Machine Learning List: Vol. 17, No. 3 Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Contents Calls for Papers/Participation Utility-Based Data Mining workshop CFP EKDB&W EPIA-2005 SIGKDD-2005 Workshop on Link Discovery CFP: AI*IA Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Final CFP: IEEE ICDM'05 MRDM-2005: CfP, Deadline June 10 Miscellaneous Announcements Stipend funding available for MSc Intelligent Systems 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: "Maytal Saar-Tsechansky" Subject: Utility-Based Data Mining workshop Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 01:47:45 -0500 Call for Papers Utility-Based Data Mining Workshop http://storm.cis.fordham.edu/~gweiss/ubdm-kdd05.html August 21, 2005 In conjunction with The 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2005) August 21-24, 2005, Chicago, Illinois Important Dates: June 13, 2005: Deadline for electronic submission of full papers June 30, 2005: Notification of accepted papers July 15, 2005: Camera Ready Copies August 21, 2005: UBDM Workshop The Utility-Based Data Mining workshop will address the impact of economic utility on the various stages of the data mining process. This includes methods and applications that adress the costs associated with acquiring data, the costs of learning from the data, and the costs and benefits of utilizing the learned knowledge. In addition to work in cost-sensitive learning and active learning, the workshop aill also address ideas for a comprehensive utility-based framework for the data mining process. The workshop will include invited talks, two panel discussions, paper presentations, and short position papers. For complete details please visit our workshop home page, at: http://storm.cis.fordham.edu/~gweiss/ubdm-kdd05.html ------------------------------ From: "jgama@liacc.up.pt" Subject: CFP EKDB&W EPIA-2005 Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 18:00:04 +0100 Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases and Warehouses EKDB&W 2005 2nd Call for Papers Part of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2005 Visit our website at http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/conferences/ekdbw05/ ------------------------------ From: "Jafar (Iman) Adibi" Subject: SIGKDD-2005 Workshop on Link Discovery Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:37:10 -0700 Call for Papers Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications (LinkKDD-2005) August 21, 2005, Chicago, IL, USA To be held in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD-2005, Chicago, IL, USA, 21-25 August 2005 http://www.isi.edu/LinkKDD-05/ TOPICS OF INTEREST Particular topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: - Theoretical advances to link discovery and group detection - Practical applications of link discovery to real world databases - Link-analysis and graph mining - Social network analysis and community finding - Graph theory, scale-free networks and small world phenomenon - Web-mining and text-mining applied to link discovery - Link discovery for data streams and scalability of developed approaches - Record linkage, alias detection and object consolidation - Visualization of link structures - Performance evaluation measures - Innovative applications in areas such as medical informatics, insurance, laws enforcements and web communities - Link discovery and other theoretical fields such as natural language processing, agent theory, complex systems, trust models and dynamic pricing models. - Survey and analysis of deployed link discovery integrated systems, commercial products, educational and commercial packages IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 10, 2005 Acceptance Notification: July 7, 2005 Camera-ready Copies: July 15, 2005 Workshop date: August 21, 2005 For details please visit http://www.isi.edu/LinkKDD-05/ ------------------------------ From: Stefano Cagnoni Subject: CFP: AI*IA Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 20:31:40 +0200 AI*IA WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (1a Giornata di Studio Italiana sul Calcolo Evoluzionistico GSICE05) A Satellite Workshop of the 9th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence University of Milan Bicocca 20 september 2005 http://www.ce.unipr.it/people/cagnoni/gsice2005/gsice-eng.pdf http://AIIA2005.disco.unimib.it CALL FOR PAPERS Two types of contributions are solicited: - Tutorials on different sub-topics and fields of application of evolutionary computation - Papers reporting original research results on topics which include, but are not limited to: - Evolutionary computation theory - Real-world applications - Comparison between results of evolutionary methods and the state of the art in different application fields - Hybrid evolutionary/non-evolutionary methods Tutorial proposals must not exceed 4 A4 pages (single-column, single spacing, 10 pt font size) and must be submitted by 20 June 2005. Papers must not exceed 10 A4 pages, in Springer LNCS format or equivalent (see, for example, http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) and must be submitted by 27 June 2005. Contributions must be in English and must be submitted by email, in Postscript or pdf format, to the address gsice2005@ce.unipr.it by the proper deadlines. Accepted contributions will be published in the CD, officially ISBN-catalogued, which will include the proceedings of all satellite workshops of the Congress. Important Dates 20 June 2005 Deadline for tutorial proposals 27 June 2005 Deadline for submission of papers 11 July 2005 Notification of acceptance 25 July 2005 Camera-ready papers due 20 September 2005 Workshop 21-23 September 2005 IX Congress of AI*IA ------------------------------ From: icdm@wi-lab.com To: langley@isle.org Subject: Final CFP: IEEE ICDM'05 Date: 2 Jun 2005 19:15:55 +0900 Final Call for Papers ICDM '05: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 27-30 November 2005 http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/ (Papers Due: 15 June 2005) The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '05) provides a premier forum for the dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences as well as original research results in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems. The conference draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems and high performance computing. By promoting high quality and novel research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state of the art in data mining. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the tutorials program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the latest developments in data mining. Topics of Interest Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: * Foundations of data mining * Data mining and machine learning algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and association analysis), and in new areas * Mining text and semi-structured data, and mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data * Mining data streams * Pattern recognition and trend analysis * Collaborative filtering/personalization * Data and knowledge representation for data mining * Query languages and user interfaces for mining * Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining * Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature transformation * Post-processing of data mining results * Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining * Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty management for data mining * Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining * Human-machine interaction and visual data mining * High performance and parallel/distributed data mining * Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining results * Security, privacy and social impact of data mining * Data mining applications in bioinformatics, electronic commerce, Web, intrusion detection, finance, marketing, healthcare, telecommunications and other fields IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. Important Dates June 15, 2005 Paper submissions Tutorial proposals Workshop proposals Panel proposals August 20, 2005 Paper acceptance notices September 7, 2005 Final camera-readies November 27, 2005 Tutorials and Workshops November 28-30, 2005 Conference All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05 Phone: 337-482-6603 Fax: 337-482-5791 E-mail: raghavan@cacs.louisiana.edu --------------------------------- From: Saso Dzeroski To: mlnet@ais.fraunhofer.de, kdnet-members@ais.fraunhofer.de Subject: MRDM-2005: CfP, Deadline June 10 Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:17:50 +0200 CALL FOR PAPERS MRDM 2005 - 4th Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining organised at the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining August 21 - 24, 2005, Chicago, IL, USA Paper submissions due: June 10, 2005 Workshop Website: http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/MRDM2005/ Workshop Contact: Saso Dzeroski (Saso.Dzeroski@ijs.si) Workshop Date: August 21, 2005 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 techniques. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest (listed in alphabetical order) include, but are not limited to, the following: - Applications of (multi-)relational data mining - Data mining problems that require (multi-)relational methods - Distance-based methods for structured/relational data - Inductive databases - Kernel methods for structured/relational data - Learning in probabilistic relational representations - Link analysis and discovery - Methods for (multi-)relational data mining - Mining structured data, such as amino-acid sequences, chemical compounds, HTML and XML documents, ... - Mining relational data from continuous streams - Propositionalization methods for transforming (multi-)relational data mining problems to single-table data mining problems - Relational neural networks - Relational pattern languages - Statistical relational learning We also encourage submissions which present early stages of research work, software, and applications. ---------------------------- From: Stefan Wermter Subject: Stipend funding available for MSc Intelligent Systems Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:30:02 +0100 Stipends available for MSc Intelligent Systems We are pleased to announce that for eligible EU students we have obtained funding to offer a bursary for our MSc Intelligent Systems in October 2005 of about 8.000 EURO (about 5500 pounds) as fee waiver and stipend. The School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland is delighted to announce the launch of its MSc Intelligent Systems programme for October 2005. Building on the School's leading edge research in intelligent systems this masters programme will be funded via the ESF scheme (see below). Intelligent Systems is an exciting field of study for science and industry since the currently existing computing systems have often not yet reached the various aspects of human performance. "Intelligent Systems" is a term to describe software systems and methods, which simulate aspects of intelligent behaviour. The intention is to learn from nature and human performance in order to build more powerful computing systems. The aim is to learn from cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, engineering, and linguistics for building more powerful computational system architectures. In this programme a wide variety of novel and exciting techniques will be taught including neural networks, intelligent robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, vision, evolutionary genetic computing, data mining, fuzzy methods, and hybrid intelligent architectures. Funding of about 5500 pounds (about 8.000 Euro) for eligible EU students The Bursary Scheme applies to this Masters programme commencing October 2005 and we have obtained funding through the European Social Fund (ESF). ESF support enables the University to waive the normal tuition fee and provide a bursary of £ 50 per week for 45 weeks for eligible EU students, together up to about 5500 pounds or about 8000 Euro. For further information in the first instance please see: http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/Teaching_frame.html http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/courses/progmode.php?prog=G550A&mode=FT&mode2=&dmode=C http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/teaching/sund_is_app.pdf For information on applications and start dates contact: gillian.potts@sunderland.ac.uk Tel: 0191 515 2758 For academic information about the programme contact: alfredo.moscardini@sunderland.ac.uk Stefan ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 17, No. 3 ************************************