Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 8 Wednesday, 5, 2004 Contents Calls for Papers/Participation CIA04: Extended Submission Deadline Extended deadline for Workshop on Symbolic Networks ICDL 04 Extended Deadline MBR04 Extended Deadline Symposium on Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection COLT 2004 program and registration ICML SRL2004 workshop: Call for Participation AAAI Workshop on Semantic Web Personalisation ECML/PKDD 2004: Call for Demonstrations KDD-2004 workshop "Multi-relational data mining" BIOKDD04: 4th Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics NIPS 2004 Call for Papers First Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams Workshop on Data Mining for Economics and Management ECML/PKDD 2004 Workshops: Call for Papers 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. 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The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthias Klusch Subject: CIA04: Extended Submission Deadline Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:35:38 +0200 Due to many requests in the past days, the paper submission deadline for the Eighth International Workshop CIA 2004 on cooperative information agents to be held September 27-29, 2004 in Erfurt (Germany), in cooperation with ACM SIGART and ACM SIGWeb has been EXTENDED to **** May 10, 2004 (Monday) *** For more information on this event please visit http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2004/ ----------------------------------------- From: Damian Lopez Subject: Workshop on Symbolic Networks (ECAI '04) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:32:35 +0200 (CEST) EXTENDED DEADLINE until May 14 LAST CALL FOR PAPERS We kindly invite you to submit a paper to the "Workshop on Symbolic Networks" to be held in Valencia, Spain, August 22, 2004. More information about the Workshop can be found at the following web-page: http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/tlcc/wsn.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrea Chiba Subject: ICDL '04 Call For Papers Extended Deadline ICDL 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 21 2004 There will be absolutely no further extensions. THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING SOCIAL BRAINS The Salk Institute October 20-22, 2004 San Diego, California A Satellite Conference preceding The Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference http://www.icdl.cc PAPER SUBMISSION The extended submission deadline is May 21, 2004. Papers for the meeting can be submitted ONLY through the conference's web site at: http://www.icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word summary or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages). IMPORTANT: There will be NO further submission deadline extensions. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Register online at http://www.icdl.cc Student Registration is: $150 Non-student Registration is: $290 ------------------------------ From: Lorenzo Magnani Subject: MBR04 Extended Deadline June 13, 2004 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:19:03 +0200 EXTENDED DEADLINE - Deadline June 13, 2004 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 information on the conference will be found at http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html ------------------------------ From: Stephen Bay Subject: Symposium on Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:07:00 -0700 Call for Participation Symposium on Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection Stanford University May 22-23, 2004 This symposium aims to bring together researchers interested in using machine learning to detect anomalies across a variety of application domains. Ten invited speakers will present their recent work in areas such as intrusion detection, spacecraft monitoring, interpreting spatial satellite information, and detecting disease outbreaks. More information, including a list of speakers and abstracts, may be found at http://cll.stanford.edu/symposia/anomaly/ We have room for additional participants and there is no registration fee for the symposium, but attendance will be by invitation only. If you are interested in participating, please send electronic mail to sbay@apres.stanford.edu or langley@csli.stanford.edu, along with a brief account of your previous and current work on the symposium topic. ------------------------------ From: John S Shawe-Taylor Subject: COLT 2004 program and registration Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:46:07 +0100 (BST) The Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) program for 2004 is now available on the web site: http://www.learningtheory.org/colt2004/ The conference will be held in Banff from July 1st - 4th. Notice that the early registration deadline for COLT 2004 is 1 May, and hotel availability and prices are not guaranteed after 30 April. ------------------------------ From: Lise Getoor Subject: ICML SRL2004 workshop: Call for Participation Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:07:38 -0400 ICML 2004 Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning and its Connections to Other Fields (SRL2004) http://www.cs.umd.edu/srl2004 July 8, 2004 in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2004) co-located with the 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2004) Banff, Alberta, Canada Announcements: * There is an option to sign up only for the workshop if you do not plan to attend ICML * The code for registering for the workshop is srl2004 * For mailing list info got to http://mailman.cs.umd.edu/mailman/listinfo/srl ------------------------------ From: Sarabjot Singh Anand Subject: AAAI Workshop on Semantic Web Personalisation Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 21:55:34 +0100 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AAAI 2004 Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/swp04/ July 25-26, 2004, San Jose, California PLEASE NOTE: Please let us know as soon as possible if you intend to participate in the workshop by e-mailing the Workshop organisers at ss.anand@ulster.ac.uk. Note also that all workshop participants must register directly with AAAI, who require that workshop participants also register for the main conference. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP The Web is now an integral part of numerous applications in which a user interacts with a company, government, employer, or an information provider. However, the potential of the Web is hampered by the enormity of the content available and the diverse expectations of its user base. Hence, Web applications need to combine all available knowledge in order to form personalized, user-friendly, and business-optimal services. Over the years, personalized Web applications and services have been developed that use Web Mining and similar technologies to harvest shallow patterns hidden within masses of transactional, navigational, and content-structural data that are useful for presenting product recommendations and the likes. Without the benefit of deeper semantic or ontological knowledge about the underlying domain, personalization systems cannot handle heterogeneous and complex objects based on their properties and relationships. Nor can these systems possess the ability to automatically explain or reason about the user models or user recommendations. This realization points to an important research focus that combines the strengths of Web mining with semantic or ontological knowledge. The prospect of having deeper knowledge, gained from a combination of relevant but highly heterogeneous sources, about the information available and/or the resources accessed by users, means that personalization approaches can be developed that can present the most contextually relevant content to the user of the Web. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the two rapidly developing research areas: Semantic Web and Web Intelligence. The aim is to improve the results of Web Personalization by exploiting the new semantic structures in the Web, and also by incorporating AI techniques that take advantage of existing, learned, or extracted ontological knowledge. ------------------------------ From: ECML/PKDD 2004 Announcement Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004: Call for Demonstrations Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:01:04 +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 ------------------------------ From: Hendrik Blockeel Subject: KDD-2004 workshop "Multi-relational data mining" Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:20:27 +0200 (MEST) CALL FOR PAPERS MRDM 2004 - Third Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining organised at the 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining August 22 - 25, 2004, Seattle, WA, USA Paper submissions due: June 1, 2004 Workshop Website: http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/MRDM2004/ Workshop Contact: Saso Dzeroski (Saso.Dzeroski@ijs.si) Workshop Date: August 22, 2004 Workshop chairs: Saso Dzeroski (Saso.Dzeroski@ijs.si), Hendrik Blockeel (Hendrik.Blockeel@cs.kuleuven.ac.be) Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM) is the multi-disciplinary field dealing with knowledge discovery from relational databases consisting of multiple tables. Mining data which consists of complex/structured objects also falls within the scope of this field, since the normalized representation of such objects in a relational database requires multiple tables. The field aims at integrating results from existing fields such as inductive logic programming, KDD, machine learning and relational databases; producing new techniques for mining multi-relational data; and practical applications of such tecniques. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners of data mining interested in methods for finding patterns in expressive languages from complex/multi-relational/ structured data and their applications. We also encourage submissions which present early stages of research work, software, and applications. ------------------------------ From: Mohammed Zaki Subject: CFP: BIOKDD04: Fourth Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:36:24 -0400 BIOKDD04: Fourth ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics 22nd August 2004, Seattle, WA, USA in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2004 http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD04 WORKSHOP SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and interpreting information from biological sequences and structures. Genome sequencing projects have contributed to an exponential growth in complete and partial sequence databases. The structural genomics initiative aims to catalog the structure-function information for proteins. Advances in technology such as microarrays have launched the subfield of genomics and proteomics to study the genes, proteins, and the regulatory gene expression circuitry inside the cell. What characterizes the state of the field is the flood of data that exists today or that is anticipated in the future; data that needs to be mined to help unlock the secrets of the cell. While tremendous progress has been made over the years, many of the fundamental problems in bioinformatics, such as protein structure prediction or gene finding, are still open. Data mining will play a fundamental role in understanding gene expression, drug design and other emerging problems in genomics and proteomics. Furthermore, text mining will be fundamental in extracting knowledge from the growing literature in bioinformatics. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages, single-spaced, single column, 10 point font, including all figures, tables, and references. The workshop accepts only electronic submission of papers in PDF, or PostScript format. See URL for more details. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: June 2, 2004 Notification: June 30, 2004 Camera-ready due: July 9, 2004 Workshop: August 22, 2004 ------------------------------ From: John Platt Subject: NIPS 2004 Call for Papers Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:58:38 -0700 CALL FOR PAPERS --- NIPS 2004 Neural Information Processing Systems --- Natural and Synthetic Monday, December 13 --- Saturday, December 18, 2004 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada http://nips.cc Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 4, 2004 Submissions are solicited for the eighteenth annual meeting of an interdisciplinary NIPS Conference (December 14-16) which brings together researchers interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing and computation. The Conference will include invited talks as well as Oral and Poster Presentations of refereed papers and Demonstrations. It is single track and highly selective. Preceding the main Conference will be one day of tutorials (December 13), and following it will be two days of workshops at Whistler/ Blackcomb ski resort (December 17-18). PAPER FORMAT: Submissions may be up to eight pages in length, including figures and references, using a font no smaller than 10 point. Text is to be confined within a 8.25 inch by 5 inch rectangle. Submissions violating these guidelines will not be considered. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: NIPS accepts only electronic submissions in postscript and PDF format. The Conference web site will accept electronic submissions from May 19, 2004 until midnight, June 4, 2004, Pacific daylight time. DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: JUNE 4, 2004 ------------------------------ From: Subject: CFP: First Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:08:57 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams 24 September 2004, Pisa, Italy http://www.lsi.us.es/~aguilar/ecml2004/ in conjunction with ECML/PKDD 2004: The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/ MOTIVATION Databases are growing incessantly and many sources produce data continuously. In many cases, we need to extract some sort of knowledge from this continuous stream of data. Examples include customer click streams, telephone records, large sets of web pages, multimedia data, scientific data, and sets of retail chain transactions. These sources are called data streams. The goal of this workshop is to convene researchers who deal with decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques, etc. from data streams and related themes. We are looking for all possible contributions related to inductive learning from data streams. The rapid growth in information science and technology in general and the complexity and volume of data in particular have introduced new challenges for the research community. Databases are growing incessantly and many sources produce data continuously. In most of real world applications, the process generating the data is not strictly stationary. In many cases, we need to extract some sort of knowledge from this continuous stream of data. Examples include customer click streams, telephone records, large sets of web pages, multimedia data, scientific data, and sets of retail chain transactions. These sources are called data streams. Learning from data streams are incremental tasks that requires incremental algorithms that take drift into account. The goal of this workshop is to convene researchers who deal with decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques, etc. from data streams and related themes. Important Dates Submission deadline: June 14, 2004 Notification of acceptance: July 5, 2004 Camera-ready copies due: July 12, 2004 ------------------------------ From: Pavel Brazdil Subject: Workshop on Data Mining for Economics and Management Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:08:15 +0100 Announcement and Call for Papers Second International Workshop on Data Mining and Adaptive Modelling Methods for Economics and Management (IWAMEM-04) http://www.niaad.liacc.up.pt/AMEMIG/iwamem_04.html 20 September 2004 Pisa, Italy Aims of the Workshop The aim of the workshop is to promote collaboration between researchers and practitioners active in the subareas of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, data mining, and adaptive modeling, and economists wanting to explore computational models in theoretical or real world studies. The areas of interest can be divided into the following two major areas: - Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications in Economics, including: * Data Mining in Economics and Finance, * Financial Modelling and Forecasting. * Modeling Decision Making, among others. - Simulations and Modeling in Economics, with a particular focus on adaptive methods, covering the following sub-areas. * (Agent-based) Simulation and Modeling in Economics, * Computational Economics, * Modeling Emergent Socioeconomic Phenomena, * Modeling Markets; Automated Markets, E-Commerce; * Simulating Organizations, among others. Important dates: * Submission deadline: June 14, 2004 * Acceptance notification: July 5, 2004 * Camera-ready: July 12, 2004 (use LNCS style) ------------------------------ From: ECML/PKDD 2004 Announcement Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004 Workshops: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 18:34:09 +0200 ECML/PKDD-2004 WORKSHOPS CALL FOR PAPERS http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/workshops.html Pisa, Italy, September 20 and 24, 2004 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 a wide program of workshops, to be held on Monday and Friday, September 20 and 24, immediately preceding and following the main ECML/PKDD-2004 conference. Workshop KDO-2004 http://olp.dfki.de/pkdd04/cfp.htm Workshop on Symbolic and Spatial Data Analysis: Mining Complex Data Structures September 20, 2004 http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/ssda-pkdd04 Workshop MGTS'04 Mining Graphs, Trees and Sequences September 24, 2004 http://hms.liacs.nl/mgts2004 Workshop KDID Third International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases September 20, 2004 http://kdid04.cs.helsinki.fi kdid04@cs.helsinki.fi Workshop Advances in Inductive Rule Learning September 24, 2004 http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/KE/events/ECML-PKDD-04-WS Workshop IWAMEM-04 Data Mining and Adaptive Modelling Methods for Economics and Management September 20, 2004 http://www.niaad.liacc.up.pt/AMEMIG/iwamem_04.html Workshop BioTDM Data Mining and Text Mining for Bioinformatics September 24, 2004 http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Forschung_Lehre/wm/ws04 Workshopon Privacy and Security Issues in Data Mining September 20, 2004 http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/~ysaygin/psdm Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams September 24, 2004 http://www.lsi.us.es/~aguilar/ecml2004 ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 16, No. 8 ************************************