************************************************************************* Machine Learning List: Volume 20, Number 1 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 ************************************************************************* Contents Call for Papers Conference on Learning Theory Canadian Conference for Artificial Intelligence Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence WORLDCOMP'08 Evolutionary Algorithms for Industrial Design Optimisation Learning Classifier Systems GECCO 2008 Undergraduate Student Workshop Defense Applications of Computational Intelligence Intelligent Information Systems Logic Programming Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Data Mining, Protection, Detection and other Security Technologies Agents and Data Mining Domain Driven Data Mining: Domain Problems and Applications Adaptive Sensing and Monitoring Career Opportunities Research Scientist, Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Paris Post-Doctoral Research Postdoctoral Positions in ML and Computational Biology, London Computer-Assisted Diagnosis for Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI Book Announcements Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms Website Announcements UCI Machine Learning Repository ************************************************************************ The Machine Learning List is moderated. 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Servedio Subject: Conference on Learning Theory Call for Papers 21st Annual Conference on Learning Theory Helsinki, Finland, July 9-12, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: February 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 13, 2007 From: bergler@cse.concordia.ca Subject: Canadian Conference for Artificial Intelligence Call for Papers 21st Canadian Conference for Artificial Intelligence Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 28-30, 2008 http://cs.uwindsor.ca/AI08 Full Paper Sumission Deadline: January 25th, 2008 (Extended) Final Paper Deadline: March 15th, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 14, 2007 From: David McAllester Subject: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Call for Papers 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Helsinki, Finland, July 9-July 12, 2008 http://uai2008.cs.helsinki.fi/ Abstract Submission: February 27, 2008, midnight GMT Full paper submission: February 29, 2008, midnight GMT Camera-ready Deadline: May 11, 2008, midnight GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 17, 2007 From: Hamid R. Arabnia Subject: WORLDCOMP'08 Call for Papers/Workshop Proposals The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 14-17, 2008 Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops: January 16 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers: April 25, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 20, 2007 From: Dutta, Partha subject: Evolutionary Algorithms for Industrial Design Optimisation Call for Papers Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Industrial Design Optimisation to be held as part of the 2008 Genetic and EYvolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 12-16, 2008 www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2008 Paper Submission Deadline: March 26, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: April 18, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 20, 2007 From: Jaume Bacardit Subject: Learning Classifier Systems Call for Papers 11th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems to be held as part of the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 12-16, 2008 http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/i3pages/butz/IWLCS2008 Paper Submission Deadline: March 26, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: April 18, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 20, 2007 From: Frank Moore Subject: GECCO 2008 Undergraduate Student Workshop Call for Papers GECCO 2008 Undergraduate Student Workshop to be held as part of the 2008 Genetic and EYvolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 12-16, 2008 http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2008 Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: April 9, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 20, 2007 From: Frank Moore Subject: Defense Applications of Computational Intelligence Call for Papers Workshop on Defense Applications of Computational Intelligence to be held as part of the 2008 Genetic and EYvolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 12-16, 2008 http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2008 Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: April 9, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 2, 2008 From: IIS'08 Conference Subject: Intelligent Information Systems 2nd Call for Papers Intelligent Information Systems 2008 (IIS 2008) Zakopane, Poland, June 16-18, 2008 http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/ Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: March 31, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 2, 2008 From: iclp08pub@cs.nmsu.edu Subject: Logic Programming 1st Call for Papers 24th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'08) Udine, Italy, December 9-13, 2008 http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it Abstract Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: September 15, 2008 20 Years of Stable Models: TBA Doctoral Consortium: TBA Workshop Proposal Deadline: June 2, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 7, 2008 From: Max Bramer Subject: Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Final Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Milan, Italy, September 7-10, 2008 http://www.ifiptc12.org/ifipai2008 Paper Submission Deadline: January 21, 2007 (Extended) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 8, 2008 From: Jenna Solanki Subject: Data Mining, Protection, Detection and other Security Technologies Call for Papers 9th International Conference on Data Mining, Protection, Detection and other Security Technologies Cadiz, Spain, May 26-28, 2008 http://www.wessex.ac.uk/data2008rem4a.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 8, 2008 From: Longbing CAO Subject: Agents and Data Mining Call For Papers IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Agents and Data Mining Guest editors: Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Vladimir I. Gorodetski, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russia Pericles A. Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Paper Submissions Deadline: September 15, 2008 Issue publication: May 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 10, 2008 From: Longbing CAO Subject: Domain Driven Data Mining: Domain Problems and Applications Call for Chapters Domain Driven Data Mining: Domain Problems and Applications Editors: Longbing Cao, Philip S. Yu, Chengqi Zhang, Huaifeng Zhang Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: February 10, 2008 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008 Planned Publishing Date: November 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: January 10, 2008 From: David Stracuzzi Subject: Adaptive Sensing and Monitoring Call for papers IPSN-2008 Workshop on Adaptive Sensing and Monitoring St. Louis, Missouri, USA, April 21, 2008 http://www.public.asu.edu/~dstracuz/asm-workshop/ Submission Deadline: February 25, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 12, 2007 From: Balazs Kegl Subject: Research Scientist, Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Paris The Linear Accelerator Laboratory (LAL) of the CNRS/University of Paris Sud has an opening of a permanent research scientist position in the broader area of machine learning and data mining. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or Statistics and a strong publication record in statistics, machine learning, signal processing, optimization, or a related area. The candidate will join the Applied Statistics and Machine Learning (AppStat) group of LAL which was established recently to work on the data analysis problems posed by large scale physics experiments and autonomic computing. Beside working on these applications, the candidate will also be encouraged to continue developing his/her independent research in his/her research domain. The position has a strong interdisciplinary flavor: the candidate will collaborate with experimental physicists of LAL and also strengthen the ties between the AppStat group and the computer science and mathematics communities of the University of Paris Sud. Experience with large data sets and distributed computing environment will be an asset. Some knowledge of French is a plus, but not required. A CNRS CR1 position is roughly equivalent to a late assistant/early associate professorship; it is typically obtained 4-6 years after the Ph.D. There are no mandatory teaching duties (although it is possible, even encouraged, to give courses in one of the associated universities). The application deadline is January 9, 2008. For further information, please see http://users.web.lal.in2p3.fr/kegl/positions.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Nov 30, 2007 From: Alberto Paccanaro Subject: Postdoctoral Positions in ML and Computational Biology, London Applications are invited for two postdoctoral positions at the Department of Computer Science of Royal Holloway, University of London. The postdocs will work with Alberto Paccanaro on developing novel approaches to protein function prediction. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in a relevant quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering), and a strong background in machine learning. An interest in graph-based semi-supervised learning methods would be an asset for these positions. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate with several faculty members in the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, including: Laci Bogre, Alessandra Devoto, Peter Bramley, Paul Fraser, Enrique Lopez and Paul Devlin. The posts are therefore ideal for someone with a computer science or math background who is looking to move into computational biology. The Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway has a leading position in the study of theory and practice of machine learning and in particular the development of the Support Vector learning technique and other kernel-based techniques. The Department is located on Royal Holloway's pleasant campus (http://www.rhul.ac.uk/), in Egham, close to London. The positions are for 3 years, beginning in the Spring or Summer 2008. The starting salary will be of 33,974 GBP p.a. (about 70,330 USD), with annual increments. Both positions are funded by the BBSRC, UK. Applicants should send a CV including a list of publications, a statement of research interests, and names and contact information of 3 referees electronically to alberto@cs.rhul.ac.uk If you wish to discuss details of the position, please contact Alberto Paccanaro at the same address. Alberto Paccanaro Department of Computer Science Royal Holloway, University of London EGHAM, TW20 0EX UK Phone: +44 1784 414239 Fax: +44 1784 439786 Homepage: www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~alberto ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 17, 2007 From: Haar Romenij, B.M. ter Subject: Computer-Assisted Diagnosis for Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI The Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has an open position for a postdoc “Computer-Assisted Diagnosis for Contrast-Enhanced Breast MR Imaging”. The position is available from Feb 1, 2008, for a period of one year, with possibility for extension of another two years. The research is carried out in a young and dynamic group on Biomedical Image Analysis (www.bmia.bmt.tue.nl) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, in close collaboration with Philips Medical System. We look for an expert in statistical pattern recognition methods, and learning algorithms. See for full details http://vacatures.tue.nl/web/Vacature.aspx? VacatureNummer=V50.082&Taal=English Prof. Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, PhD Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Image Analysis & Interpretation Mail: PO Box 513, NL - 5600 MB Eindhoven, the Netherlands Tel. +31-40-2475537 (secr) Fax +31-84-7146952 Email: B.M.terHaarRomeny@tue.nl Homepage: http://bmia.bmt.tue.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Dec 14, 2007 From: clima@ualg.pt Subject: Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms Edited by Fernando G. Lobo, Cláudio F. Lima, and Zbigniew Michalewicz Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, 2007. http://www.springer.com/east/home/engineering?SGWID=5-175-22-173712006-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 4, 2008 Fron: Arthur Asuncion Subject: UCI Machine Learning Repository UCI MACHINE LEARNING REPOSITORY: NEW WEB SITE AND FEATURES We are very pleased to announce the launch of a newly revamped web site for the UCI Machine Learning Repository*, online at: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/ We have developed a new search portal that allows for faceted browsing of over 160 different data sets, using criteria such as data type, attribute type, number of instances, and number of attributes. The web site allows users to easily find data sets that satisfy particular criteria, such as "show all data sets containing only real-valued attributes and rank by number of instances." In collaboration with Rexa.info, the site now also provides links to published papers that have cited each data set. We are always interested in new data set donations. If you have a data set that you would like to make available to the entire machine learning community, please feel free to donate using our automated web form. We thank all the previous donors for making this Repository a success. Arthur Asuncion, David Newman University of California, Irvine *Funding support from the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged, under a Computing Research Infrastructure grant, award number CNS-0551510 (PIs: Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts, and Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine). ----------------------- End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 20, No. 1