Machine Learning List: Vol. 17, No. 1 Friday, February 25, 2005 Contents Calls for Papers/Participation CfP Workshop "Privacy-Enhanced Personalization" CfP: IJCAI-05 Workshop on Neural-symbolic learning CfP: Discovery Science 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005 CFP: Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) CFP ICML05 WS on Meta-learning CFP: The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) KDD-2005 CFP: ICML 05-Workshop on Inductive Programming CFP: JMLR Special Topic Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning workshop proposals: Third Intl Conf on Knowledge Capture CFP: ICML'05 Workshop ICML-2005 workshop overview Special Session on Data Mining for Business Intelligence Call for Participation: HoloMAS 2005 LPNMR'05: Papers Submission Open 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web Workshop on Parameter Setting in Genetic and Evolutionary Career Opportunities CS Dept, Univ. of Cyprus -- Academic Vacancies research position at the Insitute for NLP, Stuttgart Miscellaneous Announcements Machine Learning Summer School GECCO 2005 Graduate Student Workshop ICCL Summer School: Logic-based Knowledge Representation The Machine Learning List is moderated. 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It is intended for researchers and practitioners both in the domain of personalization systems and in the area of privacy and security who will make active contributions to the workshop. Papers should follow: UM05 Instructions for Authors (http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/ frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) and be sent to kobsa@uci.edu and lorrie@cs.cmu.edu by March 7, 2005. Each paper and position statement will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings and will be available on the Web before the workshop. Depending on the quality of the accepted papers, a post-conference book publication is also envisaged. Additional information on this workshop will become available at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/PEP05=00 ------------------------------ From: Pascal Hitzler Subject: CfP: IJCAI-05 Workshop on Neural-symbolic learning Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:16:30 +0100 Call for Papers Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy'05) at IJCAI-05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 31st, 2005 Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in the case of research and experience papers, and 4 pages in the case of position papers (including figures, bibliography and appendices). All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to nesy@soi.city.ac.uk Important Dates Deadline for submission: 4th of March, 2005 Notification of acceptance: 18th of April, 2005 Camera-ready paper due: 16th of May, 2005 Workshop day: TBA (between 30th of July and 1st of August, 2005) IJCAI 2005 main conference dates: 30th of July to 5th of August, 2005 General questions concerning the workshop should be addressed to nesy@soi.city.ac.uk Workshop website: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi/NeSy05/ ------------------------------ From: Tobias Scheffer Subject: CfP: Discovery Science 2005 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:50:51 +0100 Eighth International Conference on Discovery Science October 8-11, 2005, Singapore Call for Papers The 8th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS'05) will be held in Singapore, Marina Mandarin Hotel, from 8-11 of October 2005. DS'05 will be collocated with ALT'05, the 16th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The two conferences will be held in parallel, and they will share their invited talks. The proceedings of DS'05 will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence by Springer-Verlag. DS 2005 provides an open forum for intensive discussions and interchange of new information among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. The scope of the conference includes the analysis and development of methods for intelligent data analysis, knowledge discovery and machine learning, as well as their application to scientific knowledge discovery. Submissions The submission web site will be available at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~achim/DS05/. Mentoring Program DS 2005 features a new mentoring program. Students who are first authors of papers are invited to submit a paper draft on or before the mentoring deadline. They will receive a comments from a PC member that will help them to prepare the final submission. Important Dates Mentoring deadline: March 4 Submission deadline: May 20 Notifications of acceptance: June 26 Camera-ready copy due: July 20 Conference: October 8-11 ------------------------------ From: "wiiat@kis-lab.com" Subject: IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:27:50 +0900 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) September 19-22, 2005 Compiegne University of Technology, France http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Paper submission due: April 3, 2005 - Submission websites: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ Important Dates Electronic submission of full papers: ** April 3, 2005 ** Notification of paper acceptance: June 9, 2005 Workshop and tutorial proposals: June 9, 2005 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 4, 2005 Workshops/Tutorials: September 19, 2005 Conference: September 20-22, 2005 More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the IAT'05 homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ or http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05. A selected number of IAT'05 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) ------------------------------ From: Daniel Gildea Subject: CFP: Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:56:05 -0500 Call for Papers CoNLL-2005: Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning Organized at ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, MI June 29-30, 2005 http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2005/ CoNLL is an international conference for discussion and presentation of research on natural language learning. We invite submission of papers about natural language learning topics. See http://cnts.uia.ac.be/signll/ and http://cnts.uia.ac.be/signll/conll.html for more information about SIGNLL and CoNLL. Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling Release of the data for the shared task is scheduled for January 28, 2005. More information will be available from the shared task web page at that time: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~srlconll/. Main Session Submissions A paper submitted to CoNLL-2005 must describe original, unpublished work. Submit a full paper of no more than 8 pages in PDF format by April 4, 2005 electronically through the web form at http://www.softconf.com/start/CoNLL05/submit.html. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The submitted paper should be in two column format and follow the ACL style. Since reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations, and there should be no self-references that reveal the authors' identity. In the submission form, you will be asked for the following information: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, contact author's email address, a list of keywords, abstract, and an indication of whether the paper has been simultaneously submitted to other conferences (and if so which conferences). The contact author of an accepted paper under multiple submissions should inform the program co-chairs immediately whether he or she intends the accepted paper to appear in CoNLL-2005. A paper that appears in CoNLL-2005 must be withdrawn from other conferences. Important Dates Deadline for main session paper submission: April 4, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2005 Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 17, 2005 Conference: June 29-30, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Christophe Giraud-Carrier Subject: CFP ICML05 WS on Meta-learning Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:34:03 -0700 ICML'2005 Workshop Meta-Learning Call for Papers The field of meta-learning has as its primary goal the understanding of the interaction between the mechanism of learning and the concrete contexts in which that mechanism is applicable. Meta-learning differs from base-learning in the scope of the level of adaptation. Whereas learning at the base-level focuses on accumulating experience on a specific learning task (e.g., credit rating, medical diagnosis, mine-rock discrimination, fraud detection, etc.), learning at the meta-level is concerned with accumulating experience on the performance of multiple applications of a learning system. The aim of this workshop is to offer the international community a forum to assess the state-of-the-art, exchange experience, knowledge and perspectives in meta-learning, and provide impetus to the field. Deadline for submission: April 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2005 Final camera-ready paper: May 13, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Tom Fawcett Subject: CFP: The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:18:06 -0800 The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) In Cooperation with The International Association for Cryptologic Research and The IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy Preliminary Call for Papers July 21-22, 2005 (Thurs,Fri) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Website: http://www.ceas.cc The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites the submission of papers for its second meeting. Papers are invited on all aspects of email, instant messaging, cell phone text messaging, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP). This includes spam, spit (spam over internet telephony), spim (spam over instant messenger), phishing and identity theft via messaging, viruses, spyware, etc. including research papers, industry reports, and law and policy papers. KEY DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: March 15 Notification of acceptance: May 16 Final camera-ready version of papers: June 16 Conference: July 21 and 22 Suggestions for panel discussions are also welcome, and should be sent to the Program Chairs at information@ceas.cc. ------------------------------ From: David Duling Subject: KDD-2005 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:16:32 -0500 (EST) KDD-2005 KDD-2005 THE ELEVENTH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING August 21-24, 2005 Chicago, IL, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2005 http://www.kdd2005.com IMPORTANT DATES: Early Registration Deadline: July 15, 2005 Submission Deadlines: Electronic Abstract Submission: Feb. 18, 2005 *at noon CST* Electronic Paper Submission: Feb. 28, 2005 *at noon CST* Submission Format: Camera-Ready (no more than 10 pages), electronic submissions *in PDF format only* Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2005 Camera-ready papers due: June 3, 2005 Tutorial proposals due March 14, 2005 Notification of acceptance/rejection April 1, 2005 Camera-ready copy of tutorial notes due June 1, 2005 * KDD-2004: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2004/program/tutorials/index.html * KDD-2003: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2003/tutorials.html * KDD-2002: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2002/tutorials.html * KDD-2001: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2001/Tutorials/tutorials.html Workshop proposals due: March 7, 2005 Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 28, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Emanuel Kitzelmann Subject: CFP: ICML 05-Workshop on Inductive Programming Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:42:35 +0100 Call for Paper: ICML 2005 - Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (AAIP) A workshop on inductive programming will be held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning in Bonn, Germany, on August 7th, 2005. ICML 2005 page: http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/icml.php AAIP Workshop page: http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip/index.html The workshop will bring together researchers from all the different fields of machine learning that study induction of general programs that contain control structures such as recursion or loops. http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/papers/format To submit your paper, please send it as pdf with e-mail to emanuel.kitzelmann@wiai.uni-bamberg.de together with an indication whether the paper is a work in progress report or a full paper. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2005. Further important dates are: Apr 22, 2005 Notification of acceptance to submitters May 13, 2005 WS final paper deadline May 20, 2005 Workshop notes due (on-line) More information about the workshop and the program committee can be found at the workshop webpage: http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip/index.html ------------------------------ From: Emanuel Kitzelmann Subject: CFP: JMLR Special Topic Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:09:52 +0100 Call for Papers Journal of Machine Learning Research, http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/ Special Topic on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming Guest Editors: Ute Schmid, http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/schmid and Roland Olsson, http://www-ia.hiof.no/~rolando http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/jmlrST/jmlrcfp.html Submission procedure: Follow JMLR's standard submission procedure as described at http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/author-info.html. For submission you need to register to the JMLR electronic submission management system: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/manudb/. Please include a note stating that your submission is for the special topic on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming. Important Dates: * Submission due: July 1st, 2005 * Decision: October 1st, 2005 * Final version due: December 1st, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Kurt Driessens Subject: Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:49:34 +1300 Call for Papers: Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning Date: August 7th, 2005 in conjunction with ICML'05, Bonn, Germany Web Site: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~kurtd/rrfrl/ Overview: Reinforcement learning (RL) has developed into a primary approach to learning control strategies for autonomous agents. The majority of RL work has focused on propositional or attribute-value representations of states and actions, simple temporal models of action, and memoryless policy representations. Many problem domains, however, are not easily represented under these assumptions. Given the co-location of ICML with ILP this year, we expect attendees from both conferences to participate in the workshop as the topic intersects with interests of both, in particular the incorporation of relational and logical representations into RL. Important Dates: April 1 Paper submission deadline April 22 Notification of acceptance May 13 Final paper deadline August 7 Workshop date ------------------------------ From: Subject:workshop proposals: Third Intl Conf on Knowledge Capture Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:32:59 -0800 K-CAP 2005 Call for Workshop Proposals The K-CAP 2005 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program for K-CAP 2005, to be held October 2-5 in Banff, Canada. Workshops will be held on Sunday, October 2, immediately before the main conference starts. K-CAP workshops will provide an informal setting where workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Our aim for the workshop program is to promote and collect multidisciplinary research directions and potentially interesting technologies for efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources. Members from all research areas related to knowledge capture are invited to submit workshop proposals. Important Dates for Workshops * April 7, 2005: Proposal submission deadline * April 28, 2005: Acceptance notification * May 12, 2005: Publications of Call for Participation * August 22, 2005: Publication of K-CAP 2003 workshop program * September 12, 2005: Deadline for camera-ready workshop notes and other information * October 2, 2005: K-CAP 2003 workshops Please send your proposals and any inquiries to: Marie desJardins, mariedj@cs.umbc.edu, 410-455-3967 Conference home page: http://www.kcap05.org ------------------------------ From: "Massih-Reza.Amini@lip6.fr" Subject: CFP: ICML'05 Workshop Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:57:05 +0100 Call for Position Papers and Participation Workshop on Learning with Partially Classified Training Data During ICML'2005 August 7, 2005. Bonn, Germany Many real-life applications may involve huge datasets in which exhaustive sample-labeling requires expensive human resources and is often unrealistic. For example, in Bioinformatics or many Information Retrieval tasks, labeling data is a time consuming and a difficult task. For other problems such as remote sensing or medical imaging, labeling data may require very expensive tests so that only a small set of labeled data may be available. In some other domains, like targeted marketing, only a few positive samples are available while unlabeled examples are plentiful. In all these cases, we need to find ways of relieving the users of the annotation burden. Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2005 Final camera ready submissions: May 13, 2005 Workshop: August 7, 2005 See the workshop Web page at: http://www-connex.lip6.fr/~amini/lpctd_icml05.html ------------------------------ From: Hendrik Blockeel Subject: ICML-2005 workshop overview Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:25:33 +0100 (MET) 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2005) August 7-11, 2005, Bonn, Germany (See also http://icml2005.kdnet.org/workshops.php) ICML-2005 workshops will be held on August 7 and August 11. The paper submission deadline for all workshops is April 1. ------------------------------ From: "www.neural-forecasting.com" Subject: Special Session on Data Mining for Business Intelligence Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:18:34 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Data Mining for Business Intelligence http://www.neural-forecasting.com/conferences/DMIN05/cfp_dmin05.htm @ The 2005 International Conference on Data Mining Part of the 2005 World Congress in Applied Computing Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 20-23, 2005 PAPER SUBMISSION Please submit draft papers to: Robert Stahlbock, r.stahlbock@neural-forecasting.com IMPORTANT DATES March 14th, 2005 - Draft papers due March 30, 2005 - Notification of acceptance ------------------------------ From: holomas@labe.felk.cvut.cz Subject: Call for Participation: HoloMAS 2005 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:08:13 +0100 (CET) HoloMAS 2005 2nd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems 22-24 August 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark http://gerstner.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS/2005/ in conjunction with DEXA 2005 events ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Holonic and multi-agent systems provide a novel paradigm for managing, modelling and supporting complex systems. This concept has proved to be successful in number of industrial domains such as manufacturing, resource allocation and production planning, air traffic. PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research contributions or critiques of practical experience. Papers (in English) should not exceed 10 pages in Springer Verlag format. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically to the conference web site http://www.dexa.org:9005/REG-paper/index.html. IMPORTANT DATES 1. Submission of abstracts: March 6,2005 2. Submission of full papers: March 13,2005 3. Acceptance notice: April 15, 2005 4. Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2005 ------------------------------ From: lpnmr05.publicity@mat.unical.it Subject: LPNMR'05: Papers Submission Open Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:03:41 +0100 (CET) Call for Papers 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR'05) Diamante, Cosenza, Italy September 5-8, 2005 http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/ LPNMR'05 is the eighth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. Seven previous meetings were held in Washington, D.C., (1991), in Lisbon, Portugal (1993), in Lexington, Kentucky (1995), in Dagstuhl, Germany (1997), in El Paso, Texas (1999), in Vienna, Austria (2001), and in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2004). IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline March 22, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT Paper Submission Deadline March 25, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT Notification (Accept/Reject) May 16, 2005 Conference Schedule June 6, 2005 Final Conference Papers June 10, 2005 Early Registration Deadline July 4, 2005 Conference September 5-8, 2005 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Paper submission is electronic via the conference home page http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/. Papers must be registered (title, abstract, keywords, authors, contact information) by March 22, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT; the full paper must be uploaded by March 25, 2005, 23:59:59 GMT. ------------------------------ From: Valentina Tamma Subject: 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:51:47 +0000 --- Agents and the Semantic Web --- 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Series Call for Papers Arlington, Virginia, USA 3rd-6th November, 2005 http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/AAAI-FSS05/ The Semantic Web is based on the idea of dynamic, heterogeneous, shared knowledge sources providing machine-readable content in a similar way to that in which information is shared on the World Wide Web. Integral to this vision was a synergy with Multi-Agent Systems technology; agents could utilize this knowledge to achieve their own goals, producing new knowledge that could be disseminated or published within a common framework. Conversely, the Semantic Web would benefit from autonomous, distributed agents responsible for gathering/aggregating knowledge, reasoning and inferring new facts, identifying and managing inconsistencies, and providing trust and security mechanisms. Both research and position papers should be formatted according to the official formatting guidelines of AAAI available at http://aaai.org/Publications/Author/electronic-submissions.html The URL of the paper in Postscript, Adobe PDF format can be submitted electronically. Details on electronic submission can be found at http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/AAAI-FSS05/ Paper submissions: April 25th Acceptance Notifications: May 23rd Camera ready copies: tbd Registration Deadline: October 7th Symposium: November 3rd-6th ------------------------------ From: clima@ualg.pt Subject: Workshop on Parameter Setting in Genetic and Evolutionary Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:12:46 +0000 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PSGEA-2005 PARAMETER SETTING IN GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS Part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005) Washington, D.C. on June 25 - 29 (Saturday - Wednesday), 2005 www.isgec.org/GECCO-2005 Organized by ACM SIG-EVO For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at http://w3.ualg.pt/~flobo/psgea-2005/index.html IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change) Paper submission deadline: 14 March, 2005 Decisions will be mailed by: 08 April, 2005 Submissions of camera-ready papers: 22 April, 2005 Workshop day: 25 June, 2005 Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages (http://w3.ualg.pt/~flobo/psgea-2005/index.html) as it becomes available. ------------------------------ From: George Angelos Papadopoulos Subject: CS Dept, Univ. of Cyprus -- Academic Vacancies Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:53:16 +0200 (WET) DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus has a number of vacancies for visiting professors at the ranks of Lecturer, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor. ALL fields of study will be considered, but preference will be given to applicants associated with one or more of the following ones: * Human Computer Interaction * Parallel and Distributed Processing * Programming Languages * Multimedia Information Systems Data * Communication Networks * Agents and Artificial Intelligence Software * Engineering * Database Systems Theoretical Computer Science * * Cooperative Information Systems Computer Graphics * Virtual Reality * Bioinformatics A visiting appointment is usually for one semester (Spring semester: Jan-June; Winter semester: Sept-Dec), but it can be renewed for up to four semesters. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in a relevant subject, have post Ph.D. experience, and BE FLUENT IN GREEK (both these requirements are mandatory). The annual salaries for these positions (including the 13th salary) are: Professor (Scale A15-A16) CYP 32,937 - 42,815 Associate Professor (Scale A14-A15) CYP 29,052 - 40,938 Assistant Professor (Scale A13-A14) CYP 27,103 - 39,061 Lecturer (Scale A12-A13) CYP 22,889 - 35,664 (At present CYP 1 = 1.7 EURO, CYP 1 = 1.2 sterling and CYP 1 = 2.3 U.S. dollars). Presently, the Department is seeking applications for the winter and spring semesters of the academic year 2005-2006. The processing of applications has started and will continue until all the available positions have been filled. Anyone wishing to apply should send a full CV to the following address: The Chairperson Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Street P.O. Box 20537, CY-1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS For more details and other information, interested individuals may contact the Chairperson of the Department of Computer Science: Associate Professor Skevos Evripidou Tel: +357-22-892700, Fax: +357-22-892701, E-mail: skevos@cs.ucy.ac.cy ------------------------------ From: "Hinrich Schuetze" Subject: research position at the Insitute for NLP, Stuttgart Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:34:56 -0800 The Institute for Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the University of Stuttgart (Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Lehrstuhl Theoretische Computerlinguistik) is seeking applicants for a post-doctoral position in NLP Information Retrieval Computer scientists and computational linguists in any related area are encouraged to apply, but preference will be given to candidates who specialize in one or more of the following areas: * machine-learning approaches to NLP/IR question-answering intelligent * information retrieval data-driven approaches to computational * linguistics information extraction text and data mining theory, * methods and applications of machine learning We offer an excellent computing environment and the prospect to work on cutting-edge research projects in a dynamic and international research team. Applicants are expected to contribute to research projects at the institute and to teach classes. The position is available immediately. Initial funding is for two years. The position is at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter". The salary is about 40.000 Euro (salary and benefits) per year. The exact amount depends on age and marital status. Applications should include a CV, a statement of research experience and interests, and the names and addresses of 3 references. Applications should be sent by mail or email to the address below. Sabine Dieterle Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universitaet Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 D-70174 Stuttgart Germany sabine (at) ims.uni-stuttgart.de Applicants should submit their applications by March 15, 2005, but the search will continue until the position is filled. The University of Stuttgart is committed to increasing the proportion of women in research and teaching. Qualified women are encouraged to apply. ------------------------------ From: John Langford Subject: Machine Learning Summer School Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:37:37 -0600 Machine Learning Summer School Chicago May 16-27, 2005 http://chicago05.mlss.cc/ TTI-Chicago and the University of Chicago are hosting a Machine Learning Summer School from May 16-27. This will include all the machine learning and learning theory that can be covered in 2 weeks of intense instruction. The target audience is anyone interested in the subject including graduate students and academic and industry researchers. Please join us. Subjects: Boosting, Decision trees, empirical comparisons and case studies, energy models, Generalization Bounds, Gene regulation prediction, information geometry, manifold methods, object recognition, Online Learning, Reductions, Regularization, Semisupervised Learning, Structured Learning, SVMs Speakers: Yasemin Altun, Misha Belkin, Rich Caruana, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Mark Johnson, Adam Kalai, John Langford, Yann LeCun, Christina Leslie, David McAllester, Partha Niyogi, Robert Nowak, Robert Schapire, Yoram Singer, Steve Smale (and possibly more). In addition, the summer school will be colocated with two workshops and the 'special emphasis on learning theory' quarter at TTI-Chicago. Attendees of the school will be able to attend the workshops and vice-versa. For further details on the quarter see: http://www.tti-c.org/abstracts/learning_theory.html Contact jl@tti-c.org for more details. ------------------------------ From: "Michael.ONeill" Subject: GECCO 2005 Graduate Student Workshop Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:58:19 +0000 (GMT) GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP to be held as part of the 2005 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2005) June 25-29, 2005 (Saturday-Wednesday) Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington, DC, USA www.isgec.org/GECCO-2005 Organized by ACM SIG-EVO Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 14 March 2005 Acceptance Notification: 4 April 2005 Camera Ready Deadline: 18 April 2005 This single day workshop will involve approximately 10 selected students researching any aspect of Evolutionary Algorithms and presenting a 15-20 minute synopsis of their current research to a mentor panel, other students and other selected participants. Each presentation will be followed by questions and discussion prompted by the mentor panel. The panel will consist of a rotating group of well known and established researchers in Evolutionary Computation. A limited number of other students will also be invited to attend the workshop where they will have an opportunity to join in discussions. This format is intended to offer feedback from the panel to the presenters regarding their results, research methodology, future directions and presentation style. It should benefit other attendees in terms of learning about the work of others, engaging in technical discussions and meeting researchers with related interests. Workshops with approximately the same goals and format were held at previous GP/GECCO events and were strongly endorsed by both faculty and student participants. The group of presenting students will be chosen by the panel with the intent of creating a diverse group of students working on a broad range of topic areas. You are an ideal candidate if your thesis topic has already been approved by your university and you have been working on your thesis for between 6 and 18 months. You are also a strong candidate if evolutionary computation has a role in an undergraduate project or thesis. Importantly, even if you are not chosen to present, you will be considered for invitation to the workshop and you can expect to derive a lot of benefit from attending. Participation will be limited to preserve the discussion quality of the workshop but students who submit a paper will receive highest consideration. The papers submitted by students who participate in the workshop and/or presentation sessions will be printed in the GECCO Workshop Papers. Awards will also be presented for best paper, and best presentation. Please see the GECCO web site for more details: http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2005/gradstud-workshops.html ------------------------------ From: Bertram Fronhoefer Subject: ICCL Summer School: Logic-based Knowledge Representation Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:07:33 +0100 Call for Participation ICCL Summer School 2005 LOGIC-BASED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION Technische Universität Dresden 2nd - 17th July 2005 http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl-ss-2005 TOPIC The topic of this year's summer school is Logic-based Knowledge Representation. Intelligent behavior is hard to imagine without the agent having a good knowledge about the surrounding world. For this reason, knowledge representation always played a crucial role in artificial intelligence. Right from the beginning of the field, there was a big discussion on whether sub-symbolic or symbolic approaches for representing knowledge are the right way to go. And even within the symbolic approach there was a conflict between proponents of logic-based approaches (like John MacCarthy and Pat Hayes) and proponents of graph-based or procedural approaches (like Marvin Minsky). The advantage of logic-based approaches for symbolic knowledge representation is that they provide the representation formalism with a formally well-founded semantics, which makes both the represented knowledge and the behavior of knowledge representation systems deducing implicit knowledge from the explicitly represented one comprehensible. The disadvantage is that the inference problems may become intractable or even undecidable if the expressive power of the formalism is large enough. For this reason, early systems employing the logic-based approach were either too inexpressive or too slow. This situation has changed drastically in the last 10-15 years. This is partially due to increased computing power. More importantly, however, were the recent theoretical and practical advances in the field of logic-based knowledge representation. The summer school will focus on several of the most successful subfields of this active research area: - reasoning about action and change, - nonmonotonic reasoning, - description logics and ontologies, and - action planning. REGISTRATION If you want to attend the summer school, we'd prefer that you register by April 9, 2005. For all who want to apply for a grant, this deadline is obligatory. After April 9 registration wil be possible as long as there are vacant places. (Since we intend to restrict participation to about 60 people, in case of excessive demand, we will have to select applicants to the summer school.) People applying until April 9 will be informed about admittance and decisions on grants until April 18, 2005. FEES We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. INTEGRATED workshop It will be possible for some participants to present their research work during a small workshop integrated in the summer school: please indicate in the registration form if you would like to do so and give us the title of your proposed talk there. In addition, please submit an extended abstract in postscript or pdf format of max. 5 pages to iccl05ws@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de by April 9, 2005. A program committee consisting of the summer school lecturers and organizers will select among the proposals. Notification of acceptance of a talk at the integrated workshop will be by May 9, 2005. GRANTS A limited number of grants may be available, please indicate in your application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs and they should be sent together with the registration. ------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 17, No. 1 ************************************