Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 7 Saturday, April 17, 2004 Contents Calls for Papers/Participation ICDL 2004 Call For Papers MLJ special issue ECML/PKDD 2004: Call for demonstrations Other Meeting Announcements ECML/PKDD 2004: deadline extended to April 26, 2004 ILP 2004 CFP KDD-Cup 2004 (pre-announcement) Career Opportunities Research Fellow in learning theory 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: "Tony Jebara" Subject: ICDL 2004 Call For Papers Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:53:52 -0400 ICDL 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 5 2004. THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING SOCIAL BRAINS The Salk Institute October 20-22, 2004 San Diego, California http://icdl.cc The goal of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in neuroscience, machine learning, robotics, and developmental psychology, in order to gain new insights about learning and development in natural organisms and robots. The scope of developmental processes to be considered is broad, including cognitive, social, emotional, and many other skills exhibited by humans, and other animals. The theme of the conference this year will be "Developing Social Brains", but other topics related to development and learning are welcome. PAPER SUBMISSION Submission deadline is May 5 2004. Papers for the meeting can be submitted ONLY through the conference's web site at: http://icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word summary or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages). SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEUROCOMPUTING Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for publication in a special issue of the Neurocomputing Journal, published by Elsevier Science B.V. (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom) REVIEW PROCESS All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Papers will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on the clarity with which the work is described and the relevance to the goals of the conference. All accepted papers not selected for oral talks as well as papers explicitly submitted as poster presentations will be included in one of three evening poster sessions. Authors will be notified of the presentation format of their papers by the beginning of July. For more information please visit http://icdl.cc ------------------------------ From: Hendrik Blockeel Subject: MLJ special issue Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:48:44 +0200 (MEST) MLJ special issue on Multi-relational Data Mining and Statistical Relational Learning - deadlines 6/30 (abstract), 7/31 (paper) See also http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~ml/mrdm-srl.html Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Multi-relational Data Mining and Statistical Relational Learning Call for Papers AIM AND SCOPE: There has been an increasing interest in relational learning and relational data mining during the last few years, as witnessed by, for instance, the IJCAI-2003 Workshop on Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data and the KDD-2003 Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining. Following the success of these workshops, the Machine Learning Journal invites authors to submit papers for a Special Issue on Multi-Relational Data Mining and Statistical Relational Learning. This special issue will follow a special issue on Inductive Logic Programming. As a rule, we encourage researchers whose contribution lies entirely within the field of inductive logic programming to submit to that issue. Contributors to SRL-2003 and MRDM-2003 are in particular invited to submit a paper, but the special issue is open to everyone. Each submission will be reviewed according to the standards of the Machine Learning Journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Titles and short abstracts due: June 30, 2004 Papers due: July 31, 2004 Author notification: November 30, 2004 Final versions of accepted papers due: January 31, 2005 Publication: Mid 2005 PAPERS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS: Authors of papers that have appeared previously in refereed conferences and workshops are encouraged to submit extended versions of their papers. Such extended papers must be significantly different from the conference version, as well as accessible to the broad readership of the journal. They may expand on the material that was included in the original paper, e.g., by providing more details, giving a more in-depth discussion of the results and related work, expanding upon the experimental results, or giving a more thorough and scholarly treatment of the material than was possible in a conference paper. Submissions must not have appeared in, nor be under consideration by, other journals. Authors of papers whose previous versions appeared in refereed conferences and workshops are requested to provide the previously published version of their papers, as well as to include in their submission a brief letter stating the differences between the prior published version and this MLJ Special Issue submission. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Instructions for submission can be found at http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0885-6125 In the text of your electronic submission, please explicitly state that the paper is for the special issue on Multi-Relational Data Mining and Statistical Relational Learning. In addition to submitting the paper to jml@wkap.com, please also submit to the guest editors: hendrik.blockeel@cs.kuleuven.ac.be kramer@in.tum.de jensen@cs.umass.edu All inquiries regarding this special issue should be directed to the guest editors. ------------------------------ From: "ECML/PKDD 2004 Announcement" Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004: Call for demonstrations Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:05:53 +0200 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AT 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, tutorials, and a discovery challenge, and last but not least a demo session. The Demo Session is reserved to innovative applications or successful experiences/prototypes in applying the Knowledge Discovery Process to practical cases. Also, are solicited demonstrations of prototypes/systems which show the integration of new Data Mining and Machine Learning technologies, advances using complex data structures and databases, XML-data, multimedia, expert systems in innovative application domains, such as bioinformatics, medical domains, WEB, e-commerce, etc. Demonstration proposals should give a short description of the demonstrated system, explain what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution to the field of Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Important for the participants, in addition to the description of technical functionalities, will be to provide also performance results and quality measures (on standard benchmarks in the field and comparative examples). Short papers describing demos will appear in the Proceedings. Demonstration proposals must be no more than three (3) pages, in English and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The deadline for submitting proposals is May 15, 2004. Notification of acceptance: Monday, June 7, 2004. Camera Ready due: Monday, June 28, 2004 (Strict deadline). Please submit your proposal to: KD-net office: Ina Lauth mailto:codrina.lauth@ais.fhg.de Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) - Knowledge Discovery Team - Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Tel.: +49 - (0) 22 41 - 14 - 2686 Fax: +49 - (0) 22 41 - 14 - 2072 In the exhibit space, exhibitors give demonstrations and present their prototypes/systems to the audience, answering to their questions. A selected demo is shown to the interested audience in a slot of two hours including a coffee break. Each demo is then repeated more times (till three) during all week. Demos are explicitely mentioned in the conference program scheduling and in the daily news. Exhibitors are responsible for bringing all hardware and software required for their demonstrations. Accepted exhibitors have to register to the conference like all the other conference participants. ------------------------------ From: "ECML/PKDD 2004 Announcement" Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004: deadline extended to April 26, 2004 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 18:01:52 +0200 Due to many requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to: Monday April 26, 2004 For more information: ECML/PKDD-2004 Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004 http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it ecmlpkdd@isti.cnr.it ------------------------------ From: ILP 2004 Subject: ILP 2004 CFP Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:03:29 +0100 (WEST) 14th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2004) Porto, Portugal, 6-8 September 2004 http://ilp.fe.up.pt email: ilp@fe.up.pt The ILP 2004 Submission site is open http://ilp.fe.up.pt/cyberchair Important Dates Conference September 6th, 7th and 8th, 2004 Abstract submission April 26th, 2004 Paper submission May 3rd, 2004 Author notification June 7th, 2004 Camera-ready copies June 21st, 2004 Short presentation submission August 1, 2004 Short presentation notification August 16th, 2004 Please see http://ilp.fe.up.pt for more information. ------------------------------ From: "Gabor Melli" Subject: KDD-Cup 2004 (pre-announcement) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 05:18:04 -0700 KDD-Cup 2004 (pre-announcement) The KDD-Cup 2004 knowledge discovery and data mining competition will be held in conjunction with the tenth annual ACM SIGKDD conference. The challenge tasks are selected to be interesting to participants from both academia and industry. In particular, we encourage the participation of students. This year's competition will focus on data-mining for a variety of performance criteria such as Accuracy, Squared Error, Cross Entropy, ROC Area, and Probability Calibration. The specific tasks, and two datasets from the areas of bioinformatics and quantum physics, will be made available the week of April 26, 2004. Stay tuned to http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004/cup.html for more information. ------------------------------ From: Shahar Mendelson Subject: Research Fellow in learning theory Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:42:14 +1000 INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES RESEARCH SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCES LABORATORY RESEARCH FELLOW IN LEARNING THEORY Academic level B Salary Range $56,322 - $66,452pa plus 17% super Ref: ISE2292 Applications are invited for a position as Research Fellow in Learning Theory in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. Current research in Machine Learning in the School covers a variety of theoretical and experimental areas, including statistical learning theory, kernel methods and reinforcement learning. The appointee will work under the direction of Dr. Shahar Mendelson on an ARC funded project investigating various aspects of Statistical Learning Theory. Applicants should have a strong research record in Learning Theory or in a related area. The duties include supervision of PhD students, and if desired, there are opportunities for teaching, especially at the graduate level. Selection Criteria: http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/jobs/ or from Reception, RSISE T: 61 2 61258821, E: reception@rsise.anu.edu.au. Enquiries: Contact Dr Shahar Mendelson via e-mail shahar.mendelson@anu.edu.au. Closing Date: 7 May 2004 ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 16, No. 7 ************************************