international journals. Authors must submit an electronic version - formatted in Microsoft Word or RTF,PS or PDF ( in this last case two cases please include source - DOC, TEX, etc., file) - of an extended abstract (total word count aproximately 1000-1200).The file must also contain a 300 WORD abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet. Not later than May 1, 2004 Please send electronically the extended abstract to the Prof. Magnani at the address lmagnani@cc.gatech.edu (if the previous address does not work please use lorenzo.magnani@unipv.it) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline.....................May 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance..............Aug 30, 2004 Conference............................. Dec 16-18, 2004 Final papers......................due.. February 15, 2005 For information on registration, accommodations, and other aspects of the conference, please visit the conference site: Collegio Ghislieri, Piazza Ghislieri, 27100 PAVIA, Italy, phone +39 0382 37861. http://www.ghislieri.it/ ------------------------------ From: "International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies" Subject: Int'l Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:16:32 +0000 (GMT) Call for Workshops / Call for Papers ISICT 04 International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies Las Vegas, Nevada. June 16th-18th, 2004 The purpose of ISICT 04 is to provide an international forum for discussion between theoreticians and practitioners and to promote an inter disciplinary exchange of research ideas. We invite papers exploring all aspects of Computer and Communication Technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Computer Science * Information Technology and Systems * Communication Technology * Networks, Control Systems * Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing * Experience and Applications There are two principal modes of paper submission: MODE I : Invited Workshop Organization To chair and organize a workshop at ISICT 04 send an email to workshops@isict.org with the title, a description of the topic of your proposed workshop up to two hundred words in length, and the name(s) of the workshop organizer(s) and chair(s) as soon as possible and before 15 January 2004. If your proposal is suitable, you will receive preliminary approval notification within a few days. Final approval will depend upon submission and registration of at least FOUR papers in the workshop by the ISICT 04 camera ready deadline of 17th March 2004. The organizer(s) of pre-approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshop, using electronic or other means, and for the reviewing process for their workshop's papers or extended abstracts, and for the notification to ISICT 04 of accepted papers. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be added to the ISICT 04 programme committee and be editors of the ISICT 04 conference proceedings. MODE II : Stand-Alone Papers Papers must be submitted in WORD or PDF format by 1st February 2004 for review. Please submit either an extended abstract or short paper of up to 6 pages in length. Papers should be formatted so that they are single-spaced, single column, and use a 12pt Times font. All papers submitted will be reviewed in full by reviewers from independent institutions. Important Dates 15th January 2004 Preliminary approval of invited workshops 1st February 2004 Submission of stand-alone papers 17th February 2004 Notification of acceptance of stand-alone papers 17th March 2004 Camera-ready copies due for all papers 17th March 2004 Registration due for all papers 17th March 2004 Copyright due for all papers 16th-18th June 2004 Conference The Venue Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada, Las Vegas is the most dynamic, spectacular city on earth. At the start of the twentieth century it didn't even exist and now it's home to over a million people. No other city in history has explicitly valued the needs of visitors over its own population. Thirty seven million come to Las Vegas each year. The majority of the worlds largest hotels are here - extraordinary places, self contained fantasy lands that can stretch as much as a mile from end to end. Each holds its own flamboyant permutation of showrooms and swimming pools, luxurious guest quarters and restaurants, high tech rides and attractions. Please email general queries to info@isict.org URL: http://www.isict.org ------------------------------ From: Daniel Kudenko Subject: CFP: Fourth Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:56:32 +0000 Call for Papers Fourth Symposium on ADAPTIVE AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-4) March 29th - 30th, 2004 Leeds, UK http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~kudenko/aamas4/ (Part of the AISB '04 Convention) In recent years it became well-accepted, that it is crucial for intelligent agents to have the ability to learn from and adapt to their environment. This task is even more complex when the agent is situated in an environment that contains other agents with potentially different capabilities and goals. The goal of this symposium is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive and learning agent research, encourage collaboration between machine learning experts and agent system experts, and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive agents. The symposium will serve as an inclusive forum for the discussion on ongoing or completed work in both theoretical and practical issues. The proposed symposium is the fourth in a series of symposia that have taken place annually since 2001 (see http://www.aamas.net). All accepted papers are published in Symposia proceedings. The best papers from the first two AAMAS Symposia have been published in a Springer LNAI book (LNAI 2636), and we plan to publish a follow-up volume including papers from the third and fourth AAMAS Symposia. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: January 5th, 2004. Notification of Acceptance: January 26th, 2004 Camera-Ready Copies Due: March 1st, 2004. Symposium Dates: March 29th - 30th, 2004. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Paper submissions are in the form of extended abstracts of up to 4 pages in length. Accepted papers will be published either in the form of full papers of up to 12 pages, or short papers of up to 6 pages. Please submit papers by email in pdf or ps format to kudenko@cs.york.ac.uk. For additional information, visit http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~kudenko/aamas4/ ------------------------------ From: Johannes Fuernkranz Subject: ICML-04 Call for Workshop Proposals Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:41:30 +0100 The 21st International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-04) July 4-8, 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada Call For Workshop Proposals The ICML-2004 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at the 21st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2004), which will take place July 4-8, 2004, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. ICML-2004 will be co-located with the Computational Learning Theory (COLT-04) and Uncertainty in AI (UAI-04) conferences (see ). The workshops will be held on July 8th, the same day as the UAI tutorials. There will be room for two large (< 150 participants) and up to two small workshops (< 40 participants). Workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic in machine learning. Workshops can choose to concentrate on emerging research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and social aspects of Machine learning and data mining. Proposals that aim at a cross-fertilization between Machine Learning and one of the topics of the co-located conferences are particularly welcome. Working notes of the workshops will be made available to participants in electronic form prior to the conference. How to Propose a Workshop Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chair and reviewers from the conference organizing committee to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a workshop program committee. When proposing a workshop, please provide (at least) the following information: * /Topic --/ What will the workshop be about? Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic? Why is the topic best addressed in an ICML workshop, as opposed to a workshop at another conference or papers in an ICML technical session? * /Goals --/ What do you expect will come out of the workshop? How will the workshop change the participants' understanding of the area? Do you think it will have an impact on the Machine Learning community at large? * /Intended audience --/ From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? How many participants do you expect? Can you already name some of them? * /Format --/ How will the workshop sessions be scheduled? How much time will be used for discussion, panel discussions, paper presentations, invited talks, or other methods for encouraging communication and consensus? Organizers are encouraged to focus on mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations and to differentiate themselves clearly from typical conference sessions. * /Publicity --/ How do you intend to publicize the workshop? How will you reach the most interested and appropriate participants? Are there any plans to document the workshop results (beyond ICML's web publication)? * /Organizers --/ Please include the name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of all members of the program committee. In addition, indicate the organizers' background in the workshop area. Proposals should be submitted in electronic form to: Johannes Fuernkranz E-mail: juffi@oefai.at Important Dates Dec 19, 2003 Proposal deadline Jan 7, 2004 Acceptance notification Jan 23, 2004 Publicity Materials Due Apr 2, 2004 WS Paper submission deadline Apr 16, 2004 Notification of participants May 7, 2004 WS final paper deadline May 14, 2004 Workshop notes due (on-line) URL . ------------------------------ From: "Werner Winiwarter" Subject: CFP: NLIS 2004 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:16:44 +0100 C A L L F O R P A P E R S 4th International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLIS 2004) to be held in Zaragoza, Spain, August 30, 2004 www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis2004.htm in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004, www.dexa.org) directly after the 20th International Conference on Computer Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland August 23-27, 2004, www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ and the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC 2004), Toulouse, France, August 22-27, 2004 www.wcc2004.org Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press THEME Ubiquitous business, ambient intelligence, global digital libraries, lifelong learning, virtual communities, are just a few of the visions for the future which will bring unimaginable changes and new challenges for all of us. Human Language Technology (HLT) is one of the key technologies to make these visions come true. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both natural language processing and information systems with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience between these two communities. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of an overview of the most recent trends in these two active research fields, and a common starting-point to tackle the most pressing research problems and to address long-term research issues. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Natural language and speech interfaces Multimodal and multilingual interfaces Adaptive and personalized interfaces HLT for information system design HLT for conceptual modeling HLT for requirements engineering HLT for information retrieval and filtering HLT for the WWW and the Semantic Web HLT for mobile applications HLT for digital libraries HLT for education systems HLT for e-business and e-government Terminology and ontologies Lexical resources and corpora Computer-assisted language learning Machine translation Word sense disambiguation Document categorization Information extraction Text summarization Natural language learning Natural language generation Evaluation of natural language systems IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 8 February 2004 * Notification of acceptance: 19 April 2004 * Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2004 SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2004 workshops. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The author guidelines can be found at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/format.htm. If you use LaTeX, you can find an example document at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.tex and the corresponding output at www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis.ps. Please submit your paper via email to werner.winiwarter@univie.ac.at as RTF or PDF file. For any further questions or inquiries please contact: Prof. Dr. Werner Winiwarter Department of Computer Science and Business Informatics Liebiggasse 4 A-1010 Vienna, Austria Email: werner.winiwarter@univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-38516 Fax: +43-1-4277-38549 URL: www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/ ------------------------------ From: Dale Schuurmans Subject: ICML-2004 Call for Papers Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:04:07 -0700 The 21st International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-04) July 4-8, 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada Call For Papers The Twenty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2004) will be held in Banff Alberta Canada, 4-8 July 2004. The conference will bring together researchers to exchange ideas and report recent progress in the field of machine learning. ICML-2004 will be co-located with COLT-2004 (July 1-4) and UAI-2004 (July 8-11) at the Banff Park Lodge (http://www.banffparklodge.com). The conference website is http://www.banff04.org/icml. Topics for Submission ICML-2004 invites submissions on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of machine learning research, including applications, techniques, theories, and connections to related fields of inquiry. Format of the Conference The conference will include three and a half days of technical presentations along with one day of tutorials and one day of workshops. The conference will also feature poster sessions and informal gatherings designed to foster discussion of research in machine learning. Accepted papers will each be given an oral presentation and also featured in an evening poster session, to allow conference attendees to discuss the work with the authors at greater length. The ICML program will also feature talks by several invited speakers. On July 4, the first day of ICML, there will be a joint Kernel Day featuring regular papers from both ICML and COLT on kernel-based learning methods. Kernel Day replaces the previous Kernel Workshop held in conjunction with NIPS and COLT, and will also include a special kernels poster session. For more information on the special Kernel Day see http://www.kernel-machines.org/workshop. Paper Submission To submit a paper to ICML-2004, authors must first submit an electronic abstract by *Friday, 30 January 2004, 23:59:59 Mountain Standard Time*. The deadline for paper submission to ICML-2004 is *Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 23:59:59 Mountain Standard Time*. The submission process will be entirely electronic. Authors should submit papers using the same format and length as will be required for the final proceedings version. Detailed instructions, as well as templates for LaTeX and Word, will be available at http://www.banff04.org/icml/papers/format. *Policy on Multiple Submissions* ICML-2004 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during ICML's review period. *To submit your paper, please go to* http://www.banff04.org/icml/papers/submit. You will be guided through the submission process. Once you submit a paper, you will be given a username and password, with which you may revise the information (including submitting a revised version of the paper) until the deadline. Review Process Papers submitted to ICML-2004 will normally be reviewed by three (but at least two) referees. We will continue the policy of conditionally accepting papers that are not publishable in their initial form, but that the reviewers feel can be improved enough in time to appear in the proceedings. If a paper is conditionally accepted, the requirements for acceptance will be explicitly listed on the review form. Papers that have been conditionally accepted will be reviewed again after re-submission. Note that reviewing for ICML-2004 will be *blind* to the identities of the authors. See http://www.banff04.org/icml/papers/format for instructions. Important Dates 30 January 2004 23:59:59 MST Abstracts due 3 February 2004 23:59:59 MST Submissions due 24 March 2004 Author notifications sent 21 April 2004 23:59:59 MST Camera-ready papers due Proceedings Proceedings will be published in hardcopy and made available on the World Wide Web and on CD-ROM. Organization Conference Chair: Carla Brodley Purdue University Program Co-Chairs: Russell Greiner and Dale Schuurmans University of Alberta Additional Information For more information see http://www.banff04.org/icml or contact icml04@cs.ualberta.ca ------------------------------ From: Ajith Abraham Subject: ISDA'04 - First Call for Papers Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:50:06 -0600 ISDA'04: Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (26-28) August 2004, Budapest, Hungary Conference URL: http://isda04.softcomputing.net/ Technical Sponsors: IEEE - Systems, Man and Cybernetics International Fuzzy Systems Association, IFSA Budapest Polytechnic Hungarian Fuzzy Association IEEE Chapter of SMC, Hungary IEEE R8 Springer Verlag, Germany University of Veszprem World Federation of Soft Computing (WFSC) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2004) is the fourth International conference that brings together international soft computing, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners and users. The aim of ISDA 2004 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. ISDA'04 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research in all areas of intelligent systems and their applications in science, technology, business and commercial. ISDA'04 will focus on the following themes: * Applications in Bioinformatics * Architectures of intelligent systems * Image, Speech and signal processing * Internet modeling * Data mining * Fuzzy modeling and control * Business and management applications * Control and Automation * Software agents * Knowledge management * Special topics We invite you to submit a: - full paper of 8 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation - proposal to organize a technical session and/or workshop. Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by Springer Verlag, Germany in the Advances in Soft Computing Series. Please follow the authors guidelines given in the conference web page. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the web site. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees of the international program committee of ISDA'04. Important Dates Deadline for Workshop/tutorial Proposals : February 1, 2004 Deadline for Paper Submission (full paper) : April 1, 2004 Notification of Acceptance : May 10, 2004 Deadline for Camera Ready Papers/registration : June 10, 2004 ISDA'04 Conference in Budapest : August 26 - 28, 2004 For further information please contact: Janos Abonyi, Ph.D. Process Engineering Department University of Veszprem, POB. 158, H-8200, Veszprem, Hungary Email: abonyij@fmt.vein.hu Ajith Abraham, Ph.D. Computer Science Department Oklahoma State University 700 N Greenwood Avenue Tulsa, OK 74106, USA Tel : +1-918-5948188 Fax: +1-918-5948281 eFax: +1 (509) 691-2851 Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org ------------------------------ From: Lakhmi Jain Subject: KES'2004 International Conference Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:24:09 +1030 KES'2004 Eighth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems www.kesinternational.org/kes2004/ Wellington Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand Conference Venue: The Hotel Intercontinental, Wellington Dates: 20-24 September 2004 General Chair: Mircea Gh. Negoita mircea.negoita@weltec.ac.nz Executive Chair: Robert .J. Howlett, R.J.Howlett@bton.ac.uk Correspondence Address: KES'2004 Secretariat, Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, United Kingdom. Email:KES@brighton.ac.uk Lakhmi.jain@unisa.edu.au Telephone: +44 1273 642305 Fax: +44 1273 642444 ------------------------------ From: "Max Chickering" Subject: UAI 2004 Call for Papers Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:11:16 -0800 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence UAI-2004 First Call for Papers July 8-11, 2004 http://research.microsoft.com/uai2004 Conference Details: Since 1985, the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) has been the primary international forum for presenting new results on the use of principled methods for reasoning under uncertainty within intelligent systems. The scope of UAI is wide, including, but not limited to, representation, automated reasoning, learning, decision making and knowledge acquisition under uncertainty. We encourage submissions that report on advances in these core areas as well as submissions describing interesting and novel systems that utilize techniques from these core areas. The UAI 2004 conference will be held in Banff, Canada. The main technical session will be on July 9-11, and will be preceded with an advanced tutorial program on July 8th. The conference is collocated with and follows both the Computational Learning Theory (COLT) conference, which will be held July 1 through July 4, and the International Conference on Machine learning (ICML), which will be held July 4 through July 8. UAI 2004 coincides with the Calgary Stampede Days, so we advise attendees to book flights, hotels, and car rentals as early as possible. Paper Submission: We encourage submissions that report on theoretical or methodological advances in representation, automated reasoning, learning, decision making and knowledge acquisition under uncertainty. We also encourage submissions that report on systems that utilize techniques from these core areas. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work. At the time the full paper is submitted to UAI-2004, and for the entire review period, the paper should not be under review by any other conference or scientific journal. UAI-2004 requires electronic submission of papers and abstracts according to instructions posted at the conference home page. If authors have special circumstances that prevent electronic submission, arrangements can be made directly with the program co-chairs listed below. Authors are required to submit a title and a short abstract a week before the paper submission deadline. Submitted papers must be prepared according to the UAI-2004 proceedings format and must be no more than eight (8) pages long, including figures and bibliography. Papers that deviate from these guidelines will be rejected without review. The conference home page will contain format information and provides access to style files and templates. Papers may be accepted for presentation in plenary or poster sessions. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the Twentieth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. The program committee will select papers for special distinction in two categories at UAI-2004: a "Best Paper" award, and an "Outstanding Student Paper" award. The conference home page will contain instructions for certifying student status with regards to the latter award. Key Dates: Tuesday February 10, 2004, noon PST: Abstract submission Tuesday February 17, 2004, noon PST: Full paper submission Tuesday February 17, 2004, noon PST: Student paper certification Thursday April 8, 2004, noon PST: Author notification of accepted papers Thursday April 29, 2004, noon PST: Camera ready copy of accepted papers These deadlines will be strictly enforced (but may change slightly!). Conference Organization: Please direct general inquiries to the General Conference Chair at meek@microsoft.com. Inquiries about the conference program and submission requirements should be directed to the Program Co-Chairs at uai04-pchairs@cs.cornell.edu. ------------------------------ From: "ECML/PKDD 2004 Announcement" Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004: Preliminary Call for Papers Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:57:49 +0100 Preliminary Call for Papers ECML/PKDD-2004 Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004 http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it ecmlpkdd@isti.cnr.it The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) will be co-located in Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004. The combined event will comprise presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials, a demo session, and a discovery challenge. Important dates - Submission deadline: Monday April 19, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: Monday June 7, 2004 - Camera-ready copies due: Monday June 28, 2004 - Conferences: Monday September 20 through Friday September 24, 2004 Paper submission High quality research contributions pertinent to any aspects of machine learning and knowledge discovery are called for, ranging from principles to practice; particular attention will be paid to papers describing innovative, challenging applications. There will be a single electronic submission procedure, where authors should indicate whether they submit their paper to ECML, PKDD, or both. In the latter case, the topic of the joint submission must be within the scope of both conferences; accepted joint submissions will be assigned to the most appropriate of the conferences. Student submissions should be clearly indicated on the submission form. All submissions will be reviewed by the respective program committees. The papers must be in English and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.  The maximum length of papers is 12 pages. The proceedings of ECML and PKDD will be published as two separate volumes by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series and will be available at the conference. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are allowed, provided this fact is clearly indicated on the submission form. Simultaneous submissions that are not clearly specified as such will be rejected. Accepted papers will appear in the ECML/PKDD conference proceedings only if they are withdrawn from proceedings of other conferences. Best Paper Awards KDNet and Kluwer will honour the best papers and the best student papers with awards. The awards will be based on the significance and originality of the contributions. ECML Call for Papers The European Conference on Machine Learning series intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in machine learning and is the major European scientific event in the field. Submissions of papers that describe the application of machine learning methods to real-world problems are encouraged, particularly exploratory research that describes novel learning tasks and applications requiring non-standard techniques. Submissions that demonstrate both theoretical and empirical rigor are especially encouraged. Topics of interest (non-exhaustive list): - artificial neural networks - Bayesian networks - case-based reasoning - computational models of human learning - computational learning theory - cooperative learning - decision trees - discovery of scientific laws - evolutionary computation - grammatical inference - incremental induction and on-line learning - inductive logic programming - information retrieval and learning - instance based learning - kernel methods - knowledge acquisition and learning - knowledge base refinement - knowledge intensive learning - machine learning of natural language - meta learning - multi-agent learning - multi-strategy learning - planning and learning - reinforcement learning - revision and restructuring - statistical approaches - unsupervised learning - vision and learning PKDD Call for Papers Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) is the ability to extract useful patterns from large amounts of data stored in databases, data warehouses or other information repositories. KDD is a combination of many research areas: databases, statistics, machine learning, automated scientific discovery, artificial intelligence, visualization, and high performance computing. KDD focuses on the value that is added by the creative combination of the contributing areas. The European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases series intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in KDD and is the major European scientific event in the field. Submissions are invited that describe empirical and theoretical research in all areas of KDD, as well as submissions that describe challenging applications of KDD. Topics of interest (non-exhaustive list): Algorithms and techniques - classification - clustering - frequent patterns - rule discovery - statistical techniques and mixture models - constraint-based mining - incremental algorithms - scalable algorithms - distributed and parallel algorithms - privacy preserving data mining - multi-relational data mining Data mining and databases - database integration - OLAP and data warehouse integration - data mining query languages - data mining query optimization Data pre-processing - dimensionality reduction - data reduction - discretization - uncertain and missing information handling Foundations of data mining - complexity issues - inductive databases - knowledge (pattern) representation - global vs. local patterns - logic for data mining - statistical inference and probabilistic modelling Innovative applications - mining bio-medical data - web content, structure and usage mining - semantic web mining - mining governmental data, mining for the public administration - personalization - adaptive data mining architectures - invisible data mining KDD process and process-centric data mining - models of the KDD process - standards for the KDD process - background knowledge integration - collaborative data mining - vertical data mining environments Mining different forms of data - graph, tree, sequence mining - semi-structured and XML data mining - text mining - temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal data mining - data stream mining - multimedia mining Pattern post-processing - quality assessment - visualization - knowledge interpretation and use For more information, visit http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it ------------------------------ From: Conference Ai Subject: AI'2004 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:10:38 -0500 (EST) AI'2004: The Seventeenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Call for Papers AI'2004 The Seventeenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in conjunction with the Graphics Interface GI'2004 and Computer and Robot Vision CRV'2004 (formerly known as Vision Interface VI'2004). Conference participants who register for any one conference can attend all three conferences. Invited speakers Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto Michael L. Littman, Rutgers University Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University AI'2004 invites papers that present original work in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied, including, but not limited to: Knowledge Representation Automated Reasoning Search Constraint Satisfaction Natural Language Planning Machine Learning Neural Nets and Evolutional Computing Reasoning under Uncertainty Data Mining Robotics Agent and Multiagent Systems User Modeling AI and Smart Graphics AI and E-Commerce AI and Information Processing AI and Bioinformatics AI and Web Applications AI and Education AI in Games AI and Manufacturing Papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee members and judged according to their originality, technical merit and clarity of presentation. Papers will be accepted according to two categories: full papers or poster papers (with less number of pages allotted in the proceedings). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence - Springer-Verlag. A best paper will be awarded at the conference. Submissions Authors are invited to submit full papers in PDF, Postscript or MS-Word RTF electronically* at the conference web site (http://cs.uwindsor.ca/~ai04/). Papers of up to 15 pages in length must be formatted according to Springer LNCS style. Use of the LaTeX2e style file available from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html is strongly encouraged. Important dates Abstract submission due: December 3rd, 2003 Full paper submission due: December 10th,2003 Notification of acceptance: February 10th, 2004 Final paper due: March 7th,2004 Authors who have difficulty submitting abstracts through the web site may alternatively send a plain text message to ai04@cs.uwindsor.ca with subject header AI2004 Abstract, indicating the paper's title, authors, authors addresses, abstract, and topic areas, as well as the e-mail address of the contact author. Authors who have difficulty submitting the full paper through web site may submit the PDF, (compressed) POSTSCRIPT or WORD file to ai04@cs.uwindsor.ca with subject header AI2004 Submission xxx, where xxx is the password assigned during abstract submission. Final versions of papers accepted for full presentation will be 15 pages and papers accepted for poster presentation will be 5 pages. Up to two additional pages may be allotted at a page charge of CDN $ 50. Conference Chair Kay Wiese, Simon Fraser University Local Organizer Bob Mercer, University of Western Ontario Program Co-Chairs Scott Goodwin & Ahmed Tawfik University of Windsor For more information, visit http://cs.uwindsor.ca/~ai04/ ------------------------------ From: Daniel Midgley Subject: Preliminary CFP: Student Research Workshop at ACL-04 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:24:56 +0800 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Student Research Workshop at ACL-04 http://www.acl2004.org July 21-26, 2004 Barcelona, Spain 1. General Invitation for Submissions The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback both from the general audience and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. One paper will be selected for the ACL-04 Student Research Workshop Best Paper Award. We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. As the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis is on work in progress. Original and unpublished research is therefore invited on all aspects of computational linguistics including, but not limited to, these topic areas: *pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon *phonetics, phonology and morphology *linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language *information retrieval, information extraction, question answering *summarization and paraphrasing *speech recognition, speech synthesis *corpus-based language modeling *multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids *spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems *multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems *message and narrative understanding systems The main conference also features tutorials, workshops, and demos. More information on these can be found at the main ACL-04 page, http://www.acl2004.org. 2. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work, still in progress. Submission will therefore normally be open only to students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still have significant research left to do; those students in the final stages of their thesis should consider submitting instead to the main conference. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The papers may have more than one author; however, all authors MUST be students. Please note: a paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this under identification information (see submission guidelines below). Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session may not present at a student session again, but are encouraged to submit to the main conference instead. 3. Submission Procedure Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be available from the web pages of ACL-04 and the student research workshop. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. Submission must be electronic. The following formats are acceptable: PostScript (.ps), Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf), Microsoft Word ACL style (.doc) and PDF (.pdf). The electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the following e-mail address: acl04-student@list.cs.brown.edu. In the body of the e-mail, please include the following identification information: *Title: *Author(s) name(s), affiliation, and e-mail addresses *Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas, see list above) *Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area *Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify) *Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) In addition, we ask you to submit a CV, or a letter from your advisor indicating that you meet the submission requirements specified in Section 2. 4. Reviewing Procedure Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this "We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ..." use citations such as "Smith (2001) previously showed ..." 5. Schedule Submissions must be received by March 8th, 2004. Late submissions will be automatically disqualified. Acknowledgment will be e-mailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by e-mail) on April 26th, 2004. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Important Dates: Paper submissions deadline: March 8th, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 26th, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 25th, 2004 6. Travel Grants Some funding will be available for students attending the conference. Student presenters will be given first priority in the evaluation of travel grant applications. For more information about travel grants, please contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop. 7. Contact Information If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: acl04-student@list.cs.brown.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs. For more information, visit http://www.acl2004.org ------------------------------ From: Yoram Singer Subject: COLT 2004 Call for papers Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:11:40 +0200 CALL FOR PAPERS Conference On Learning Theory (COLT 04) Banff, Canada July 1 - 4, 2004 http://learningtheory.org/colt2004 The Seventeenth Annual COLT (Conference on Learning Theory, formerly Workshop on Computational Learning Theory) will be held with ICML and UAI in Banff, Canada (see http://www.banff04.org). We invite submissions of papers addressing the theoretical modeling and analysis of all aspects of learning and empirical inference. We strongly support a broad definition of learning theory, including analysis of learning algorithms and their generalization ability, computational complexity of learning, Bayesian analysis, statistical mechanics of learning systems, optimisation procedures for learning, inductive inference, Boolean function learning, inductive logic programming, learning in planning and control, on-line learning and relative loss bounds. We welcome theoretical papers about learning that do not fit into the above categories. We are particularly interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new to the COLT community. While the primary focus of the conference is theoretical, papers can be strengthened by the inclusion of relevant experimental results. We also welcome experimental and algorithmic papers provided they are relevant to the focus of the conference by elucidating theoretical results in learning. The last morning of the conference will be reserved for a kernel methods session, linking with a similar session that will start the ICML conference on the afternoon of the same day. Papers making contributions in the area of kernel methods are welcomed: the choice of conference should be made according to the suitability of the paper. Authors should indicate if their paper is intended for the kernel methods session. All papers will appear in the proceedings, to be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). The proceedings will appear both as a printed book and in a full-text electronic version, thus we require electronic submissions. All papers will receive the same amount of space in the proceedings. Papers that have previously appeared in journals or at other conferences, or that are being submitted to other conferences are not appropriate for COLT. PAPER FORMAT: Submissions should include the title, authors' names, postal and email addresses, indication if the paper is intended for the kernel methods section and a 200-word summary of the paper suitable for the conference program. They should be no longer than 15 pages using the Springer LNCS style file (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Your paper should include a clear definition of the theoretical model used and a clear description of the results, as well as a discussion of their significance, including comparison to other work. Submit papers electronically in pdf or ps format (for details see conference website). OPEN PROBLEMS SESSION: We also invite submission of open problems. These should be constrained to two pages using the same formatting as for the full papers. There is a shorter reviewing period for the open problems. Accepted contributions will be allocated short presentation slots in a special open problems session and will be allowed two pages each in the proceedings. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: John Shawe-Taylor (Univ. of Southampton) and Yoram Singer (Hebrew Univ.) STUDENT TRAVEL: We anticipate that some funds will be available to partially support travel by student authors. Eligible authors who wish to apply for travel support should indicate this on their submission's title page. MARK FULK AND MLJ AWARDS: This awards are for the best paper authored or coauthored by a student. Eligible authors who wish to be considered for these prizes should indicate this on their submission's title page. DATES: Electronic submission of papers February 24 Electronic submission of two-page open problems April 2 Notification of acceptance or rejection April 16 Final submission of all papers (incl. LaTex files) April 27 Conference registration See website Conference dates July 1-4, 2004 ------------------------------ From: STAIRS04PC Subject: CfP - STAIRS 2004 - 2nd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 14:53:15 +0100 STAIRS 2004 2nd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium General Information STAIRS'2004 is the second European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, an international meeting aimed at AI researchers, from all countries, at the beginning of their career: PhD students or people holding a PhD for less than one year. STAIRS'04 will be held jointly with ECAI'04 in Valencia, Spain, on August 23rd and 24th. The Symposium will be hosted by the "Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (DSIC) of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia". STAIRS'04 offers doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI students: - a first experience on submitting and presenting a paper in an international forum with a broad scope and thorough selection process - the opportunity to gather knowledge and exchange ideas related to their research problems and approaches - information on European research careers and mobility Important dates Title and abstract due to the PC co-chairs: April 1, 2004 Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2004 Notification of acceptance sent to authors: May 21, 2004 Final paper due: June 4, 2004 Symposium venue: August 23-24, 2004 Topics Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to: Autonomous agents Case-Based Reasoning Constraints Data Mining Distributed AI Genetic Algorithms Information Retrieval Intelligent User Interfaces Knowledge Discovery Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Machine Learning Multi-Agent Systems Natural Language Neural Networks Ontology Planning and Scheduling Real-time AI and Control Robotics Search Temporal Reasoning Paper Submission Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit to the STAIRS'04 co-chairs (see below) a brief summary of their paper by Thursday, April 1, 2004, followed by their full paper by Wednesday, April 7, 2004 (23:59 CET). The strongly preferred submission method for summaries and full papers is to use the web-based 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 STAIRS'04 PC co-chairs. Only PDF files will be accepted. Electronic or hardcopy submissions may also be made if web-based submission is problematic for the authors. Guidelines on the format of submissions will be available on the STAIRS 2004 Formatting Guidelines page: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/stairs2004/cfp/style.html. The deadline for receipt is 7 April 2004 for both electronic and hardcopy submissions. Paper received after that date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Review process Papers should address significant research works undertaken by the authors. At least one of the authors must be a PhD student, or a person holding a PhD for less than a year. Preference will be given to papers whose authors are all in such condition. All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the STAIRS'04 Program Committee. The papers will undergo an anonymous reviewing process. Each paper will be assigned at least two reviewers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Multiple submission policy: Multiple submissions with ECAI is allowed if this is clearly indicated on a front page preceding the paper itself. In borderline cases single submissions will be preferred over multiple submissions. In case of multiple acceptance the author(s) are strictly required to withdraw their paper from all but one event. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be emailed to the corresponding author by May 21, 2004. Conference Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the STAIRS'04 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is June 4, 2004. For each accepted paper, at least one author, and most preferably one of the beginner researchers involved in the work, is required to attend the conference to present the paper. All the details of the submission process as long as the submission guidelines, social events, review process, etc. will appear in the Conference Web Pages at URL: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/stairs04 For more information, please see: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/stairs04 ------------------------------ From: Richard Watson Subject: CFP: Artificial Life IX Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:56:14 -0500 (EST) Call for Papers ARTIFICIAL LIFE IX The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems Boston, USA, 12-15 September 2004 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JAN 30th 2004 http://www.alife9.org Artificial life is the interdisciplinary enterprise investigating the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media. The Artificial Life IX conference will showcase the best current work in this area of research, highlight promising new avenues of investigation, provide leading edge workshops, and present top keynote speakers. All authors of conference papers are encouraged to explain how their work sheds light on the fundamental properties of living systems and makes progress on important open questions. Paper submissions (6 pages single spaced) are welcome in all areas of the field, including: * Origin of life, self-organization, self-replication, artificial chemistries * Development and differentiation * Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics, evolutionary games, coevolution * Applications of ALife technologies * Robots and agents, evolutionary robotics * Communication, cooperation and collective behavior * Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies * Mathematical and philosophical foundations and implications of ALife * New and creative syntheses in ALife Both oral and poster presentations will be published in a single volume by MIT Press. ALife 9 will also include a series of workshops and tutorials, which you are invited to propose. The conference web page, www.alife9.org, will provide the most current information about the meeting and venue. Conference Chair: Dr. Jordan Pollack (Brandeis University) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Dr. Mark Bedau (Reed College), Dr. Phil Husbands (Sussex University), Dr. Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo), Dr. Richard Watson (Harvard University) Conference Secretariat: Ms. Myrna Fox (Brandeis University) Questions, concerns, and inquiries see http://www.alife9.org/contact.htm, or email secy@alife9.org, or phone (781) 736-2700. ------------------------------ From: Russ Greiner Subject: Int'l Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-04) [Summary] Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:55:04 -0700 The 21st International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-04) 4-8 July 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada This note summarizes the events and deadlines associated with the next ICML conference (July 2004). For more details, please consult the conference website http://www.banff04.org/icml/ . LOCATION AND PROGRAM The Twenty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2004) will be held in Banff Alberta Canada, 4-8 July 2004. ICML-2004 will be co-located with COLT-2004 (1-4 July) and UAI-2004 (8-11 July) at the Banff Park Lodge (http://www.banffparklodge.com). On July 4, there will be a joint Kernel Day featuring regular papers from both ICML and COLT on kernel-based learning methods. ICML Tutorials are planned for 4 July, and ICML Workshops are planned for 8 July. UPCOMING DEADLINES 19/Dec/03 Workshop Proposals due 30/Jan/04 Paper abstracts due 03/Feb/04 Paper papers due 13/Feb/04 Tutorial proposals due 24/Mar/04 Paper author notifications sent 21/Apr/04 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due ORGANIZATION Conference Chair : Carla Brodley, Purdue University Program Co-Chairs: Russell Greiner, University of Alberta Dale Schuurmans, University of Alberta ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information see http://www.banff04.org/icml or contact icml04@cs.ualberta.ca. ------------------------------ From: Menno van Zaanen To: Menno van Zaanen Subject: [ICGI] ICGI-2004 Call for papers ICGI-2004 CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference emphasizing on Innovative Applications NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece October 11 - 13, 2004 http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04/ icgi04@iit.demokritos.gr SCOPE ICGI-2004 is the seventh in a series of successful biennial international conferences in the area of grammatical inference. The emphasis of this year's conference is on innovative applications of grammatical inference. Grammatical inference has been extensively addressed by researchers in information theory, automata theory, language acquisition, computational linguistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational learning theory and neural networks. AREAS OF INTEREST The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of original research papers on all aspects of grammatical inference including, but not limited to: - Different models of grammar induction: e.g., learning from examples, learning using examples and queries, incremental versus non-incremental learning, distribution-free models of learning, learning under various distributional assumptions, learnability results, complexity results, characterizations of representational and search biases of grammar induction algorithms. - Algorithms for induction of different classes of languages and automata: e.g., regular, context-free, and context-sensitive languages, interesting subclasses of the above under additional syntactic constraints, tree and graph grammars, picture grammars, multidimensional grammars, attributed grammars, parameterized models, etc. - Theoretical and experimental analysis of different approaches to grammar induction including artificial neural networks, statistical methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches, minimum description length, complexity-theoretic approaches, heuristic methods, etc. - Broader perspectives on grammar induction, e.g. acquisition of grammar in conjunction with language semantics, semantic constraints on grammars, language acquisition by situated agents and robots, acquisition of language constructs that describe objects and events in space and time, developmental and evolutionary constraints on language acquisition, statistical modelling of natural language, etc. Particular emphasis will be given to papers presenting work on innovative applications of grammar induction in natural language acquisition, computational biology, Web mining, structural pattern recognition, information retrieval, text processing, adaptive intelligent agents, systems modelling and control, and other domains. LOCATION AND ORGANISATION ICGI-2004 will be held in Athens. Athens (http://www.cityofathens.gr/) the capital of Greece, is a city of long and rich history. Being the birthplace of democracy and modern Olympic Games (http://www.athens2004.gr/), it has a lot to offer in terms of history, culture and social life. Greece's geographical location makes Athens via its International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (http://www.aia.gr/) easily accessible for visitors from all corners of the world. Athens International Airport is located about 35 minutes away from Athens, accessible by cab or public transportation. The conference will be located in the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) Demokritos (http://www.demokritos.gr/), Athens, Greece. NCSR "Demokritos" is the largest self-governing research organisation, under the supervision of the Ministry of Development of the Greek Government. It is a multidisciplinary centre, comprising 8 Institutes that cover a wide area of science, ranging from informatics microelectronics to biology and nuclear technology. The Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/) has the main responsibility for the organisation of the conference. ICGI-2004 is organised under the auspices of ICGI, the International Committee on Grammatical Inference (http://eurise.univ-st-etienne.fr/gi/), and EETN, the Hellenic Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://ww.eetn.gr/). CONFERENCE FORMAT The conference will include plenary and invited talks, software demonstrations and possibly poster presentations of accepted papers and tutorials. A special session will be devoted to the results of a competition on Learning Context Free Grammars from Positive examples. All plenary and invited papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings of ICGI-2004 will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a subseries of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit a draft paper in English with the following format. The cover page should specify: submission to ICGI-2004, title, authors and affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the contact author, a brief abstract describing the work, at least three keywords which can specify typically the contents of the work. Postscript versions of the papers should be formatted according to A4 or 8.5"x11", and the length should not exceed 12 pages excluding the cover page. The technical expositions should be directed to a specialist and should include an introduction understandable to a non specialist that describes the problem studied and the results achieved, focusing on the important ideas and their significance. All paper submissions, review and notification of acceptance will be done electronically through the conference's WWW pages http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04. The submission process is supported by Cyberchair (http://www.cyberchair.org/). DEADLINES Submission of manuscripts: May 22, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2004 Final version of manuscript: July 15, 2004 For more information, visit http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/icgi04 ------------------------------ From: Lukasz Kurgan Subject: CFP: NAFIPS-04 conference Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:33:47 -0700 NAFIPS-04 Call for Papers Fuzzy Sets in the Heart of Canadian Rockies Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 27-30, 2004 http://www.nafips04.ualberta.ca/ Sponsored by IEEE, University of Alberta, Alberta Innovation and Science, ASERC, iCORE, and National Research Council of Canada. AIMS AND SCOPE NAFIPS-04 aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in the area of fuzzy information processing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, to consider potential future directions. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Fuzzy sets methodology/Algorithms/Mathematics Neurofuzzy systems/Evolutionary optimization/Hybrid architectures Computational Intelligence/Learning Adaptive systems/Uncertainty management Fuzzy modeling/Intelligent data analysis Control/Robotics/Computer vision Pattern recognition/Image processing Bioinformatics/Software engineering/Intelligent agents Data mining/Databases/Human-centric interfaces/Visualization Applications/Computational experiments/Case studies SPECIAL TOPIC SESSIONS Proposals for special sessions focusing on fundamental theories and innovative applications of fuzzy sets are welcome. Submission of proposals to General Chair should include a short description of the session, its relevance to NAFIPS-04, and a list of potential contributors. Special sessions will be open to all participants. BEST STUDENT PAPER CONTEST To identify and recognize outstanding student research, the best student papers will be recognized with a special award. To qualify, a student or a group of students must be the primary author(s) of the paper. The papers will be judged based on both manuscript content and presentation. Awards will be presented at the banquet. IMPORTANT DATES Special Topic Session proposals due: January 6, 2004 Paper Abstracts due: February 2, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: February 23, 2004 Final Papers and Early Registration: March 22, 2004 Please check the following web site for up-to-date information: http://www.nafips04.ualberta.ca/ ------------------------------ From: "Orhan Karaali" Subject: SVM and neural network research position Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:07:20 -0500 ADVANCED INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC. www.aipllc.com Advanced Investment Partners, LLC. (AIP) is a registered investment advisor based in Clearwater, Florida focusing on institutional domestic equity asset management. Our partners include Boston-based State Street Global Advisors, a global leader in institutional financial services, and Amsterdam-based Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, one of the world's largest pension plans. AIP's reputation as an innovative entrepreneur within the asset management community is built upon the research and development of non-linear quantitative stock valuation techniques for which a patent was issued in 1998. POSITION: RESEARCH SCIENTIST This position will involve enhancing AIP's financial valuation algorithms for stock selection and portfolio management. Job responsibilities include applying new machine learning and regression algorithms, writing new algorithms, developing new factors, contributing to financial and algorithmic research projects, developing applications in the areas of multifactor stock models. AIP uses Windows XP and 2003 Server; Visual Studio Net; MS SQL 2000; C++ STL; C#; OLE DB; XML; COM+, and parallel processing technologies. Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D. or Masters Degree in CS, EE, Computer Engineering, or Mathematics. Thesis or Dissertation concentration in SVM. Understanding of neural networks and regression algorithms. Strong C++ background. Bonus Qualifications: Familiarity with stock market. Knowledge of SQL and STL. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package. US citizenship or US permanent resident status is required. To apply, please mail your resume to: Attn: Orhan Karaali 311 Park Place Blvd. Suite 250 Clearwater, FL 33759 ------------------------------ From: "Thomas G. Dietterich" Subject: Post-doc in Machine Learning at Oregon State University Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:01:03 -0800 I'm looking for a post-doc to work on a project that seeks to apply prior, qualitative knowledge for formulate and solve machine learning problems. Our goal is to learn quickly from small samples by exploiting prior knowledge. Application problems involve intelligent user interfaces and modeling the spread of West Nile Virus. Funding is available for the first year with 2 more years possible. Oregon State University School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Research Associate position starting January 2004. Required qualifications include a Ph.D. in computer science or related field. Experience in artificial intelligence research as evidenced by having at least two research publications in the following areas: machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation and reasoning, search, intelligent user interfaces, or intelligent personal assistants. Experience in at least two of the following areas: knowledge representation in a logical framework, knowledge representation in a probabilistic framework, inference in logical frameworks, inference in probabilistic frameworks, or machine learning application work. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent software engineering skills, excitement about computer science research, and the ability to manage graduate and undergraduate students working on research projects. Position is full-time, 12 month, fixed term with reappointment at the discretion of the hiring official. For full consideration, applications must be received by 12/05/03. Send resume, letter of interest, evidence of 2 publications in artificial intelligence and 3 professional references w/address, phone # to: Research Associate Search, 220 Owen Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-3211. For full position announcement see: (http://oregonstate.edu/admin/hr/jobs/academic/008-438.html), other inquires contact Thomas G. Dietterich (tgd@cs.orst.edu). OSU is an AA/EOE. Thomas G. Dietterich, Professor Voice: 541-737-5559 School of Electrical Engineering FAX: 541-737-3014 and Computer Science URL: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~tgd Dearborn Hall 102, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3102 ------------------------------ From: David Poole Subject: Faculty positions at UBC Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:12:49 -0800 The Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia is looking for outstanding candidates for a faculty position in machine learning and computational statistics (broadly construed). See http://www.cs.ubc.ca/career/Faculty/index.html UBC has a dynamic department in Vancouver, which is a great place to live. For more details on the department see http://www.cs.ubc.ca/ Note that this position is in addition to a corresponding position in the Department of Statistics. See: http://www.stat.ubc.ca/jobs/CRC_Sept_2003_approved.html If you have any questions about this position, don't hesitate to ask. David -- David Poole, Office: +1 (604) 822-6254 Professor, Fax: +1 (604) 822-5485 Department of Computer Science, poole@cs.ubc.ca University of British Columbia, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/poole Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/ftp/local/poole ------------------------------ From: "Thomas G. Dietterich" Subject: Ph.D. Fellowships in Ecosystem Informatics (IGERT) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:58:22 -0800 Oregon State University is initiating a new PhD program in Ecosystem Informatics that combines research in computer science, mathematics, and ecosystem sciences. Graduate students in this program work in cross-disciplinary teams to solve fundamental and applied research programs in ecosystem science areas. The program begins with a 2-week orientation at OSU's Andrews Experimental Forest in late summer. This includes one week of field work and one week of data analysis and modeling, as well as an opportunity to get to know the faculty and students in the program. All students in the program participate in a one-year core course that introduces the scientific and technological challenges of ecosystem science and advanced computer science methods. Students are expected to do a 3-6 month internship with a national or international organization. Several organizations around the world have agreed to host interns from our program (all internship expenses are paid). We are seeking students interested in the following computer science areas: (1) software engineering for supporting ecological modeling including model construction, experimentation, and validation, (2) mathematical methods for modeling complex ecosystems, (3) spatio-temporal database systems, (4) management of diverse ecological databases including data discovery via the semantic web, (5) machine learning, data mining, and pattern recognition with applications to ecological modeling, change detection, and novel instrumentation for ecological science. Generous fellowships for qualified Ph.D. students are funded by the NSF IGERT (Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training) program. To qualify, students must be (1) US citizens or permanent residents, (2) accepted into a Ph.D. program in one of the six departments at OSU that are participating in the IGERT, and (3) have proposed a research and study plan consistent with the goals of this IGERT. The six departments are BioEngineering, Computer Science, Fisheries and Wildlife, Forest Science, Geosciences, and Mathematics. For more information, contact Prof. Tom Dietterich (tgd@cs.orst.edu). -- Thomas G. Dietterich, Professor Voice: 541-737-5559 School of Electrical Engineering FAX: 541-737-3014 and Computer Science URL: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~tgd Dearborn Hall 102, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3102 ------------------------------ From: williams@tristan.anu.edu.au (Bob Williamson) Subject: Senior and Junior Researcher Positions in Machine Learning Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:40:11 +1100 (EST) Senior and Junior Research Positions in Machine Learning (4 positions) Canberra, Australia National ICT Australia (NICTA) is a newly formed research institute based in Canberra and Sydney focussing on Information and Communication Technology. Details of the centre can be found on its website http://nicta.com.au We are now hiring researchers at all levels from postdoctoral to the equivalent of full professor in machine learning. The junior positions are 3-5 years duration. The senior positions are continuing. All Canberra based NICTA researchers are eligible to have an adjunct position at the Australian National University. There are at least four positions available, at least one at level E (equivalent to full professor). Internationally competitive remuneration is offered. The formal job ad can be found at http://nicta.com.au/jobs/SML_B2.pdf which contains details on how to apply. The closing date is 20 January 2004. .------------------------------------------+-----------------------------. | Professor Robert (Bob) Williamson, // Phone: +61 2 6125 0079 | | Director, Canberra Research Laboratory // Office: +61 2 6125 8801 | | National ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA) // Fax: +61 2 6125 8623 | | Research School of Information // Mobile: +61 2 0405 3877 | | Sciences and Engineering, // Bob.Williamson@anu.edu.au | | Australian National University, // http://nicta.com.au | | Canberra 0200 AUSTRALIA // http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~williams | `-----------------------------------+------------------------------------' ------------------------------ From: "Rosca, Justinian" Subject: Statistical Signal Processing / Machine Learning Research Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:41:39 -0500 I would like to draw your attention to two Research Positions in Statistical Signal Processing and Machine Learning at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ: positions 1098 and 1111 in the Multimedia and Video technology Department. The formal announcements are placed on the SCR web site: http://www.scr.siemens.com/jobs/1098.htm http://www.scr.siemens.com/jobs/1111.htm ------------------------------ From: Patrick Prosser Subject: colocate with ijcai-05 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:23:26 +0000 Co-locate with IJCAI-05 Could your conference take place in Scotland in the week beginning 25th July 2005 or week beginning 8th August 2005? If so, it might be a candidate for co-locating with IJCAI-05. http://www.ijcai05.org/ Why co-locate with IJCAI-05? What possible benefits could there be to your conference co-locating with IJCAI-05? First of all, delegates would be able to attend two conferences with the travel costs of a single conference. This might result in more delegates attending your conference and of course attending IJCAI-05. Also, there are other attractions to Scotland in July and August 2005. There is the Open Golf championship, returning to its home in St. Andrews for 2005 http://www.opengolf.com/ And of course there is the Edinburgh Festivals http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com Maybe delegates will enjoy not only your conference and ours, but take an opportunity to have a wee holiday in bonny Scotland on the way. What could IJCAI-05 do for you? There are a number of potential benefits for a co-locating conference: - IJCAI-05 with include information about your conference in the IJCAI-05 brochure and website - IJCAI-05 local organisation is being done in conjunction with Meeting Makers Ltd http://www.meetingmakers.co.uk/ Meeting Makers may be able to help you with local information and possibly local arrangements - The IJCAI-05 scientific program will have a co-locating conference special track, i.e. a series of 1 hour talks given by representatives of the co-locating conferences. These talks will be top quality scientific talks, reporting the state of the art in your specialised area. Also, relevant members from the co-locating conference will be invited to submit papers to IJCAI-05, for review and possible publication in IJCAI-05 proceedings. What should I do now? If you think your conference could co-locate with IJCAI-05 contact Patrick Prosser (email pat@dcs.gla.ac.uk). ------------------------------ From: Wiebe van der Hoek Subject: New Journal: Knowledge, Rationality and Action Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:56:48 +0000 (GMT) We like to draw your attention to a new journal Knowledge, Rationality and Action, which will be published as a special section of Synthese. Moreover, the two issues of 2004 will appear also as an affordable Kluwer book. The aim of the section is to provide a platform for researchers in a formal approach to the process comprising rational behaviour: from gathering and representing information, via reasoning and decision making up to acting. More information is attached. Submissions to the journal are welcome at www.editorialmanager.com/synt Word and pdf-files with the information are also available via http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/ If you require more information, please refer to Wiebe van der Hoek Editor in Chief wiebe@csc.liv.ac.uk ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 15, No. 21 ************************************