************************************************************************* Machine Learning List: Volume 20, Number 2 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 ************************************************************************* Contents Call for Papers Adaptive Sensing and Monitoring Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Memetic Computing Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition ECML PKDD Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems Intelligent Information Systems WORLDCOMP'08 Conference on Artificial Neural Networks Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction International Conference on Data Mining Ontology Learning and Population Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications Mexican International Conference on AI Career Opportunities Research Assistant Professor in Biometrics, Texas Research Assistant Professor in Biomedical Image Analysis, Texas Research Assistant Professor in Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Illinois Research Assistant Professor, Germany Post-Doctoral Research Position in ML, INRIA Research Center, France Internship Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA Summer School NN2008, Portugal ************************************************************************ The Machine Learning List is moderated. 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The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ************************************************************************* Date: January 13, 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: Jan 13, 2008 From: Dacheng Tao Subject: Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics Call for Papers 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2008) Kunming, China, July 12-15, 2008 http://www.icmlc.com/welcome.htm Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2008 (Extended) Camera-ready Deadline: April 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 14, 2008 From: Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior Subject: Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Call for Papers 12TH International Conference Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008 http://kes2008.kesinternational.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: May 1, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 23, 2008 From: Lim Meng Hiot Subject: Memetic Computing Call for Papers Announcing Memetic Computing, A New Journal by Springer http://www.springer.com/journal/12293 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 23, 2008 From: Rainer Stiefelhagen Subject: Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction First Call for Papers 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI 2008) Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 8-10, 2008 http://www.mlmi.info Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: June 16, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 27, 2008 From: John E. Edward Subject: Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Final Call for Papers 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) Orlando, Florida, USA, July 7-10, 2008 http://www.PromoteResearch.org/2008/aipr/index.html Paper Submission Deadline: February 19, 2008 (Extended) Camera-ready Deadline: April 4, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 28, 2008 From: Hendrik Blockeel Subject: ECML PKDD 2008 Call for Papers The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2008) Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008 http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: June 22, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 29, 2008 From: Dacheng Tao Subject: Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems First Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS´08) Burgos, Spain, September 24-26, 2008 http://www2.ubu.es/hais2008/home.shtml Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: June 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 30, 2008 From: IIS'08 Conference Subject: Intelligent Information Systems Final Call for Papers Intelligent Information Systems (IIS '08) Zakopane, Poland, June 16-18, 2006 http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/ Paper Submission Deadline: February 13, 2008(Extended) Camera-ready Deadline: April 6, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 31, 2008 From: Hamid R. Arabnia Subject: WORLDCOMP'08 Call for Papers 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 14-17, 2008 http://www.world-academy-of-science.org Paper Submissions Deadline: February 25, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: April 25, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 4, 2008 From: info@icann2008.org Subject: Conference on Artificial Neural Networks Call for Papers & Special Session Proposals 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008 Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: March 3, 2008 Special Session Proposals: February 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 4, 2008 From: Magdiel Galan Oliveras Subject: Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Call for Participation 1st International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 1 - 2, 2008 http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/sbp08 Early Registration Deadline: February 26, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 7, 2008 From: Pang-Ning Tan Subject: International Conference on Data Mining Call for Participation 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in cooperation with the American Statistical Association (ASA) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 24-26, 2008 http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm08/ Pre-registration Deadline: Monday, March 24, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 8, 2008 From: George Paliouras Subject: Ontology Learning and Population Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population (OLP3) 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) Patras, Greece, 21-22, July 2008 http://olp.dfki.de/olp3/ Paper Submission Deadline: April 7,2008 Camera-ready Deadline: June 9, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 9, 2008 From: Stefano Cagnoni Subject: Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications Call For Papers Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/guidelines.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 11, 2008 From: Alexander Gelbukh Subject: Mexican International Conference on AI Call for Papers 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Mexico City, Mexico, October 27-31, 2008 http://www.MICAI.org/2008 Abstract Submission Deadline: May 5, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: May 12, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 16, 2008 From: Brunner, Gerd Subject: Research Assistant Professor in Biometrics, Houston, Texas Research Assistant Professor/Research Scientist position in Biometrics Applications are invited for a Research Assistant Professor/Research Scientist position at the Computational Biomedicine Lab (www.cbl.uh.edu), University of Houston in the area of Biometrics. CBL's Face recognition software (URxD) ranked first in the 3D-shape section of the recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) organized by NIST http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/nr/2007/07july/073007urxd.html The Computational Biomedicine Lab provides a unique interdisciplinary research environment with internationally recognized collaborators. The position entails research in novel biometrics. The candidate will benefit from mentorship of a diverse research team and will be exposed to cutting-edge technology. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics or a related field. The successful applicant will have solid research, interpersonal, and communication skills. Prior biometrics experience is required. The position is open immediately and the salary compensation is very competitive. For consideration, please submit your application preferably in one single PDF-document including cover letter, a full CV, a statement of research interests and career goals and the names and email addresses of three references to ioannisk@uh.edu, with subject line "PDF/RSP: (your name)". For more information please email Prof. Kakadiaris (ioannisk@uh.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 16, 2008 From: Brunner, Gerd Subject: Research Assistant Professor in Biomedical Image Analysis, Texas Research Assistant Professor/Research Scientist positions in Biomedical Image Analysis Applications are invited for a Research Assistant Professor/Research Scientist position at the Computational Biomedicine Lab (www.cbl.uh.edu), University of Houston in the area of Biomedical Image Analysis. The Computational Biomedicine Lab provides a unique interdisciplinary research environment with internationally recognized collaborators from Medicine, Biology, Mathematics, and Engineering. The positions entail research in image analysis in collaboration with researchers from the Texas Medical Center. The candidate will benefit from mentorship of a diverse research team and will be exposed to cutting-edge technology. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics or a related field. The successful applicants will have solid research, interpersonal, and communication skills. Prior biomedical image analysis training is welcome but not required. The positions are open immediately and the salary compensation is very competitive. For consideration, please submit your application preferably in one single PDF-document including cover letter, a full CV, a statement of research interests and career goals and the names and email addresses of three references to ioannisk@uh.edu, with subject line "PDF/RSP: (your name)". For more information please email Prof. Kakadiaris (ioannisk@uh.edu). Houston offers an outstanding environment for research and professional opportunities for growth and collaboration, including the largest medical center in the country. UH is an equal employment opportunity employer and smoke-free environment. Women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 21, 2008 From: Kenji Suzuki Subject: Research Assistant Professor in Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Illinois Job Title: Research Associate (Assistant Professor) For more information, see our laboratory’s home page at http://suzukilab.uchicago.edu/position.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 8, 2008 From: Anja Dieckmann Subject: Research Assistant Profeesor, Germany The Department of Artificial Intelligence at Dortmund University of Technology, Germany, is looking for a Research Assistant (m/f) with a strong background in Machine Learning/Data Mining. The position is available from March 2008. A two-year contract is offered that may be extended if the performance is excellent. It is a full-time position; part-time work may also be possible. The competitive salary is based on applicable University regulations. The Department of Artificial Intelligence at Dortmund is a small team that is involved in international research on Machine Learning and Data Mining, and develops application-oriented theories as well as theoretically well-founded applications. More information can be found at: http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de. Tasks: * Teaching (2 x 90 minutes per week) * Research activities * Supervision of students * Working towards a Ph.D. is encouraged We expect: * Motivation to push research forward * Interest in exchanging ideas within the team and with international researchers * Excellent software development skills * Ability to supervise and motivate students * Outstanding performance resulting in publications The candidate must have a university degree in computer science and a background in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. German language is required. We offer: * Participation in an inspiring, highly motivated team. * Support in developing the candidate's specific scientific strengths. * Opportunity to obtain a Ph.D. Applications from women are encouraged. Among equally suitable candidates, women will be preferred. Applications from disabled candidates are also desired. Applicants should send a CV and cover letter by March 6 to: University of Technology Dortmund Lehrstuhl Informatik VIII Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik D-44221 Dortmund, Germany Tel.: +49 231 755 5101 Email: office@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 21, 2008 From: Manuel Davy Subject: Position in ML, INRIA Research Center, France Post-doctoral position in Machine Learning at the INRIA research center in Lille, France Title: Sequential functional regression http://sequel.futurs.inria.fr/positions-1/ The Post-doc researcher will join the INRIA SequeL research group (http://sequel.futurs.inria.fr) and will work in close collaboration with the researchers of its spin-off company Predict&Control (http://www.predictandcontrol.com) http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc/postdoc.en.html Contact: manuel.davy@inria.fr, Manuel.Davy@predictandcontrol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Feb 11, 2008 From: Yu, Shipeng (MED US) Subject:Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA Internships in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Natural Language Processing IKM CAD and Knowledge Solutions Group (CKS) Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA Internship positions are available for motivated Ph.D. students in diverse areas of machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, and information extraction/retrieval. As an intern, you will join CKS team of scientists in solving exciting and challenging research problems in the medical field. Our research is motivated by decision-support and data processing problems arising in the medical domain and related health areas; experience or interest in these areas is a plus. Our team currently conducts research in Bayesian methods, probabilistic inference, statistical learning theory, optimization, statistics, natural language processing, data mining and works closely with a team of image processing scientists. All interns are strongly encouraged to publish their work. Internships are expected to be at least 10-12 weeks long; however there is much flexibility in the starting and finishing dates (non-summer and longer internships are also considered). In order to apply, please follow these steps: * Email your CV to the address below * Request one letter of recommendation (preferably from your advisor) to be emailed to us * Briefly (e.g., in half a page) tell us about what research and application areas you would prefer to work on and during what dates you wish to join Email the above to: shipeng.yu@siemens.com with the subject "CKS ML Internships". We are located in Malvern, PA, approximately one hour from Center City Philadelphia, on the suburban Main Line area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 7, 2008 From: Alexandra Subject: NN2008, Portugal Call for Participation Summer School NN2008 Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining Porto, Portugal, July 7-11, 2008 http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2008@isep.ipp.pt Early Registration Deadline: May 18, 2008 Poster Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008 ----------------------- End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 20, No. 2