Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 5 Saturday, March 6, 2004 Contents Calls for Papers/Participation NASLLI Student Session CFP ACM GIS 2004 BASYS'2004 - Track D: Machine learning and data mining in industry Intl Wshp: Environmental Applications of Machine Learning Other Meeting Announcements CEC2004 registration now activated KDD2004 Call for Panels Symposium on Reasoning and Learning: CFParticipation ECML/PKDD 2004 Discovery Challenge CfP Career Opportunities AI Opportunities with the MITRE Corporation Research Scientist (Siemens Medical Solutions) Miscellaneous Announcements Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval 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: Greg Kobele Subject: NASLLI Student Session CFP Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:15:56 -0800 CALL FOR PAPERS NASSLLI 2004 STUDENT SESSION June 21-25, 2004 UCLA Deadline: April 12, 2004 http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/nassllii04/ MEETING DESCRIPTION: The 3rd North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) will be held June 21-25, 2004. It will again feature a Student Session where students can network and get feedback on their work -- both from faculty and student attendees. This CFP solicits submissions to the student session. We invite submission of anonymous abstracts for a 20-minute presentation plus 10-minute discussion. Only one individual or joint abstract per author will be accepted. All authors must be students (before receipt of PhD). The areas of interest are Logic -- including work on problems of mathematical or philosophical interest Language -- including descriptive or theoretical work in formal linguistics Language and Logic -- applications of logic to natural language Language and Computation -- theoretical and empirical work in computational linguistics Logic and Computation -- automated theorem-proving and related fields Computation -- artificial intelligence or related areas of computer science Work integrating several of these areas is of particular interest. Requirements The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work that has been completed. However, no previously published papers should be submitted. All authors must be at the pre-doctoral level; submissions co-authored by non-students will be discarded. Format of Submission 3 page extended abstracts are to be submitted by email as Adobe Portable Document Files (PDF). This file must include a separate identification page including the following pieces of information: Title: title of the submission First author: firstname lastname Address: address of the first author ...... Last author: firstname lastname Address: address of the last author Short summary: abstract (5 lines) Subject area (one or two of): Logic | Language | Computation Other Conferences Submitted To: Neither this identification page, nor any bibliography counts towards the 3 page requirement. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the extended abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Hi-Mom, 1996)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like "Hi-Mom (1996) previously showed..." The PDF of the paper is to be enclosed in an email duplicating the information on the identification page. Use US Letter paper and LaTeX if possible. Please email submissions to Greg Kobele by APRIL 12th 2004. NASSLLI '04 At least one author needs to register for NASSLLI '04 in order to be in the student session. One of the authors will give a 20-minute talk with up to 10 minutes for discussion. Dates Deadline for submission of 3 page abstracts : April 12th, 2004 Author notifications : May 1st, 2004 NASSLLI-2004 Student Session : June 21-25, 2004. Student Session Reviewers - Roman Bart=E1k, Charles University, Prague - Brian Roark, AT&T Labs - John Hale, Michigan State University - Christopher Potts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Robert van Rooy, University of Amsterdam - Jason Riggle, University of California, Los Angeles Please direct any questions about the NASSLI-04 student session to Greg Kobele ------------------------------ From: Robert Laurini Subject: ACM GIS 2004 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:39:44 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS 12th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems ACM GIS 2004 The 12th International Symposium of ACM GIS will take place in Washington D.C. on November 12-13th, 2004. It is the twelfth of a series of symposia/workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of geographic information systems. The symposium will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of GIS. ACM GIS 2004 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2004). Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - Computational geometry - Middleware architectures - Data mining - Mobile and distributed computing - Data modeling - Multiple representations - Data quality - Novel and challenging applications - Geosensor networks - Performance evaluation and - Geospatial data versioning Benchmarking - Wireless networks - Query processing and optimization - Graphical aspects - Real-time spatio-temporal applications - Image databases - Similarity search - Interoperability and standards - Spatial and spatiotemporal indexing (incl. metadata and ontologies) - Spatial reasoning - Languages for metadata management - Traffic telematics - Large-scale servers - Virtual reality and 3D - Location-based services - Visual query languages - Management of raster and vector data - Web applications Authors are invited to submit full papers (in English, not exceeding 5000 words) reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and other related topics are solicited. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. All questions should be addressed to the program committee co-chairs. The program committee co-chairs: Isabel F. Cruz University of Chicago, USA (ifc@cs.uic.edu) Dieter Pfoser Computer Technology Institute, Athens, Greece (pfoser@cti.gr) Important dates (all deadlines are firm): Abstract Submission: May 17, 2004 Full Paper Submission: May 24, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2004 Camera-ready version: September 1, 2004 Symposium Date: November 12-13, 2004 The official conference website at http://acmgis2004.cti.gr should be referred to for further details. ------------------------------ From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Seabra_Lopes?= Subject: BASYS'2004 - Track D: Machine learning and data mining in industry Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:52:36 -0000 CALL FOR PAPERS BASYS'04 6th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing and Services http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/basys2004/ Track D: Machine learning and data mining in industry Vienna, Austria 27-29 September 2004 SCOPE BASYS'04 will address Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing and Services. The focus of the conference will be to explore new challenges faced by the integration of Knowledge and Technology as major drivers for business changes considering Product and Services Life Cycles. BASYS'04 is the 6th of a series of conferences devoted to the advances of IT in the context of balanced integration of automation and human involvement in manufacturing and services. Creating appropriate frameworks for exploring the best synergies between humans and automated systems represents an enormous challenge in terms of processes characterization, modelling, and development of adequate support tools. Previous conferences took place in Victoria, Brazil (1995), Lisbon, Portugal (1996), Prague, Czech Republic (1998), Berlin, Germany (2000), and Cancun, Mexico (2002). TRACK D TOPICS Data mining and decision support Text mining and link analysis Processes and tools Collaborative data mining Pre-processing for machine learning and data mining Machine learning in distributed environments Application cases DEADLINES - Abstracts submission: 31 Jan 04 - Full paper submission: 5 Mar 04 - Acceptance notice: 31 Apr 04 - Camera ready submission: 21 May 04 Acceptance of papers is based on the full paper (up to 8 pages). Each paper will be evaluated by three members of the International Program Committee. However, prospective authors should submit a short abstract in advance, in order to check if the proposed topic fits within the conference scope. Address for submission: cam@uninova.pt Proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. TECHNICAL SPONSORS IFIP WG 5.5 COVE Austrian Computer Society Holonic Manufacturing Systems Consortium ------------------------------ From: Saso Dzeroski Subject: Intl Wshp: Environmental Applications of Machine Learning Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:38:10 +0100 EAML-04, The Fourth International Workshop on Environmental Applications of Machine Learning will take place in Bled, Slovenia, September 27 - 29. The deadline for submitting two-page abstracts is March 20. More information on the event can be found at the web site: http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ECEMEAML04/eaml.html ------------------------------ From: Eugene Eberbach Subject: CEC2004 registration now activated Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:28:06 -0500 Colleagues: You can now register for CEC2004. Just go to the main web page at http://cec2004.org and follow the registration links. You can also register for the hotel at the same time. Information is on the web page for those needing an invitation letter to get a U.S. visa. We expect to have a really great conference. Over 460 papers were submitted! As we get closer to the conference, we will be adding additional information (e.g., directions to the hotel). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Don't forget early registration ends March 21st! Regards, Garry Greenwood CEC2004 General Chair ------------------------------ From: "Gabor Melli" Subject: KDD2004 Call for Panels Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:39:23 -0800 CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS KDD-2004 THE TENTH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING August 22-25, 2004 Seattle, Washington, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004 Panels Chair: Raghu Ramakrishnan University of Wisconsin-Madison raghu [at] cs.wisc.edu IMPORTANT DATES: Panel proposals due: March 26, 2004 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 21, 2004 Camera-ready panel description due: June 04, 2004 Panel submissions are invited for KDD-2004. KDD is the premiere event for the data mining community, bringing together leading researchers from academia and industry. Panels offer an interactive forum that engages panelists and the audience in lively discussion of important and often controversial issues. Panels should be lively, interactive, informative and relevant. Panels should not be a set of independent talks. The panel chair should facilitate discussion. For example, the chair may challenge panelists with questions after short opening statements. Panel proposals should include: -- Summary of the panel topic -- Name, affiliation, and contact information for the panel chair -- Names and affiliations of up to four panelists (in addition to the panel chair) who have made a commitment to participate -- Brief biography of each participant A mix of industry and academic panel members is encouraged. Panel proposals should be submitted electronically in ASCII format to the Panels Chair, Raghu Ramakrishnan, at raghu [at] cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------ From: Seth Rogers Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004, 18;25:23 -0800 Subject: Symposium on Reasoning and Learning: CFParticipation Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Cognitive Systems Stanford, CA March 20-21, 2004 (Just before the AAAI Spring Symposia) Seth Rogers Pat Langley Dear Colleague, Over the past decade, the field of machine learning has made great strides in developing computational methods for acquiring knowledge from experience. Advances has focused on the problems of classification, involving mainly supervised learning from labeled training cases, and reactive control, dealing mostly with learning from delayed reward. Both areas have seen steady progress on both the theoretical and practical fronts, with many learning techniques now being used regularly in commerce and industry. Unfortunately, this emphasis on classification and control has meant little effort has been devoted to other important facets of cognitive systems. In particular, there has been relatively little work on methods for acquiring knowledge to use in reasoning and problem solving, despite the importance of these tasks to the construction of intelligent systems. What distinguishes humans from animals is not their ability to categorize objects or control actions, but their capacity for chaining together knowledge elements to draw inferences and generate plans. We are holding a meeting that is intended to bring together work on learning in domains that involve multi-step reasoning, such as planning, problem solving, language understanding, design, game playing, and diagnosis. There will be invited talks, a student poster session, catered lunches, and an evening reception. Besides the usual hotels, lodging may be available at the new SLAC Guest House, which has a reasonable price and a shuttle to campus. Please make arrangements yourself at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/hds/SLAC/. There will be no registration fee, thanks to support from NSF and ONR. If you plan to participate, please send me a short description of your interest in the topic. For more information: http://www.isle.org/symposia/reason/ ------------------------------ From: "Petr Berka" Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004 Discovery Challenge CfP Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:24:13 +0100 ECML/PKDD 2004 Discovery Challenge Call for Contributions The Discovery Challenge will be held as a workshop at the 15th ECML + 8th PKDD conference, September 20-24, 2004, Pisa, Italy. Three data sets from medical domain (atherosclerosis, hepatitis, gene expression) are available to prospective participants for download and analysis. The deadline for submissions is June, 14. For more info about the Challenge, visit http://lisp.vse.cz/challenge/ecmlpkdd2004 For more info about the ECML/PKDD2004, visit http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/index.shtml Petr Berka & Bruno Cremilleux Discovery Challenge co-chairs ------------------------------ From: jobs@netrecruiter.net Subject: AI Opportunities with the MITRE Corporation Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:15:15 -0500 Dear Career Professional, Are you looking for a company that will allow you to apply your significant expertise to issues of national importance. Want to collaborate with other subject matter experts in an award-winning, employee-friendly work environment? Perhaps it's time to consider the MITRE Corporation, currently #38 on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For listing. MITRE has recently contracted the services of our DC-based firm, Marsh Paulsen, to identify and screen candidates with active U.S. government-issued security clearances for positions in their headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, for their Intel work in the DC metropolitan area, and for related work outside the continental U.S. MITRE Corporation www.mitre.org is a highly respected, not-for-profit, provider of systems engineering and information technology solutions in support of the US Department of Defense, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Aviation Administration. MITRE's federally funded R&D centers provide objective systems evaluation and acquisition services, systems integration, and IT consulting. Founded in 1958 by a group of former MIT researchers, MITRE also designs reconnaissance systems, provides air traffic management services, and advances enterprise-wide modernization efforts for government agencies. A large percentage of MITRE's work for the DoD and Federal Government community requires high level clearances. This means that employees at a minimum must be U.S. Citizens and also have maintained an active security clearance of Secret or higher. If you are interested in learning more about these specific opportunities, please direct your browser to http://www.marshpaulsen.com/currentreqs.html . We also welcome your referrals or passing this information on to your colleagues and friends. Sincerely, Cris Jon Senior Recruiter Marsh Paulsen Direct: (202) 360-0923 | Fax: 815-461-9176 Email: jon_cris@marshpaulsen.com Jobs List: http://www.marshpaulsen.com/currentreqs.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:31:48 -0500 From: Wakefield-Perna Pat Subject: Research Scientist (Siemens Medical Solutions) RESEARCH SCIENTIST Computer-Aided Diagnosis & Therapy Solutions (CAD) Group Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA The Computer-Aided Diagnosis & Therapy Solutions Group, Siemens Medical Solutions, USA, Inc. is building a world-class R&D team with researchers in machine learning and/or probabilistic inference. We have hired several scientists and continue to grow with multiple, immediate and ongoing, positions for Research Scientists (senior and entry level). Outstanding candidates with the ability to solve challenging medical problems, while continuing to publish in leading journals and conferences will find a stimulating and rewarding career in the CAD Group. In this position, you will conduct leading-edge research in reasoning from incomplete and structured medical patient data, classification of patients/diseases, as well as machine learning for automatically extracting patterns from large amounts of numeric, imaging, text, and symbolic data, combine imaging, clinical, and textual information, and other related areas. Candidates must have significant research background in machine learning (classification) and/or probabilistic inference, with publications in leading conferences / journals. Ideal candidates will have a Ph.D. in CS/EE/Statistics/Applied Math or an engineering discipline with an inter-disciplinary background in machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and/or statistics, with a proven record in research, innovative thinking, real world problem solving, and fast prototyping. Database and/or medical experience is a plus, but not required. Primary areas of interest include: a) All areas of probabilistic inference, Bayesian methods, temporal reasoning & inference, probabilistic graphical models (e.g., Bayes Nets), decision-making under uncertainty, and statistical learning. b) Classification methods from machine learning and statistics, and/or neural networks. Additional areas of interest include feature extraction, mining large databases, predictive modeling, pattern recognition, text mining, databases, natural language processing, information retrieval, time-series analysis and forecasting. (Note: To be considered for this position, you must have a Ph.D., or be graduating fairly soon with a Ph.D. - latest by summer/fall 2004.) Siemens Medical Solutions is located in Malvern, PA. Malvern lies within the Main Line area of the Philadelphia suburbs (with Philly being less than a one hour drive away). We offer a competitive salary and benefits package that reflects our leadership status. For consideration, please follow the link below and apply online. http://careers.peopleclick.com/jobposts/Client40_Siemens/BU1/External/221-10071.htm Please also include a list of publications; recent Ph.D.'s or Ph.D. candidates should also include their thesis abstract. (Kindly indicate how you learned of this job when you reply) Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ------------------------------ From: Subject: Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:13:50 -0500 Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia ISBN: 1-59140-194-1; $79.95 h/c ISBN: 1-59140-277-8; $64.95 s/c eISBN: 1-59140-195-X Publication Date: February, 2004 Imprint: Idea Group Publishing Copyright 2004 There is a large increase in the amount of information available on World Wide Web and also in number of online databases. This information abundance increases the complexity of locating relevant information. Such a complexity drives the need for improved and intelligent systems for search and information retrieval. Intelligent Agents are currently used to improve the search and retrieval information on World Wide Web. The use of existing search and retrieval engines with the addition of intelligent agents allows a more comprehensive search with a performance that can be measured. Intelligent Agents for Mining and Information Retrieval discusses the foundation as well as the practical side of intelligent agents and their theory and applications for web data mining and information retrieval. The book can used for researchers at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels as well as a reference of the state-of-art for cutting edge researchers. Please visit http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=4283 to read more about this scholarly publication and to view an excerpt of this book. ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 16, No. 5 ***********************************